AP - Armed pro-government demonstrators opened fire on the car of an Iranian opposition leader shattering its windows, his Web site reported Friday.

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Gunmen open fire at Iranian opposition leader
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AP - A huge funeral procession for Iran’s most senior dissident cleric became a show of defiance against the country’s rulers Monday as mourners flashed green protest colors and chanted against the Islamic leadership in Iran’s holy city of Qom.

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Iran cleric’s funeral becomes opposition protest
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AP - After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country’s postelection turmoil were beaten to death by their jailers.

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Iran acknowledges prisoners were beaten to death
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AP - Tens of thousands of protesters many decked out in the green colors of the reform movement and chanting “Death to the dictator!” rallied Friday in defiance of Iran’s Islamic leadership, clashing with police and confronting state-run anti-Israel rallies.

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Thousands march in Iran opposition protests
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Reuters - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a lie Friday, raising the stakes against Israel just as world powers try to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.

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Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a lie, Israel has no future
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Reuters - Influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has urged Iranians to follow Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s guidelines, five weeks after he challenged the authority of the country’s most powerful figure.

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Iran’s Rafsanjani calls for unity, backs leader
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AFP - Iranian hardliners accused opposition leaders of treason on Sunday as defeated presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi said the authorities used “medieval torture” to force confessions from protesters on trial over the election unrest.

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Iran hardliners accuse opposition of ‘treason’
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AFP - Iran’s former reformist president Mohammad Khatami lashed out on Sunday over the trial of 100 people charged over the wave of protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election.

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Iran’s Khatami slams trial of election protesters
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AP - A top aide to Iran’s supreme leader called the country’s main opposition figure a U.S.

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Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent
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A conservative Iranian daily says the main protest leader should be tried for treason for inciting unrest after June’s elections.

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Mousavi ‘must face treason trial’
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