Iranians taste freedoms on own terms
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TEHRAN -- Emad Baghi is a human rights activist who spent three years in prison for his writings. Shadi Vatanparast is a promoter of underground Iranian rock bands who, in the semi-privacy of her office, throws off her government-mandated headscarf. And Fazel Mehbadi is a mullah who preaches a message that's dangerously dissident in the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran: ...
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Iranâs increasing economic and political isolation is helping leaders to hold back what they see as corrupting foreign influences.
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Iran's supreme leader on Thursday rejected reports of a power struggle within the Islamic Republic's leadership and praised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a fierce critic of the West.
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It is the Iraqi people who come best out of the end of the Najaf siege. This has been a triumph for the moderate majority who until yesterday felt themselves powerless to influence the wretched course of events in their own country.
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TEHRAN - The Iranian-American who was freed from detention early yesterday was released after his family paid bail and has not yet been given permission to leave the country, a judiciary official said.
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Two Iranian-Americans detained in the Islamic Republic on spying charges have "accepted that they carried out some activities", an Iranian judge was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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From fundamentalists to reformists, Iranians are talking more loudly about the need for a pragmatic approach.
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In his outward persona at least, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to this country to lessen hostility toward himself and to defend Iran, not to rabble-rouse and provoke hatred. Whether he succeeded remains an open question.
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Iranians may have lost faith in the mullahs, but they're not about to overthrow them.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- From this country's divisive political sphere to its disaffected streets, one thing binds Iranians of all ideologies: a fervent belief in the Islamic Republic's right to its nuclear program.
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The release of Mohammed Abbou gives human rights advocates hope, and perhaps a formula for more political freedoms in the North African nation.
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Iranians are deeply divided on politics, the economy, the role of religion in government and a dress code for women. But reformers and conservatives, urban and rural, old and young
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TEHRAN, Jan. 18 -- Ali Akbar Assadi entered the dark room in downtown Tehran, only to be blocked by a wall of men. The air was moist from sweat. Darkness engulfed him as he made his way forward.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said yesterday it is prepared to suspend some nuclear activities but would not surrender its right to enrich uranium.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Iran respects Romania's new centrist government, which came to power after its leader Traian Basescu scored an upset victory against leftist Prime Minister Adrian ...
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They are the shock troops of Iran&#39;s Islamic Revolution - the men who helped seize the US embassy a generation ago and bore the brunt of their country&#39;s eight-year war with Iraq.
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Iranians are set to vote in elections seen as the first test of support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.