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/ 29 December 2009
Iran’s conservative Parliament called for maximum punishment of opposition demonstrators on Tuesday as the regime stepped up its crackdown on dissent.
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/ 26 December 2009
A British newspaper named an Iranian woman shot dead during protests against her country’s disputed June elections as its ”person of the year”.
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/ 23 December 2009
Iran’s rulers are tensing for a new trial of strength with protesters on Sunday.
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/ 21 December 2009
Iran police clashed with protesters after the funeral on Monday of dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, websites said.
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/ 20 December 2009
Iranian troops who for three days controversially occupied a disputed border oil well left the facility during the night but remain on Iraq’s soil
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/ 20 December 2009
Leading Iranian dissident the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once tapped to become Iran’s undisputed number one, has died.
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/ 16 December 2009
Iran successfully test-fired a long-range, improved Sejil 2 missile on Wednesday, state television reported.
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/ 7 December 2009
Iranian police clashed in Tehran on Monday with opposition demonstrators seeking to renew their challenge to the government, witnesses said.
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/ 7 December 2009
Government opponents shouted ”Allahu Akbar” and ”Death to the Dictator” from Tehran’s rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of demonstrations.
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/ 2 December 2009
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected on Wednesday as ”illegal” an IAEA resolution over the country’s disputed nuclear activities, state television reported.
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/ 2 December 2009
A newspaper editor has been sentenced to nine years in jail for fomenting unrest after June’s disputed elections, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 November 2009
The UN nuclear watchdog censured Iran on Friday and demanded it immediately halt construction of a newly-revealed uranium enrichment plant.
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/ 27 November 2009
Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the human rights lawyer said.
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/ 25 November 2009
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Iran was in the throes of a ”soft war” with its enemies abroad.
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/ 24 November 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Brasilia on Monday seeking support for his controversial nuclear programme.
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/ 20 November 2009
Major world powers met in Brussels on Friday to plot their next move after Iran rejected a nuclear fuel deal.
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/ 19 November 2009
The US says Washington and its partners are working on steps to show Iran the consequences of its decision to snub a nuclear deal with the West.
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/ 17 November 2009
A senior Iranian MP was quoted on Tuesday as saying that Russia was using the Islamic Republic as a ”pawn” in Moscow’s dealings with other powers.
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/ 4 November 2009
Police clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran on Wednesday when a rally turned violent, witnesses said.
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/ 3 November 2009
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out at the United States on Tuesday, saying Tehran will reject any talks backed by its arch-foe.
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/ 2 November 2009
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned the opposition on Monday not to use anti-US rallies this week to stage new demonstrations.
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/ 31 October 2009
Iran has told the UN it wants fresh fuel for a reactor in Tehran before it agrees to ship most of its enriched uranium stocks to Russia and France.
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/ 26 October 2009
Intelligence agencies estimate that it would probably take Iran a minimum of 18 months to develop a nuclear weapon if it chose to build one
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/ 25 October 2009
UN inspectors have arrived in Iran to examine a nuclear site that has heightened Western fears of a covert programme to develop atomic bombs.
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/ 24 October 2009
Iran’s government said on Friday night that it saw a United Nations-brokered deal to export much of its enriched uranium ”in a favourable light”.
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/ 23 October 2009
Iran declined on Friday to endorse proposals by the United Nations nuclear watchdog to help reduce Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium.
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/ 20 October 2009
Iran will never abandon its ”legal and obvious” right to nuclear technology, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 October 2009
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards promised a ”crushing” response to an attack that killed several senior commanders, state television said on Monday.
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/ 19 October 2009
Iranian state television said 42 people were killed in Sunday’s suicide bombing attack on the elite Revolutionary Guards.
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/ 13 October 2009
Iran’s judiciary has launched a case against pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi over his allegations that some opposition supporters were raped in jail.
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/ 13 October 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met top Russian officials on Tuesday hoping to win Moscow’s support for tougher sanctions against Iran.
Iran will ”blow up the heart” of Israel if attacked by the Jewish state or the US, an aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted on Friday as saying.