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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 6:34 pm ET
A politically divided Iran enters 2010 after a year marked by deadly street protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- some of the worst demonstrations since the fall of the shah -- and tensions with the West over its nuclear programme.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 5:03 am ET
Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed to press on with anti-government protests and urged hardliners to stop "violent" crackdown on protesters, an opposition website reported Monday.
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UPI - Mon Dec 14, 1:50 pm ET
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Iranian lawmakers clamped down on the opposition following uproar over the vandalism of pictures of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during street protests.
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CBS 5 Bay Area - 27 minutes ago
Iran said Monday a court will try three UC Berkeley graduates who wandered across the border from Iraq last July and became ensnared in an increasingly bitter standoff with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki did not say when the trial would begin or even what the Americans were charged with, other than that they had "suspicious aims." Last month ...
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UPI - Mon Dec 14, 11:30 am ET
GAZA, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A massive celebration in Gaza marking the 22nd anniversary of the Palestinian group Hamas Monday shows it still has broad support, observers say.
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Payvand Iran News - Mon Dec 14, 1:08 pm ET
A directive from the deputy news director of Iran's official news agency IRNA reportedly calls on the agency's news sections to refer to Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an ayatollah and a rival of Iran's current president, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, as hojatoleslam, which is a lower religious title.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 13, 11:46 am ET
Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday promised the Palestinian militant group Hamas continued support in their fight against Israel, state television reported. In a meeting with visiting Hamas politburo head Khaled Meshaal, Ahmadin...
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Payvand Iran News - Mon Dec 14, 10:53 am ET
Majid Tavakoli, an Iranian student leader who had been imprisoned twice for his defense of human rights, was violently arrested on December 7 after he gave a speech at a gathering of students at Amir Kabir University (Tehran) to commemorate Students' Day. Three years earlier in December 2006, he had been among students who protested Ahmadinejad's speech at Amir Kabir University and called him ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 10:17 am ET
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed Iran's support for the Palestinian "resistance" in a meeting on Sunday with the exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 9:02 pm ET
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's warning to Latin American nations about their ties with Iran was "an overt threat," especially to his country and Bolivia.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Mon Dec 14, 12:09 pm ET
Iran said Monday a court will try three Americans who wandered across the border from Iraq last July and became ensnared in an increasingly bitter standoff with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki did not say...
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New York Times - Sun Dec 13, 8:33 pm ET
Iran’s hard-line leadership admonished protesters for damaging pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, but the opposition said accusations were fabricated.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 8:29 am ET
Iran's official news agency says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated his support for Hamas during a visit by the Palestinian militant group's Syrian-based leader.
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Politico via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 7:21 pm ET
COPENHAGEN — Black police vans, with sirens screaming and occupants clutching semiautomatic rifles, barreled past the iconic Marble Church here Sunday, rattling the nerves of climate change conferees trying to enjoy a final break before this week’s intense finale.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 6:16 pm ET
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rejected Sunday the top US diplomat's "threats" on the consequences of Latin American ties with Iran, blasting Hillary Clinton's remarks as an "imperial offensive."