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Iran News
In Iran, senior cleric calls for Karroubi indictment
A senior Iranian cleric says defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi must be prosecuted for "libeling the system", unless he can prove his allegations.
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami on Thursday addressed the issue of a letter sent by Karroubi to Expediency Council head Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani in which the defeated candidate proposed an inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse of post-election detainees.
"If a person libels someone with allegations of sexual abuse, then he deserves to be punished for libel," said the cleric.
Aug 13, 2009, 20:14
Iran News
Iran's swine flu cases hit 196
A total of 196 people in Iran has been so far diagnosed with H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, Health Ministry official Mohammad Mahdi Gouya said here on Wednesday. The disease has infected 52 Iranians over the past four days, Gouya warned.
The cumulative number of cases infected with H1N1 virus rose from the 144 on August 8 to the current rate.
53% of the patients have been Hajj pilgrims or have been in touch with them, Gouya said, adding, “Their overall health is good”.
Aug 13, 2009, 20:11
Iran News
IRAN: Activist issues preemptive retraction of future confession
What do you do when your imprisoned friends and political allies admit to plotting against the Islamic Republic of Iran in an elaborate and suspiciously scripted series of televised confessions?
What if you're worried you're next?
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Aug 13, 2009, 20:04
Iran News
Syrian president to visit Iran
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is to pay a state visit to Iran in the near future, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. The Syrian leader is to visit Iran, the report quoted a Syrian official, who declined to give his name, as saying in Damascus, but he failed to mention the exact date of the visit.
During his stay in Iran, al-Assad is to felicitate his Iranian counterpart on his re-election and is to discuss expansion of mutual relations as well as regional developments, according to the report.
Aug 13, 2009, 19:58
Iran News
UN rights experts warn Iran over torture
Iran's Revolutionary Court must reject confessions of political opponents extracted under torture or harsh interrogation, three UN human rights experts warned Iran on Thursday.
In a joint statement, the experts said they were continuing to receive reports of deaths in custody and of torture of opponents arrested during the wave of protests in Iran.
"No judicial system can consider as valid a confession obtained as a result of harsh interrogations or under torture," said the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak.
Aug 13, 2009, 19:56
Iran News
U.S. Stance On Show Trials In Iran
Once again, in violation of Iran's own constitution, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which Iran has ratified, there were no defense lawyers present during the proceeding; once again, prisoners admitted to crimes in what observers say were obviously coerced confessions.
Aug 13, 2009, 19:51
Iran News
West seeks signs of Iran global path after unrest
Few expect Iran to significantly retool its foreign policies in the aftermath of the disputed June 12 elections. But experts say the country will be closely watched for telltale signs of shifts, including whether Ahmadinejad adopts less confrontational tones in international affairs and Iran tries to buy time on Washington's seize-the-moment offer to open talks.
Aug 13, 2009, 19:50
Iran News
Karroubi: inmates 'tortured to death'
Iran's defeated opposition presidential candidate has said that some protesters held after last month's disputed poll were tortured to death in prison.
The claim by Mehdi Karroubi comes days after he said a number of prisoners, both male and female, had been raped.
Officials deny the rape claims, but admit that abuses have taken place.
The BBC's Jon Leyne says the opposition uses the issue to maintain political pressure without directly questioning Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's poll victory.
Aug 13, 2009, 19:47
Iran News
US grows impatient with Iran talks
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US will not wait much longer for Iran to respond to US offer to open talks over the country's nuclear program.
"We are under no illusions. We were under no illusions before their elections that we can get the kind of engagement we are seeking," Clinton said in an interview with CNN.
"The president [Barack Obama] has also said, look, we need to take stock of this in September. If there is a response, it needs to be on a fast track. We're not going to keep the window open forever," she said.
Aug 12, 2009, 17:39
World
Wall Street Fraud Watchdog Warns All Investors
The Wall Street Fraud Watchdog is setting off alarm bells for all US investors, when it comes to buying into a bull market, or that the US will be out of recession by years end. According to the group, "we are in the absolute worst residential real estate market since before the great depression, Congress with their non-stop bailouts is putting future generations at extreme risk, the US commercial real estate markets are about to implode, we are heading for a 12% + national unemployment rate, and Obama's economic guru Larry Summers says we will be out of the woods by year end?"
Aug 12, 2009, 17:33
Iran News
Iran arrests 4 sunni terrorists in Zahedan
Iran's Intelligence Ministry says four members of a notorious terrorist group have been arrested in the southeastern city of Zahedan. Jundullah claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack on a mosque in Zahedan that killed 25 people.
The four terrorists belong to Abdolmalek Rigi's ring, Jundullah, which has carried out terror attacks against Iranian civilians and officials in Sistan-Baluchestan Province.
Aug 12, 2009, 17:18
Economy
Ankara wants Iran in Nabucco despite US wishes
Ankara has once again introduced the idea of having Iran participate in the Nabucco oil pipeline project, in defiance of US wishes.
"Iran extracts its gas and supplies it to the market so there seems to be no a reason for Iran not to participate," the Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said, according to a Monday report posted on the Aksam daily.
Yildiz explained that although the United States does not welcome the idea of Iran entering the Nabucco project, it was not how he saw the matter.
Aug 12, 2009, 17:17
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