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| 1 | Hostage-takers a threat — to the Iranian regime | Nation and World |
| Mirdamadi's crime was his work as a leader of the reform movement, specifically as general secretary of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the largest reformist party. But he hardly is alone among former hostage-takers. | ||
| 11/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Garbage piles up in Cairo after swine-flu pig slaughter | Nation and World |
| CAIRO, Egypt — It is unlikely anyone has ever come to Cairo and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is wrestling with a garbage problem so severe it has managed to incite its weary residents and command the attention of the president. | ||
| 9/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Secret burials alleged in Iran unrest | Nation and World |
| As Iranians celebrated the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, they were confronted Saturday with new charges of reform-movement supporters being tortured in prison and of bodies being secretly buried in a cemetery on the outskirts of Tehran. | ||
| 8/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns West not to meddle | Nation and World |
| Speaking before a supportive audience of Basij militia members, prayer leaders and students gathered at a mosque in Tehran, Khamenei aimed his remarks at his home audience, seeking to heal his sharply divided nation by promoting unity in the face of what he insisted was a foreign enemy. | ||
| 7/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Top Iran clerics decry election, defy supreme leader | Nation and World |
| The most important group of religious leaders in Iran has called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate, 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. | ||
| 7/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Iran: Top reformist leaders admit to plotting revolution | Nation and World |
| CAIRO, Egypt — Iranian leaders say they have obtained confessions from top reformist officials that they plotted to bring down the government with a "velvet" revolution. | ||
| 7/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Hundreds detained in Iran | Nation and World |
| CAIRO, Egypt — Police officers and militia forces crowded the streets of Tehran on Tuesday, setting up checkpoints and making clear that the government had zero tolerance for further public expressions of defiance to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. | ||
| 7/1/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Iran confirms disputed election results | Nation and World |
| CAIRO, Egypt — Iran's powerful Guardian Council touched off scattered protests in Tehran on Monday night when it formally certified the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a second four-year term, saying there was no validity to charges of voting fraud. | ||
| 6/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Iranian election protests crushed? | Nation and World |
| "There has been too much violence to forget about it," said an expatriate Iranian analyst who is not being identified because he has relatives in Iran and is afraid of reprisals against them. | ||
| 6/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | A neighborhood on edge | Politics |
| The good-news thinking: With Ahmadinejad remaining in office, there is less chance of substantially improved relations between Iran and the United States, something America's Arab allies feared would undermine their interests. | ||
| 6/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Options shrink for opposition as Iran stays firm | Politics |
| Two weeks after Iran's disputed presidential election, top challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi on Thursday issued an angry statement that underscored his commitment to press ahead — but also his impotence in the face of an increasingly emboldened and repressive government. | ||
| 6/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Iran military appears to be directing crackdown | Politics |
| TEHRAN, Iran — Government officials stepped up efforts Wednesday to crush the remaining resistance to a disputed presidential election as security forces overwhelmed a group of protesters with beatings, tear gas and gunshots in the air. | ||
| 6/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Hard-liners tighten grip on protests in Iran | Politics |
| The crackdown left central Tehran eerily quiet, given the huge demonstrations and clashes of recent days. It seemed perhaps a moment of pause for protesters to regroup or reconsider, after at least 17 demonstrators had been killed. | ||
| 6/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Iran admits irregularities, but stands by Ahmadinejad | Nation and World |
| CAIRO, Egypt — Iran's most powerful oversight council announced Monday that the number of votes recorded in 50 cities exceeded the number of eligible voters by 3 million, but declared early today that the presidential election results still would not be annulled. | ||
| 6/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Contest of wills swirls around ultimate insider | Nation and World |
| Even before his daughter and four other relatives were briefly detained Sunday, one of the big mysteries to envelop Iran since the disputed presidential election has been the role of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. | ||
| 6/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Iranian crisis widens fissure among clerics | Nation and World |
| Earlier, police detained five relatives of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who leads two influential councils and openly supported Mousavi's election. The relatives, including Rafsanjani's daughter, were released after several hours. | ||
| 6/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | New lease for Islamic Republic | Nation and World |
| The jokes among Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's detractors are legion. In one, he looks in the mirror and says, "Male lice to the right, female lice to the left. | ||
| 6/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Obama reaches out with limited success | Nation and World |
| CAIRO, Egypt — On one level, President Obama's speech succeeded in reaching out to Muslims across the Middle East, winning widespread praise for his respectful approach, his quotations from the Quran and his forthright references to highly fraught political conflicts. | ||
| 6/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Worst-kept secret of Obama's Cairo speech? Location, location, location | Politics |
| CAIRO, Egypt — The official word is that nothing has been decided about where President Obama will give his speech when he visits Cairo next Thursday to address the Muslim world. It is supposed to be a secret. | ||
| 5/28/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan rulers meet | Nation and World |
| CAIRO, Egypt — Iran on Sunday served as host to its first three-way summit meeting with Pakistan and Afghanistan to discuss cooperation on regional issues, the latest sign of Iran's emergence as a regional power. | ||
| 5/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||