BBC News - Saudis deny claim that US seized visiting IranianSource: BBC News
Saudi Arabia has denied an accusation from Iran that an Iranian nuclear scientist was detained on its soil by Saudi agents and handed over to the US.
On Tuesday the Iranian foreign minister said Shahram Amiri was abducted in June while on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Don't count the protesters out just yet. Students in Tehran University were viciously attacked today by security forces and Basijis today as they tried to demonstrations. There are two conflicting reasons for the tensions and clashes.

December 7, 2009 yet again brought fresh waves of opposition protests across Iran. While slightly smaller than those of November 4, the protests showed, yet again, that the government in Iran is facing a serious challenge by the opposition.
BBC News - Canadian sues Iran for death of his mother Zahra KazemiSource: BBC News
A court in Canada has begun hearing a lawsuit filed by the son of slain Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi against the Iranian government.
Zahra Kazemi died in 2003 after receiving head injuries during more than three days of interrogation.
Iran bans foreign media cover as student rally nears Source: Yahoo! News
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran on Saturday banned foreign media from reporting on a student rally next week that authorities fear could turn into a new round of protests against June's disputed presidential election.

By Josh Shahryar
Protests / Unrest
BBC News - Halabja gas attack survivor reunited with motherSource: BBC News
A man who as a baby survived a chemical attack on the Iraqi city of Halabja in 1988 has been reunited with his mother.
Ali Pour was taken to Iran by Iranian soldiers who stormed the Kurdish city days after the gas attack by Saddam Hussein's forces.

(The Green Briefs are an aggregate of Iranian news from various social networking sites and Iranian news agencies. Only the most reliable of sources have been used to compile them)
Protests / Unrest
On 16 Azar / December 7
BBC News - Neda Agha Soltan's family accuse Iran of her killingSource: BBC News
The family of a young woman shot dead at a protest following Iran's disputed presidential election has accused the security forces of killing her.
It is the most strongly-worded statement the family of Neda Agha Soltan have made since her death.

(Mazyar Bahari is a correspondent for Newsweek who was imprisoned in Iran on charges of espionage for almost four months. He was released this week by Iranian authorities.

It's getting hazier and hazier by the day in Iran. While human rights abuse cases keep streaming out of the country much to the dismay of many people following the situation, most of the rest of the news is marred in confusion. Of course, the twitter experiment is a success.
The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding ObamaSource: Wall Street Journal
Steeped in an overarching idea of American guilt, Mr. Obama and his lieutenants offered nothing less than a doctrine, and a policy, of American penance. No one told Mr.
Why we have to talk with Tehran - The Globe and MailSource: The Globe and Mail
Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Should the Obama administration have a dialogue with Iran? Can we still talk to these people? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations?
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Ahmadinejad's theological foesSource: BBC News
By Edward Stourton
Analysis, BBC Radio 4
It is not often you find an email from a Grand Ayatollah in your inbox - especially not when the Ayatollah in question is a pivotal figure in one of the great dramas currently unfolding on the world stage.
Israel fears justice more than IranSource: Arab News
Israeli and US threats against Iran are growing louder. Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has accused Tehran of conducting insincere negotiations and says his country's the threatened military option is no bluff.
Indo-Israeli plot against Pak-Iranian tiesSource: Kashmir Watch
Although the whole of Islamic world is target of Indo-Israeli plot, yet the same has intensified in case of Pakistan and Iran. It is because of the fact that Pakistan is a declared atomic country, while Iran is determined to continue its nuclear programme.
DiarySource: London Review of Books
June is never a good month on the plains. It was 46ºC in Fortress Islamabad a fortnight ago. The hundreds of security guards manning roadblocks and barriers were wilting, sweat pouring down their faces as they waved cars and motorbikes through.

So November 4 in Iran is over. Iranians all over the country came out in big and small numbers yet again to demand that their rights be granted and that the government stop its oppression. They chanted slogans, marched through the streets and showed that they still exist.
Neda's mother: She was 'like an angel' - CNN.comSource: CNN
The night before she was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda had a dream. "There was a war going on," she told her mom the next morning, "and I was in the front."
Israel Navy Captures Arms ShipSource: The New York Times
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli naval commandos seized an arms ship Wednesday near Cyprus that was carrying missiles and anti-tank weapons from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, defense officials said.
What Really Prompted Iran to Build the Qom Enrichment Facility? Source: CounterPunch.org
The Obama administration claims that construction of a second Iranian uranium enrichment facility at Qom began before Tehran's decision to withdraw from a previous agreement to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in advance of such construction.
Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits: former Pakistani army chiefSource: Tehran Times
TEHRAN - Pakistan's former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company Blackwater was directly involved in the assassinations of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Iran wages lonely war on terrorSource: Asia Times
The timing of the attack on the Ali ibn Abi Talib mosque in the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan in the Sistan-Balochistan province bordering Pakistan was by no means casual. Zahedan is a Sunni city.