Press Roundup

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Video | The English Barrier

[ media watch ] Young Iranians start learning English in school by the sixth grade. And many begin even younger. "Iranians are obsessed with having their kids speak English,"...

News | Majles Backflips in Election Law Folly; What's New Is Old in Nuke Policy

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Conservative Bloggers in Iran: Beheshti and Citing Ahmadinejad

Despite the impression often given by the Western media, conservative opinion in Iran is far from monolithic. There is, in fact, an immense diversity of opinion among pro-government Iranians. This...

In Focus | Nasrin Sotoudeh Ends Hunger Strike after Daughter's Travel Ban Lifted

Human rights champion halts perilous seven-week protest after primary demand is met. [ in focus ] Jailed human rights lawyer and journalist Nasrin Sotoudeh ended a hunger strike of 49...

News | Sotoudeh in Critical Condition; 'Maturity' Test for Women's Passports?

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | US Sets March Deadline for Nuke Cooperation; Iran Girds for Assad's Fall

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Death of a Blogger | Call for Top E-Cop to Resign; Police Admit 'Negligence'

[ in focus ] The legislator heading the investigation by the Majles's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission into the prison death of blogger Sattar Beheshti has called for...

News | Report: Coroner Asserts Beheshti 'Died from Natural Causes'

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | UN Officials Urge Probe of Blogger Sattar Beheshti's Death in Prison

"There should be zero tolerance for torture." [ in focus ] The director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and a group of four U.N. special...

Briefing | Obama: Will 'Make a Push' for Dialogue with Iran on Nuclear Program

Says negotiations won't be "constrained by diplomatic niceties or protocols," but talks not imminent. [ transcript ] In President Barack Obama's Wednesday afternoon press conference, his first in eight months,...

News | Jailed Blogger Reportedly Killed; Intel Ministry Sees Promise in US Talks

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Ayatollah Decries Shrine Surfeit; Netanyahu 'Ready to Press the Button'

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Prize Set to Find 'More Criminal' State than US; Ahmadinejad Backs Down

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Another Hit Job on Ahmadinejad

[ media ] Earlier this week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first vice president, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, was asked whether the government had made any progress in apprehending those in Iran...

News | As EU Delegates Plan Iran Visit, Group Raises Heat on Human Rights

United for Iran issues report on global community's "unsatisfactory, even detrimental" record on Iranians' rights. [ human rights ] A European Union delegation is heading to Iran this week to...

Media Watch | The Iran Plank: Previewing Monday Night's Foreign Policy Debate

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | A Breakthrough toward Bilateral US-Iran Nuclear Talks?

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Nasrin Sotoudeh: Hunger Strike, Finalist for Rights Prize with Jafar Panahi

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Reformist Cleric Ahmad Ghabel in Coma, Reported Brain Dead

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | EU Sets Severe New Sanctions; Iran Officially Rejects UN Rights Report

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Video | Journalist Masoud Bastani on Returning to Jail

"It would be great if all of us stand up for these journalists and become their voice." Masoud Bastani and his wife, Mahsa Amrabadi. Bastani during his show trial in...

News | Cold Weather Imperils Quake Victims; MPs Take Aim at Ahmadinejad

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Iran Threatens to Sever Relations with UAE over Strategic Isles ... or Not

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Briefing | Sanctioning Iran: Implications and Consequences

Analysis indicates sanctions are expanding both China's role and Revolutionary Guards' economic power. [ briefing ] Tehran Bureau here co-presents a new analysis of the effect of international sanctions on...

Media Watch | Tehran Bazaar Reopens; Currency Trading Remains 'Paralyzed'

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Friday Prayers Leaders: 'No Crisis,' But Ahmadinejad Gov't at Fault

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Currency Crisis Erupts: Bazaar Strike, Raid on Rial Dealers, Protests

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | UN: Iran 'Clampdown' on Dissent; Ahmadinejad: 'Enemy' Rocks Rial

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Cameraman in Iran's UN Entourage Defects; Rial Dives Deeper

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Netanyahu Draws His Own Line; All the President's Men ... Go Shopping

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Reformist Daily Shut for Cartoon; IRNA Head Jailed in President's Absence

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories...

News | Iran Intel Shows Off Captured 'Sabotage' Gear; Rial Hits All-Time Low

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Treasury: Rev Guards Run Iran State Oil; Ahmadinejad Does Gotham

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Talk of Tehran: Squabbling over the Economy

[ business ] The hottest topic in Tehran's media--and society generally--is the Islamic Republic's deeply troubled economy. Over the past 12 months, the national currency has lost half of...

Media Watch | US State Dep't on Verge of Delisting MKO as Terrorist Group

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | New Strictures on Female University Students' Dress

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Asylum Seeker Fears Adultery Death Sentence; Student Visas Denied

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Atom Chief Slams IAEA, Reports Sabotage; Khamenei: I'm No Stalin

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Report: Canada Shut Embassy Fearing US-Israeli Strike, Mob Retaliation

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Did Iran Model Nuclear Blast? Netanyahu: No Red Light for Israel

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Top General Chides Assad; Green Council Rebukes Israel, US Congress

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Transcript | UN Secretary-General: Free 'Opposition Leaders, Rights Defenders'

[ transcript ] On Thursday, in the middle of a three-day trip to Iran to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke to a...

News | Iran's Leaders Challenged on Human Rights, Syria at NAM Summit

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Quake Volunteers Arrested; Mir Hossein Mousavi Home from Hospital

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Mehr News Agency: '16,000 Memorials' for Earthquake Victims

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Is Israel Truly 'Determined to Attack Iran' Before US Election?

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Grand Ayatollah Sanei: Avoid Acting as 'Warmongers' against Israel

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | 90 Political Prisoners To Be Freed; Ex-Ministers: Dump Ahmadinejad

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Iranian-Saudi Rivalry Simmers In Spite of Smiles

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Official Sources Continue to Downplay Earthquake Devastation

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Death Toll at 300, Over 5,000 Injured in East Azerbaijan Earthquakes

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories...

News | Tajzadeh to Foreign Sec'y Salehi: Tell Ayatollah Khamenei the Reality

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | 'Terror Club': Iranian TV's Prime-Time Assassination 'Confessions'

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Iranians Abducted in Syria Accused of Revolutionary Guard Ties

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Barak: Iran Has No Nuclear Arms Program; Panetta Angry with Israel

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Behind the Curtain | Iranian Social Media Users Challenge Boxer's Disqualification

Images from the bout between Ali Mazaheri (in blue) and José Larduet Gómez (in red). Arash Karami, a frequent Tehran Bureau contributor, tweets as @thekarami. Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian...

News | Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed Wins Prestigious Physics Prize

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Israeli Paper Reports Major Military Opposition to Iran Strike

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | 4 Death Sentences in $2.6B Bank Fraud; Case Opened on Larijani Brother

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Health Group: Sanctions Put Tens of Thousands of Iranian Children at Risk

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Obama Administration, Romney Court Israel on Iran Showdown

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Khamenei: We Won't Back Down; Report: New Computer Worm Hits Iran

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Award for Alaei Brothers, HIV Advocates and Ex-Political Prisoners

Physicians were jailed for conducting health training supposedly part of a "velvet revolution." [ news ] In a ceremony held at the opening session of the 19th International Aids...

Media Watch | Israeli President Peres: Iran in 'Open War' against Israel

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Tensions Escalate over Alleged Iran Link to Bulgaria Attack

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Blames Iran for 7 Dead in Bulgaria Blast

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Industry and Trade Minister: Western Sanctions 'Paralyzing' Iran

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Syria Blog | Victims of Tremseh Massacre Await Help that May Never Come

Rasha Elass covered the Middle East for Reuters and The National, among others. Her reportage on Islam has been recognized by the Cornell Religion Reporter award committee. She is based...

Briefing | New US Sanctions Target 50 Iranian Firms and Individuals

Treasury undersecretary: "We will continue to ratchet up the pressure." [ briefing ] On Thursday, the United States announced broad new sanctions on a "group of Iranian front companies and...

News | Abdollah Nouri: Hold National Referendum on Nuclear Program

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Book: Mossad Assassinated Iranian Scientists; IRI Nuclear Proposal

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | 63% Online Back Halt to Uranium Enrichment; Nuclear Talks to Continue

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Iranian American Antonio Esfandiari Wins Biggest Poker Prize Ever

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories...

Behind the Curtain | Afghan Nationals in Iran Targeted with Restrictive Policy

Afghan immigrants in Torbat-e Heydarieh, northeastern Iran (Afghanpaper.com). Arash Karami is a frequent Tehran Bureau contributor. Negar Mortazavi is an Iranian journalist based in Washington, D.C. [ blog ]...

News | Iran Issues Stark Warning to Israel, Urges Emergency OPEC Session

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Foreign Minister Salehi Detained in Cyprus? Obama Sides with UAE

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | 100,000 MKO Followers Rally; Israel Urges Russia to Pressure Iran

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Iran Agency's Morsi 'Interview' Denied; Death Sentences for Drinking

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | An Insider's View: Iran Ready to Do Business with the West

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Report: Iran Oil Exports Plummet; Images from an Execution

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Video | Clinton: Regime Change For Iranians to Decide

[ media ] On June 20, the State Department hosted a conversation on U.S. foreign policy between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Secretary of State James...

News | Iran Demands Relief from Sanctions; West: 'Stop, Shut, Ship'

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Iran: Talks 'Test for the West'; West: No Explicit Right to Enrichment

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Ahmadinejad: I'll Exit Politics at Term's End; US Senators Balk at Talks

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Report: Iran Plans Nuclear Sub; First VP Said to Have Embezzled $1.5M

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News Flash | U.S. Waivers Seven Countries for Reducing Iran Oil

On June 11, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued the following statement on "Significant Reductions of Iranian Crude Oil Purchases": Today I have made the determination that seven economies --...

News | Iran-IAEA Negotiations Fail, Moscow Talks in Doubt

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | India Slashes Iran Oil Buy; New UAE Pipeline to Skirt Strait of Hormuz

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Iran Moves to Bolster Iraq's Beleaguered Premier Maliki

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Report: Obama Intensified Cyberwar against Iran Nuclear Program

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Iran's Alleged Role in Syrian Massacre

[ in focus ] On May 29, the United States charged that Iran played a role in the weekend massacre of more than 100 Syrians, including dozens of children, in...

News | Guards Set Back in Majles amid Charges They Intervened in Election

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | 'The Baghdad Conquest': Iranian Reaction to Nuclear Talks

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | IAEA Finds Evidence of Higher Enriched Uranium; Fiat Out of Iran

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories...

News | Ashton, Jalili Describe 'Intense' Talks; Next Round: Moscow in June

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Iran and 'Divided' P5+1 Exchange Proposals to End Nuclear Standoff

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | IAEA and Iran Reach Agreement; Senate Approves Tougher Sanctions

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Briefing | Iran's Nuclear Impasse: Breaking the Deadlock

Oxford Research Group analysis suggests Western "pendulum may have swung too far" toward "punitive measures." [ briefing ] The London-based Oxford Research Group (ORG), founded in 1982 by Dr. Scilla...

