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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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Los Angeles Times - 1 hour 28 minutes ago
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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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 - 1 hour 25 minutes ago
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 - 2 hours 21 minutes ago
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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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.
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Payvand Iran News - Tue Dec 8, 11:25 am ET
Violence has broken out in two major Iranian universities today. According to Amir Kabir Newsletter, Revolutionary Guards and Basij forces have entered the campuses of University of Tehran and Shahid Beheshti and engaged in beating the students with the assistance of university security.
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The Washington Times - Tue Dec 8, 5:15 pm ET
TEHRAN -- Hard-line militiamen firing tear gas and throwing stones stormed a crowd of thousands of university students protesting for a second day Tuesday, as Iran threatened a tougher crackdown on the opposition after the biggest anti-government demonstrations in months. More than 200 people were arrested in Tehran on Monday during protests by tens of thousands at universities nationwide, and ...
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New York Post - Tue Dec 8, 6:59 am ET
TEHRAN -- Iranian security forces and paramilitary groups clashed with anti-government protesters yesterday, witnesses said, wielding batons, firing tear gas and stunning people with electrical batons to disperse crowds outside Tehran University. ...
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 1:52 pm ET
WASHINGTON----As tens thousands of peaceful Iranian protestors take to the streets and battle police to commemorate National Student Day, the Iranian regime is violently suppressing dissidents both inside and outside of Iran.
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USA Today - Mon Dec 7, 1:36 pm ET
Security forces and pro-government militiamen clashed with protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University on Monday, beating men and women with batons and firing tear gas, on a day of nationwide student demonstrations, witnesses said.