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Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Supreme Leader, Assembly of Experts, Mahmoud Vahidnia, Sharif Technical University, Iran, Tehran, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian Election, Triumph, World News

BEIRUT — An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man ...

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Iran Sentences 3 To Death In Post-Election Mass Opposition Trial

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — Three defendants in Iran's mass trial of opposition figures accused of fueling the country's postelection unrest have been senten...

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Iran Abuse Confirmations Abound: Mohsen and Saeedeh's Stories

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

This week, two more official accounts come out of Iran, confirming the extent of violence that is taking place in the country's detention centers.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iran Protests Not 'Foreign Backed'

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home

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Iran's supreme leader has said that he has no proof the leaders of the post-election violence in June were backed by foreign states. In a statement r...

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Rape and the Republic: Iran's Victims Speak Out

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Kayhan Newspaper, Nader Sani, Taraneh Mousavi, Kahrizak Prison, Evin Prison, Rape, Divorce, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian, Iranian Presidential Election, Prison Rape, Democracy, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader, Prison Abuse, Systematic Rape, Shahram Azam, Ali Khamenei, Iranian Newspaper, Etemaad-E Melli, Mehdi Karroubi, Ali Larijani, Ziba Kazemi, Babak Daad, Sexual Violation, Hossein Shariatmadari, Nina Aghdam, Azar Ale-Kanan, Iranian Political Prisoners, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

This week, Mehdi Karroubi came under fire for stating what for decades has been public knowledge in Iran: The systematic rape of political prisoners as a means of permanently disabling them from society, let alone from political activity.

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Iran: Regime Intentions Revealed - What's Next?

Mark Fowler | Posted 08.18.2009 | World

Read More: Mousavi, Iran, Ayatollah, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Rafsanjani, Supreme Leader, World News

Powerful regime insiders have lost confidence in the Supreme Leader's ability to preserve what they had all built together. This domestic fault line has the potential to be devastating in its long term impact.

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A Cabal in the College of Mullahs?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Assembly of Experts, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Expediency Council, Mohsen Rezai, Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Revolutionary Guards, U.S.-Iran Relations, Supreme Leader, Majles, Ali-Akbar-Hashemi-Rafsanjani, World News

With growing resentment directed against Ali Khamenei by his own peers, how ironic would it be that the first political casualty of Iran's election dispute turned out to be the supreme leader and not Ahmadinejad?

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Iran and the C.I.A

Tom Gabbay | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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This revolution, if that's what it is, can only come from the Iranian people. The US must remain on the sidelines; a spectator to what could be a game changer in the Middle East and beyond.

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An Exclusive Interview with a Pro-Ahmadinejad Cleric in Qom, Iran

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

A recurring theme in many of the cleric's answers is his very strong belief that "foreign" Western powers, particularly England, are behind the current unrest in Tehran

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In Bid to Stay Current, Ayatollah Joins MySpace

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Iran, Andy Borowitz, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Britney Spears, Myspace, Comedy News

"If you can't beat them, join them," the Ayatollah said. "Having said that, we will also continue to beat them."

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Hello, Iran

Giles Slade | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Demonstrations, Iranian Revolution, Iran Election, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Democracy, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader, Guardian Council, Separation of Church and State, World News

Injustice and arrogance are powerful catalysts, aren't they?

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Obama and the Ayatollah

William Bradley | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Afghanistan, Iran, Supreme Leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hostage Crisis, Iraq, Ali Khamenei, Al Qaeda, Al Jazeera, Revolutionary Guards, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Demonstrations in Tehran, John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, World News

How to respond to the Ayatollah is a particularly tricky question for Obama, because he has an unusual dual role to play: Inspirational global icon and president of the United States.

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The One Thing 39 Million Iranians Decisively Voted For

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Elections, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Iran Election, Democracy, Iran, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khatami, Ayatollah Khomeini, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, World News

Out of 46.2 million eligible voters, a staggering 39 million came out to vote, making a strong, unequivocal statement: Iranians value democracy

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Iran's First Female President: Not Gonna Happen

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Law, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Al Zahra University, Iran Presidential Election, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi, Zahra Rahnavard, First Lady, Mohsen Rezai, Supreme Jurist, Tehran, Female, Guardian Council, Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, Vetting, Iran Reformists, Women, Parliament, Iran Supreme Leader, Hijab, Women Voters, Hejab, University, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Women, Women and Politics, Candidate, Chancellor, Presidential Election, Iran Women's Rights, Tehran-Iran, World News

In a society where about 70% of the university population is female, the election vetting process is a sad comment on the true condition of Iran's girls and women: second-class citizens.

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Decision 2009 -- Iran's June 12 Elections

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

Read More: Dennis Ross, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Centrifuges, Mehdi Karroubi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tehran, Israel, Supreme Leader, Mohsen Rezaei, Beshehr, Natanz, World News

As President Obama calibrates his engagement policy with Iran and plans his next steps with the vexing Islamic Republic, that nation will go to the polls on June 12 to elect a president.

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