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Washington Post - Tue Dec 8, 12:00 am ET
TEHRAN -- Iranian security forces and paramilitary groups broke up anti-government demonstrations in central Tehran on Monday, using clubs, tear gas and electric batons to disperse crowds outside the University of Tehran, witnesses said.
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Sports Illustrated - 1 hour 21 minutes ago
HOUSTON -- Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, the son of an Iranian diplomat, played on his country's first Olympic basketball team, in the 1948 Summer Games, and shortly thereafter became the first known Iranian basketball player to enroll in an American university. He arrived at Cal in early 1949, then transferred to UCLA and later, Los Angeles City College, though no record exists of him playing hoops ...
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New York Times - Wed Dec 9, 12:53 am ET
Thousands gathered at universities in the first major anti-government protest in weeks.
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 7:17 am ET
Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to attend the summit of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, state television network IRIB reported Wednesday. The head of Iran's environmental protection office, Mohammad-Javad...
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Los Angeles Times - Wed Dec 9, 3:11 am ET
Iran's chief prosecutor warns that harsher measures will be taken against protesters. Tear gas was reported at today's demonstrations, after more than 200 were arrested in Monday's protests. Pro-government Basiji militiamen stormed the campuses of two Tehran universities Tuesday and attacked hundreds of protesting students, and Iran's chief prosecutor vowed to come down harder than ever on ...
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USA Today - Tue Dec 8, 9:13 pm ET
Militiamen stormed a crowd of thousands of university students protesting for a second day Tuesday in Tehran, Iran.
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New York Times - Wed Dec 9, 12:53 am ET
Tehran’s police chief announced that 204 people had been arrested as clashes between students and police continued.
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 7:02 am ET
Tehran - Iran does not want further escalation in the dispute over its nuclear programmes and wants talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday. We do not welcome any escalation and are ready to hold further talks [with...
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Washington Post - Wed Dec 9, 12:00 am ET
TEHRAN -- Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Thursday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the grounds of the country's most prominent university and assaulted students who had gathered in protest.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Tue Dec 8, 8:39 pm ET
ro-government Basiji militiamen stormed the campuses of two universities in the Iranian capital of Tehran and attacked hundreds of protesting students Tuesday, and Iran 's chief prosecutor vowed to come down harder than ever against peaceful demonstrators he described as a threat to the nation's security.
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UPI - Tue Dec 8, 11:50 am ET
TEHRAN, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The United States is doing whatever it can to prevent the coming of the Muslim savior, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 3:15 am ET
Saudi Arabia said it "deplored" Tehran's charge that an Iranian nuclear scientist was kidnapped on a pilgrimage to Mecca and hauled off to the United States, a Saudi newspaper reported Wednesday.
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The Daily Campus - Wed Dec 9, 2:19 am ET
Monday, Dec. 7, 1953 - or Azar 16th in the Iranian calendar - was the day that three students at the University of Tehran were shot dead for protesting against the Iranian regime. Fifty-six years later, Iranian students rally all around the world on this day, drawing meaningful attention to the resistance efforts of students in Iran against governmental oppression.
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WashingtonTV - 19 minutes ago
Washington, 9 December (WashingtonTV)—Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that his country did not want further escalation in the dispute over its nuclear program.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 9:24 am ET
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday accused the United States of abducting its nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri who went missing in Saudi Arabia earlier this year.