Home | Politics

Politics

 
image

Iran opposition delays rally after crackdown

(CNN) -- An event to remember the victims of Iran's post-election protests has been postponed Thursday, a day after security forces crushed a planned demonstration.
Full story
image

Iranian women fight on the frontlines of protest

In a part of the Muslim world where women are often perceived of as the repressed gender, images of Iranian women during and after the recent elections have catapulted Iran's female demonstrators into the forefront of the country's opposition movement. ...
Full story
image

Fresh Clashes as Ruling Cleric Says Iran Will Not Yield

TEHRAN — Hundreds of protesters clashed with waves of riot police and paramilitary militia in Tehran on Wednesday, witnesses said, as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted that the authorities would not yield to pressure from opponents demanding a new election following allegations of electoral fraud. ...
Full story
image

Iranian women stand up in defiance, flout rules

(CNN) -- A young Iranian woman named Neda is gunned down in one of the most iconic images of the last week. Another walks down the street, defiantly showing off her hair and body in a revealing dress. And still another woman says she's not scared of paramilitary forces -- no matter how many times she gets beaten....
Full story

Britain expels 2 Iranian diplomats

LONDON – Britain's government says it has expelled two Iranian diplomats in retaliation for Tehran's decision to order out two staff members from the British Embassy in Tehran....
Full story

Iranian hard-liners attempt to shut down opposition movement

Iran's hard-line leaders moved aggressively Tuesday to silence protests over the disputed June 12 presidential election, rejecting demands for a new vote and announcing that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be sworn in for second term as early as July 26 ....
Full story

Iran's supreme strategy: Why is Ahmadinejad the chosen one?

Istanbul, Turkey – The price has been high of massive and sometimes violent Iranian reaction to the official landslide reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But no one has paid more than the country's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, whose decision to bless the result as "divine" – and side openly with Mr. Ahmadinejad, despite charges of extensive fraud – has sparked the widest popular challenge to the Islamic Republic in 30 years....
Full story
image

Neda Agha-Soltan, Iranian woman killed in Tehran protests, told friend 'it's just one bullet'

The brave Iranian woman killed during a rally in Tehran did not fear death even as the government threatened to crack down on protesters. ...
Full story
image

Britain expels Iranian diplomats in tit-for-tat with Tehran

LONDON (AFP) – Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday that Britain was expelling two Iranian diplomats in a tit-for-tat action after Tehran ordered two British diplomats to leave....
Full story
image

Mousavi out of sight

Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi says he was the true winner of the election. Iran's electoral commission declared Ahmadinejad the winner by a landslide, ignoring Mousavi's claims of widespread and systematic vote fraud. Mousavi has been out of sight in recent days, but a short message posted on his Web site asserted that "all the reports of violations in the elections will be published soon." ...
Full story
image

Iran’s crackdown dampens opposition

TEHRAN, Iran - Overwhelmed by police and left with limited alternatives, Iranian demonstrators resorted Tuesday to more subtle ways of challenging the outcome of the presidential election: holding up posters, shouting from rooftops and turning on car headlights....
Full story

Clinton: 'Iran's involvement positive'

The American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has spoken positively of Iran's involvement in an international conference on Afghanistan....
Full story
image

Iran denies US claims of meeting

Iran has denied that a meeting took place between their main representative at an international conference on Afghanistan and a senior US official....
Full story
image

Israel's unwieldy government

Some political analysts have been known to call Israel's electoral system the worst-designed in the democratic world. ...
Full story
image

Brown issues Iran nuclear warning

Gordon Brown has warned Iran it faces a "clear choice" over its nuclear programme - and urged it to let the world help it get civil nuclear power....
Full story
image

US policy towards Iran shaping up

The Obama administration is finalising its policy for engaging Iran....
Full story
image

Mottaki hopes US statesmen will not toe line of predecessors

Tehran, Feb 22, IRNA -- Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that the region is experiencing new developments and hoped that the new US statesmen will not toe the line of their predecessors....
Full story
image

US Will Use 'All Elements' of Power with Iran

The White House said the United States will use "all elements" of its national power to deal with Iran, after Tehran announced the launch of its first satellite into orbit....
Full story
image

Clinton Warns Iran to Comply With Mandates

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plunged into her first day of intensive diplomacy yesterday, meeting separately with the foreign ministers of Britain and Germany and receiving a trip report from her Middle East envoy....
Full story
image

Iranian have demonstrated against Mullah Regime in Paris

Paris. Tens of thousands of Iranians have demonstrated against Iran-Sanctions and a democratic change in Tehran without war in Paris/France. ...
Full story
Log in
Copyright 2007. All Rights Reserved.