AFP: Football's world governing body FIFA wrote to the Iranian football federation on Wednesday to ask for answers over alleged punishments meted out to several of their players for wearing wristbands reflecting their support for opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. FIFA demand clarification on Iran football punishment
AFP: Football's world governing body FIFA wrote to the Iranian football federation on Wednesday to ask for answers over alleged punishments meted out to several of their players for wearing wristbands reflecting their support for opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. Thousands protests near Iran Parliament
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 24 – Thousands of Iranians rallied on Wednesday late afternoon outside the Majlis, or Parliament, in the capital Tehran against the country’s theocratic rulers.
Thousands protests near Iran Parliament
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 24 – Thousands of Iranians rallied on Wednesday late afternoon outside the Majlis, or Parliament, in the capital Tehran against the country’s theocratic rulers.
Iran says it is considering downgrading UK ties
AP: Iran says it is considering downgrading ties with Britain after days of rising tension over criticism of Iran's disputed presidential election. Relatives outside Evin Prison demand loved ones be released
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 24 – Relatives of protestors arrested by the regime's security apparatus during the recent unrest in Tehran gathered on Wednesday outside the notorious Evin Prison where they believe authorities are holding them.
Relatives outside Evin Prison demand loved ones be released
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 24 – Relatives of protestors arrested by the regime's security apparatus during the recent unrest in Tehran gathered on Wednesday outside the notorious Evin Prison where they believe authorities are holding them.
OMV may walk away from Iran’s South Pars project
Reuters: Austrian oil company OMV AG has resisted Iranian pressure to push ahead with investment in a gas project and is prepared to be dropped as a partner, rather than invest now, an executive said on Wednesday. The end of the beginning
New York Times: Iran’s 1979 revolution took a full year to gestate. The uprising of 2009 has now ended its first phase. But the volatility ushered in by the June 12 ballot-box putsch of Iran’s New Right is certain to endure over the coming year. The Islamic Republic has been weakened.
Mousavi’s wife urges Iran to free detainees
AFP: The wife of Iranian opposition leader and defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has called for the release of people arrested following the June 12 election. Kerry: U.S. energy independence would pressure Iran
Reuters: The best U.S. option for pressuring Iran's hard-line government is to drive down oil prices by reducing America's dependence on imported energy, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday. 