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The armoured car of one of Iran's opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi, was hit by gunfire in the northern town of Qazvin, his party's website reported on Friday, but only the windows were damaged. Karroubi was in town to attend a mourning ceremony for slain opposition protesters organised by a reformist former MP, Sahamnews.org said. "Around 500 basiji (members of the Basij Islamic militia) and residents of nearby villages surrounded the place where he was and attacked the building with stones, breaking windows," it said. After four hours, anti-riot police finally intervened to get Karroubi out of the building. "As his car was pulling away, it was attacked and hit by gunfire. But, as it is an armoured car, only the windows were damaged."

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Let's Repeat History
Green Revolution 22 Bahman 2010

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Iranian security forces arrested 4,000 people during the recent wave of anti-regime protests, and half of that number are still being held, the prosecutor general says. The student news agency ISNA and the semi-official ILNA agency report Ayatollah Abdolnabi Namazi says some of those arrested were freed immediately.

"In total, 4,000 people were arrested across the country, and 40 per cent of those arrested were immediately freed," he said. "Currently there are 2,000 people who are still in prison, among whom there are not many students." These are the first official figures for the number of arrests across the country.

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Mohammad Javad Larijani
Foremer deputy foreign minister calls Obama a nigger

سایت عصرایران : محمد جواد لاریجانی با انتقاد از سیاست های باراک اوباما گفت: زمانی که اوباما بر سر کار آمد از تعامل و گفتگو با ایران سخن گفت چه شده که امروز این "کاکا سیاه" حرف از تغییر نظام ایران می زند؟!محمد جواد لاریجانی شنبه شب در نشستی با حضور خبرنگاران و کارشناسان در جامعه اسلامی مهندسین در ادامه این سخنان تاکید کرده است: من نژاد پرست نیستم اما باید یک طوری جواب این مرد را بدهم!



Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani, is the brother of Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani. In a speech to the Islamic Society of Engineers in Tehran on Saturday, January 23, he called President Obama "Ka Ka Siah" [nigger in Persian] for trying to undermine the Islamic Republic. "I am not a racist but I have to respond to this man somehow," he said. Wikipedia: Larijani is an Iranian politician, cleric and academic. He is one of the main advocates of fundamentalist interpretation of Islam in Iran. Larijani is the head of the human rights council in the judiciary and a top adviser to the supreme leader. Additionally Larijani has been the Director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in Tehran. Previously, he has been a Majlis representative and the director of Majlis Research Center, and a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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Security instructions

Intelligence official tells operatives how to monitor, record and control protests

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Rahmanipour and Alizamani
Executed over election unrest

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran executed two people on Thursday over widespread street unrest that erupted after the Islamic Republic's disputed presidential election in June, an Iranian news agency reported.

The two were among 11 people sentenced to death on charges including moharebeh (waging war against God), trying to overthrow the Islamic establishment and membership of armed groups, the ISNA students agency said.

The executions were the first carried out for election-related incidents and may further increase tension in Iran ahead of possible new anti-government protests next month.

The presidential election, which was followed by huge opposition rallies, plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution and exposed widening establishment divisions.

In the most serious violence since the aftermath of the election, eight people were killed in clashes between opposition supporters and security forces on Ashura, the holy Shi'ite day of ritual mourning, that fell on December 27.

"Following the riots and anti-revolutionary measures in recent months, particularly on the day of Ashura, a Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court branch considered the cases of a number of accused and handed down the execution sentences against 11 of those," ISNA said.

"The sentences against two of these people ... were carried out today at dawn and the accused were hanged," ISNA said, adding the sentences had been confirmed by an appeal court.


"The sentences for the other nine of the accused in recent months' riots are at the appeal stage ... upon confirmation, measures will be undertaken to implement the sentences," ISNA said.

ISNA said the charges included membership of two anti-revolutionary groups, including a pro-monarchy association.

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A hardline Iranian cleric urged judicial authorities on Friday to execute more opposition protesters to end anti-government demonstrations kindled by last year's disputed presidential election, state radio reported. A day earlier, Iran hanged two men sentenced to death on charges including waging war against God, trying to overthrow the Islamic establishment and membership of armed groups. "I thank the judiciary chief for executing two rioters and urge him to execute others if they do not give up such protests," Jannati told worshippers at Tehran University. Iran's interior minister warned opposition activists on Jan. 5 they risked execution as enemies of God if demonstrations continued. Death sentences imposed on the other nine are at the appeal stage.

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Candlelight vigil in Rome

In honor of two political activists executed in Iran