News | Soleimani to Nasrallah: Don't Attack Israel; IAEA's Amano to Visit Iran

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Parchin Claims Debated; MKO Delist Mooted; 'Mossad Agent' Hanged

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Foreign Email Banned; Extensive Labor Layoffs; Private Bank Dissolved

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Ahmadinejad: Leader-Backed Law Unconstitutional; IAEA Agent Killed

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Former Regime Supporter: 'We Have Murdered People'

"To preserve power, we have committed so many crimes and we have lost so much." [ close-up ] Mohammad Noorizad is a well-known Iranian journalist and documentary filmmaker. Born...

News | Ahmadinejad Loses Crucial Vote in This Parliament, Backing in Next

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Analysis | Victors Announced in Tehran Parliamentary Runoff

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Behind the Curtain | Principlist Rivalries in 2d Round of Parliamentary Elections

List of candidates from the Stabiliy Front. The text suggests that the Supreme Leader approves of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi's "insight" and that Mesbah Yazdi "prefers" the candidates from the...

News | Google Pulls Blog Revealing 3 Million Bank Account Numbers

[ tech ] Google has taken down the blog of Iranian security researcher Khosrow Zarefarid after he posted the account and pin numbers of three million customers from 22 banks...

News | US F-22 Stealth Fighters in UAE; IAEA Visit to Parchin Possible

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | More Israeli, Jewish Voices Oppose Netanyahu on Iran

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | Two Friday Prayer Sermons and Iran's Nuclear Diplomacy

[ in focus ] As noted in my blog, here are a few interesting points about Iranian conservative leaders' rhetoric in the run up to talks with U.S., Britain,...

News | Report: US Can Accept Iran's Low-Level Uranium Enrichment

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Israel Military Chief: Iran Will Not Pursue the Bomb

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The Ajami Blog | Ill Wind: Saudi-Iranian Conflict Buffets Arab Spring

Rallies in support of and against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (Homepage: Composite image of Bahrain security forces member and Formula One racecar. Source: Shafaqna/Shia International News...

News | Cost of Household Goods Soars; Rights Advocates Ordered to Jail

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Secret Negotiations in Vienna?

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | More Signs of Walls Closing In on Iranians' Internet Access

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Transcript | UK Foreign Secretary Hague: 'We Will Keep up the Pressure' on Iran

[ transcript ] On Monday afternoon, BBC Tehran correspondent James Reynolds interviewed British Foreign Secretary William Hague about the talks that took place over the weekend in Istanbul between Iran...

The Ajami Blog | Will the Damascus-Tehran-Moscow Alliance Prevail?

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. (Homepage: Lavrov and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.) Rasha Elass covered the Middle East for Reuters and The...

Media Watch | Update: Mortazavi Ordered Back to Post by Ahmadinejad

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Diplomats: First Round of Nuclear Talks 'Positive,' 'Constructive'

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Turkish Foreign Minister: 'I Will Have Good News' after Talks

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Jalili: Iran Bringing 'New Ideas' to Nuclear Negotiations

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Oil Maneuvers on Eve of Atom Talks; Internet Cutoff Claims Denied

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Business | U.S.-Iran Trade Still Thrives

[ big picture ] Trade is still thriving between the United States and Iran, despite harsh international sanctions. In 2011, Iran imported $229 million worth of American goods, everything from...

The Ajami Blog | Does Tehran Hold the Key to Syria?

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in February 2010. Rasha Elass covered the Middle East for Reuters and The National, among others....

Media Watch | Leaks Ahead of Nuclear Talks

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | The New Yorker: MKO Trained by US Special Ops Command

Former U.S. officials, MKO defector: Nevada site used for intelligence, paramilitary training. [ in focus ] The Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MKO, often referred to as the MEK in the United...

Media Watch | Rafsanjani: I Wanted to Reestablish Ties with US, But 'Could Not'

Lambastes Ahmadinejad administration's economic management in interview condemned by hardliners. [ in focus ] In an interview that appears in the spring issue of Faslnaameh Motaale'aat-e Beynolmelali (International Studies Journal,...

News | Efforts to Shield Essential Imports from Feeble Rial; 'I Am Also an Afghan'

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Roundup | Decentered Atom Activities Knot Israeli Plans; Iran Oil Flow Slows

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Reaction to EU Rights Sanctions; New Handouts ... More Subsidy Cuts?

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Dossier | The Sanctioned 17: EU's New Roster of Iran Human Rights Violators

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Weekend Roundup | Aiding Assad vs 'Terrorists'; Suez Bomb Plot?; Blix Speaks

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Iran Acquires New Phone/Web Surveillance System from Chinese Firm

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

News | Former UN Atom Agency Chief: Attack Can't Stop Iran Nuclear Program

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and...

Media Watch | 'Kayhan' on Sanctions: 'The West Is the Biggest Loser'

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News | India Seeks 3 Iranians in New Delhi Attack, Declares Link to Thai Blast

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Perspectives | Iranian Women Raise Voices against War and Sanctions

[ comment ] Translator's note: The Campaign for One Million Signatures is a feminist movement that was founded on August 28, 2006, by Iranian defenders of women's rights, including...

News | Majles Will Grill Ahmadinejad; Leader Hails 'Window of Opportunity'

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News | 'A Lot of Bluster, a Lot of Big Talk': Obama Slams GOP on Iran Rhetoric

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News | New Atom Talks Agreed; Military Site Inspection Possible

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News | Obama on Iran: 'There Is Too Much Loose Talk of War'

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News | Election Chief Slips? States Turnout Near '34 Percent'

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Live Blog | Parliamentary Elections

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News | Website Says Khamenei's Son Sought Mousavi's Help Out of Crisis

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News | 'I Have No Rights': Conservative Bloggers Vow to Sit Out Majles Vote

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News | US Reacts to Hormuz Threats with Military Buildup in Persian Gulf

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News | US Doesn't Believe Iran Building Nukes; Hamas Backs Syrian Opposition

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News | IAEA Barred from Military Site; Mousavi: I Stand by My Views

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News | Montazeri's Office Raided; Khamenei Rejects Oversight of His Rule

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News | Inquiry Widens on Suspected Iranian Plot on Israel

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News | Hardline Foes Slug It Out Online; US Sanctions Iranian Intel Service

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News | Iran's Nuclear Program Advances on Three Fronts

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News | Scattered Protests amid Security Clampdown

Iran Standard Time (IRST), GMT+3:30 5 a.m., 26 Bahman/February 15 Confirming the reports we've received of scattered protests, here's how the Wall Street Journal began its coverage of the...

News | Calls for Silent Protests Tuesday Put Regime on High Alert

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News | Mousavi's Daughters Threatened; Israel's Role in Assassinations

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News | Divisions in Leader's Camp Deepen as Elections Loom

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News | Khamenei Lashes Out at Israel, the West, and Domestic Opponents

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News | Ahmadinejad Camp Attacks Khamenei, Revolutionary Guards

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News | Israeli Military Head: Must 'Continue to Disrupt' Iran Nuke Program

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News | 'The People Themselves': Group Urges Silent Protests on Feb 14

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News | US Intelligence Chief: Iran Growing Threat to America

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News | 'Head Off This Brakeless Train': Haj Seyyed Javadi's Letter to Khamenei

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News | Deaths and Divisions in the Revolutionary Guards

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News | Political Prisoners Call for Release of Mousavi, Karroubi, and Rahnavard

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News | IRI Devalues Rial, Warns 'No One Can Sell Oil if Iran Cannot'

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News | Iran Blames EU for Fueling 'Tension and Crisis' with New Sanctions

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News | EU Bans Iranian Oil, Tehran Responds with Threats

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News | A Growing Rift in the Revolutionary Guard?

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Perspectives | An Iranian Scientist's Assassination

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News | Nuclear Scientist Killed by Tehran Car Bomb

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News | US Rescues Iranians at Sea -- Again

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News | Ex-Guard Warns Khamenei; Uranium Enrichment Starts at Fordow

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News | Iran Sentences American to Death in 'CIA Spy' Case

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News | Parliament Seeks to Question Ahmadinejad amid Election Runup

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Society | Rights Activist, Beauty Queen Nazanin Afshin-Jam Weds

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News | EU Agrees in Principle to Embargo on Iranian Crude Oil

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News | Currency Rollercoaster Wreaks Havoc; Another Naval Threat

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News | Rafsanjani's Daughter: 6 Months Jail for 'Propaganda against System'

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Quotes | How the GOP Presidential Hopefuls Address the Issue of Iran

[ quote, unquote ] The first meaningful votes in the 2012 presidential race will be cast Tuesday when Iowa holds its Republican Party caucus. Although economic issues dominate the race,...

News | Reports: First Iran-Made Nuclear Fuel Rod Successfully Tested

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News | Iran's Threat and the Western Reaction; Alleged CIA Spy on Trial

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News | Calls to Boycott Majles Vote; Questions for Ahmadinejad

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Press Roundup | To Be or Not to Be

We're reevaluating our Press Roundup section and may phase it out. Please email the editor with any questions or comments: editor [at] tehranbureau [dot] com. In the meantime, you may...

Video | Missing Ex-FBI Agent: 'Help Me'

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Media Watch | IRGC Displays Downed American Drone

[ media watch ] On Sunday, Iran said that it had shot down a U.S. stealth drone near the country's eastern border. American officials disputed the story. "[T]here is...

Media Watch | The Mysterious Blast in Isfahan

Air Force maneuvers or explosion? Accident or sabotage? Was uranium conversion facility the target? And was it struck? [ media watch ] One week ago, around 2:40 p.m. local time...

News | Iran Diplomats Back in Tehran; UK Ambassador Describes Invasion

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News | Protesters Storm UK Embassy in Tehran

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News | Details Emerge on 'Iran' Daily Raid; IRI Bigs Slam Oil Sanctions

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News | Oil Prices Heat Up as Sanctions Strike Iran Energy, Bank Sectors

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News | Police Rough Up Ahmadinejad Aide, Fire Tear Gas; 30+ Arrested

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News | Report: Guard General Killed in Blast Was Testing New Ballistic Missile

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Media Watch | Al Jazeera Takes On 'Parazit'

[ media watch ] On Thursday, Al Jazeera's The Stream grilled Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi, co-hosts of the satirical television program Parazit, which is broadcast to Iran by...

In Focus | Syria and Iran

Latest Developments | The Tide Turns against Bashar Assad Even as Mr Assad struggles to contain the waves of protest, the diplomatic tide is running sharply against him. On...

News | Senior Iran Official: 'Hands Should Be Cut Off' from Syrian Meddling

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News | Questions over Death of Ahmad Rezaei; Ahmadinejad Power Play

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News | Principlist's Son Dies in Dubai, Police Say Suicide

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News | Report: Israeli Source Claims Depot Blast Mossad/MKO Operation

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News | At Least 17 Dead After IRGC Depot Blast

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News | IAEA Report; Iranian Intellectuals Warn Against Possible Military Attack

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News | Ahmadinejad Lashes Out at Critics

[ media watch ] On Thursday, November 3, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with a group of his supporters in Tehran. The group is called Haamian-e Goftemaan-e Enghelaab-e Eslami (Supporters...

