Iranian dissidents face broad crackdown
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed to be delighted when reformist students disrupted his visit to their elite university in December, burning his portrait and shouting "Death to the dictator!"
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HAVANA -- At least three dissidents arrested in a broad crackdown by the Cuban government last year were released Monday, according to friends, relatives and human rights activists.
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Recent arrests appear part of a new zero-tolerance policy toward anybody who challenges the governing partyâs monopoly on power.
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From fundamentalists to reformists, Iranians are talking more loudly about the need for a pragmatic approach.
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Iran yesterday formally charged three Americans with espionage and endangering national security, the government's judicial spokesman said, signaling a widening clampdown against U.S. citizens in Iran.
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Iran says it has arrested dozens of alleged spies, including several it accuses of sending nuclear secrets abroad to Iran&#39;s enemies.
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Iran would respond if the United States were to label the Islamic state's Revolutionary Guards a "terrorist" force, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
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The United States and other world powers on Thursday worked on a response to Tehran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council ultimatum on mothballing its uranium enrichment program, while Iranian dissidents presented a list of alleged front companies they said were set up by the Islamic republic to evade U.N. sanctions.
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A draft law aimed at encouraging Islamic dress raised fears Saturday that Iran&#039;s hard-line government plans to re-impose veils and head-to-toe overcoats on women who have shirked the restrictions for years, letting hair show and wearing jeans and shapely outfits.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that televised "confessions" of two detained American-Iranians unveiled a U.S.-backed plan to topple Iran's clerical establishment.
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Iranian police have closed down 24  Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours,  detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral  behavior in the Islamic state, official media said on Sunday.
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January's severe police crackdown on suspected militants may rekindle sectarian tensions.
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European Union governments decided yesterday to keep an Iranian opposition group blacklisted as a terrorist organization, diplomats said. The Paris-based People's Mujahadeen Organization of Iran says that it has renounced military action and that its militants in Iraq have handed weapons over to US-led forces. Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman, said members would organize a demonstration in Paris ...
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Some top politicians are concerned Iranian influence will affect the new democratic process.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 5 -- A government-led crackdown against the news media and the political opposition intensified here Tuesday, with hundreds of party workers arrested and television stations bracing for raids.
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TEHRAN -- After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's followers toppled a U.S.-backed autocracy in Iran, he brought to power a coterie of politically engaged clerics who sought to create the world's first Islamic republic. Nearly 30 years later, a new generation of politicians is sweeping aside those...
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The latest in a series of high-profile arrests indicated a heightened crackdown on Shiite militias.