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Iran opposition group: US terror listing unjust

Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a massive rally Saturday outside Paris.

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Iran Employing Nazi and Communist Tactics to Fight Opposition
Source: The New York Times

It is implanting 6,000 Basij militia centers in elementary schools across Iran to promote the ideals of the Islamic Revolution, and it has created a new police unit to sweep the Internet for dissident voices.

Cleric Wields Religion to Challenge Iran's Theocracy
Source: The New York Times

Ayatollah Montazeri has emerged as the spiritual leader of the opposition, an adversary the state has been unable to silence or jail because of his religious credentials and seminal role in the founding of the republic. More Articles

Clashes in Iran on Anniversary of Embassy Takeover
Source: The New York Times

This story should be higher up on the page.The clashes came on a day of extraordinary tension across Iran.

Clerics' Call for Ouster Challenges Iranian Leader
Source: The New York Times

A group of Iranian clerics has issued an anonymous letter calling Iran's supreme leader a dictator and demanding his removal, the latest and perhaps strongest rhetorical attack on him yet in the country's post-election turmoil. More Articles

Iran Hardliners Accuse Opposition of 'Treason'
Source: Google

"Evidence of Khatami and Mousavi's treason unveiled," thundered the headline in the hardline Kayhan newspaper. "The plot leaders are corrupt people whose unforgiveable crimes include killing innocent people and cooperating with foreign enemies," it said.

Guardian's Sally Buzbee is wrong on Iran

And Khamenei lacks the stern, spellbinding charisma that bound the first revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, so strongly to his people.

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