Pro-Democracy Protest in Iran Gains Momentum
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A rare pro-democracy protest in Tehran  gained momentum late on Sunday with hundreds of cars pouring  onto the streets, blaring horns and provoking an appearance  from hardline vigilantes, witnesses said.
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A statement by US Secretary of State Colin Powell revealing information about Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons has created a stir in Washington.
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TEHRAN The weekly gathering of those who still believe most in the Islamic Revolution was to start promptly at 5 p.m. The time was right there in the lower left-hand corner of Ya Lesarat al-Hussein, the hard-line weekly newspaper that sponsors the Sunday gathering.
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is poised to deliver a defiant address to the United Nations general assembly this week amid a storm of opposition to his visit to New York and growing international alarm over his country's nuclear ambitions.
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Iranians voted Friday in local council elections that were expected to be a first test of support for hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad since he took office more than a year ago.
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The Iranian government's last-minute decision to ration monthly fuel allotments, as well as increase the price of gas, triggered protests and riots -- a rarity in the Islamic republic, according to Iranian media reports.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched anniversary celebrations Thursday for Iran's Islamic Revolution with a defiant promise to push ahead with the country's controversial nuclear program.
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QOM, Iran  - Election posters of turbaned clerics are pasted on walls and newspapers debate the nature of divine rule before Friday's vote for what is, in theory, Iran's most powerful institution.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his nation's human rights record on Monday as hundreds of people gathered outside the U.N. and Columbia University to protest appearances by the hard-line leader
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Iranian students staged a rare demonstration Monday against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, lighting a firecracker and burning his photograph as he delivered a speech at their university, the state news agency reported.
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The opposition inside and outside Lebanon of giving President Emile Lahoud three additional years is gathering momentum. A report by the Beirut-based An Nahar daily on Monday said that the UN Security Council
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Hundreds of thousands of chanting protesters swamped Beirut on Sunday in a Hezbollah-led rally that marked a leap forward in the opposition's drive to unseat Lebanon's Western-backed government.
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CAMBRIDGE -- Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said yesterday that he was satisfied with the progress he made toward expanding freedom in Iran during his eight years at the helm --and he asserted that Iran is still heading toward democracy.
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Thousands of Iranians rallied near the site of a European Union summit Thursday to demand that the nations comply with a court ruling and remove an exiled Iranian resistance movement from its list of terrorist organizations.
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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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Some top politicians are concerned Iranian influence will affect the new democratic process.
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Iran faces heightened criticism over its escalating nuclear activity at a U.N. watchdog meeting this week that will provide a barometer of sentiment for broader sanctions against Tehran.