Iran's top leader warns of protest crackdown

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sternly warned Friday of a crackdown if protesters continue their massive street rallies, escalating the government's showdown with demonstrators demanding a new presidential election.

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As thousands of protesters chanted Friday in the streets outside, a former Iranian president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, assailed the government's handling of the post-election unrest, saying it had lost the trust of many Iranians, and called for the release of hundreds of t …

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Iran's biggest group of clerics has declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election to be illegitimate and condemned the subsequent crackdown.

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A senior Iranian cleric said today that several employees of the British Embassy in Tehran arrested in recent days would be put on trial for unspecified charges of acting against Iran's national security, potentially escalating a confrontation with the West over last month's disp …

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PARIS — Brushing aside British and European efforts to seek the release of local British Embassy staff members held in Tehran, the Iranian authorities indicated Friday that they planned to put some of them on trial — a move that deepened a diplomatic crisis and could provoke  …

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Mr Ahmadinejad used the attack on Western powers send a defiant message in his first public comments since his controversial re-election was upheld by the electoral authorities on Monday. He said: "We must use all the capacities to break the monopoly of the global powers."

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Iran has begun a vote recount "in Tehran's 22 districts as well as in provinces, state television al-Alam said."

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"Iran's Guardian Council has offered opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi a deal to settle the" election controversy.

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A hardline cleric close to the Iranian regime demanded the execution of leading demonstrators yesterday as the opposition ended the week in disarray. In a televised sermon at Friday prayers in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami called on the judiciary to "punish leading rioters f …

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Among other things this "commission will supervise the recounting of about 10 percent of the ballot boxes" according to this article on Iran's Press TV website.

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This article cites comments by Obama and Iranian officials on the Iranian election, including repeating Guardian Council plans that "10 percent of all ballot boxes would be recounted in the presence of senior officials representing government and opposition."

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Hours after a warning from the powerful Revolutionary Guards not to return to the streets, about a thousand protesters defiantly gathered in central Tehran on Monday and were quickly dispersed in an overwhelming show of force by police who used clubs and tear gas.

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Iran's Guardian Council has suggested that the number of votes collected in 50 cities surpass the number of people eligible to cast ballot in those areas.

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Taking an unequivocal stand against days of mass protests, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sternly warned opposition supporters on Friday to stay off the streets and raised the prospect of violence if their defiant, vast demonstrations continued.

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Thousands of candle-bearing protesters massed in central Tehran on Thursday, even as the Iranian government made its first move toward some form of dialogue to defuse the outrage over last week's disputed presidential election.

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TEHRAN — Days after it was urged to investigate the outcome of last week's disputed presidential election, Iran's authoritative Guardian Council said on Thursday that it had invited the three candidates challenging the official results to a meeting to discuss their grievanc …

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What is striking about the Iranians protesting fraud in the June 10 "election" is the number of women on the front lines. Among all those cheated at the polls, they may feel the most denied.

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In what appeared to be a first concession by authorities to the protest movement, the 12-man Guardian Council said it was ready to re-tally votes in the poll in which hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the runaway winner - a result that has prompted the biggest  …

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ran's powerful Guardian Council says it is ready to recount disputed votes from Friday's presidential poll.

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Let us learn from Iran's current situation

Unless you've been sleeping under a rock or playing Xbox (both equally productive activities) all weekend, then you probably heard something about the recent elections that took place on Friday in Iran.

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Iran And The Us

by Rupali Gaurav

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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander, in a break with accepted practice, has openly called for voters to support the conservative wing in parliamentary polls, Iranian media reported on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT

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