Mehdi Karroubi

Iran chokes off Internet on eve of planned student protests; opposition shouts from rooftops. Government opponents shouted "Allahu Akbar" and "Death to the Dictator" from Tehran's rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of student demonstrations planned for Monday. Authorities choked off Internet access and warned journalists working for foreign media to stick to their offices for the next three days.

Iranian opposition groups are preparing to hold fresh protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday, several websites reported, as the nation marks the annual Students Day.

Iranian opposition groups are preparing to hold fresh protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday, several websites reported, as the nation marks the annual Students Day.

Where's Rafsanjani? Iran's leaders seek to sideline critic within ruling system. When Iran holds state-run ceremonies this week for an important Islamic feast day, there will be one very noticeable change: former President Hashemi Rafsanjani will not be leading the prayers.

Report: Iran releases political activist on bail in mass trial over election unrest. Iran's official news agency reports a political activist and former head of the Tehran municipal council has been released on bail in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest.

Iran releases former vice president on bail after jail sentence in mass opposition trial. Iran released a former vice president on a $700,000 bail Sunday after his lawyer said he had been sentenced to six years in prison in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest.

Iran state television says 5 people have been sentenced to death over postelection turmoil. Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.

Planned Iranian news agency yields first story line: Will elite military force act as editors?. The portfolio of Iran's Revolutionary Guard keeps on growing. Its troops watch over nuclear facilities, its rocket scientists enlarge Iran's missile arsenal and its engineers have taken on a rail line as their latest big-ticket project. Could media mogul be next?

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Iran's opposition leaders say ruling clerics are more brutal than shah's regime. Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Saturday, and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown aimed at choking off the reform movement's last real means of keeping its campaign alive.

Iran's main opposition leader and defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has repeated his call for a new election, after unrest this month saw clashes between police and protesters, a reformist website reported on Saturday.

Iran's reform protesters shift target beyond president to top leadership. Just minutes before anti-riot police charged opposition marchers in Tehran last week, a new chant bubbled up from the crowd: "Death to Nobody."

An international human rights group said Friday it has documented three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran's postelection turmoil, including one that was supported by an official report but not investigated further.

Rights group says it has documented rape of detainees in Iran's postelection turmoil. An international human rights group said Friday it has documented three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran's postelection turmoil, including one that was supported by an official report but not investigated further.

The contrasts were vivid: Pro-government supporters chanted "Death to America" and stomped on U.S. flags Wednesday while not far away, hundreds of opposition protesters denounced Iran's leaders and appealed to America's president to choose sides.

Opposition protesters returned to the streets of Tehran Wednesday for the first time in nearly two months, clashing with security forces just blocks from a government rally to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover.

Riot police waded in with batons and teargas to break up opposition protests in Tehran on Wednesday, as huge crowds staged a noisy anti-US rally nearby to mark the storming of the American embassy by students 30 years ago.

Riot police waded in with batons and teargas to break up opposition protests in Tehran on Wednesday, as huge crowds staged a noisy anti-US rally nearby to mark the storming of the American embassy by students 30 years ago.

Riot police waded in with batons and teargas to break up opposition protests in central Tehran on Wednesday, as huge crowds staged a noisy anti-US rally nearby to mark the storming of the American embassy by students 30 years ago.

Riot police waded in with batons and teargas to break up opposition protests in central Tehran on Wednesday, as huge crowds staged a noisy anti-US rally nearby to mark the storming of the American embassy by students 30 years ago.