Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
Some UK embassy staff detained in Tehran and accused of inciting protests after disputed elections will face trial, a top Iranian cleric says.
Guardians Council chief Ahmad Jannati said: “Naturally they will be put on trial, they have made confessions.”
Nine embassy staff were held in Tehran last weekend. The UK government says all except two have [...]
Iran’s embattled opposition leader, Mirhossein Mousavi, faces a new threat after the Basiji militia accused him of “offences against the state” and “disturbing the nation’s security”, charges which carry a sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.
The militia, which played a key role in the brutal suppression of street protests, has become known as the “enforcers” of [...]
Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.
Once emboldened by their ability to dodge the government and spread news about their protests to the world, many in the youth-driven protest movement, they [...]
Amnesty International said on Thursday Israel inflicted “wanton destruction” in the Gaza Strip in attacks that often targeted Palestinian civilians during an offensive in December and January in the Hamas-run enclave.
The London-based rights group, in a 117-page report on the 22 days of fighting, also criticized the Islamist movement Hamas for rocket attacks on [...]
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Two losing contenders in Iran’s presidential election denounced the result on Wednesday in clear defiance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s next cabinet would be illegitimate.
Moderate former prime minister Mirhossein Mousavi and reformist cleric Mehdi Karoubi unleashed fierce attacks on the outcome of the June 12 vote that returned [...]
The EU is no longer qualified to take part in talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, Iran’s military chief says.
Maj Gen Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran’s chief of staff, accused the EU of “interference” in riots which followed June’s disputed presidential elections.
The EU has for the past few years been involved in talks to try to persuade Iran [...]
Iraq awarded a lucrative oil contract to BP and China National Petroleum Corp., government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Wednesday, while rejecting other companies’ offers for other oil fields.
The joint BP-CNPC bid was for the al-Rumeila oil field, one of the largest in the world. The energy companies are expected to increase production at the oil [...]
Iran’s government was accused of blocking publication of a reformist party’s newspaper Wednesday to prevent it publishing a letter from a presidential candidate questioning the legitimacy of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in last month’s election.
Meanwhile, questions surrounded an announcement in government-run Iranian media that Ahmadinejad canceled a planned trip to Libya on Wednesday for [...]
Three more Iranian British embassy staff have been released by the Iranian authorities in Tehran, the country’s state-run Press TV reports.
Nine members of embassy staff were detained at the weekend and Press TV said all bar one have now been freed.
Iran had said they were arrested over their role in protests against June’s disputed presidential [...]
At least 25 people have been killed by a car bomb at a market in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, officials say.
The attack in the Shurja district came as Iraqis celebrated the withdrawal of US troops from towns and cities in Iraq, six years after the invasion.
Iraqi and US troops have been on alert [...]
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