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US Hikers Held in Iran Call Home: 'We're Strong'

They call parents for first time since bust on spy charges

(Newser) - The trio of American hikers Iran arrested last summer have been allowed to call home for the first time. "She told me, 'I'm OK, I'm coping,'" the mother of Sarah Shourd told the San Francisco Chronicle . Shourd said she was being kept in solitary confinement in a Tehran...

US Begins to Believe in Iran Opposition

White House shifting strategy, but activists aren't thrilled

(Newser) - With President Obama's attempts to negotiate with Tehran going nowhere, the White House is looking to a new approach to pressuring Iran on nuclear weapons: backing the Iranian opposition movement. The US administration is now convinced the Iranian opposition is here to stay, and hopes to boost it while further...

US Gave $107B to Firms Dodging Iran Sanctions

NYT investigation finds 49 firms still doing business in Tehran

(Newser) - Want to thumb your nose at US sanctions, and sink some money in Iran? That's OK, the US government doesn't mind—to the tune of some $107 billion it's given in federal contracts and grants to corporations doing business with Tehran. As the New York Times reports, a large portion...

Ahmadinejad Calls 9/11 Attacks a 'Big Fabrication'

He calls WTC destruction a 'complicated intelligence scenario'

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad maintains the Holocaust is fictional, and he apparently feels the same way about the official version of the 9/11 attacks. "The September 11 incident was a big fabrication as a pretext for the campaign against terrorism and a prelude for staging an invasion against Afghanistan," the...

Mousavi: 'Cult' Is Running Iran
 Mousavi: 'Cult' Is Running Iran 
Feb 27, 2010 7:43 AM CST

Mousavi: 'Cult' Is Running Iran

Opposition leader issues harshest rebuke yet

(Newser) - Iran's opposition leader says a dictatorial cult is ruling Iran in the name of Islam, the strongest rebuke yet by Mir Hossein Mousavi. In comments posted on his website today, Mousavi says his movement's strategy is to effect reform by raising the consciousness of the Iranian people. But he acknowledges...

Obama Should Brace for War With Iran
 Obama Should Brace 
 for War With Iran
opinion
Feb 23, 2010 10:29 AM CST

Obama Should Brace for War With Iran

Aftermath of possible Israeli strike could define his presidency

(Newser) - There's no chance of President Obama deciding to bomb Iran, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be preparing for war, writes Anne Applebaum. Israel has decided for now that attacking Iran's nuclear program isn't worth the consequences, but that calculation is liable to change and if it does, the defining...

Record 70 Journalists Killed in 2009

Number jailed increases as well, with Iran and China leading pack

(Newser) - A record number of journalists were killed last year, and even more were arrested or imprisoned, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. In a report released today, the group names 70 journalists killed specifically for their reporting, a number exacerbated by the massacre of 29 journalists in...

Film of Neda's Death Wins Top Journalism Prize

Anonymous Iranians get Polk Award for iconic footage

(Newser) - The anonymous Iranians who filmed and distributed footage of a protester's death last year have been awarded one of journalism's top prizes. Neda Soltan's death has become "an iconic image of the Iranian resistance," said the curator of the George Polk Awards. It's the first time the American...

Clinton: Iran Is Becoming a Military Dictatorship

Revolutionary Guard has gained so much power it's supplanting the gov't

(Newser) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, a new US accusation in the midst of rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions and crackdown on anti-government protesters. Speaking to Arab students at Carnegie Mellon's Doha campus, Clinton said Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps...

Clashes Mark Iran Revolution Day

Security forces fire on activists: web site

(Newser) - Protesters clashed with security forces in Tehran today as hundreds of thousands of people mobbed the streets to mark Iran's Revolution Day, witnesses reported. Police fired bullets and teargas at supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi who were holding a rally in downtown Tehran, according to an activist website run...

Twitter's @Oxfordgirl Takes On Iran
Twitter's @Oxfordgirl Takes On Iran
Feb 10, 2010 5:03 PM CST

Twitter's @Oxfordgirl Takes On Iran

Anonymous tweeter helps mobilize protesters from afar

(Newser) - From the quiet English village of Oxfordshire, an anonymous Twitter user has become an important figure in the opposition movement. Tweeting from her handle " Oxfordgirl ," the remote revolutionary has made use of contacts from her time as a journalist in Tehran to spread news of the movement. Since...