News | Rhetoric Suggesting Potential Israeli Attack on Iran Escalates

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News | Did Obama Threaten Khamenei?

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News | Iran FM Takes Controversial Saudi Arabia Trip, 'Virtual' US Embassy

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Ahmadinejad: 'There Are No Political Prisoners in Iran'

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Blogger (Now Blocked): 'Condemn' Leader's Design to Prune Presidency

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Appeals Court Rules Filmmakers Panahi and Rasoulof Must Go to Jail

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Supreme Leader Hints at Eliminating Presidency

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Leading Legislator Resigns after Plan to Grill President Denied

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The Alleged Assassination Plot: Iranian versus American Views

Divided perspectives on the official narrative. [ survey ] The news, announced Tuesday, that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration had succeeded in disrupting a...

Iranian American in Alleged Plot 'No Mastermind'; IRI Officials 'Outraged'

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Justice Dept: US Foils Alleged Iran Terror Plot; Pastor's Death Sentence Voided

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Whistleblower Speaks from Hiding; University Activist Lashed 74 Times

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Intel Chief: No Link Between $3Bil and Mashaei; IRGC 'Reporter' Training

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Convert's Death Writ 'Not Definitive'; Students Protest Sex Segregation

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Ahmadinejad on TV: 'Our Banking System Is Not Controlled by Anyone'

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Tehran Trial for Iranian Univ of Texas Student; Angelina Jolie to Act in Iran?

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Tehran Transit Funds Vanish; Tussle over President's Tuesday TV Talk

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Rights Group: Investigate Suicides by 2 Friends of Jailed Activist

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Al-Qaeda Mocks 9/11 Conspiracy Claims; Axed Bank Chief Takes Flight

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Chief of Iran's Largest Bank Sacked; New Charges of Missing Oil Revenue

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Rial Hits Record Low; 3 Iranian Scientists Honored; Hikers' Story

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MP: Bails for US Hikers 'Hilarious'; UN's Ban Warns Ahmadinejad over Speech

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After Evin: US Hikers' Readjustment Begins; Underage Killer Executed

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Iranian American Treasury Nominee Faces Confirmation

Photo: Iranian American Cyrus Amir-Mokri seated next to his mother, Mahvash, and sister, Mina, also an attorney. [ spotlight ] Cyrus Amir-Mokri, President Obama's choice to be assistant treasury...

US Hikers Free, in Oman

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'BBC Filmmakers' Arrested after Network Airs Doc on Supreme Leader

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More Mixed Messages from Iran on Fate of US Hikers, Embezzlement Case

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Embezzlement Case Grips Regime; Leader's Rep to Ahmadinejad: 'Atone'

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New International Efforts to Free US Hikers Bauer and Fattal

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Multibillion-Dollar Embezzlement Case Embroils Ahmadinejad Aide Mashaei

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Iran's 'Charm Offensive'

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Amnesty Int'l: Release Iran Rights Lawyer; 'A Separation' Heads to Oscars

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Cholera Outbreak; Raging Inflation; Ayatollah Taleghani Remembered

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Video | Tabriz Protests on Friday

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Iranian American Nominated for Major Treasury Post

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Mousavi Dismisses Upcoming Elections; Rowdy Buildup to Majles Campaign

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Iran Offers 'Full' Atom Oversight; Water Guns 'No Game'; Reform Papers Banned

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Growing Unrest in Azerbaijan Region over Imperiled Lake Orumieh

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Historic Kerman Church in Ruins; Handouts, Maseratis for Iranians

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Splinters in Iranian Support for Assad Regime; Lake Orumieh Crisis Goes UN

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Iran's Credibility Hurt by Support for Syria's Assad; Oil Production to Grow

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Political Prisoner Pardons Go Slow, Mostly Limited to Lesser-Known Figures

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SL Pardons 70 Political Prisoners; Lake Devastation Behind Tabriz Protests

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McAleese, who Led UK Team that Ended Iranian Embassy Siege, Died at 61

[ obituary ] (via UK's Telegraph) John McAleese, who died on August 26 aged 61, led the SAS team that ended the Iranian embassy siege in central London in...

Son of Assassinated Doctor Who Examined Kahrizak Victims Speaks Out

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Iran Media Celebrates Libyan Rebels' Victory; Mashaei Death Threat

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Tehran Prosecutor Confirms Hikers' Sentences

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What to Wear? State-Run Daily Stirs Controversy with Special Hejab Section

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Ahmadinejad 'Illegally' Names New VP in Foreign Affairs Power Play

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Regime's Concerns Grow over International Focus on Rights Violations

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Report: Turkey Seizes Iran Arms Convoy; Guard General to Head OPEC

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Majles Approves Ahmadinejad Ministerial Nominees after 'Stifled' Debate

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'Final' Day in Court for US Hikers; Jailed Journalist Wins Press Courage Prize

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U.S. Accuses Iran of al-Qaeda Pact; Israeli Take on Tehran Assassination

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The Chill Council: Supreme Leader Creates Body to Ease Regime Strife

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Iranian Scientist Assassinated in Tehran; Nature of His Work Unclear

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Roundup: Much Ado About Majles Elections

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Conflicting Reports on Kurdish Militant Clash; Tehran Goes to the Dogs

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Ayatollahs Feud over Ahmadinejad Support, 'Freemasons' in Cabinet

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'Iran Is Being Ruined': Khatami on the Nation's Future; New Green Manifesto

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Speaking of Freedom: Mostafa Tajzadeh on the Upcoming Elections

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Mousavis Reported in Poor Health; Regime Strife Radiates to Education

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Revolutionary Guard Chief Jafari: Enemies Aim to 'Eliminate Iran Physically'

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The Parliament and the President: Will They Grill Ahmadinejad?

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'Sufficient to Be Arrested': Female Filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi

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Ahmadinejad Warns Against Government Arrests

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Majles Considers Presidential Summons; Deputies Argue over Leader's View

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Iran Vows to Combat Terrorism, Fundamentalism

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Systematic Rapes of Jailed Activists Alleged; Pleas to End Hunger Strike

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Malekzadeh Arrested for 'Financial Corruption'; 6 More Join Hunger Strike

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Ahmadinejad Critics Emboldened by Ministerial Resignation, Rejection

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New Deputy Foreign Minister Forced Out; Sports Nominee Sunk

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Manhattan DA: Iran Sanction Evasion Scam Smashed; New Sanctions Imposed

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UN Human Rights Rapporteur Named; 12 Political Prisoners Join Hunger Strike

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Ayatollah Amjad: 'Lies Rule Supreme'; Mourning Held for 'Martyr' Saber

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Hardline Attacks on Ahmadinejad Camp Continue; Iran Satellite Launch

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IMF: Iran Economy Looking Up, Independent Analysts Raise Doubts

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Glamorous Hairstyles and Necklaces, the 'Jinn' Is in the Jeans

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Voice of a Silent Protester: 'June 12 Will Always Be Our Day to Remember'

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Report: Silent Protests Met with Violence; 'Layla': The Full Prison Account

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Spotlight | PBS NewsHour Report: Iranian Women on Jail Torture, Rape

Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. [ spotlight ] The accompanying report, "Iranian Women Prisoners Detail Torture: 'Death Was Like a Desire,'" aired last night on PBS...

Green Spokesman: 'No Deal'; Regime Media: US 'Exile Gov' Plot Foiled

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President Condemns Soccer Ban; Web Tech's Death Sentence Repealed

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Iran to Protest Disqualification of Women Soccer Players for Wearing Hejab

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Hackers Get at Iranian Government E-Mails

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Ofer Dies; Iran Said to Aid Syrian Crackdown; 'Sahabi' Texts Filtered?

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The Deaths of the Sahabis: Religious Rites Disrupted, Mourners Arrested

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Opposition Figure Ezatollah Sahabi Dies; Nasrin Sotoudeh Brought to Court

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The Ofer-IRI Affair: Shipping Firm's Iranian Dealings Roil Israeli Politics

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Khamenei Endorses Ahmadinejad?

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Tensions Flare Between Supporters of Ahmadinejad and Khamenei

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Will Iran Unplug the Internet?

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Is Mashaei Next?

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Hejazi Burial; Abadan Blast; Widening U.S. Sanctions

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Guard News Net Claims Ahmadinejad Admin Members in CIA Spy Web

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Karroubis Hunt New House Arrest Home; Guards Gird to Fight 'Perverted Group'

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Court Bans Vice President from Gov; Intel Ministry: CIA Spy Ring 'Smashed'

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Guardian Council to Ahmadinejad: Hands off Oil; Regime Brawl's Latest Hits

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Dorothy Parvaz Released; Former President Khatami: 'Let Us All Forgive'

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Ahmadinejad Defiantly Sacks 3 Ministers; Websites Trade Charges

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Guardian Council Chief: 'The Perverted Team Is Being Eliminated'

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Dorothy Parvaz Held Incommunicado in Iran; Regime Ruckus Rumbles On

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MP: 2m Iranians Abroad Getting Cash Handouts from Govt

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What's Everyone Saying about Ahmadinejad?

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Friday Prayers Leader Targets President's Wife; Syrian News Roundup

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The Moslehi Blowback: Ahmadinejad Allies Arrested, Top Aides Targeted

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Iranian Media's Many Angles on Death of Osama bin Laden

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Iran Media Questions Bin Laden's Death, Demands 'Leave Afghanistan Now'

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Ahmadinejad Chairs Cabinet, Declares 'Ready to Die' in Leader's Defense

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Mideast | Hamas to Leave Syria; Media Claim Most Deaths Security Forces

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The Mideast: Syria Plans Reforms as 62 More Killed; Muslim B'hood Meets

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Ahmadinejad Absent Again; Mass Poison-Pen Text Targets Mashaei

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Discontent Grows over Labor Issues; The Stars Virus: A New Cyber Attack

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Supreme Leader Appears to Win Intel Wrangle; Campaign to Write Mousavi

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The Moslehi Saga: 'Perverted Team,' Looming Lawsuits, Blocked Websites

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Mixed Messages on Ambassador to Egypt; Moslehi Affair Roils Regime

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Cyrus Cylinder Departs; Moslehi Status in Doubt; Khatami Speaks Out

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Reports: Iran Intelligence Chief in Political Vice

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UN Call for Inquiry into Ashraf Massacre; Karroubi's Son Now a 'Fugitive'

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Political Prisoners in Group Hunger Strike; Feud Flares over Mahdi Movie

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Iran Plans 4 New Research Reactors; Mousavi Aide Pressed to 'Confess'

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Amnesty Int'l: Release Opposition Leader, Young Human Rights Activist

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Cleric Warns Saudi King of Divine Punishment; Yazdi Denies Interview

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In-Law: Yazdi Interview Part 'Fabricated'; Ahmadinejad Presser: All's Good

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Ex-Political Prisoner Ebrahim Yazdi 'Tells All' to State News Agency

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'I Am Sad for My Country': Filmmaker Speaks Out on National TV

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Mousavi's Father Dies; Iran, Egypt Move Closer to Resuming Relations

