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Iranian election stories: 113 news summaries

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Iran Sentences 5 to Death
for Election Protests

Brings total condemned in turmoil to eight

Nov 17, 09 1:15 PM CST
(AP) - Five people have been sentenced to death over the unrest that followed Iran's disputed June presidential election, according to state television reports. The report quotes a statement by the Justice Department saying the five sentenced were members of terrorist and armed opposition groups. More »

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Neda's Boyfriend: 'This Movement Will Never Die'

In hiding after fleeing Iran, says the movement is still strong

Nov 15, 09 12:48 PM CST
(Newser) - "I still cannot believe it. I think I will see Neda again," the boyfriend of the iconic slain Iranian protester tells the Guardian in his first interview since fleeing the country. "Now I have left Iran, I can cry out," says Caspian Makan, who was... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Neda • Neda Agha Soltan • Neda Soltan • Caspian Makan

 Iranian Police Clash 
 With Protesters 

Tear gas, beatings mark 30th anniversary of US Embassy takeover

Nov 4, 09 6:34 AM CST
(AP) - Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons and fired tear gas today on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies in Tehran to mark the 30th anniversary of the US Embassy takeover. While pro-government demonstrators chanted "death to America" outside the former embassy, opposition marchers nearby cried "death to... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • US Embassy • green revolution • protesters • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Iranian protests

Iran Students Hope to Reignite Smoldering Unrest

Green movement plans major protest tomorrow

Nov 3, 09 11:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Iranian students are planning a major protest tomorrow, their first in six weeks, hoping to turn an annual parade commemorating the taking of the US embassy in 1979 into an anti-government rally. Though largely forgotten by the media and discounted by Western policy makers, the so-called “green movement” that... More »

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 Iran Admits Protester 
 Was Beaten to Death 

First official acknowledgment of post-election state violence

Sep 1, 09 7:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man arrested in the upheaval following Iran's presidential election was beaten to death in jail, Iranian media reported yesterday—offering the first official acknowledgment that a detained protester died after the disputed vote. Officials had originally said the man died of an illness, but a coroner's report said he... More »

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Iran Reformist Publishes Prison Rape Account

Karroubi says more allegations of protester abuse to come

Aug 25, 09 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A testimony released by defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi details a male protester's beating and rape at a notorious prison after the disputed election. The first-person account is just one of many, Karroubi alleges, and CNN reports that he will continue to publish them on his website "if... More »

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Iran • prison • rape • political prisoner • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Iranian election • Mehdi Karoubi

Ahmadinejad Names 3 Women to Cabinet

But female ministers are hardliners, unlikely to please reformers

Aug 17, 09 5:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today he would nominate three women to join his cabinet, reports the Guardian, attempting to soften his image after the brutal crackdowns following his disputed re-election. The decision is significant in a country where just eight of 290 MPs are female. But the two women whose names... More »

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(Newser) - Iranian protesters, both male and female, were raped in a notorious prison in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election, one of the defeated candidates alleged today. Reformist Mehdi Karroubi wrote on his website that senior prison officials told him about "really shameful issues," including sexual violence that... More »

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(Newser) - Iran staged another mass trial of protesters today, charging a Frenchwoman, two employees of the French and British embassies, and dozens of Iranian nationals with spying and fomenting unrest following the election, Reuters reports. Once again, defendants offered confessions and sought leniency. “We deplore these trials and the so-called... More »

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 Ahmadinejad Begins 2nd Term 


Aug 5, 09 4:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sworn in for a second term as president of Iran, one day after the White House finally announced that the US recognized him as the country's elected leader. In his inaugural address, Ahmadinejad took a swipe at the US and European nations that "decided to... More »

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(Newser) - As his adversaries faced a mass court hearing condemned as a show trial, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was formally endorsed today for a second term as president of Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei conducted the ceremony, which Mir Hossein Mousavi and other opposition figures boycotted. The endorsement came after state television screened courtroom... More »

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Former Iranian Prez Lashes 'Show Trial'

Khatami accuses government of murdering protesters

Aug 2, 09 10:30 AM CDT
(AP) - The reformist former president of Iran blasted the country's extraordinary mass trial of activists and protesters as a sham that would undermine the country's ruling regime, reports the AP. Mohammad Khatami, president from 1997 to 2005, said he hoped the "show trial" would not "lead to ignorance... More »

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(Newser) - Iranian police beat demonstrators gathered in a Tehran cemetery to mourn victims of post-election violence, including Neda Agha-Soltan—the 26-year-old whose killing was witnessed by hundreds of thousands on YouTube. A witness told Reuters that some mourners were arrested. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi defied threats from the Revolutionary Guards... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Neda • Iranian protests • Mehdi Karoubi • Neda Agha Soltan

Ahmadinejad Defies Ayatollah, Refuses to
Sack Vice Prez

In-law stays despite pro-Israel comments

Jul 22, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defied a direct order from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to dismiss his vice president, opening a rift between Iran's president and supreme leader, reports the Los Angeles Times. Ahmadinejad's newly chosen VP, who is his son's father-in-law, has infuriated hardliners by making favorable remarks about Israel. But Ahmadinejad... More »

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(Newser) - Dozens of Iranians were arrested today when riot police violently dispersed a protest in Tehran, Reuters reports. Hundreds chanted slogans like “Ahmadinejad—resign, resign,” and “Death to dictators,” witnesses said, before police, some in plainclothes, descended on the demonstration, beating and detaining the protesters. Some witnesses... More »

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(Newser) - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former Iranian president and most powerful supporter of Mir Hossein Mousavi, addressed thousands of young reformists in green today in a highly anticipated sermon that may trigger further protests. The visibly upset cleric demanded that all political prisoners be freed and lamented that "we had... More »

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(AP) - Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed not to let the blood of protesters killed in postelection crackdown go in vain as he met with the family of a young man shot to death during the turmoil, a reformist Web site reported today. He also announced that he will attend... More »

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(Newser) - Riot police swarmed around Tehran University today, dispersing anyone attempting to gather in protest with batons, shields, and pepper spray, the Washington Post reports. “There are 300 of us in a small alley, and we are under attack by dozens of security forces,” one witness reported. Others... More »

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(Newser) - Iranian opposition candidates issued a statement today demanding an end to the “savage, shocking attacks” against protesters, and calling for the release of innocent people arrested in the government’s post-election crackdown, the New York Times reports. “The useless wave of arrests must end immediately,” read the... More »

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Iran • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Mohammad Khatami • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Medhi Karroubi • Iranian protests

OPINION

 Twitter Deserves a Nobel Prize 


Jul 6, 09 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter’s been so instrumental in giving Iranians a voice that it, and its creators, deserve Nobel Prize consideration, writes Mark Pfeifle for the Christian Science Monitor. Scoff all you want at the 140-character “time waster.” “In the past month, 140 characters were enough to... More »

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