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Iran imprisons US journalist on espionage charges
The Revolutionary Court of Iran convicted US journalist Roxana Saberi of espionage, sentencing her to eight years in prison, in a trial closed to the public.
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Iran tries US journalist on espionage charges
A spokesperson for the Iranian Judiciary announced that imprisoned US journalist Roxana Saberi has been tried on espionage charges. The proceedings were closed to the public.
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Chávez disses G20, opens joint bank with Iran
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, on a visit to Iran as the G20 summit opens in London, denounced capitalism and announced the founding of a joint Iranian-Venezuelan binational bank.
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Petraeus: Israel may bomb Iran
Israel may attack Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear bomb, Gen. David Petraeus, the top US commander in the Middle East, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Obama’s Nowruz message to Iran: “appeasement” or Trojan horse?
Obama’s video message to the people of Iran on the Persian new year Nowruz has the neocons crying “appeasement.” But days earlier, Obama renewed sanctions on Iran for another year.
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Iran: more labor leaders arrested
Several trade unionists have been arrested by the intelligence police in Iran, as part of the government’s effort to impose the Islamic Labor Council to undermine independent unions.
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Iran: labor leaders flogged, arrested
Judicial authorities in Iran carried out lashing sentences against labor leaders Shiva Kheirabadi and Sosuan Razani for their participation in May Day events last year, while several more unionists were arrested.
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Iranian dissidents to US: thanks, but no thanks
Human rights activists in Iran say the US “regime change” campaign has prompted Tehran to turn up the heat on internal dissent—and makes it easier to tar activists as American agents.
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Iran: Baha’is targeted in espionage trial
Seven members of the Baha’i faith will stand trial in Iran on charges of “spying for Israel” and “desecrating Islam and campaigning against the Islamic Republic,” the official ISNA agency reports.
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Amnesty International called for the release of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, detained since June, and her husband Reza Khandan, who was arrested this week. Reza Khandan was charged with spreading propaganda against the system, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and promoting the practice of appearing in public without a veil. Her actual crime was representing women facing prison time for peacefully protesting against the Islamic Republic's compulsory hijab law. Khandan had raised concerns on Facebook about rights violations in Iran, and publicly campaigned for the release of his wife. Amnesty International director for the Middle East and North Africa, Philip Luther said, "These callous actions illustrate the lengths to which Iranian authorities will go to silence human rights lawyers, even targeting their families." (Photo: Center for Human Rights in Iran)
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Iran’s Kurdish guerillas make US terror list; Turkey bombs Iraq again
The US Treasury Department branded the PJAK guerillas of Iranian Kurdistan as a terrorist organization and front for the PKK. Simultaneously, Turkish warplanes again bombed PKK targets in Iraq.
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Iranian student opposition “condemns the crimes in Gaza”
A statement on Gaza by Iran’s besieged student opposition condemns Israeli war crimes—but also exploitation of the issue by the Tehran regime and Islamist groups in the region.