Mirza Taqi Khan Amir-e Kabir (ca. 1806-1852) was the greatest prime minister of the Qajar dynasty. In just 3 years he accomplished more than the combined efforts of the other chief ministers of the dy...
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Iranian police and plainclothes security agents broke up a sit-in marking Monday's anniversary of a bloody raid on a Tehran university dormitory, then stormed the offices of the country's main pro-...
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Tehran (dpa) - Nobody will ever know whether Marxist revolutionary
Che Guevera, who was killed in 1967, would have viewed Iran and its
clergy system as a close ally against ...
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TEHRAN, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Three students jailed for up to
three years on charges including insulting Iran's Supreme Leader
have been granted release on bail of about $85,000 each, their
lawyer sa...
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TEHRAN, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Three students jailed for up to
three years on charges including insulting Iran's Supreme Leader
have been granted release on bail of about $85,000 each, their
lawyer sa...
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Brussels (dpa) - The European Union on Tuesday condemned what it
called a climate of "growing repression" in Iran following crackdowns
on journalists and human rights activi...
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About 100 students staged a rare protest Monday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator" as he gave a speech at Tehran University marking the beginning of the academi...
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Hundreds of Iranian students expressed their anger over a government crackdown on activists in a protest Sunday at Tehran University, the second such demonstration in less than a week, witnesses an...
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed to be delighted when reformist students disrupted his visit to their elite university in December, burning his portrait and shouting "Death to the dictator!"It...
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Mirza Taqi Khan Amir-e Kabir
Iranian police raid pro-democracy group
