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Reform Leader's Nephew Among Dead in Iran Clashes
Dec 27th 2009 – 6:27AM
AP
TEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 7) - Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed. Some accounts of the violence in Tehran were vivid and detailed, but they could...
Day of Reckoning Looms for Iran
Dec 24th 2009 – 5:18PM
AFP / Getty Images
(Dec. 24) -- Anti-government protests escalated in Iran even as authorities issued tougher threats to shut them down, as a day of reckoning for a re-energized reform movement loomed this weekend. The government on Thursday banned memorials for the late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri that had been planned for the...
Background on Hossein Ali Montazeri
Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri Najafabadi (1922 – 19 December 2009) () was a prominent Iranian scholar, Islamic theologian, Shiite Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist.
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