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Iran rebukes ‘enemy’ on falling rial

UPI: The U.S. dollar's strength against the Iranian rial drew criticism from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday. United Press InternationalNEW YORK,...

Iran’s Ahmadinejad says Syria crisis may engulf region

Reuters: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday warned that hostilities in Syria could engulf the region and accused some Syrians of trying...

Family of Iranian who defected is out of Iran, hiding for safety, attorney says

CNN: A cameraman who accompanied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York for the U.N. General Assembly has applied for asylum in...

Iran workers’ petition shows rising economic worries as sanctions bite

AP: For weeks, a manifesto complaining about Iran’s stumbling economy circulated in secret among factories and workshops. Organizers asked for signatures and...

Iranian-American to publish Holocaust history online for Iranians

FoxNews: It's not hard for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to insist that the Holocaust never took place when there's virtually no Persian-language...

Iran rial plunges as Western sanctions bite

Reuters: Iran's rial plunged against the U.S. dollar in open-market trade on Monday, taking its loss in value over the past week to...

Iran unblocks access to Gmail

AFP: Iran on Monday removed online blocks on Gmail but a government Internet filtering committee official said other, additional censorship was being...

NYC lawyer: Iranian cameraman seeks US asylum

AP: A lawyer for a cameraman who was accompanying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) to the U.S. for the United Nations General...

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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Political Prisoner Yahgoub Derakhshan Sentenced to Death for a Second Time

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Political Prisoner Parisa Kamali Commemorates Martyrs of January Uprising In Defiant Message

Parisa Kamali, a political prisoner held in Yazd Prison,...

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