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More than 2000 people gather outside Evin tonight

More than 2000 people gather outside Evin tonight

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Source: Persian2English

According to reports received from Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran, more than [...]

Ahmadinejad: Iran has final say in Middle East

Ahmadinejad: Iran has final say in Middle East

By Dudi Cohen
January 30, 2010
Source: Ynet/Israel News
During speech marking 30 years to Islamic Revolution, Iranian president says region ‘center of energy and global wealth,’ adding that ‘whoever controls it will have final say in the world as well’
“The Middle-East is the crossroad of relations in the world and whoever has the last word in the [...]

Iran ‘hangs two convicted rapists’

Iran ‘hangs two convicted rapists’

January 30, 2010
Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)
TEHRAN — Iran hanged on Saturday two men convicted of raping a woman in front of her husband and child, the ISNA news agency reported.
The hangings were carried out in the capital’s notorious Evin prison, the report said.
The men identified by their first names, Masoud and Mohammad, had broken [...]

Put a chokehold on Iran: Time for sanctions to block Tehran’s nuke ambitions

Put a chokehold on Iran: Time for sanctions to block Tehran’s nuke ambitions

January 30, 2010
Source: New York Daily News
More than three weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei whistled past the U.S. deadline for Iran to get serious in talks aimed at dismantling Iran’s nuclear weapons program, President Obama spoke to the issue in his State of the Union address. He said:
“As Iran’s leaders continue to [...]

Iran Puts Protesters on Trial; Some Face Death Penalty

Iran Puts Protesters on Trial; Some Face Death Penalty

By Chip Cummins
January 30, 2010
Source: The Wall Street Journal

DUBAI—Iran’s judiciary on Saturday began a trial of 16 defendants charged with various offenses related to protests late last month, according to state media.
The trial is the latest in several proceedings against protesters and alleged organizers of post-election demonstrations. The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused [...]

Report: Iran puts 16 protesters on trial

Report: Iran puts 16 protesters on trial

By NASSER KARIMI
January 30, 2010
Source: The Associated Press/The Washington Post
TEHRAN, Iran — A group of opposition activists went on trial Saturday in Tehran on charges of rioting and conspiring against the ruling system in connection with protests late last year, Iran’s state media reported.
The official IRNA news agency and state Press TV said the 16 [...]

German embassy police ‘recalled from Iran’

German embassy police ‘recalled from Iran’

January 30, 2010
Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)
BERLIN — Two German policemen working at their country’s embassy in Tehran have been brought home after being targeted by Iranian intelligence, according to the weekly Der Spiegel.
The report, to appear Monday, follows an Iranian claim to have arrested two German diplomats for allegedly having a hand in deadly [...]

US Senate votes to slap new sanctions on Iran

US Senate votes to slap new sanctions on Iran

Bill punishes non-Iranian firms doing business in Iran
January 29, 2010
Source: Al Arabiya

An Iranian security guard standing in front of the reactor building at the Bushehr nuclear power plant

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate early Friday approved legislation that would let President Barack Obama impose sanctions on Iran’s gasoline suppliers and penalize some of Tehran’s elites, a [...]

Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim

Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair slated for Iran threat claim

By Robin Henry
January 30. 2010
Source: Times Online
Tony Blair’s claims that Iran now poses as serious a threat as Saddam Hussein’s Iraq have been dismissed as a “piece of spin” by the British ambassador to Tehran.
Sir Richard Dalton was fiercely critical of Blair’s testimony at the Iraq inquiry yesterday, in which the former [...]

U.S. sells weapons to Taiwan, angering China

U.S. sells weapons to Taiwan, angering China

By John Pomfret, Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Source: The Washington Post
The Obama administration announced the sale Friday of $6 billion worth of Patriot anti-missile systems, helicopters, mine-sweeping ships and communications equipment to Taiwan in a long-expected move that sparked an angry protest from China.
The sale, formally announced by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, [...]

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