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Eman Bin Laden In Iran: State Confirms That Bin Laden's Teen Daughter Is At Saudi Embassy

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 12.24.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran confirmed Thursday that a daughter of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has turned up at the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, but said...

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Iranian Twitter Hackers Briefly Silence Narcissists

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.18.2009 | Comedy

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Andy Borowitz

A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army briefly hacked the social messaging service Twitter last night, frustrating the efforts of narcissists to share their most mundane and banal thoughts.

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House Votes To Expand Sanctions On Iran, Focuses On Oil

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The House voted Tuesday to impose new economic sanctions on Iran as lawmakers cast doubt on Iran's willingness to respond to diplom...

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Iran To Try 3 Americans Who Crossed Border

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Monday a court will try three Americans who wandered across the border from Iraq last July and became ensnared in an in...

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Iranian Police, Basij Clash With Pro-Reform Protesters At Tehran University

AP | By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.07.2009 | World

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(AP) TEHRAN, Iran - Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University on ...

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Iran Limits Internet Access Ahead Of Protests

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.07.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Government opponents shouted "Allahu Akbar" and "Death to the Dictator" from Tehran's rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of ...

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Iran Begins War Games To Protect Nuclear Facilities

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported,...

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Ramin Pourandarjani's Death Raises Suspicions

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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BEIRUT — An Iranian doctor who went public with reports of tortured protesters he treated at Tehran's most feared detention facility dies, amid ...

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Is a Deal with Iran Finally Taking Shape?

Richard W. Parker | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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Richard W. Parker

Will Iran accept the kind of deal ElBaradai is said to be seeking -- a deal that gives Iran limited enrichment in exchange for a form of nationwide surveillance?

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UN: Once-Secret Iran Nuclear Facility To Start In 2011

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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VIENNA — Iranian construction of a previously secret uranium enrichment site is at an advanced stage, with high-tech equipment already in place ...

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"Qum" Buy Ya

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

While the technical revelations regarding the Qum nuclear enrichment facility filter out as the IAEA prepares its final report to the U.N., the U.S. is at a crossroads regarding Iran's nuclear program.

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Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

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In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

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3 Journalists Freed By Iran

AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposi...

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Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

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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 Protests: Is Obama Staying on Ahmadinejad's Good Side?

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

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Shirin Sadeghi

The Iranians are still coming. In droves. Despite the intermittent media coverage in the United States, Iranians have not yet stopped protesting the...

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Remembering The Iran Hostage Crisis: 444 Days In The Dark

gq.com | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

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They were geeks with guns - hundreds of Muslim medical and engineering students who stormed the U.S. embassy in the heart of Tehran on November 4, 197...

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Tehran: Embassy Occupation Anniversary May See Fresh Protests

TIME | Robin Wright | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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A new showdown looms in Iran this week, as the regime and its intrepid opposition gear up for what may be their biggest street confrontation since the...

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UN Nuclear Inspectors In Iran To Visit Site

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection tha...

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Iran Trying to Install Microsoft Windows 7

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.24.2009 | Comedy

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Andy Borowitz

Spy-satellite photos reveal a shipment of Windows 7 software, as well as a dozen IT professionals from Redmond, Washington, arriving early Saturday morning in Tehran.

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New On The NYR Blog

The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

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The New York Review blog has two new posts up today, from Haleh Esfandiari, who writes about her tenure in Evin Prison in Tehran, and Ahmed Rashid, wh...

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Maziar Bahari Tells Of Ordeal In Tehran Prison

newsweek.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari di...

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Obama in the Thicket of "Afghaniranistan"

William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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William Bradley

Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.

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Iran Suicide Bombing Could Be Bad For Obama

TIME | Andrew Lee Butters | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

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Sunday's suicide terrorism attack that killed at least five commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps could have an impact far beyond the Islami...

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MAZIAR BAHARI RELEASED: Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter On Bail

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...

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A Soft Power Opportunity for Iran

Kevin Sullivan | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

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Kevin Sullivan

In the neighboring country of Yemen, a very real opportunity to make good on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's promise of friendship is rapidly emerging for Iran.

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