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Executing Iranians: The Amnesty International Report; Khorasani Resists

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EU's Ashton Demands Top Greens' Release; Mashaei Backs New Parties

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New UN, EU Action on Iran Rights Violations; State Media Mum on Syria

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Report: Ahmadinejad Says Next President 'Already Decided'

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Report: Nowruz Fete Plan Angers Guard; Regime Slams Obama Address

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Yazdi Released; Mousavi, Karroubi Children Write Letter to Nation

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'So Long as We Still Have Breath': Green Council Pledges to Fight On

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'Are You Their Attorney?' Ahmadinejad Scoffs at Lead Greens on Spanish TV

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Spokesman: Mousavi, Karroubi Supporters 'Can't Run' in Next Elections

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Daughters Meet with Mousavis; 'Terrible Conditions' at Rajaei Shahr Jail

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Activist Wins Major Award for 'Honesty, Courage,' But Can't Go Pick It Up

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Lights Go On in Karroubi Home, But Still No Other Sign of Couple

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Legislator Warns Ahmadinejad; War Veteran Greens Arrested

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Rafsanjani Loses Assembly of Experts Chair; Report: Mousavis Still in Home

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Plea to UN for Help in Freeing Green Chiefs; Geneva Sit-In Planned

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Hardline Paper Rebukes Ayatollah Ardabili; Minister Survives Impeach Vote

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Tehran Resident: 'Everyone Is Mad But We Don't Have the Courage'

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Women's Group Calls for UN Action; General: Vote Right or 'Bloodshed'

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Mousavi Daughters: Parents 'Held by Those Who Hate Them for Their Ideals'

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Karroubi Son Describes Family's Treatment; Diplomatic Heat over Arrests

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Iran Updates: 10 Esfand / March 1

Iran Standard Time (IRST), GMT+3:30 6 p.m./March 2 An activist tells Tehran Bureau: It seems like the regime is creating a "Green Zone" -- my sarcastic reference to the...

Mousavi, Karroubi in Heshmatiyeh Prison: Opposition Website

Video: Shouts of "Allah-o Akbar" (God is great), purportedly in Tehran tonight. A Tehrani tells BBC Persian that he heard the chants in northern Tehran, Gisha, and up. However,...

Tehran Updates: Security Ramps Up; Green Mothers Speak Out

Video of heavy security presence along a Tehran boulevard, purportedly shot on Thursday, February 24. Along with reports of situation in the capital, weather and apparent temperature match: it...

Tehran Updates: New Call for March 1 March; Regime Pressed to Free Greens

Video of recent verbal assault on Faizeh Hasehmi, daughter of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, apparently by plainclothes security agents. She is repeatedly addressed as "garbage" and several times as "whore."...

Update: Mousavi, Karroubi Reportedly Moved to 'Safe House' near Capital

[ comment ] International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) reports that, according to a well-informed source, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have been transferred to a...

Tehran Updates: Greens Plan Tuesday Protests, Heavy Security in Capital

[ comment ] The Coordination Committee for the Green Path of Hope, which consists of advisors and aides to Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, has issued its third...

Tehran Updates: Ahmadinejad's Astonishment, New Green Charter

[ comment ] President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressed his astonishment over what is happening in Libya, asking rhetorically, "How is it possible that the ruler of a country kills his...

Iran 'Condemns Clampdown on Pro-Democracy Protesters' ... in Libya

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Tehran Updates: 1 Esfand / February 20

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Tehran Updates: Gag Top Greens, Say Guardian Council, Judiciary Heads

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MPs: 'Execute Mousavi, Karroubi'; Clinton: Regime Shows Its 'Hypocrisy'

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Iran Live Blog: 25 Bahman / 14 February

Iran Standard Time (IRST), GMT+3:30 7:30 a.m., 26 Bahman/Feb 15 The regime's security forces tried, with some success, to choke off access by protesters to the primary march route...

Panahi: 'They Can Not Keep Me from Dreaming'; Month of Bahman Banned!

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Report: Karroubi under House Arrest, Visitors Barred, Advisers Jailed

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Green Leaders: 'End Rule of Hooligans'; Calls Grow for Monday Rally

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Executed Dutch Iranian Surreptitiously Buried; Chief Justice Hails Hangings

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Greens Seek Egyptian Solidarity March; State Media: Protesters 'Thank Iran'

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Calling Minister's Impeachment Illegal, President Keeps Him on 3 More Months

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US Hikers' Trial to Start Sunday; Report: Pahlavis Seek Shelter for Mubarak

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Salehi Openly Defies Supreme Leader, Hails Ahmadinejad's 'Special Envoys'

IRNA | Press TV | Feb 5 Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters today that the appointment of special envoys by the president helps advance the Foreign Ministry's...

Political Prisoners' Lawyer Imprisoned, Disbarred; Report on Iran, Nuke Arms

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Mousavi, Karroubi Condemn State Killing Spree; More EU Rights Abuse Sanctions?

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Iran ♥ Egyptian Uprising; Major US Lobbyist Calls ElBaradei Iran 'Stooge'

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Dutch Iranian Held in 2009 Protests Hanged; 'Iranians and the Cult of Death'

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Leaked Docs: Palestinian Hand in Iranian Politics?; Mud Flies in Regime Fracas

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Obama Threatens Tighter Sanctions; Oil Price Drop Endangers Subsidy Reform

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Ahmadinejad Blasts Regime Rivals; US Sanctions Chief Steps Down

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Two 'MKO Terrorists' Hanged for Taking Pictures; Far Right Gunning for Mashaei?

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WikiLeaks: Iran Is Bomb-Capable Now; Ahmadinejad: West 'Lost in Lust'

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Mashaei: Filmmaker's Jailing Wrong; Regime Means It: No Valentine's Day!

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Report: Sealed Lebanon Assassination Indictment Points to Iran Regime

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Rights Group Denounces Iran 'Execution Binge'; More on Stuxnet

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Perspectives: Does West Have Ahmadinejad, Nuke Policy All Wrong?

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US Sanctions 'Iran Missile' Firms; Trading Blame over Fall of Lebanon Govt

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'Mossad Hitman' in TV Tell-All; Banned in Iran: Novelist Paulo Coelho

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Defenders of Iranians' Human Rights Sentenced to Years in Jail

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Update: Death Toll Rises to 77 in Iran Plane Crash, 27 Injured

More Mehr Photos from Crash Fars photos Ahmadinejad Condoles over Plane Crash Press TV | Jan 10 At least 77 people were killed and 27 injured when an IranAir-operated...

Protestors Demand MKO out of Iraq; Nuke Talks to Resume Jan 20

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Former CIA Officer Charged in Iran Case; Calls to Bar Reformists from Vote

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Pahlavi's Ashes to Be Scattered in Caspian; Dozens of Christians Arrested

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Update: American Reportedly Not Arrested; Denied Entry for No Visa

The reported incident occurred in Norduz (also spelled Nordouz or Nordooz) in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. A small habitation in a sparsely populated valley, Norduz is the lone official...

Karroubi Challenges Hardliners to Put Green Movement Leaders on Trial

Last week former President Mohammad Khatami announced that in order for the Reformists to participate in the elections for the ninth Majles, to be held in early 2012, their...

MPs Demand Rahnavard Stand Trial; IRGC General: Western Drones Downed

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Grand Ayatollah Challenges Regime; Report: 7 al-Qaeda Arrested

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Former Deputy Defense Minister Dies in Israeli Jail

[ blog watch ] As previously reported, Richard Silverstein, who blogs about the Middle East, was the first to report that Brigadier General Ali Reza Asgari, who was Deputy Defense...

Latifi's Execution Halted, Family Jailed; Jundallah Arrests in Question

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Int'l Pleas: Halt Kurdish Student's Execution; Jundallah Chief in Custody

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Christmas in Iran Past & Present

Christmas 2010 In recent years, the signs of celebration have moved into other parts of the Iranian capital. In an overwhelmingly Shia Muslim city, the municipal authorities now put up...

Discontent Deepens in Iran as Prices Soar; US Republicans Back MKO

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Filmmakers Panahi, Rasoulof: 6 Years Prison; 11 Reputed Jundullah Hanged

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Subsidies Slashed, Security Forces Deploy; Majles Council Vote: End UK Ties

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Secret Talks on Nuke Swap, Halting Enrichment; Heavy Security on Ashura

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Update: Nourizad, Still on Hunger Strike, Hospitalized; Family Briefly Detained

Mohammad Nourizad is a journalist who used to write for Kayhan, the mouthpiece of the hardliners. He also produced programs for the national television network. Politically, he was a...

Extra: Ahmadinejad Fires Foreign Minister, Appoints Salehi as 'Interim'

In two letters, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and one of his 12 vice presidents, as the...

Seventh Iranian Journalist Arrested This Week; Politicos Excoriate UK

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Extra: The Nazi Website amid Iran's 'Chaste and Virtuous Internet'

Editor's note: Last month, the online news outlet Tabnak reported that Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance had issued an operating permit for a website called Anjoman-e Nazism-e...

Update: Reports Ashtiani Freed Untrue; Leading Reformist Arrested

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Shargh Daily, Farsi1 TV Raided; More Video, Details of Student Protests

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Student Day Protests

Dec. 7, 2010 updates Josh Shahryar, who will be filing a report for us later today, is live blogging here, and tweeting @JShahryar. Homylafayette has a collection of videos...

Iran Claims Uranium Self-Sufficency; Plans to Winnow UN Nuke Monitors

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'Temporary Wife' Shahla Jahed Hanged; Mossad Implicated in Car Bombings

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The WikiLeaks Flood; Iran Agrees to Talks in Geneva Next Week

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Extra: Nuclear Scientist Killed, Another Wounded in Tehran Car Bombings

Tehran Attack Kills Leading Iranian Nuclear Scientist Telegraph | Nov 29 Men on motorbikes approached the cars of the two men and stuck magnet-bombs on their windscreens, according to...

US Admiral: Iran Lying about Nuke Intentions; Bushehr Activated

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Extra: European Union Calls on US to Drop MKO from Terror List

EU Urges U.S. to Remove Iran Group From Terror List Wall Street Journal | Nov 25 The European Parliament Thursday passed a written declaration calling on the U.S. to...

Extra: MP Speaks on Bid to Grill President; Mousavi Barred from Funeral

Iranian Lawmakers Seek to Challenge President Washington Post | Nov 24 Dozens of Iranian lawmakers have signed a petition seeking to make Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the first president to be...

Extra: Gold Medalist Denied Promised Apartment for Lack of Husband

Consternation of Guangzhou Champion Tebyan (in Farsi) | Nov 22 Khadijeh Azadpour is a household name in Iran and with good reason. The 22-year-old martial arts fighter is the...

Existence of Anti-Ahmadinejad Brief Denied; Clashing Nuke Reports

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Bid to Impeach Ahmadinejad Foiled by Khamenei; Nuke Program Stutters

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HBS: Doing Business in Iran

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL MENA CONFERENCE 2010 PRESENTS: Business Success in Iran: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's Opportunities Sunday, November 21, 11:30 - 12:40 [ press release ] Due to international pressure, the...

