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Iraq announced plans Thursday to move members of an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in a sharp escalation of pressure on a faction that poses complications for both Baghdad and Washington.
Baghdad is to move exiled Iranian dissidents based at a camp close to the two states' border to south Iraq before deporting them, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in remarks released on Thursday.
An Iranian woman has pleaded guilty to teaching English to members of a terror group that wants to overthrow Tehran 's despotic government.
The names of Iranian nationals who are held in U.S. captivity were released in Tehran on Wednesday. Some of them have been abducted in the United States and others by its agents in other countries.
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.
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 ...
WASHINGTON -- The American people got a good glimpse of the chaos in Iran in 1979 when Americans were held hostage for more than a terrible year -- but perhaps you really had to be in the Middle East to see and feel what a profound effect the "Islamic Revolution" had in that era on the entire region.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Despite the durability of the Iranian opposition, it would be naive to make any predictions about the livelihood of the clerical regime, a U.S. analyst said.
Thousands gathered at universities in the first major anti-government protest in weeks.
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...
The Student Day program at Tehran's Honar University started at around 10 AM on Monday December 7 with students singing "my schoolmate" song in the grounds of the university. From the beginning of the program, the students gathered behind the main gate of the university and chanted slogans such as "death to the dictator," "ya Hossein, Mir-Hossein," "political prisoner must be freed," and so on.
According to reports, today the students of Sharif University also held a rally and protest. The arrest of at least 7 students of Sharif University and other universities including Tehran University on December 7 and 8 has been announced as the reason for this protest. Sharif University students rallied inside the university, chanted slogans and gathered in front of the university's main entrance.
Washington, 10 December (WashingtonTV)—Iraq announced plans on Thursday to move members of an Iranian opposition group from their camp north of Baghdad to a remote southern desert area until it can expel them.
Washington, 10 December (WashingtonTV)—Norway and Sweden on Thursday criticized Iran’s treatment of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, who has said Iranian authorities confiscated her medal.
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 ...
Militiamen stormed a crowd of thousands of university students protesting for a second day Tuesday in Tehran, Iran.
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