Iran orders Nobel winner to court
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Iranian Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi is summoned before  a Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
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Iran accused of threatening to place Middle East under shadow of nuclear holocaust.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to take his case for pursuing nuclear power before the U.N. Security Council, the government said Sunday, as the world body debates new sanctions on the Islamic nation for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.
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Iran's outspoken president is invited by Saudi Arabia to perform this year's pilgrimage to the Islamic holy places.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW YORK - 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 is seeking a last-minute exception to its commitment to stop all uranium enrichment activities by demanding the right to operate around two dozen centrifuges, diplomats said Wednesday.
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Iran&#39;s supreme leader threatened Wednesday to pull out of negotiations if European countries press their demand for total suspension of uranium enrichment, as a new round
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Iran's Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi on  Monday issued an unprecedented demand for Iranian authorities  to ban the use of solitary confinement because she said it  amounted to torture, again defying the Islamic Republic.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged the authority of the U.N. Security Council as Iran faces a deadline to halt its uranium enrichment and he called for a televised debate with President Bush on world issues.
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A top Iranian dissident demanded trial  by jury Wednesday, refusing to be tried by one Hardline judge  on charges including "acting against state security."
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Columbia University was urged on Thursday to withdraw a speaking invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be in New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly.
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Iran condemned on Sunday the awarding of a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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Two Nobel peace prize winners urged the European Union Tuesday to impose sanctions on Sudan for blocking UN moves to send a peacekeeping force to the strife-torn province of Darfur.
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Iran staged a conference on Monday to debate the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers, prompting charges it was encouraging the denial of the killing of 6 million Jews during World War Two.
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Iranian lawmakers have urged the  president to review ties with Denmark and the Netherlands over  the reprinting of a satirical cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad  in Danish and Dutch newspapers, Iranian media said on Monday.
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An Iranian-American woman detained in Tehran is being held illegally and has been repeatedly denied access to attorneys, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi told CNN on Friday. Haleh Esfandiari and other Iranian-Americans held in Iran are political prisoners, said Ebadi, one of Haleh Esfandiari's attorneys. Ebadi -- who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and is the founder of the Center for Defense of Human Rights in Tehran -- was once held in the same prison as Esfandiari.
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Iran won an important court ruling Friday in its bid to force an international art dealer in London to return 18 ancient artifacts that allegedly were stolen from the country's tombs.