Iran Says It's Banning Gmail
 Iran Says It's Banning Gmail 
Feb 10, 2010 3:56 PM CST

Iran Says It's Banning Gmail

Tehran promises to unroll national email service instead

(Newser) - Iran today declared a "permanent suspension" of Google's Gmail service. It's not yet clear if the regime has the technical ability to block Gmail, or if the ban is merely a bellicose threat. Tehran's telecommunications agency said a national email service for Iranians would soon be set up to...

Iran Seethes Ahead of Revolution Anniversary
Iran Seethes Ahead of Revolution Anniversary
ANALYSIS
Feb 8, 2010 5:51 PM CST

Iran Seethes Ahead of Revolution Anniversary

February 11 will test regime, international community

(Newser) - Feb. 11, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, promises to bring tests for all parties with a hand in the nation's fate, writes Gerald Seib. Big marches traditionally herald the anniversary, and members of the opposition movement that has bloomed since last June's election will undoubtedly come...

Ahmadinejad Sends Obama a Wake-Up Call
Ahmadinejad Sends Obama
a Wake-Up Call
Analysis
Feb 8, 2010 11:28 AM CST

Ahmadinejad Sends Obama a Wake-Up Call

Iran crosses another red line with 20% enrichment boost

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s orders to jack up Iran’s plutonium enrichment to 20% is a shot across the bow of the Obama administration, throwing serious doubts on its strategy for engaging Iran. “If this were poker, one would have to say Iran is calling Washington’s bluff,” writes...

Ahmadinejad Ramps Up Iran's Plutonium Production

About-face from last week's willingness to cooperate with UN plan

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country's atomic agency today to begin the production of higher enriched uranium, in a move that's likely to deepen international skepticism about Iran's real nuclear intentions. On state television, Ahmadinejad said: "God willing, 20% enrichment will start" to meet Iran's needs. The comments fly in...

Hey, Obama: In Iraq Exit, Don't Forget Strategy

US withdrawal or not, the country still has 'geostrategic significance'

(Newser) - Iraq is centrally important to the Middle East region, and the Obama administration does the country and the world a disservice by focusing on troop withdrawal without considering the future, writes Henry Kissinger. “The outcome in Iraq will influence the psychological balance in the war against radical Islam, specifically...

US Flexing Muscle in Gulf, Sends Message to Iran

It's beefing up defenses of Arab nations in the region

(Newser) - The US is ramping up military cooperation with Arab states in the Persian Gulf ahead of a possible showdown with Iran. The New York Times and the Washington Post weigh in with essentially the same story, both quoting anonymous administration and military officials. The strategy—which includes placing ships off...

Iran Hangs 2 Over June Election Unrest

Lawyer claims client wasn't even connected to protests

(Newser) - Two Iranians were hanged today in connection with last year's election protests. It was the first report of executions in connection with the unrest and may signal increased efforts to intimidate the opposition ahead of new anti-government demonstrations expected next month. The two executed men were among a group of...

Freed Belgians 'Deeply Concerned' About Hikers

Americans in solitary in Iran for 6 months under extreme pressure

(Newser) - Two Belgians who’ve just been freed from Iranian prison say they’re “deeply concerned” about the “well-being” of three American hikers being held there, who will have logged 6 months next week without any contact with their families or lawyers. “Iran, please free the hikers,”...

Hugo Chavez: US 'Tectonic Weapon' Caused Haiti Quake
Hugo Chavez: US 'Tectonic Weapon' Caused Haiti Quake
HAITI QUAKE: PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Jan 22, 2010 8:00 PM CST

Hugo Chavez: US 'Tectonic Weapon' Caused Haiti Quake

... so America could then occupy the island

(Newser) - Indulging its neo-colonial ambitions, the US used a “tectonic weapon” to set off the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti—which American troops have since occupied. That’s the contention of noted fly-in-America’s-ointment Hugo Chavez. After urging the US to “stop playing God,” but not revealing...

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