Key Iran cleric’s party dismisses vote results
The statement by Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s party heightens the confrontation between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s camp and supporters of reformist challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
- Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani meets with relatives of Iranian detainees in Tehran. His party is demanding a restoration of public confidence over what it called “massive electoral fraud” and an inquiry into a crackdown on protesters.
By Borzou Daragahi in the Los Angeles Times on July 7, 2009
Reporting from Beirut — A day after commanders of the Revolutionary Guard warned there was no middle ground in the dispute over the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the political party of one of Iran’s most powerful clerics Monday defiantly issued a statement dismissing the vote. Read the rest of this entry »
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Filed Under (2009 Election, Iran Foreign Relations, Israel, nuclear, U.S. Relations) by admin2 on 25-04-2007
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Iran’s top leader warns West over alleged meddling
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer, Jul 6, 12:37 PM EDT
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Western governments on Monday of a “negative impact” on relations over what he called their meddling in Iran’s post-election riots. Read the rest of this entry »
Clerical Leaders Defy Ayatollah on Iran Election
By Michael Slackman and Nazila Fathi, published July 4, 2009 in the New York Times.
CAIRO — An important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment. Read the rest of this entry »
Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent
By Ali Akbar Dareini (Associated Press) – Sat Jul 4, 1:07 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran – A top aide to Iran’s all-powerful leader has accused the country’s main opposition leader of being an American agent who should be tried for treason, increasing the pressure on reformists disputing the outcome of last month’s presidential election. Read the rest of this entry »
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Iran Cleric Says British Embassy Staff to Stand Trial
A June 15, 2009, file photo shows Iranian riot policemen standing guard outside the British embassy in Tehran during a protest by supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against European interference in the Islamic Republic's election results. (Photo Atta Kenare AFP/Getty Images)
By ALAN COWELL and STEPHEN CASTLE
Published July 3, 2009 in the New York Times
PARIS — Brushing aside British and European efforts to seek the release of local British Embassy staff members held in Tehran, the Iranian authorities indicated Friday that they planned to put some of them on trial — a move that deepened a diplomatic crisis and could provoke the withdrawal of ambassadors.
Khatami denounces Iran election, arrests
Protesters in Iran walk past a poster of former president Khatami and reform party leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. (Photo: Reuters)
Story posted by Reuters on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 1:42pm EDT.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Moderate former president Mohammad Khatami criticized the outcome of Iran’s disputed election and called for the release of people arrested since the June 12 vote in a hard-hitting statement on Wednesday.
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Filed Under (2009 Election, diplomacy, Iran Foreign Relations, U.S. Relations, Videos) by admin2 on 25-04-2007
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Iran’s Clenched Fist Election: What’s next for US policy
The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Policy Discussion held on June 25, 2009 in Washington D.C.
With demonstrations across Iran subsiding under a brutal security crackdown, and opposition leaders hoping to turn protests into strikes and other acts of civil disobedience, Carnegie hosted leading Iran experts Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Abbas Milani, and Karim Sadjadpour to discuss the aftermath of the election and its implications for U.S. foreign policy in the region. David Ignatius moderated the discussion.
Iran ‘must free UK embassy staff’
Published by BBC News on June 28, 2009
The European Union has demanded the immediate release of Iranian staff at Britain’s embassy in Tehran detained on Saturday over post-election unrest.
EU ministers meeting in Greece warned that “harassment or intimidation” of embassy staff would be met with a “strong and collective” response.
Iranian media reported the detention of eight local staff at the UK mission over their alleged role in the unrest.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband dismissed the allegations as baseless.
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Filed Under (Action Alert, Activism, Americans visit Iran, Nonviolence, Peace) by admin2 on 25-04-2007
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The Fellowship of Reconciliation joins 35 national organizations in letter to Iranian leaders on ending the violence
June 24, 2009
To the Iranian Leadership: End the Violence Immediately
To: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.N. Ambassador & Permanent Representative Mohammad Khazaee
We are leaders of organizations representing tens of thousands of U.S. citizens who love Iran: its people, culture, poetry, and land. Some of our members have traveled in recent years to the Islamic Republic of Iran to build relationships between our cultures, and have returned home with images and stories of wonderful new friends and your land’s admirable humanitarian and religious cultures. We passionately urge peace between our countries, and deeply regret the unfortunate history of U.S. intervention in Iran and its sovereignty. We believe all nations and peoples have the right to live free of the threat of unjust foreign interference in their internal affairs.
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