AFP: Several dozen journalists and the press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) staged a protest rally outside the Iranian embassy in Paris on Thursday to demand an end to media restrictions in Iran.
Reporters Without Borders protests Iran media curbs
Iran council to meet candidates on vote complaints
Reuters: Iran's top legislative body has decided to invite the three defeated candidates in last week's disputed presidential election to a meeting on Saturday to discuss their complaints, its spokesman said on Thursday.
Stark images, uploaded to the world
New York Times: A man bled to death on a street in Tehran on Monday. As one bystander tenderly held the man’s head, five others held out their cameras.
INTERVIEW-Iraq minister says concerned about Iran instability
Reuters: Iraq is concerned about instability in neighbouring Iran, which is experiencing unrest in the aftermath of disputed presidential elections, but it respects Iran's decisions, Iraq's foreign minister said on Thursday.
U.N. atomic energy chief says Iran wants bomb technology
New York Times: Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, said it was his “gut feeling” that Iran’s leaders wanted the technology to build nuclear weapons “to send a message to their neighbors, to the rest of the world: ‘Don’t mess with us.’ ”
Clinton says Twitter is important for Iranian free speech
AFP: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday defended a US request to Twitter to postpone a planned maintenance shutdown as a way to allow Iranians to speak out and organize.
Iran prosecutor warns of death penalty for violence
Reuters: An Iranian provincial prosecutor has warned that the "few elements" behind post-election unrest could face the death penalty under Islamic law, an Iranian news agency reported Wednesday.
Bombshell: Iran envoy in nuclear weapon slip-up
AFP: Iran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog caused a buzz among journalists on Wednesday when he apparently misspoke and said his country had the right to a nuclear weapon.
US lawmaker: Iran crackdown is ‘horrible human tragedy’
AFP: A top Republican US lawmaker called Wednesday for Congress to pass tough new sanctions targeting Iran and condemned Tehran's crackdown on post-election protests as "a horrible human tragedy."
Iran players don protest colours
BBC: Six members of the Iranian football team have worn green armbands during a World Cup qualifying match against South Korea in Seoul.
