Details of Iran government's crackdown
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A look at Iran's recent crackdown on perceived internal threats:
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Iran has the military might to deter  attacks against it, its defense minister said in remarks  published Tuesday, one day after President Bush said he would  not rule out military action against Iran.
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The Bush administration announced an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism.
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Iran yesterday formally charged three Americans with espionage and endangering national security, the government's judicial spokesman said, signaling a widening clampdown against U.S. citizens in Iran.
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Iranian dissident Ebrahim Yazdi is reported to have been given a heavy prison sentence by the country's hardline judiciary.
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Iran announced yesterday that its security services have arrested 10 persons suspected of revealing information regarding its nuclear program to the American and Israeli intelligence agencies.
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Iran has blocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service as part of a clampdown on material deemed to be offensive, the Mehr news agency reported on Monday.
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Iraq has closed its borders with Iran and Syria as part of a security crackdown aimed at stopping foreign fighters and weapons entering the country, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
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TEHRAN Iran was starting the suspension of its sensitive nuclear activities surrounding the enrichment of uranium on Monday, in accordance with an agreement reached with Britain, France and Germany, state television said.
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PARIS, March 8 -- The United Nations atomic monitoring agency on Thursday curtailed nearly two dozen nuclear technical aid programs to Iran, part of a continuing international effort to pressure the country to halt its uranium enrichment program.
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KARAJ, Iran  - Before Iran's 1979 Islamic  revolution, some of the world's finest cars cruised in Tehran  traffic, many of them the playthings of friends and close  associates of the Shah.
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Iran has moved against pro-democracy Web sites, blocking hundreds of sites in recent months and making several arrests.
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WASHINGTON -- Dropping a last-minute demand yesterday, Iran agreed to fully suspend its nuclear programs and won some additional concessions from Europe for a resolution that excludes many of the Bush administration's proposals for increasing pressure on the Islamic republic.
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"Officers of the state security department and the Defence Ministry's special unit carried out an anti-terrorist operation which was aimed at preventing the purchase of illegal arms and explosives"  Two Irish citizens have been arrested in Lithuania on suspicion of trying to buy a large amount of firearms and explosives. via Eircom.net News
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Iran&#39;s Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi said Tuesday &quot;several people&quot; have been arrested for spying on the country&#39;s nuclear programme, the official news agency IRNA reported.
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Iran celebrated the 29th anniversary of its Islamic revolution as the government appeared to be taking steps to bury the chances of Parliamentary reform.
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The Iranian government has decided "at the most senior levels" to rein in the violent Shiite militias it supports in Iraq, a move reflected in a sharp decrease in sophisticated roadside bomb attacks over the past several months, according to the State Department's top official on Iraq.