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Rueters: Iran delays executing Sunni rebel to get more info

9 hours ago ago from Iranian Minorities Human Right Organisation (IMHRO)

TEHRAN, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Shi'ite Muslim Iran has delayed for a second time the execution of a convicted member of a Sunni Muslim rebel group in order to extract information from him, semi-official news agency ISNA reported on Wednesday. Iran has hanged several members of the Jundollah (God's soldiers) group, but the execution of Abdolhamid Rigi, a brother of the group's leader Abdolmalek Rigi, was first delayed in July to get more ...

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AP: Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed Iraqi border

10 hours ago ago from Iranian Minorities Human Right Organisation (IMHRO)

By NASSER KARIMI TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Monday it would try three Americans jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the U.S. at a time when Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki did not say when proceedings would begin or specify the charge other than to say the Americans had "suspicious aims." In November, however, ...

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9 hours ago ago from radical royalist

Iran is playing funny games When it comes to the Monarchy, that Iran lost 30 years ago, the regime and its media never fail to add a disparaging adjective to the noun “Monarchist”. Therefore it was very surprising that today the English language daily newspaper Tehran Times published an article on the visit of Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein , the chairman of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Movement and one of the claimants to the Iraqi ...

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Clinton Speaks About Iran: Shows How Slowly U.S. Policy is Changing Gears from Engagement to Sanctions

23 hours ago ago from Love of the Land

Barry Rubin The Rubin Report 13 December 09 In a December 10 al-Jazira interview, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explains U.S. policy toward Iran, showing the administration has still not really started turning from engaging Iran to slapping on high sanctions. A lot of what she said revealed the administration’s almost pathological desire to avoid conflict: “What we have tried to do is engage in diplomacy in a very vigorous way ...

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Iran To Try 3 US Hikers – In Retaliation

13 hours ago ago from Sweetness & Light

From a secretly pleased Associated Press: Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed Iraqi border By Nasser Karimi, Associated Press Writer Mon Dec 14 TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Monday it would try three Americans jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the U.S. at a time when Tehran is [...]

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Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed Iraqi border

19 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed Iraqi border TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran said Monday it would try three Americans jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the U.S. at a time when Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki did not say when proceedings would begin or specify the charge other than to say the Americans had "suspicious aims." ...

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Allan Gerson: Iran: Abdicating US Moral Responsibility

10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

By Allan Gerson President Obama, as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has a special responsibility: to avoid unnecessary war and at the same time, as he put it in his acceptance speech, to not shrink away from just war. Beyond that he has a responsibility for the protection of innocent lives at jeopardy in armed conflicts in which the United States has played a role. Iran, more than Afghanistan, provides the paramount test of his ...

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Iran to put on trial 3 Americans caught hiking across border

13 hours ago ago from Washington Post - World

TEHRAN -- Iran announced Monday that it will try three Americans who were accused of espionage after entering the country illegally during a hiking trip, raising the stakes in a case likely to exacerbate tensions with the United States. The announcement by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki comes after Iran last week demanded the release of 11 Iranians who it says are being held by the United States -- a possible signal that Tehran may be ...

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Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed border

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Ayatullah Khomeini Returns to Haunt Iranian Politics

18 hours ago ago from TIME.com - World

SEARCH TIME.COM Full Archive Covers Videos Ayatullah Khomeini Returns to Haunt Iranian Politics By TIME Staff Monday, Dec. 14, 2009 Masked Iranian students, supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, shout slogans while holding pictures of the Islamic revolution's father, Ayatullah Khomeini, during a rally in Tehran Your View / Reuters ...

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