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  • Hundreds protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow

    AP – 42 mins ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Hundreds of young men and women chanted "death to the dictator," confronting police wielding batons and firing tear gas in the capital Thursday as opposition activists sought to revive street protests despite authorities' vows to "smash" any new marches.

  • US worried that freed Iranians could pose threat

    AP – 1 hr 11 mins ago

    WASHINGTON - The State Department is worried that release of five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents in Iraq could present a security threat to American troops there.

  • U.S. hands over Iranian officials detained in Iraq

    Reuters – 1 hr 32 mins ago

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five Iranian officials detained by the U.S. military in Iraq for up to two years were released on Thursday and handed over to Iranian embassy staff by Iraqi authorities, Iranian state television said.

  • Iranian police fire in air to disperse protesters

    Reuters – 1 hr 57 mins ago

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Riot police fired in the air to disperse pro-reform demonstrators in central Tehran on Thursday, nearly four weeks after a disputed election triggered mass protests across Iran, a witness said.

  • World leaders delay Iran crunch-time

    AFP – 2 hrs 11 mins ago

    L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) - Iran may have been hauled over the coals by the G8 but world leaders have effectively delayed a full confrontation with Tehran over its disputed election and nuclear programme until September.

  • Iran police fire tear-gas as thousands mark 1999 unrest

    AFP – 2 hrs 16 mins ago

    TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian police fired tear-gas on Thursday as thousands of demonstrators defied government warnings and staged a march to commemorate the anniversary of bloody student unrest in 1999, witnesses said.

  • US frees five Iranian diplomats in Iraq

    AFP – 2 hrs 25 mins ago

    BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military in Iraq on Thursday freed five Iranian diplomats held since January 2007 in a major source of friction between arch-foes Tehran and Washington, Iraqi and Iranian officials said.

  • The G-8, Obama Speak Softly on Iran's Nuclear Program

    Time.com – 2 hrs 29 mins ago

    While France and Britain want sanction threats, the G-8 gives Iran a few months to respond to an offer of talks

  • Release of diplomats not a gesture towards Iran

    AFP – Thu Jul 9, 11:59 am ET

    L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) - The White House denied Thursday the US army freed five Iranian diplomats in Iraq as a diplomatic gesture, saying the move was made under the terms of a security pact with the Baghdad government.

  • Iran police use tear gas to disperse demonstrators

    Reuters – Thu Jul 9, 10:44 am ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police used tear gas on Thursday to disperse pro-reform demonstrators gathered near Tehran University, a witness said.

  • Netanyahu adviser raises "MAD" nuclear scenario

    Reuters – Thu Jul 9, 8:58 am ET

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel must have "tremendously powerful" weapons to deter a nuclear attack or destroy an enemy that dares to launch an atomic strike, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted on Thursday as saying.

  • Khamenei aide blasts Britain, France

    AFP – Thu Jul 9, 8:27 am ET

    TEHRAN (AFP) - A top aide to Iran?s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that Britain and France were "worse" than the United States when it comes to interfering in Iran?s internal issues.

  • US releases 5 Iranian officials in Iraq

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 8:20 am ET

    BAGHDAD - U.S. forces on Thursday released five Iranian officials detained in January 2007 in northern Iraq on suspicion of aiding local Shiite militants, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.

  • French academic in Iran prison healthy but worried

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 7:47 am ET

    PARIS - France's foreign minister says a French academic held in an Iranian prison is in good health but worried.

  • French envoy meets detained lecturer in Tehran prison

    AFP – Thu Jul 9, 7:11 am ET

    TEHRAN (AFP) - France's ambassador to Tehran on Thursday met a French woman lecturer who has been detained in Iran's notorious Evin prison on charges of espionage, a diplomatic source told AFP.

  • White House: Brazil should press Iran on nukes

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 6:13 am ET

    L'AQUILA, Italy - The White House says it is counting on Brazil to help convince Iran that it must keep its nuclear activities peaceful.

  • US military 'frees five Iranian diplomats in Iraq'

    AFP – Thu Jul 9, 5:20 am ET

    TEHRAN (AFP) - Five Iranian diplomats held by the US military in Iraq since January 2007 were freed on Thursday, the official IRNA news agency said, quoting Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad.

  • EU court rejects Iran bank bid to avoid sanctions

    AFP – Thu Jul 9, 4:38 am ET

    LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - A top European court rejected on Thursday a bid by an Iranian-owned bank to stop the EU freezing its assets under sanctions imposed against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.

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