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Sanctions threaten ancient tradition in Iran
The Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope has called for commemorations to be held on the third anniversary of the electoral coup that sparked the largest demonstrations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.
The ailing grandfather of imprisoned student activist Arash Sadeghi has been detained.
Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stood accused by opponents on Thursday of a new massacre of scores of villagers hours before a divided United Nations Security Council convenes to review the crisis.
A student activist from the city of Zanjan has been arrested.
Mehdi Karroubi, a leader in Iran's opposition Green Movement has been permitted to meet with his son.
Just days before Iranians mark the third anniversary of the widely contested 2009 presidential elections, a group of opposition supporters are using the social networking site Facebook as a platform for commemorating the election and its aftermath.
The comment is the first direct link between the emergence of the new malware and an attack inside a highly sensitive computer system in Iran, which counts on oil revenue for 80% of its income. The full extent of last month's disruptions has not been given, but Iran was forced to cut Internet links to the country's main oil export terminal presumably to try to contain the virus.
Zahra Khodabakhsh, daughter of Shargh newspaper’s financial investor Ali Khodabakhsh, has been arrested.
Three students at the University of Isfahan have been arrested by the Revolutionary Guards.