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Iran launches investigation of prominent opposition cleric

  [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Iranian Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi"]Iranian Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi[/caption] .   By Jeffrey Fleishman and Ramin Mostaghim October 13, 2009 Reporting from Cairo and Tehran -

Iran Tries to Suppress Rape Allegations

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, in a sermon at Tehran University on Friday, denounced claims that protesters had been raped."]Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, in a sermon at Tehran University on Friday, denounced claims that protesters had been raped.[/caption] BEIRUT, Lebanon — 

A Guide to Understanding the Iranian Unrest

Tom Ordeman, Jr. Two weeks ago, I sumitted an article entitled A Brief Synopsis of Friday's Iranian Election, in which I concluded with the following statement:

Whatever the result, the next four years of Iranian-Western relations promise to be interesting – but which shade of "interesting" is anyone's guess.


A Brief Synopsis of Friday's Iranian Election

Tom Ordeman, Jr. On Friday, the Islamic Republic of Iran will hold its much anticipated presidential election. Iran's presidential election in 2005 ushered in the perpetually controversial and occasionally bizarre era of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's current president.

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