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Iran’s opposition movement brought its struggle back to the streets of Tehran on Wednesday, turning the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover — typically marked by government-sanctioned displays of anti-Americanism — into a protest against...
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the...
made popular Nov 7 2009
The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
made popular Nov 7 2009
An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country’s most powerful man to his face.
Mahmoud...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Mohsen Mirdamadi had been applauded as a hero by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for helping to lead the takeover of the United States Embassy in Iran 30 years ago...
made popular Nov 5 2009
A new showdown looms in Iran this week, as the regime and its intrepid opposition gear up for what may be their biggest street confrontation since the protests that...
made popular Nov 4 2009
Iran’s leadership has once again equivocated after agreeing to a deal that would ease its nuclear standoff with the West. But this time, that may be as much a product...
made popular Nov 3 2009
The attack which killed the national Deputy Commander of the ground forces of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (RG), General Noor Ali Shooshtari and the provincial...
made popular Nov 3 2009
A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center revels an alarming belligerency in the American public. Apparently, several years of agonizing war in Iraq (and...
made popular Nov 3 2009
What I am the most wondering at is the short-seeing of an Islamist danger infiltrating a traditionally Catholic region Brazil is.
Filling a gap of info covering an...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Recently, IAEA designed an agreement for Iran to reduce the amount of nuke material and stop her possibility of making nuclear bomb. The United States and its allies...
made popular Oct 31 2009
A worried Iranian airline pilot asked passengers to start praying after his plane was hit by a technical glitch early on Thursday, highlighting once again the notorious...
made popular Oct 30 2009
Iran will accept a UN deal on its nuclear programme, but only if “very important changes” are made, Iranian state media have reported.
Al Alam TV quoted...
made popular Oct 28 2009
On Sunday, officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspected for the first time a controversial uranium-enrichment facility under construction near...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Of course, the French foreign minister did not make the threat or warning on behalf of his own nation of La France but on behalf of Israel. While in Beirut, Bernard...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Direct talks between arch foes, Israel and Iran, in 30 years, were held under the auspices of an initiative of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
According to...
made popular Oct 26 2009
A judge and five members of the same family were killed in the Iranian capital during a dispute, local media quoted judicial sources as saying.
made popular Oct 24 2009
A representative of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and a senior Iranian official met last month to discuss the chances of declaring the Middle East a nuclear-free...
made popular Oct 23 2009
The Iranian regime has a problem, and it’s not a velvet revolution or Israel’s threat to bomb its nuclear facilities. No, what really keeps the mullahs up...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Iran is in talks with the U.S., Russia and France over the details of a plan that would require it to ship much of a crucial uranium stockpile abroad. The U.S. and...
made popular Oct 21 2009
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A new showdown looms in Iran this week, as the regime and its intrepid opposition gear up for what may be their biggest street confrontation since the protests that...
made popular Nov 4 2009
The election drama was put in suspense and the country was virtually engulfed in a rumor of constitutional deadlock when Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of the second...
made popular Nov 4 2009
Afghanistan — In the August presidential election, Parvez Mohammad, a 21-year-old cashier at a fast-food restaurant, supported former Foreign Minister Abdullah...
made popular Oct 22 2009
With the declaration of a much awaited final result by the Independent Election Commission the drama came to an end. An announcement in a press conference by the...
made popular Oct 21 2009
The Afghan government’s appointee resigned Monday from the commission that’s investigating allegations of fraud in the country’s scandal-plagued Aug....
made popular Oct 13 2009
Three people detained after June’s disputed presidential election have been sentenced to death, Iran’s Isna news agency reports.
The judgements are...
made popular Oct 12 2009
Iran’s mini-revolution continues to brew. The disputed election announcement earlier this past June brought hundreds of thousands of Iranian dissidents onto the...
made popular Sep 23 2009
The official final results of the controversial fraud stamped elections of 2009 known in the country as “Intikhabate 88” has yet to come in a couple of weeks....
made popular Sep 19 2009
To call Afghan Elections of August 20, the second of its kind in the history of this landlocked nation, the Election of chance and choice won’t be far from...
made popular Sep 12 2009
While the Afghan Electoral Commission gives incumbent President Hamid Karzai a clear lead with 54% of tallied votes in his faovr, his main rival, Abdullah, with just...
made popular Sep 11 2009
In what may be the first admission that a prisoner died from abuse by Iranian prison authorities in the wake of post-election unrest, a semiofficial news service...
made popular Sep 1 2009
The post elections scenario in Afghanistan is fiercely growing uncertain in the light of numerous complaints received by the Independent Election Commission in...
made popular Aug 31 2009
With the declaration of partial results of Presidential elections placing Hamid Karzai at the top while very closely followed by his main opponent the former foreign...
made popular Aug 26 2009
With the results of Afghanistan’s presidential election expected later today, supporters of the opposition leader, Abdullah Abdullah, delivered a grim message...
made popular Aug 25 2009
In what appears to be a major fraud in the world’s youngest democracy’s just second elections, Hamid Karzai, appears to be the unofficial winner as yet. As...
made popular Aug 24 2009
The brothers Larijani — often referred to as the Kennedys of Iran — are emerging as a powerful counterweight to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from within the...
made popular Aug 17 2009
Not a single fan showed up Aug. 7 for the opening match of Iran’s avidly followed football season. After the government caught wind of plans by protesters to...
made popular Aug 11 2009
A defeated opposition candidate in Iran’s presidential election has called for an investigation into allegations some protesters were raped in prison.
In a...
made popular Aug 10 2009
The trial has begun in Iran of 100 people arrested for their alleged involvement in post-election violence.
The charges included rioting, vandalism, “acting...
made popular Aug 1 2009
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