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, sexuality, or gender – is being persecuted in Ahmadinejad's Iran. On June 19th, Taraneh Mousavi was arrested at a post-election protest...
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Iran on Saturday banned foreign media from reporting on a student rally next week that authorities fear could turn into a new round of protests against June's disputed presidential election. Police and elite Revolutionary Guards have warned that any...
Tags: Iran, foreign media, Tehrān, Protests, Basij, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Politics, Social Issues, Iranian Revolution, Islamic history, Iranian presidential election, Education, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, Military of Iran, Sharif University of Technology, Higher education in Iran, Iranian election protests
Student demonstrators during the post-election unrest that gripped Iran in June posed as members of the Basij militia, Iranian authorities claim. Iranian authorities are examining the case of 12 dissidents they claim were posing as members of the...
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Iran’s plan to cut costly fuel and food subsidies brings to a head a debate over economic inefficiency that has raged for years but has become urgent because of the threat of more UN sanctions, analysts say. The stakes are high for President...
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Perhaps hoping to combat the widespread discontent and months of unrest that followed Iran's disputed presidential election, the Tehran city council has announced the start of laughter classes. About The Lede The Lede is a news blog that remixes the...
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Tehran sentenced a former vice president to six years in prison for his alleged role in plotting against the Islamic republic in post-election unrest. Iranian media announced during the weekend that former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who...
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A United Nations committee has approved a Canadian-led resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents in the wake of its disputed presidential elections. A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China on Saturday has killed 11 people...
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A key UN committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election. Citing arbitrary arrests, detentions and the disappearance of Iranians exercising...
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Iran said Tuesday that it has sentenced five people to death and another 81 to prison terms of 6 months to 15 years for their roles in the protests that followed the country's disputed presidential elections. The five who received death sentences...
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It's unclear if certain longstanding disagreements are over or not, but they have been suspended under US and Iran pressure. Otherwise the Iraqi Parliament wouldn't have passed a new election law following long debate...My colleagues in Baghdad told...
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