Ashtiani Case Metastasizes; New Clues: Stuxnet Crafted to Cripple Natanz

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Extra: Parliament Ousts Ahmadinejad from Central Bank Board

Fed Chief Threatens to Resign Tabnak (in Farsi) | Nov 15 In its most recent act, the Majles (parliament) has removed the president from the governing board of the country's...

Iran Flops in Bid for Board of Women's Org; Loses World Philosophy Day

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Regime Shackles Student Activists; Slams UN Atomic Chief

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Khatami Site Blocked in Iran; US Rebuffs Bibi's Demand for Military Threat

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Extra: Car Bomb in Iraqi Shrine City of Karbala Kills Iranian Pilgrims

Editor's note: On Monday morning, dozens of Shia pilgrims, many of them Iranian, were killed and injured by the explosion of a large car bomb in Karbala. Assessments of...

'Great Satan' Flayed in Annual Fete; Jailed Rights Lawyer on Hunger Strike

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Ashtiani Lives Another Day; 'Security Cleansing' for Subsidy Cut Obedience

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Nuke Talks a Go for November; US, Iran Wrangle over Afghan Cash Bags

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Extra: Iran Loads Fuel Rods into Bushehr Nuclear Reactor Core

Iran Loads Fuel Rods into Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Christian Science Monitor | Oct 26 Iran today began loading fuel rods into the core of its first nuclear power...

Boston University: Covering Iran: Journalism and Truth under Siege

Witnesses to last year's upheaval come to Boston University. [ press release ] With the United States and Iran hurtling toward confrontation, journalists who have spent years inside the...

Extra: The Dissident Epistle That Disappeared

Editor's note: On October 14, the following letter, in Farsi, appeared on a website called Motghan, identified as the "Official Website of Modaresin & Tolab in Ghom and Najaf"...

Supreme Leader Hunts Clerics' Support; Azad Fires 'Secularist' Profs

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Khamenei in Qom Urges 'Solidarity' with Executive; Subsidy Moves Begin

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Iran Molds Deal for Allied Iraq Gov; Taboos News of Internal Opposition

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Marzieh, 'Voice of Love,' Dies at 86; Iran Elected OPEC President

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Ahmadinejad Arrives in Lebanon; Opposition Figures Arrested, Sentenced

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Khamenei Grabs for Azad; German Journos, Sakineh's Son, Lawyer Arrested

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Reform Journalist's Sentence: 4 Years, 74 Lashes; Party Ban Overturned

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Prosecutor Threatens Striking Bazaaris; Afghanistan Intercepts Explosives

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Mousavi: Hold Referendum on Regime Policies; Major Run on Dollars

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Regime Blocks Pro-Reform Ayatollahs' Websites; Woos Lebanon

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Iran Pols Mock, Bewail Human Rights Sanctions; Claim Nuke 'Spies' Nabbed

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Extra: Ebrahim Yazdi, Revolution's Second Foreign Minister, Arrested

Iran Opposition Figure Yazdi Detained: Report Reuters | Oct 1 Iran detained opposition politician Ebrahim Yazdi Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported, in the latest crackdown on the...

Gold Bazaaris' Strike Expands; Sanctions Sting Deeper

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Extra: US Hikers' Case Will Be Heard by 'Judge of Death'

U.S. Hikers' Trial in Iran Set for November Los Angeles Times | Oct 1 The two Americans still jailed in Iran on charges of espionage and trespassing won't be...

Press Release: Executive Order Targets Human Rights Abuses

Fact Sheet: New Executive Order Targeting Iranian Officials Responsible for or Complicit in Serious Human Rights Abuses Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order that imposes sanctions on Iranian officials...

University Students, Basijis Clash; 2 Reformist Papers Barred

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Extra: 'Blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan Sentenced to 19.5 Years

Iranian Canadian Blogger Hossein Derakhshan Receives Over 19 Years In Prison ICHRI | Sept 28 After months of anticipation and almost two years after his arrest and imprisonment, blogger...

Two Major Reform Parties Officially Banned

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Iran 'Not Interested' in Nuke Enrichment if Given Reactor Fuel

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Headlines: Signs Multiply of Fissures in Iranian Regime

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Headlines: Ahmadinejad to UN: 'US Government Orchestrated' 9/11

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Breaking: Iran Foreign Ministry Blames Israel for Bombing

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Headlines: Crackdown on Democratic Opposition Intensifies

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Headlines: Exposed Regime Report Details '09 Vote Fraud Plot

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Headlines: Clinton, Ahmadinejad Clash over Iran Military Sway

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Headlines: Rights Activist Nazar Ahari Sentenced to 6 Years

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Headlines: Agents Raid Mousavi's Office

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Headlines: Ahmadinejad: Iran Justified in Barring Nuclear Inspectors

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Headlines: US Hiker Sarah Shourd Released

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Report: Hardliners Close In on Mousavi

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Headlines: Iran to Release 1 of 3 Jailed Americans

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Headlines: Fidel Castro Criticizes Iran over Anti-Semitism

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Headlines: Larijani Rules Out Direct Talks with US

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Headlines: The Seige on Karroubi's House

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Headlines: US Wins First Meeting with Iran

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Headlines: Khamenei Urges 'Expat Elite' to Return

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PHOTO ESSAY | Majles | Aug 29 | It's not the first time Principlist MP Mehdi Kouchakzadeh has exhibited such great dispassion for fellow Principlist Ali Larijani, Majlis speaker....

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Headlines: Kayhan: 3 Slain at Kahrizak Are 'Martrys'

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Headlines: Iran Unveils 'Friendship' Drone

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Headlines: 'Screaming Mary' Silenced

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Headlines: Ahmadinejad Says Iran Ready for Nuclear Talks

Ahmadinejad says Iran ready for nuclear talks: report AP | Aug 20, 2010 Iran is ready for immediate talks with world powers over a nuclear fuel swap deal, President...

Headlines: Ahmadinejad Man Takes Over Sharif University

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Headlines: Khamenei: No Talks with US

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Headlines: Ramadan Rituals on the Wane in Iran

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Headlines: Prominent Iranian Journalist Sues Nokia Siemens

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Headlines: Ramadan Crackdowns

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Headlines: Iran to Fire Up First Nuclear Power Plant Next Week

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Headlines: New 'Restrictions' on Returning Expats

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Headlines: Mesbah Joins Chorus against Mashaei

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Headlines: Velayati: Iran Ready for Talks with Washington

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Headlines: News Photog, Lawyer's Wife Released

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Headlines: Censored, Moi?

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Headlines: Hair, Beards, and Power

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Headlines: Attack or No Attack?

Iranian media say president's convoy attacked AP | Khabar Online | Aug 4, 2010 A conservative Iranian website said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escaped an assassination attempt after a handmade...

Headlines: Music Fails to Chime with Islamic Values, Says Khamenei

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Headlines: Iran Seeks New Image in UK

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Headlines: Iran Ready to Rethink 20 Percent Enrichment

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The Hikers in Iran: One Year Later

NYT | July 29, 2010 This Saturday will mark the one year anniversary of the detainment and imprisonment of three young Americans in Iran. On July 31, 2009, Shane...

US Wrestling Team Arrives in Iran

Mehr | July 28, 2010 The six-member U.S. freestyle wrestling team arrived Tuesday in Tehran to take part in the Imam-Ali Habibi Cup. The team traveled to Ghaemshahr, 237...

Suspected Iran Ties to Extremists

WSJ | July 27, 2010 Cooperation among Iran, al Qaeda and other Sunni extremist groups is more extensive than previously known to the public, according to details buried in...

EU toughens sanctions on Iran; Tehran offers talks

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NYT: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki are caught in the same photo frame in Kabul. Related story here. US watchdog moves to...

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Iranian nuclear scientist returns home FP | July 14, 2010 The Iranian nuclear scientist who U.S. officials say defected to the United States last year and provided information on Iran's...

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Further restrictions on Iran Air in new EU blacklist Telegraph | July 6, 2010 All except 23 of the Tehran-based carrier's 64 aircraft are now banned from entering EU airspace....

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Mother of Two Faces Stoning for Alleged Adultery ICHR | July 3, 2010 The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran appealed to the Iranian Judiciary to halt the execution...

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International Iran, US take their nuclear dispute to UN stage AP | May 3, 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought his nuclear showdown with Western powers to New York on...

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Obama's Nowruz Message

Nowruz 1389

nowruz timetable Tehran Saturday 09:02:00 p.m. 20 March 10 New York Saturday 1:32:00 p.m. 20 Mar 2010 Chicago Saturday 12:32:00 p.m. 20 Mar 2010 Denver Saturday 11:32:00 a.m. 20...

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Basij to be in charge of neighborhood watch Fararu | March 7, 2010 After meetings with IRGC officials it was decided that Basij patrols would be assigned to neighborhood watches...

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Rigi snagged

Behind-the-Scenes: Rigi's Arrest Diplomacy.ir | Feb. 23, 2010 Iran's interior minister said: "Abdolmalek Rigi was arrested outside Iran and was transferred to Iran." He described this act as a...

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Dispatches: 22 Bahman

All times EST, unless otherwise noted. 10:00 am EST: Tehran Bureau interview with Hossein Karroubi, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi's son. How is your father Haj Agha Mehdi Karroubi? We're treating...

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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Weekend Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Bomb Kills Professor Tied to Mousavi

Leader's Rep: Safeguarding Islamic government worth sacrificing 75,000 lives Fars | Jan. 12, 2010 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's representative to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said today that revolutions take...

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Tehran Plans a Major Military Exercise WSJ | Jan. 4, 2010 Iranian media on Sunday reported Tehran will conduct a large-scale defensive military exercise next month, coinciding with what government...

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AP | Jan. 10, 2010 A parliamentary investigation made public on Sunday found the former Tehran prosecutor responsible for the deaths of at least three anti-government protesters imprisoned in the...

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Shots fired at Iranian opposition leader Karroubi | Jan. 8, 2010 Reuters Unidentified men opened fire this week on leading Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition Web site reported...

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Hosseinian hands in letter of resignation Tabnak | Jan. 7, 2010 Tehran representative in Majles Ruhollah Hosseinian resigned from his post as Member of Parliament in a letter to...

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Majlis finds Mortazavi main suspect in Kahrizak case Rahe Sabz | Jan. 6, 2010 Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi was reportedly found by lawmakers to be the main suspect...

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Iran bans contact with foreign organizations, including the BBC Guardian | Jan. 5, 2010 Authorities in Iran intensified their campaign to blame the country's political turmoil on foreigners today by...

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Ahmadinejad says Iran tenfold stronger Press TV | Jan. 4, 2010 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that the Iranian nation would not give up on its rights as it is...

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Update on Ashura arrests Tehran Bureau | Jan. 3, 2010 Approximately 500 protesters who had been arrested during the Ashura demonstrations have been jailed at the infamous Jail 59 at...

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Iran conservative body rejects Ayatollah Sanei as a source of emulation Fars | Jan. 2, 2009 A conservative association of clerics has rejected government critic Ayatollah Yousef Sanei as a...

