Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday an Iranian-American journalist was being held in Evin prison on the orders of a court that handles state security.
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/ 26 November 2008
Iran now has 5 000 working uranium-enrichment centrifuges, a senior official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Iran’s president called on Tuesday for developing nations to unite against what he said was bias by the UN Security Council.
Iran showed footage of missiles on Wednesday it warns could reach US bases in the region, but analysts say the damage they could wreak is limited.
Iran has test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles, including one which it has previously said could reach Israel and US bases in the region.
Top EU diplomat Javier Solana handed Iran an offer by six major powers to try to coax it into halting nuclear work, but Tehran ruled out suspension.
Top European Union diplomat Javier Solana will present Iran with a major powers’ offer of trade and other benefits on Saturday.
Conservatives won a majority in Iran’s parliamentary vote, state television said on Sunday, but the new assembly may still give President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a tougher time ahead of next year’s presidential election. Western powers embroiled in a deepening stand-off with Tehran over its disputed nuclear plans condemned Friday’s election as unfair.
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/ 15 January 2008
Nahid Keshavarz says two weeks in an Iranian jail didn’t deter her from helping try to collect one million signatures for a petition urging more women’s rights and, if anything, prison showed the cause was worth fighting for. Keshavarz is one of dozens of women who campaigners say have been detained since 2006 when the drive was launched. Most were released within a few days or weeks.
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/ 26 December 2007
American Louise Firouz made Iran her home half a century ago. Now 75, she runs a stud farm in the remote north-east and has watched the turbulent transformation of her adopted country from United States ally to arch-foe. She moved to Tehran in the 1950s to marry a young Iranian aristocrat.