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Iran’s conservative Parliament called for maximum punishment of opposition demonstrators on Tuesday as the regime stepped up its crackdown on dissent.

A British newspaper named an Iranian woman shot dead during protests against her country’s disputed June elections as its ”person of the year”.

Iran’s rulers are tensing for a new trial of strength with protesters on Sunday.

Iran police clashed with protesters after the funeral on Monday of dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, websites said.

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

Leading Iranian dissident the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once tapped to become Iran’s undisputed number one, has died.

Iran successfully test-fired a long-range, improved Sejil 2 missile on Wednesday, state television reported.

Iranian police clashed in Tehran on Monday with opposition demonstrators seeking to renew their challenge to the government, witnesses said.

Government opponents shouted ”Allahu Akbar” and ”Death to the Dictator” from Tehran’s rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of demonstrations.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected on Wednesday as ”illegal” an IAEA resolution over the country’s disputed nuclear activities, state television reported.

A newspaper editor has been sentenced to nine years in jail for fomenting unrest after June’s disputed elections, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

The UN nuclear watchdog censured Iran on Friday and demanded it immediately halt construction of a newly-revealed uranium enrichment plant.

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the human rights lawyer said.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Iran was in the throes of a ”soft war” with its enemies abroad.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Brasilia on Monday seeking support for his controversial nuclear programme.