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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

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Regime Wages a Quiet War on 'Star Students' of Iran WSJ | Dec. 31, 2009 Behind the drama unfolding in the streets of Iran, the regime is quietly clamping down...

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Photo: Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at a mourning ceremony earlier this week. Iran Urges Pro-Government Rallies in Tehran; Free Metro Tickets WSJ | Dec. 30, 2009 Tens of thousands of...

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Qoba mosque in Shiraz under Basiji attack Raheh Sabz | Dec. 29, 2009 Militia forces that had been surrounding the Qoba Mosque in Shiraz since early Tuesday morning mounted attacks...

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Body of Mousavi's nephew taken from the morgue Gooya | Dec. 28, 2009 Security and civil forces took the body of Seyyed Ali Mousavi from the Avicenna Hospital morgue...

Ashura videos [Graphic]

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Tasua Videos & Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

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Biggest student gathering of recent months in Tehran Asr Iran | Dec. 25, 2009 Students staged a protest Friday in Tehran upon the return of Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani...

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Police clash with mourners in Zanjan Rahe Sabz | Dec. 24, 2009 The memorial service for Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri that was to be held in the Grand Mosque of...

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50 arrested in Isfahan unrest Rahe Sabz | Dec. 23, 2009 More than 50 people were arrested during protests in the city of Isfahan Wednesday, including four members of the...

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Qom eyewitness account Tehran Bureau | Dec. 21, 2009 Female, 30, sociologist: "We started out from Tehran for Qom at 2:00 am. We arrived in the early dawn hours at...

Videos: Ayatollah Montazeri's funeral

Photos of funeral here and here (including one of Mir Hossein Mousavi). In this video, as a message from the Supreme Leader is read over loudspeakers, the crowd begins booing...

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Five dailies scolded for 'censoring' govt rally Ayandeh | Dec. 19, 2009 The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance reprimanded five Iranian dailies -- Abrar, Andish-e No, Jahan-e Eghtesad, Etemad...

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Pro Iranian hackers hit Twitter and Opposition websites BBC │Dec. 18, 2009 A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army has hacked Twitter and an Iranian opposition website, replacing it...

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Mashai buys actress' artwork Khabar Online │ Dec. 16, 2009 Esfandiar Mashai, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's gaffe-prone chief of staff, reportedly bought the most expensive artwork at popular actress Hedieh Tehrani's photography...

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Police will not stop carriers of green symbols on Ashura Farda | Dec. 16, 2009 Police commander Azizollah Rajabzadeh said Ashura mourners carrying green banners or other symbols would not...

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Iran prosecutor general reportedly confirms rape in prisons Rahe Sabz | Dec. 15, 2009 Iran's Prosecutor General attended a private meeting with the members of the Assembly of Experts, where...

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Pro-Leader students give opposition ultimatum Fararu | Dec. 13, 2009 Students gathered in the Imam Khomeini Mausoleum in Tehran to protest the desecration of one of the late leader's posters...

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IRNA strikes 'Ayatollah' from Rafsanjani title Tabnak | Dec. 13, 2009 In a directive issued to IRNA employees, writers have been advised to use only the titles "Hojjatoleslam" or "Head...

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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

Intel chief warns of extent of opposition

Iran intel chief warns of extent of opposition AP | Dec. 10, 2009 Iran's top intelligence official denounced senior clerics who he said support the country's opposition, an acknowledgment of...

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Student protests continue at Tehran and Sharif universities Norooz | Dec. 9, 2009 Despite warnings issued by Tehran University officials banning protests on Wednesday, December 9th, a number of pro-opposition...

Day 2: Clashes at Tehran universities

Protests Six students arrested at Tehran University AUT | Dec. 8, 2009 Following two days of protests and clashes with security forces at Tehran University, six students have been detained...

Updates: 16 Azar

New slogans chanted in Student's Day protests: Witnesses told Tehran Bureau that slogans chanted at protests today were notably radicalized and emboldened, targeting the Supreme Leader, the Basij, and...

Videos: 16 Azar

Oil Money spent on Basiji 16th Azar dec.07.09 Sharif University Student gathering behind Sharif's main entrance Amirkabir, پول بالابردن برای بسیج شکستن در دانشگاه، با فریاد مرگ بر دیکتاتور. درب...

Ahmadinejad has proof US trying to stop Hidden Imam

Ahmadinejad says he has proof US trying to stop Hidden Imam Tabnak | Dec. 4, 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he has documented evidence that the United States was trying...

SL pardons, reduces jail terms of 793 prisoners; other crackdown begins...

Iranian leader pardons or reduce jail terms for over 793 prisoners BBC Monitoring | Farda News | Dec. 5, 2009 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned or reduced...

Main Kahrizak suspect appointed top presidential inspector

Main Kahrizak suspect appointed top presidential inspector Parleman News│ Dec. 4, 2009 Reports suggest that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed the notorious Judge Saeed Mortazavi as to presidential office's head inspector....

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Tehran Prosecutor warns against protests, says his office 'good friend of the media' Tabnak | Dec. 1, 2009 Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi warned that police would crack down on...

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Ban on makeup for women, less music on state television Tabnak | Dec. 1, 2009 The newly reinstated head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting said less music and...

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Yachtsmen and Iran's anger with UK Guardian | Dec. 1, 2009 The UK has one organ that scares Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime greatly, and that is BBC's Persian language service....

5 Brits in Iranian custody; FP's Top 100

British sailors in Iranian custody Al Jazeera | BBC Analysis | Nov. 30, 2009 Five Britons are being held in Iran after the Iranian navy seized their racing yacht, which...

Nabavi's tale of prison; 'fake' Basijis arrested; 10 new enrichment sites

Nabavi's arrest warrant issued before election Mowjcamp | Nov. 28, 2009 Behzad Nabavi, a prominent reformist, met with a number of other reformists following his temporary 10-day release on a...

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Iran says IAEA will face consequences of decision Press TV | Nov. 28, 2009 The UN nuclear watchdog will be the first to face the consequences of a newly-adopted resolution...

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Tabnak | Nov. 27, 2009 Of the 35 members of International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors, 25 voted in favor of the suspension of the Fordo nuclear plant's activities,...

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U.N. Nuclear Agency Calls Iran Inquiry 'Dead End' NYT | Nov. 26, 2009 The director of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Thursday that its investigation into Iran's nuclear...

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Atrianfar released on bail Bultan News │Nov. 24, 2009 The Tehran Prosecutor's office announced that Reformist politician Mohammad Atrianfar has been released on a $500,000 bail. Bashiri told ISNA that...

Daily banned, ban lifted, reinstated

Former Interior Minister Ali Kordan Dies AP │Nov. 22, 2009 Former Iranian Interior Minister Ali Kordan, who was dismissed after being accused of faking a law degree from the University...

Abtahi released on bail after sentencing; Kordan dead

Iran releases Abtahi on bail after sentencing AP | Nov. 22, 2009 Iran released a former vice president on a $700,000 bail Sunday after his lawyer said he had...

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Iran, Kuwait pledge cooperation during rare PM visit Reuters | Nov. 21, 2009 Iran and Kuwait pledged to boost economic cooperation during the first visit to Tehran by a prime...

Fiery rhetoric as sanctions loom; UN rebukes Iran for rights violations

Fiery rhetoric as sanctions loom Foreign Reports | Nov. 20, 2009 At the main Friday prayer service in Tehran today, the prayer leader dedicated his political sermon to a vituperative...

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Iran protesters sentenced to death Al Jazeera | Nov. 18, 2009 Iran has sentenced five people to death and 81 others to prison terms of up to 15 years...

Kahrizak doctor dead; First Lady makes speech in Rome

Kahrizak doctor, 26, dies of 'heart attack' Norooz | Nov. 15, 2009 Following Friday's reported suicide of Ramin Pourandarjani, a 26-year-old physician resident at Kahrizak detention center, Norooz News reported...

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Tehran Municipality, City Council demand airtime Khabar | Nov. 13, 2009 Officials from the Tehran Municipality and the Islamic City Council requested airtime to respond to the televised controversial remarks...

SL reps God; Military chief backs nuke deal, chides Russia

Iran's Supreme Leader cannot be removed Reuters | Mowjcamp | Oct. 13, 2009 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cannot be removed from his post because his legitimacy comes from...

New cyber police; Govt wants control of Metro; Swap for hikers?

Ahmadinejad suggesting a swap? poolnews.ir | Nov. 10, 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's response to a question at a recent press conference about three detained Americans in charged with espionage in Iran,...

Mesbah's allies; Jalili didn't 'negotiate'; Ahmadinejad met with spies?

Mesbah Yazdi's friends and allies Tabnak | Nov. 9, 2009 Raja News announced the names of Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi's students, confidants and political companions. [Raja News is a source very close...

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Iran charges three detained Americans with espionage Reuters | Nov. 9, 2009 Iran has charged three detained U.S. citizens with espionage, the official IRNA news agency quoted a judiciary official...

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IRGC General says Pakistan arrested, released Rigi Uskowi | Oct. 8, 2009 The deputy head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards alleges that Pakistan arrested and then released the leader of...

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Gearing up for 13 Aban (Nov. 4) Blog Watch | Nov. 7, 2009 Iran media says foreign journalists released from custody WaPo | Nov. 7, 2009 Iran's judiciary has freed...

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US Treasury Dept. sanctions Bank Mellat chairman and Malaysian-based subsidiary USTreas.gov | Nov. 5, 2009 The United States Treasury Dept. on Thursday imposed sanctions against Iran's Bank Mellat Chairman Ali...

Videos: 13 Aban

TEHRAN Young cornered and clobbered with baton Young woman clobbered on the head, young man helping her confronted by Basiji Video of people getting beat up. Basiji dragging people away...

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Video: Protests at Mashhad's Ferdosi University Video: Protests continue at Tehran's Sharif University Kashan University protests detention of three students Mowjcamp | Nov. 2, 2009 Students at Kashan University in...

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Video: university students protest visit of government official More student protests Mowj | Nov. 2, 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance was unable to deliver a...

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Iranian blogger seeks to show low turnout for Ahmadinejad's Mashhad visit through photos, posted here. Iranian altruism convinced world to seek nuclear cooperation Asr Iran | Oct. 31, 2009...

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Mousavi slams govt policy in Geneva talks Tabnak | Oct. 29, 2009 Opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi described the outcome of the Geneva nuclear talks as astonishing. According to the...

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IRGC Chief: Preserving regime more sacred than Islamic prayers Ayandeh News | Oct. 29, 2009 According to Sepah News, the official website of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mohammad...

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Protests at Ahwaz University Ayandeh News | Pedestrian | Oct. 27, 2009 Hamid Rasaee, a member of the Iranian parliament, was at the University of Ahvaz in Khuzestan on...

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Iran to accept nuke deal with changes FP | Oct. 27, 2009 Iran's state-controlled al-Alam TV channel reported on Tuesday that Iran will accept a UN brokered deal on uranium...

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Pakistan 'holds elite Iran force' BBC | Oct. 26, 2009 Iran has blamed a Pakistani group for an attack on its Revolutionary Guards Eleven members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards...

