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Payvand Iran News - Wed Dec 9, 3:09 am ET
Reports from Iran say protesters have clashed with supporters of the regime on university campuses for a second straight day. RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports that the protests started at a Tehran engineering school, where members of the hard-line Basij militia attacked students with tear gas.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 11:41 am ET
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is driving worried Gulf countries into US arms with his threats to expand Tehran's suspect nuclear program, the top American general in the region said Sunday.
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Payvand Iran News - Mon Dec 7, 11:54 am ET
Iranian police have fired tear gas and used batons to disperse opposition protesters chanting antigovernment slogans in central Tehran, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Critics of the country's disputed presidential election had vowed to use today's commemoration of Students Day, when officials traditionally stage anti-Western public displays, to show that Iran's reform movement is still strong.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 4:16 pm ET
Tehran - The reformist Tehran daily, Hayat'e No (New Life), closed down on Monday, Fars news agency reported. The Iranian press watchdog banned the daily for working outside the regulations of press law, Fars said without giving further details. ...
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy - Tue Dec 8, 2:11 pm ET
Opinion: Obama’s Nobel Prize should benefit 2003 Iranian laureate
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UPI - Tue Dec 8, 6:18 pm ET
TEHRAN, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The United States and Israel kidnapped an Iranian atomic scientist and a senior Defense Ministry official, Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki charged Tuesday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 3:10 am ET
Hundreds of policemen were deployed around Tehran University on Monday as defiant Iranian students called for mass protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to mark Students Day.
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NPR - Mon Dec 7, 8:03 am ET
The first major protest in more than a month turns violent as security forces and pro-government militiamen confront thousands of opposition supporters demonstrating outside Tehran University and chanting "death to the dictator."
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Space War - Tue Dec 8, 11:34 pm ET
Tehran (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - Tehran Tuesday accused the United States of abducting an Iranian nuclear scientist who went missing in Saudi Arabia during a minor Muslim pilgrimage, and said Riyadh must also be held accountable.
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Washington Post - Wed Dec 9, 12:00 am ET
TEHRAN -- Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Tuesday 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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Sports Illustrated - Wed Dec 9, 9:04 am ET
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 - Tue Dec 8, 9:08 pm ET
Tehran’s police chief announced that 204 people had been arrested as clashes between students and police continued.
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OfficialWire - Wed Dec 9, 2:12 am ET
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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AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 4:35 am ET
An Iranian nuclear official says the purpose of a U.N. warning station set up in Turkmenistan near the border with Iran is "espionage."
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The Washington Times - Wed Dec 9, 6:45 am 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 ...