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More than 2000 people gather outside Evin tonight

More than 2000 people gather outside Evin tonight

WongMixxMySpaceNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSurphaceSphinnSpurlS LiveYahoo!Email This to a Friend  Link HTML:  Permalink:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed or Email Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »January 30, 2010 Source: Persian2English According to reports received from Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran, more than two thousand people, comprising [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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