Iraq’s Top Cleric Gives Govt Conditional Approval

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Reuters: Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most influential Muslim cleric, gave his conditional approval to the interim government on Thursday but said it had “mammoth tasks” ahead.
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Pachachi says he may seek Iraq presidency

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Associated Press: Adnan Pachachi, passed over for the post of Iraq’s interim president, said he may run for the office when his country’s transition from U.S. occupation to democracy is complete.
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Iran cracks down on summer dress

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BBC: Iran’s government has launched a crackdown on women who flout the strict Islamic dress codes during the hot summer months.
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Iran’s Sex Slaves Suffer Hideously Under Mullahs

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Insight on the News – By Donna M. Hughes: A measure of Islamic fundamentalists’ success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing and stoning to death.
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Iran: Torture Used to Suppress Dissent

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Human Rights Watch: The Iranian government has intensified its campaign of torture, arbitrary arrests, and detentions against political critics, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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Three prisoners publicly hanged in Iran

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AFP: Three Iranians convicted of rape, kidnapping and extortion have been hanged publicly in the western city of Khoramabad, the conservative Jaam-e Jam newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Iran’s world-famous pistachio under cloud of EU ban over cancer fears

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AFP: Iran’s pistachio industry had been in turmoil, with its product close to being slapped with a ban in the the European Union.

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4 Iranians Challenge Detention

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Los Angeles Times: 4 Brothers have been held since 2001 in what their lawyer calls ‘post-9/11 hysteria.’ U.S. officials cite support for a group on terrorist list.
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