Iranian author faces death when deported from Australia: advocate
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An Iranian artist and democracy campaigner facing deportation from Australia as an illegal immigrant is likely to be killed if he is returned to his native country, a refugee advocacy group said.
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An Iranian-American journalist held in her native country for months and accused of security-related offenses was permitted to leave Iran, her employer said Tuesday.
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Australia's highest-profile family of asylum seekers are to be deported to Pakistan, ending a four-year battle for asylum, a government spokesman said.
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Iranian officials have poured scorn on a  self-styled "savior" who says he will return from exile on  Friday to witness the collapse of the Islamic state's clerical  leadership.
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A Canadian-Iranian writer freed after   four months in an Iranian jail for allegedly endangering state   security was quoted by an Iranian news agency on Thursday as   saying he had been duped into aiding U.S. organizations.
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A member of a homegrown Muslim  terrorist group in Australia discussed killing former prime  minister John Howard during a religious lesson, a prosecutor  told a court on Tuesday.
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Iranian scientists believe a substance used as weed killer and notorious as a weapon for murder mystery writers cold treat leukaemia.
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TEHRAN - An American scholar accused of promoting revolution in Iran has been allowed to leave the country and reunite with her family in Austria, ending months of protests by human-rights groups and heated exchanges between Tehran and Washington.
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Iran said on Sunday that a fatwa ordering the death of British writer Salman Rushdie issued by its revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini still stands after his knighthood by the queen.
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When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has labelled author Salman Rushdie an apostate whose killing would be authorised by Islam, according to message carried by Iranian media.
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Iran's hardline president will honor an American scholar's request to be buried in a historic Iranian city when he dies, the state broadcasting company said Thursday.
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Tehran (IRNA) -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi condemned here Thursday the deadly car bombing attack outside Australia&#39;s embassy in Jakarta that killed and injured innocent people.
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"Responsible authorities recognized that this person was engaging in undiplomatic behavior and has to leave Iran"  Iran has expelled a German diplomat for 'undiplomatic' behavior, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.The expulsion comes after a media report claiming that Germany expelled an Iranian consular attache last July after he apparently attempted to acquire equipment that could be used for uranium enrichment. Both the Foreign Ministry in Berlin and Iran have declined to comment on the report, which cited no sources.On Sunday, a German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said she could only 'confirm that a German diplomat has left Iran.' The spokeswoman, who declined to elaborate, spoke on condition of anonymity because of ministry rules. Read more
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The family of a Kurdish law student in Iran who died in custody is disputing the official version he committed suicide and wants his body to be exhumed to determine the cause of death, their lawyer said on Sunday.
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islam by awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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Iran on Tuesday said more than 50 followers of the minority Baha'i faith were convicted of distributing propaganda against the country's Islamic regime, state media reported.