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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Two announcements Sunday appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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Disciplinary action against  outspoken students and academics is soaring in Iran, reports say.
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Some 100 members of the Iranian antiregime group have left a holding camp in Iraq in recent weeks. Iran says amnesty offer holds.
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Business & money: Mounting US crackdown on foreign companies doing business with Iran provoke opposition in Europe.
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ESFAHAN, Iran -- The squat, tan buildings with barred windows can be reached only by driving well outside the city to a flat stretch of desert on the edge of the hills. The site is surrounded by antiaircraft artillery emplacements and a large metal fence topped with barbed wire.
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Iran is to make a formal complaint over the apparent arrest of several nationals by US troops in Baghdad.
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Fears that Islamic hard-liners could  exacerbate Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, scare foreign  investors and worsen social tensions may pave the way for a  comeback by former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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For the past few months, Iranians have been subjected to stronger enforcement of Islamic codes. Is this a revival of the dogmatic strictures of the country's revolutionary past?
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Iran's judicial authorities have launched investigations based on fresh evidence in the cases of two Iranian-Americans detained on spying charges, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Syria's most prominent political dissident has been rearrested in a new crackdown on opposition figures by President Bashar al-Assad's regime
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TEHRAN -- After eight years of a bold but bungled experiment with reform, Iran's government is in the throes of a takeover by conservatives determined to restore the revolution's Islamic purity, according to Iranian politicians and analysts.
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Iran will consider taking 'illegal' steps if further UN sanctions are imposed over nuclear programme.
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Tens of thousands of civil defense volunteers held a rally Wednesday in Iran&#39;s capital city in a show of force designed to deter possible US or Israeli attacks on Iran&#39;s nuclear installations.
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Pragmatists in Iran&#39;s clerical regime were under pressure from hardliners on Tuesday who lined up to condemn an agreement to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands.
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TEHRAN -- Iran said yesterday it had arrested a group of spies, including several who passed the country's nuclear secrets to the country's foes, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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Three people suspected of being members of a dissident group opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process were arrested in Ireland and were being questioned under anti-terrorist laws, police here said.