Iran to limit execution in public
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The head of Iran's judiciary issues a order that no executions be carried out in public without his permission.
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Iran pledged Sunday to meet its deadline and suspend its uranium enrichment activities on Monday, in a sign of cooperation even as the United States has been stepping up pressure over the country&#39;s nuclear program.
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Iranian police will intensify a crackdown on women flouting Islamic dress laws, a senior official tells local media.
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Iran condemned on Sunday the awarding of a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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TEHRAN, Nov 17 : A senior Iranian official said Wednesday that Tehran was only likely to suspend sensitive nuclear activities surrounding the enrichment of uranium for a few months.
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Iran fiercely denies executing juvenile criminals or stoning people to death.
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Iran hanged three men in public on Thursday for raping and robbing twelve young women, most of them university students, Iranian media reported, in the latest of a series of executions in the Islamic Republic.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that televised "confessions" of two detained American-Iranians unveiled a U.S.-backed plan to topple Iran's clerical establishment.
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Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Iran to abolish the "grotesque and horrific" practice of stoning people to death.
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The government is planning to create tougher punishments for those who kill people while driving.
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A "threatening atmosphere" in Iran is causing a deterioration in already restricted religious freedom for nearly all minorities despite repeated expressions of concern by the United Nations, the State Department said Friday.
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Two announcements today appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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Iran on Monday suspended sensitive nuclear activities that could be used to make a bomb in a move likely to thwart US efforts to report the Islamic Republic to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran's Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi on  Monday issued an unprecedented demand for Iranian authorities  to ban the use of solitary confinement because she said it  amounted to torture, again defying the Islamic Republic.
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Iran promised to meet Monday's deadline  for suspending a uranium enrichment process that could be used  for making nuclear weapons -- a freeze that could spare it U.N.  Security Council sanctions.
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Iran's hardline president will honor an American scholar's request to be buried in a historic Iranian city when he dies, the state broadcasting company said Thursday.
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Iran has agreed to a full suspension of uranium enrichment in an effort to avoid referral to the UN Security Council. Diplomats are waiting for a formal letter to arrive from Tehran.