Iran Detainee Urges U.S. to End Democracy Effort
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A radio reporter being detained in Iran urged the Bush administration yesterday to end its vocal campaign for democracy there, saying it encouraged Iran's government to curtail its citizens' freedoms.
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As Tehran presses for the release of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq, Iran's top judiciary spokesman announced Tuesday that three detained Iranian-Americans will be formally indicted by the end of the week, according to Iranian media reports.
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Iran&#039;s most prominent dissident said Sunday that the war in Iraq has hurt his country&#039;s reform movement by giving its regime an excuse to stifle dissent.
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Despite Washington's call for democracy, several Iranian dissidents have been unable to get visas to travel to the U.S.
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The Bush administration said Wednesday that retreat in Iraq would cede power in the country to Iran, the U.S.-labeled "axis of evil" nation that has become the boogeyman of the Middle East.
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Iranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi issues a bold appeal to outlaw the use of solitary confinement in jails.
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Iraq's president calls for the release of an Iranian official detained by US forces in the country's Kurdish north.
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An Iranian-American detained in Iran said on state television on Thursday she had concluded that a network of research centers and universities she had helped create had aims which would weaken the Iranian government.
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Iran said Sunday it had "no exact report" about an Iranian-American employee of a U.S. foundation promoting democracy missing after a visit to his homeland &#151; one of several people believed detained in Iran amid rising tensions with the United States.
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Amnesty International has urged both US presidential candidates to publicly commit to ending torture and inhuman treatment of detainees in US custody.
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused the United States of destabilizing Iraq through hired "terrorists" and former members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
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International human rights groups urged Iran on Thursday to immediately release four Iranian-American scholars and activists being held on suspicion of spying.
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Iran on Sunday accused President Bush of intervening in the Islamic Republic's internal affairs days after the American leader demanded that Tehran release four Iranian-Americans detained for alleged espionage.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad writes to US citizens asking them to reject the foreign policies of George W Bush.
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Iran said Saturday the United States was not in a position to take military action against it and urged Washington and its allies to engage in dialogue.
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Dialogue and negotiation are the only ways to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue, but first "we have to eliminate the language of threat," said former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Thursday, amid a two-week visit to the U.S.
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The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.