U.S. says appalled  at Iran handling of U.S. detainees
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The United States said on Tuesday it was appalled at Tehran's treatment of two detained Iranian-Americans shown on Iranian television and apparently forced to confess to accusations of spying.
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Iran has detained a fourth Iranian American, California businessman Ali Shakeri, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, calling his arrest part of a "disturbing pattern" of harassment of dual citizens.
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Iran will make the United States "regret" its detention of five Iranians in Iraq since early this year, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday.
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The United States on Thursday dubbed Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a proliferater of weapons of mass destruction and imposed sanctions on its Qods force, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear program.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross found &quot;cruel, inhumane and degrading&quot; treatment of detainees at the US military prison in GuantÃ¡namo
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Iranian television Wednesday aired lengthy excerpts of what it called confessions by two jailed Iranian-Americans accused of plotting to undermine the Islamic republic, a development the U.S. State Department condemned.
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Iran accused the United States on  Wednesday of trying to disrupt its nuclear negotiations with  the European Union and again warned it would respond to any  threat.
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The detention of eight Iranians in Iraq by US troops -- along with TV images of the detainees being led away blindfolded and handcuffed -- drew swift condemnation yesterday from Tehran officials.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross released a report that called the handling of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, &#39;tantamount to torture&#39; and accused the US of using both psychological and physical coercion on prisoners there.
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Uzbekistan accused the United States of practicing double standards on human rights issues Friday after Washington listed the former Soviet republic as one of the world's worst violators of religious freedom.
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A senior cabinet minister has condemned the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba as a &quot;shocking affront to the principles of democracy.&quot;
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The State Department accused Iran on Friday of detaining at least four student activists and called for their release.
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Guantanamo guards described physically and mentally abusing detainees, including slamming one's head into a cell door and denying them privileges merely to anger them, a U.S. Marine said in a document made public on Friday.
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U.N. inspectors have protested to the   U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on   Iran's nuclear work, calling parts of it "outrageous and   dishonest," according to a letter obtained by Reuters.
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The United States was using some of the four Iranian-Americans detained by Tehran to meddle in Iranian affairs and is trying to cover it up, Tehran's security chief charged Saturday.
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The United States sent a formal protest to Iran on Thursday over an incident in which Iranian speedboats aggressively approached U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
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Iran's approach to human rights and its treatment of its own citizens is loathsome, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. While saying Iranians deserve better leaders than "unelected mullahs," America's new chief diplomat stopped short of demanding their ouster.