On the Web: 'Something must be done'

Information continues to pour from Iran via various Web sites and blogs reporting on what is happening there, despite a government crackdown on such communication. What follows are excerpts from those reports.

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Few things are as they seem in Tehran

They file in slowly, patiently submitting to body searches, men in one line, black-clad, head-scarved women in another. Most are poor, old or very young, and most are ready for some America-bashing.

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Iran's oil, nuclear ambitions pose risk to next president

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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.

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Fresh Protests in Iran's Capital

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.

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Report from 16 Azar Protests in Iran (Dec 7)

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.

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There were bloody clashes as young people launched a fresh wave of anti-government protests on the country's official Students Day. Police used warning shots, baton charges and gas but failed to stop rallies, sit-ins and campus marches across the capital.

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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.

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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.

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The Green Brief #75 (Dec 05 - 14 Azar)

By Josh Shahryar Protests / Unrest

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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.

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Green Brief #74 (Azar 13 - December 4)

(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

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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.

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Response to Mazyar Bahari's Allegations Against the Greens

(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.

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Covering Iran: An Rant in the Making

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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Crisis in Iran and Lobbying the Media

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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has said that Pakistani officials have promised to cooperate with Iran and to take the measures necessary to capture the members of the Rigi terrorist group and extradite them to Iran.

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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.

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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.

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