Iran arrested several foreign nationals during the anti-Government demonstrations last week, the BBC reports.
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said that those detained had been “pursuing propaganda and psychological warfare”. He did not give their nationalities.
Some 300 of the 500 people arrested remain in detention after mass protests in Tehran on 27th December during the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura. At least eight people were killed in a crackdown on anti-Government protests.
The late December demonstrations were …

The leader of Iran’s opposition, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has fled Tehran, The Times reports.
Mousavi, defeated in hotly disputed elections in June, left the Iranian capital on a day marked by pro-government rallies at which crowds chanted “Death to Mousavi”. Another of the leaders, Mahdi Karroubi, are also said to have fled.
The news comes three days after Mousavi’s nephew Ali was killed during a protest against the regime in which at least eight lost their lives.

Iran’s Government vented their anger at Britain last night, declaring that London deserved a “punch in the mouth” for its role as the “chief culprit” behind the mass protests sweeping the Islamic Republic, the Independent reports.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei further upped the ante at home, branding senior opposition members “enemies of God” who deserved to be executed. And in what human rights groups and diplomats described as another “ominous development”, Iranian police told …

At least 15 people were killed during massive anti-government protests in Tehran when opposition supporters clashed with security forces in the streets, Iran’s Government blame West for the violence.
10 people were killed during Sunday’s fierce clashes in the Iranian capital were members of “anti-revolutionary terrorist” groups, according to state television, apparently referring to opposition supporters, Fox News reports. The other five who died were killed by “terrorist groups” in a “suspicious act,” TV said, without …

Thousands of student protesters gathered at universities in Tehran and other cities across Iran today, chanting anti-government slogans and fighting with the police in the opposition’s first major street protests in weeks, the New York Times reports.
The main entrance to Tehran University was sealed off by security forces, while clashes broke out between protesters and tens of thousands of Basij militia in squares around the city. Protests erupted at universities in Mashad, Isfahan and Hamdean, …

Anti-government protesters and security forces clashed in the center of the Iranian capital today on the 30th anniversary of the seizing of the US Embassy by radical students, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Security forces fired tear gas at protesters on 7th of Tir Square and Hafez Street in Tehran’s downtown. On Vali Asr Square, armed security forces surrounded a crowd of demonstrators chanting “death to the dictator” and “Russia is the den of espionage”, playing on …

An Iranian commander said 36 people died in unrest after June’s disputed election, including three in a Tehran prison, more than the official figures but half the number claimed by the opposition, Reuters reports.
“Despite news disseminated by foreign (media) networks, the unrest had 36 deaths in all,” Abdollah Araghi of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said.
Araghi’s figure compares to previous official estimates of around 26 people killed in post-election violence. The opposition has put the death …

The first trial of protesters has begun in Tehran, with more than 100 people including senior opposition figures accused of rioting, vandalism and “acting against national security”, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The accused could face long prison sentences or even the death penalty if found guilty of being “an enemy of God”.
Those on trial included prominent reformers such as former vice-president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh, former government spokesman Abdollah Ramazanzadeh, former …

Malaysian police on Saturday fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of people who rallied here demanding an end to a security law that allows detention without trial, Japanese news agency Kyodo reports.
The government, however, insisted that the controversial Internal Security Act would not be abolished as it is still “necessary.”
The Kuala Lumpur city center resembled a battle zone as torrents of tear gas and chemical-laced water rained down on an estimated crowd of …

Tens of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran yesterday to hear the country’s most influential powerbroker pronounce the Islamic Republic in crisis and as he called for the release of those arrested in recent pro-democracy demonstrations, the Times reports.
In a devastating attack on the regime, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a leading cleric and former President, told a crowd at Tehran University that the Government had lost the people’s trust. Referring to the handling …

Despite of the fact that Tehran governor Morteza Tamaddon warned that any protests in the city would be “smashed under the feet of our aware people”, hundreds of young men and women chanted “death to the dictator” on Tehran’s streets today, confronting police wielding batons and firing tear gas, the AP reports.
“If some individuals plan to carry out any anti-security actions by listening to calls by counterrevolutionary networks, they will be smashed under the feet …

It seems from the news that the protests in Iran are dying down and the oppressive regime gets another green light to perform its atrocities on people. However, the defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is still calling his supporters to maintain peaceful protests, despite that the government confirmed the election result.
The candidate’s supporters were urged in a web message to continue confronting the regime without provoking bloodshed, the Telegraph reports. Among the recommended tactics …

Hardline Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami called for the execution of “rioters” in the latest sign of the authorities’ determination to stamp out opposition to the June 12 presidential election, Ha’aretz reports.
“I want the judiciary to … punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson,” Khatami said on Friday.
Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts, said the judiciary should charge the leading “rioters” as being “mohareb” or one who …

Iranian authorities arrested 70 academics who met with opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on Wednesday, other prominent dissidents, as well as at least 10 foreign and 26 Iranian journalists have “disappeared” in recent days, Arutz 7 reports.
It is not known where the professors were taken.
Despite the risk, protesters clashed again Wednesday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s special Basij militia force, which has brutalized many of the demonstrators since the June 12 elections.
(Hat tip to Betty Weintraub.)

Several Western news outlets claimed on Wednesday afternoon that hundreds of protesters were clashing with riot police and the paramilitary in Tehran, near parliament buildings, Jerusalem Post reports.
Witnesses reached by telephone told the New York Times that the confrontation was bloody, with police using live ammunition, the reports say.
Defying government warnings, the witnesses said that hundreds, if not thousands of protesters, had attempted to gather in front of the parliament building on Baharestan Square. Sky …

US President Barack Obama today declared the United States and the entire world “appalled and outraged” by Iran’s violent efforts to crush dissent, a clear toughening of his rhetoric as Republican critics at home pound him for being too passive, the AP reports.
Obama condemned the “threats, beatings and imprisonments of the last few days. ”
“I strongly condemn these unjust actions,” Obama said in a news conference at the White House.
“I have made it clear that …