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Truthout - All Articles - Feb 13, 2010
Growing impatient with the Obama administration’s Iran policy, members of Congress from both parties are proposing a variety of get-tough measures of their own. The moves, which include both sanctions and anti-regime …
Also tagged: john mccain, cia, iran, sanctions, war crimes, joe lieberman, human rights abuses, nuclear bomb
Truthout - All Articles - Jan 13, 2010
The dramatic images of protestors in Iran fearlessly facing -- and sometimes countering -- the brutal attacks of the regime's security forces rightly gain the admiration and sympathy of viewers in the West. They also …
Also tagged: police, iran, protesters, islamic, ayatollah, movements, khomeini, shah of iran
Truthout - News - Jan 12, 2010
The dramatic images of protestors in Iran fearlessly facing -- and sometimes countering -- the brutal attacks of the regime's security forces rightly gain the admiration and sympathy of viewers in the West. They also …
Also tagged: police, iran, protesters, islamic, ayatollah, movements, khomeini, shah of iran
Truthout - All Articles - Dec 30, 2009
Another cause for dissent in Iran, and one which has forced many women onto the Tehran subway to hawk trinkets, is economic hardship. Tehran, Iran — The train stops at Tehran’s 7-Tir station. Doors open and a rush of …
Also tagged: subway, hawk, iran, women and 039 s issues, economic hardship, segregated society
Truthout - All Articles - Dec 29, 2009
Tehran, Iran -- The son of leading opposition figure Mahdi Karroubi says Iranian security forces are limiting his father's movements by refusing to protect him when he leaves his home. Taghi Karroubi told The …
Also tagged: iran, security forces, karroubi
Truthout - All Articles - Dec 28, 2009
Istanbul, Turkey - The young, unemployed college graduate joined Sunday’s bloody anti-regime protests in Tehran even after an army friend of his warned him that Iran's security forces might use live rounds. After …
Also tagged: iran, ahmadinejad, protests, green movement, reformists, mousavi, harana
Truthout - News - Dec 27, 2009
Tehran - Security forces opened fire at crowds demonstrating against the government in the capital on Sunday, killing at least five people, including the nephew of opposition political leader Mir Hossein Mousavi …
Also tagged: iran, protests, demonstrations, revolutionary guard, mir hossein mousavi, ali mousavi
Truthout - All Articles - Dec 7, 2009
Photographer Maziar Pourbeheshti was shaken as he logged onto his Facebook account in the early evening from his Tehran apartment. At the Tehran University campus Monday, he had witnessed teargas and beatings …
Also tagged: iran, protests, revolutionary guard, islamic republic, student day
Truthout - All Articles - Nov 4, 2009
Iran's government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad planned a rally on the anniversary of the US Embassy takeover. But pro-democracy demonstrators staged counter-protests. Iranian police clashed violently with them. Violence …
Truthout - News - Oct 3, 2009
Geneva - Iran agreed in principle Thursday to ship most of its current stockpile of enriched uranium to Russia, where it would be refined for exclusively peaceful uses, in what Western diplomats called a significant …
Also tagged: iran, russia, inspection, obama, elbaradei, enriched uranium