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The New Hostage Crisis FP | Oct. 24, 2009 My friend, the Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, was recently sentenced to 15 years in Tehran's Evin prison. For those familiar with...

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Karroubi attacked Parleman News | Tabnak | Asr Iran Oct. 23, 2009 Outspoken opposition cleric Mehdi Karroubi has reportedly been assaulted by pro-government visitors at the 16th International Exhibition of...

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Iran Nuclear Monitor Dies Mysteriously Newsweek | Oct. 22, 2009 Police in Austria are investigating the mysterious death of a British nuclear monitoring expert. Early news reports said that Timothy...

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Iran arrests three over bomb blast Al Jazeera | Oct. 20, 2009 Three Iranians have been arrested in connection to Sunday's suicide bombing attack in the country's southeast that killed...

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Iran fires senior oil official amid political unrest IRNA | Oct. 19, 2009 Iran on Sunday fired longstanding oil official Javad Yarjani, further fueling concerns that the widespread political turmoil...

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Center right: A young Noor Ali Shushtari during the Iran-Iraq war. More photos here. Iranian official blames deadly bombing on 'U.S. actions' CNN | Oct. 18, 2009 A man...

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Kalhor's wife says her husband not telling truth Mehr | Etemad | Oct. 14-15, 2009 Mehdi Kalhor's wife Masoumeh Taheri-Mousavi spoke out against her husband for claiming in a recent...

Ahmadinejad on Diplomacy

Ahmadinejad talks about his UN performance In a recent interview with state television, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discusses diplomacy and his trip to New York to address a mostly empty General Assembly....

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Rafsanjani: Ahmadinejad's 2nd term legitimate Tabnak | Farda News | Oct. 14, 2009 [Tabnak appears to have taken down the story.] Head of the Expediency Council, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani,...

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Daughter of Ahmadinejad aide seeks asylum in Germany Haaretz | Oct. 13, 2009 The daughter of a top adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied for asylum in Germany,...

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Victim's parents hang man convicted of murder as juvenile AFP | Oct. 11, 2009 An Iranian man was hanged on Sunday reportedly by the parents of his victim whom he...

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Our Laureate: Neda of Iran WaPo | Oct. 10, 2009 The Nobel Committee's decision is especially puzzling given that a better alternative was readily apparent. This year, hundreds of thousands...

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Amnesty: Iran sentences opponent to death AP | Oct. 9, 2009 Iran has sentenced an accused member of an exiled opposition group to death, Amnesty International said Friday in an...

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Puzzling: men and women touch during police show battle in Iran. Click here for more photos Oil Minister: we won't sell oil to countries that accept gasoline sanctions Kayhan...

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Cartoon by Nikahang Kowsar/Roozonline US funds dry up for Iran rights watchdog Boston Globe | Oct. 7, 2009 Just as the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center was ramping up...

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Photos of Kahrizak prison published by reformist website Mowjcamp. Mortazavi: Prisoner overflow at Kahrizak cause of torture Blog Watch: Mardomak | Oct. 6, 2009 Shortly before the Majlis truth-finding...

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Jailed Newsweek reporter faces personal ordeal AP | Oct. 5, 2009 Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than three months, got troubling news: His...

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Khamenei reshuffles military top brass AFP | Oct. 4, 2009 Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday issued decrees reshuffling several commanders in the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, official...

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Chants of Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein emerge from stands during live broadcast of today's soccer match at Azadi Stadium in Tehran. Soccer fans chanting pro-Mousavi slogans on their way...

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Iran Nuke Deal Details The Daily Beast | Oct. 1, 2009 Michael Adler reports that the "steps to build confidence" announced today are more concrete than Obama revealed. Iran has...

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Iranian foreign minister makes rare visit to Washington AP | Sept. 30, 2009 Iran's foreign minister made a rare visit to the U.S. capital Wednesday on a visa granted with...

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Tehran University students told to behave Asr Iran | Sept. 29, 2009 Officials at Tehran University warned students living in its dormitories of the consequences of taking part in gatherings...

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Karroubi takes Rafsanjani to task for weak stance on issues TEHRAN BUREAU | Sept. 28, 2009 Mehdi Karroubi has written a second open letter to Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chair...

Blog Watch: Fariba Pajooh

Mother grieves jailed journalist Blog Watch | Human Rights Activists News Agency Fariba Pajooh, a professional journalist and blogger, has been in detention in Evin Prison for the past...

Demonstrations at Tehran Univeristy

TEHRAN BUREAU | Sept. 28, 2009 Today was the first day of the new academic year for Iranian universities. There were demonstrations at Tehran University, where students chanted slogans...

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Cartoon: "Transformation of Qom," by Nikahang Kowsar/Roozonline Iranian Nuclear Physicist Missing Tehran Bureau | Sept. 27, 2009 An Iranian nuclear physicist who disappeared during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia...

Ethicist blasts Ahmadinejad on IRIB

mirhusein.org | Sept. 22, 2009 Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabayi Shirazi, known in Iran as the television ethics teacher, raked the Iranian president and his officials over the coals during...

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Iran says atom plant within IAEA regulations Reuters | Sept. 25, 2009 The activity of an Iranian enrichment plant under construction is within the framework of the U.N. nuclear agency's...

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Mousavi embraces Ayatollah Makarem. Archive photo *For Quds Day updates, please click here. Larijani secretly meets with Ayatollah Makarem Tabnak | Sept. 18, 2009 Majlis speaker Ali Larijani has...

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Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Ahmadinejad's first vice president. Motahari: Rahimi is a Kordan in the Making Rokhad | Sept. 14, 2009 Principlist lawmaker Ali Motahari has criticized the appointment of...

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We are experiencing technical difficulties. We will update the site as soon as the matter is resolved. Arzi asks mourners to pray for death of protest leaders Khabaronline | Sept....

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Alireza Beheshti, whose martyred father helped establish the Islamic Republic, was arrested and reportedly beaten. Archive photo. Tehran Bureau | Sept. 9, 2009 In his 12th statement since the...

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Mousavi and Karroubi aides arrested Tehran Bureau | September 9, 2009 On the order of Tehran's new Prosecutor-General, Morteza Alviri, a senior aid to Mehdi Karroubi, was arrested at...

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Chavez visit in apparent violation of Islamic law Parleman News | September 7, 2009 The presence of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the Shrine of Imam Reza in...

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Fars news agency caption: "Congratulations on your union." Mysterious Meeting in Qom Tabnak | September 6, 2009 Grand Ayatollah Safi-Golapyegani has visited the Imam Sajjad seminary in Qom to...

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Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi, the new Health Minister, chats with lawmakers after her speech on Sept. 1, 2009. Photo/Tehran Bureau Iran's first female minister not Dastjerdi Blog Watch: Mehrekian | Sept....

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Agenda for Sept. 3 Majlis likely to vote on Ahmadinejad's proposed ministers. Ahmadinejad is to be given an hour to make a final pitch to the Majles for his...

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Razaei to head IRIB? Rokhdad | Sept. 1, 2009 Unconfirmed reports suggest that Ezzatollah Zarghami may soon leave his position as the head of the Islamic Republic Broadcasting (IRIB)...

'Official Leak': Rouholamini tortured to death

Mehr News Agency | August 31, 2009 The semi-official Mehr News Agency quoted "an informed source" on the cause of death of 25-year-old Mohsen Rouholamini. The fact that this...

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The man is here to stay. Archive photo Mortazavi Promoted Tehran Bureau | August 30, 2009 Hojjatoleslam Sadegh Larijani has appointed Saeed Mortazavi, the notorious former Tehran Prosecutor General,...

Tehran Prosecutor Sacked

Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, the new Prosecutor General, was previously head of the judiciary in the southwestern province of Khuzestan. briefs Hojjatoleslam Sadegh Larijani, the new chief of the judiciary,...

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On the sidelines of the fourth 'velvet-coup' trials ILNA | August 25, 2009 Though for the previous court sessions detainees were not subject to surveillance and interceptor equipment, for the...

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Photos of Section 302 of Behesht-e Zahra, where Norooz website reported some of the dead were secretly buried. Fatemeh Shams, Mohammad Reza Jalayipour's wife, calls for his freedom. Jalayipour...

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Hossein Fadaei, a representative from Tehran, was reportedly directly involved in interrogations in Kahrizak. 3 MPs tied to Kahrizak prison Blog Watch: niacINsight | August 26, 2009 The reformist...

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Nourouz releases serial numbers for burial site Parleman News | August 24, 2009 Nourouz website released the registration numbers of the burial permits issued on July 12 and 15...

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MP: Majlis will never okay Ajorlou Asr Iran | August 24, 2009 Seyyed Mehdi Zamani, a member of the Majlis Social Commission, said given Fatemeh Ajorlou's track record, he...

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Bullet-ridden Reza Anbouhi Blog Watch | Date August 21, 2009 Reza Anbouhi was shot point blank in the head with a BB gun intended to be fired from a...

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Kayhan closure awaits Mortazavi approval ILNA | August 20, 2009 The hardline Kayhan daily has been suspended by the media court after its editor, Hossein Shariatmadari, was no-show at...

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Larijani and Ahmadinejad to shuffle ministers Etemad-e Melli | August 19, 2009 Reports indicate that newly-appointed Judiciary Chief Sadeq Larijani has been reshuffling his personnel and appointing former Ahmadinejad...

Karroubi takes on his critics

Karroubi won't shy away. Archive photo. Source: Mowjcamp | August 16, 2009 Reformist politician Mehdi Karroubi's recent letter to Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani requested an investigation into the rape of...

Hajjarian to appear in court

Archive photo Hajjarian to appear in Revolutionary court Source: Mowjcamp | August 18, 2009 Saeed Hajjarian will reportedly be taken to the Revolutionary court tomorrow; reports also indicate that...

Hello, there!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani wave hello at Sadeq Larijani's appointment ceremony as judiciary chief. Ahmadinejad has not had nice things to say about the former president....

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Someone didn't give him the memo... ''No doubt what is happening in Iran concerns and worries us, but we consider it to be an internal affair.'' Khaled Mashaal, top Hamas...

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Oops, No Touching! It is forbidden in Islam for a man and woman not married, or otherwise mahram to each other, to make physical contact. Mousavi: Iranian authorities should...

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Ayatollah calls for emergency Assembly of Experts meeting [Source: Yazd Online][Dastgheib.ir] August 13, 2009 Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Mohammad Dastgheib, a member of the Assembly of Experts and a senior cleric,...

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Mesbah Yazdi and Ahmadinejad embrace. Photo date unknown. Mesbah-Yazdi: Subservience to Ahmadinejad shows faith in God [Source: Farda News] August 12, 2009 Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi said the recent unrest...

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IRIB cites Israeli cabinet as progressive model IRNA slams IRIB example of female ministers [Tabnak] August 12, 2009 In an unprecedented move, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB aired a report...

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Captions: (Top) These rapes took place in the Shah's prisons too... (Bottom) Of course [in my case], we were killed! Cartoon by Nik Kowsar/Roozonline Hossein Karroubi: They rode prisoners...

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MP: Larijani provoked Mousavi [Raja News] August 10, 2009 One of the lawmakers tasked with reviewing Ali Larijani's doctorate degree charged that the Majlis Speaker misused the title 'Dr.' years...

