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Iran Begins War Games

Posted 05.25.2011

(AP) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard on Thursday started large-scale war games in the Persian Gulf and the strategic Strait of H...

Oxfordgirl: The Twitter User Taking On The Iranian Regime

Guardian | Matthew Weaver | Posted 05.25.2011

As the resident of a quiet village in Oxfordshire with a plummy accent to match, she makes an unlikely revolutionary. But she has become a key player ...

Mousavi Toughens Line On Iran's Rulers

New York Times | NAZILA FATHI | Posted 05.25.2011

Mir Hussein Moussavi, the Iranian opposition leader, made some of his harshest remarks against Iran's rulers on Tuesday in an interview published on h...

Iran Rulers More Brutal Than Shah, Opposition Says

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and JASON KEYSER | Posted 05.25.2011

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Satur...

Iran Regime Wages A Quiet War On 'Star Students'

Wall Street Journal | FARNAZ FASSIHI | Posted 05.25.2011

Behind the drama unfolding in the streets of Iran, the regime is quietly clamping down on some of the nation's best students by derailing their academ...

Reza Pahlavi, Shah's Son, Wants UN Probe In Iran

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

PARIS — The son of the deposed shah of Iran urged nations worldwide on Thursday to withdraw their ambassadors from Tehran to protest a relentles...

Khamenei Challenged By Iranian MPs

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

A group of former Iranian MPs has appealed to a powerful clerical panel to investigate if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is fit to rule....

Ahmadinejad Criticized By Hard-Liners Over Vice President Choice

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.25.2011

TEHRAN,Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, already at the center of a post-election crisis, came under criticism from his own hard-line suppor...

Muslim Clerics Losing Power In Iran

Los Angeles Times | Borzou Daragahi | Posted 05.25.2011

Iran's supreme leader spoke not with the thunder of a man regarded in his country as God's representative on Earth, but with the exasperated tone of a...