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Karroubi demands probe into detainee rapes [Radio Farda] August 9, 2009 Defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi called on the Assembly of Experts to investigate the sexual assault of a number...

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Qotbi's house raided over show of support for Ahmadinejad Source: Jahan News and Asr Iran Unidentified men on Thursday raided the UAE home of Iran's national soccer team coach,...

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'Velvet Coup' trials postponed [Fars News Agency] Upon the request of lawyers for ten defendants charged in connection with the post-election unrest, the Revolution Court postponed their trials for two...

Motahari: security officials sowing discord

Source: Tabnak Dr. Ali Motahari, a member of Majlis representing Tehran, said broadcasting confessions of officials accused of treason, indicated that security authorities did not want to see unity...

Saffar-Harandi mulls 'journalism'

[TEHRAN BUREAU] Source: Roozna.com Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance in the first Ahmadinejad administration, has rejected rumors that he will be the new head of...

Prosecutor: Confessions will not influence court verdict

Source: Khabar Online Prosecutor General Qorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi said the prisoners' confessions in court were part of a legal procedure and would not have a major impact on the verdict....

Britian, Iran: Ties strained, but in place

British Embassy in Tehran. Date unknown. [TEHRAN BUREAU] Source: Asr Iran Instead of Ambassador Simon Glass, the British mission in Tehran sent its No. 2, Patrick Davies, to Mahmoud...

Nabavi, Hajjarian may be tried for Rajai assassination

Source: Asr Iran Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first term, said Saeed Hajjarian and Behzad Nabavi may be tried in connection with the...

The Next Interior Minister?

The Next Interior Minister? [TEHRAN BUREAU] Source: Asr Iran While other military officials such as Iran's Police chief, Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, attended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's swearing-in ceremony in uniform,...

Updates from Aug 5

Videos coming in from clashes today will be posted here. Source: Parelment News Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inauguration ceremony was held amid heavy police and security presence around the Iranian Parliament...

Ahmadinejad's inauguration ceremony: shows and no-shows

[TEHRAN BUREAU] Source: Mowjcamp.com For the first time in 12 years, the Iranian presidential inauguration ceremony was not broadcast live. Photos of the ceremony were released after receiving approval...

A Snub?

Iran's president gets cooler reception from top [AP] Iran's supreme leader bestowed his formal endorsement on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second term as president on Monday but withheld a powerful symbolic...

Supreme Leader's brother: Mousavi revived revolutionary ideals

[TEHRAN BUREAU] Source: ILNA In a meeting with a number of recently freed detainees of the post-vote-unrest, Seyyed Hadi Khamenei, the Supreme Leader's younger brother, criticized the Guardians (Council) of...

Blog Watch: Ahmadinejad in Mashhad

[LAT Blog: Babylon and Beyond] Check out the photos above. All purport to show President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surrounded by swarms of followers during a July 16 trip to the...

Updates from 8 Mordad (30 July)

Photo: A young woman refuses to budge, Behesht Zahra cemetery, 30 July 2009.Blog Watch | Notes From the Underground We headed to Behesht Zahra Cementary in the afternoon to...

"Level Minus Four" Detention Center

Sources: Tabnak and AutNews.me One month after its revelation, an Iranian lawmaker has confirmed the existence of an underground detention center in the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. Kazem Jalali, the...

Ansar May Want Vote Back

Ansar-e hezbollah warns Ahmadinejad that they may have to take back their votes [TEHRAN BUREAU] Source: Tabnak After a barrage of harsh criticism from the Principlist camp over the...

Principlist MP: Kissing Leader's hand is not allegiance

[Source: Tabnak] Tehran lawmaker Hamid-Reza Katouzian accused Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of confronting Iran's Leadership. Katouzian said that the president's actions over the past 10 days have been viewed as unacceptable...

Razaei thanks judiciary chief

[Source: Tabnak] Mohsen Razaei has thanked judiciary chief Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi for ordering a quick review of the cases of the detainees of the post-vote unrest in Iran. "I would...

Blog Watch: A Real Probe into Prisons?

Photo: Mohsen Rooholamini[Source: Pedestrian] From Etemad, a Tehran daily newspaper: A seven member delegation from parliament will be going to Evin Prison in Tehran and Shahid Rajaie Prison in...

Principlist MP: Ahmadinejad seeks to throw Iran into chaos

Photo date unknown. [Source: Ayandenews.com] Tehran lawmaker Ali Motahari [of the Principlist hardline block of Majlis], stresses the need for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to compose himself, saying that according...

Hassani: Seniors should not be allowed out

As translated by Tehran Bureau staff [Asr Iran] Urumiyeh's Friday Prayers leader Hojjatoleslam Gholam-Reza Hassani thanked Security forces for restoring and maintaining calm throughout the country. Hassani said that...

Ahmadinejad Sacks Intelligence Minister

According to the Los Angeles Times: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dumped Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei a day after he accepted the resignation of his first vice president under pressure from his...

Ahmadinejad Sacks Ministers; Mashaei to Remain Close

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, the controversial head of Iran's tourism office since 2005, will be Ahmadinejad's chief of staff after serving just one week as vice president. By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in...

Reformists Urge Grand Ayatollahs to Weigh In

The following are selected translations from the Iranian press. This section will expand as soon as we are able to raise enough money to hire a part- or full-time translator....

Waking from its sleep

A quiet revolution has begun in the Arab world; it will be complete only when the last failed dictatorship is voted out [The Economist] What ails the Arabs? They are...

The Dynamics for Peace in the Middle East

The three critical dynamics determining whether the Middle East conflict moves towards peace: US-Israel relations, Israeli compliance with international laws and norms, and the capacity of the Arabs to...

Headlines, blogs, snippets, updates...

Few non-Iranians understand Iran and Iranians like Roger Cohen does. He's as brilliant as he is eloquent. Ed. Iran's Tragic Joke [NYT] What president would celebrate a "victory" by...

Friday Prayers (Updates)

More from Pedestrian's blog: We were all on the bus, wondering if the person next to us was going to the prayer. I guess after a while, the tensions...

Vive La Republique!

As the story of the French liberation goes, a group of resistance fighters broke into a municipality building in the Paris suburbs to find its collaborationist mayor performing a...

Missing Protester, 19, Dead

The following is a press release from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Tehran Bureau will occasionally publish press releases from reputable organizations in our Press Roundup section...

18 Tir Updates

Sign says, "My Green Vote did not bear your Darkened Name." Photo date unknown. Via blog: Armed militias along with security forces on motorcycles attacked some of the dormitories...

Headlines, blog posts, updates

Date of photo unknown. Iran's Revolutionary Guard takes command [LAT] The top leaders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard publicly acknowledged they had taken over the nation's security and warned...

Headlines

Photo/TehranBureau Voices from Iran [open Democracy] If my experience is any guide, Iranians outside Iran are living some of the most intense days of their lives. Since the first,...

A Disgusting Fraud

By ROBERT DREYFUSS Gunfire, tear gas, and water cannons used by baton-wielding security forces in Iran have forced an uneasy calm on Tehran and other cities, but Mir Hossein...

Khamanei Condemns Tyranny

Quoting then (not-yet-Ayatollah) Hojatol-Islam Seyed Ali Khamanei, the current Supreme Leader at a speech in Qom: When illiteracy, poverty, hunger, injustice, and inequality have been uprooted, the Revolution has...

Mir-Hossein Mousavi 'ready for martyrdom'

Telegraph.co.uk Mir-Hossein Mousavi 'ready for martyrdom' as Iranians defy Supreme Leader Iran's By Angus McDowall Published: 6:12PM BST 20 Jun 2009 He dramatically raised the stakes in the standoff...

Gauntlet Thrown in Iran

Photo: In an apparent reference to vandalism, "We break idols, not glass." By ROBERT DREYFUSS Speaking to a government-organized throng bused in from around Tehran and as far away...

The Recount Proposal

Mousavi's Camp Gives Cold Shoulder to Recount Proposal A hard-liner hardliner: Ayatollah Jannati (center) heads the Guardian Council. By HAMED YADEGARI in Boston | 16 June 2009 [TEHRAN BUREAU] On...

Stolen Election

By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles | 13 June 2009 Iran's rancorous presidential election took a completely unexpected turn. All indications were that Mr. Mir Hossein Mousavi would win...

Baton-wielding police disperse Mousavi supporters

Photo: Vali Asr, above Abbas Abad, 13 June 2009, 4 pm, Tehran. Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:23am EDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - Police using batons moved to disperse supporters of...

Headlines

Headlines, Features, Reports [June 2009] Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/8099115.stm Ahmadinejad defiant on 'free' Iran poll Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defended his "completely free" re-election as Iran's president, amid violent...

May Headlines

Headlines, Features, Reports Think tank accuses Ahmadinejad of distorting facts [AP] A moderate think tank led by Iran's former top nuclear negotiator accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of distorting facts...

Israeli Attack Threat

Obama team debates stance on Israeli attack threat. By GARETH PORTER and JIM LOBE in Washington D.C. [IPS] A recent statement by the chief of the U.S. Central Command...

Can Iran Change?

AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian THE NEW YORKER | LETTER FROM TEHRAN By JON LEE ANDERSON Ever since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first ran for President of Iran, four years ago, he has shown...

US may cede to Iran's nuclear ambition

By DANIEL DOMBEY in Washington [Financial Times] US officials are considering whether to accept Iran's pursuit of uranium enrichment, which has been outlawed by the United Nations and remains...

Outreach to Tehran a top priority

A bench outside the Peace Palace at The Hague. Photo/Celesteh By GLENN KESSLER at The Hague [The Washington Post] The high-minded speeches by foreign ministers on helping Afghanistan were...

Official: Iraq to move Iranian opposition group

[The Associated Press] Iraq says it will move members of an Iranian opposition group from a camp north of Baghdad to remote areas elsewhere and encourage them to leave...

Iran to join talks on stabilizing Afghanistan

[Los Angeles Times] The Islamic Republic announced Thursday that will join the United States in dispatching official delegations to two international conferences on Afghanistan in the coming days, including...

Media get it wrong, again

[The Daily Star] U.S. President Barack Obama's effort to begin a dialogue with the Islamic Republic of Iran has already hit a brick wall. But the obstacle that stands...

Hot times and cool heads

As Ayatollah Khamenei endorses possible talks with the United States, Iran's pragmatic conservatives hope the presidential election will help trim Ahmadinejad's international role. By GARETH SMYTH in Beirut There...

Dialogue or Dictating to Iran?

By RAMI G. KHOURI in Beirut U.S. President Barack Obama continues to make intriguing gestures in the Middle East that seem to soften or even reverse the policies of...

Iranian Blogger Dies in Prison

[The New York Times] Human rights groups and an American-financed radio station report that an Iranian blogger, Omidreza Mirsayafi, who had been sentenced to two years in prison for...

Iranian American Journalist Arrested

[BBC] Iran 'holds unlicensed' reporter: Authorities in Iran have arrested and detained an American freelance journalist who has reported for NPR, the BBC and other news organizations. continue reading...