Iranian woman, in the case of Stoning participates in the mother's burial (AP)

TEHRAN, Iran-Iranian woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning have been permitted to leave briefly in the funeral of his mother in prison.

The official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday that Mohammadi Sakineh Ashtiani participated in the funeral of his mother in the last few days. It gave other information.

Malik Sharifipour Ajdar, East Azerbaijan, top justice officials has also played as the message has been changed in the case of Ashtiani.

Ashtiani adultery was convicted in 2006, after the murder of her husband, and was sentenced to death by stoning.

Subsequently to the international outcry forced the Iranian authorities to suspend his sentence and to enable the subject to the review.

He was later convicted of accessory is also her husband murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

 

Iranian President Urges Arab leaders to endorse the reform (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Arab Governments to heed popular demands of the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu reform at a meeting with the President's website said on Tuesday.

"Today, the area of the equal rights of citizens is essential, voting, security and human dignity, the right to, and none of the Government may deprive them of freedom and justice to the demands of the peoples they refused," Ahmadinejad played as saying.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that all the regional Governments of the countries of their peoples, their integration requirements and to enable the reforms," he added Monday evening discussions.

Ahmadinejad did not expressly mention of Iran's closest Arab ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has faced unprecedented protests against the iron fisted rule since his March to the mid-point.

But the Iranian media reported was to remain in the conflict between security forces and by Syria, the rapporteurs on the top of the agenda of the meeting.

A joint press conference with Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Davutoglu Sunday, Salehi said that Syrian problems can be solved, "family."

"Iran, Syria and Turkey are in the family and, if any, are facing a problem in the family as a whole should resolve it," Salehi said.

"The Negotiations among the members of the family, the path should lead to the people entitled" requests and prevent the disturbance of inappropriate "," he added.

Ahmadinejad accused Washington, even the confessional in the territory of the rivalries, including the Sunni Muslim majority in Syria and Assad, is part of the minority Alawite community, stirring occasionally.

"The countries of the region should play to American hands on the" presidential network quoted him as saying.

"They are looking for is through the creation of unfair fight Shiites and Sunnis,, and Alawites and Turkish Alawites, and to have access to their primary objective, which will save the Zionist regime among the Kurds."

Iran, 2009 presidential election, which saw Ahmadinejad, because another massive fraud alleged in the period down to the financial problems. protests

 

Obama sidesteps mostly Iranian Sports in the Olympics record levels of speech (AP)

WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama was to provide a strong speech in Iran to comply with the judgment of the new Middle East policy.

Iran on Thursday accused the President of the hypocrisy and reiterated Us opposition to the country of the intolerance, illicit nuclear program and sponsorship of terror. But the President also said such views were known, and he did not claim them. And he threw the Hobgoblin of Iran, the Middle East, as Us officials have in the past. Instead, Obama speech was a strong challenge to put an end to Syria and Bahrain to violent crackdowns.

Iran, stating the reasons on which it is a little more than a paragraph in the 45 minutes of the speech. The Obama administration in Tehran is gone, any outreach täyttyvässä, even though Us officials still hope they maybe Iranian negotiations on its nuclear program and other issues.

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The Iranian army Gets a new missile system (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-the Iranian army got a new State-of-the-art system against ballistic missile on Sunday, it said, shows the country self-sufficiency in producing weapons of mass.

"The new surface, surface missiles Qiyam (Resurrection) was successfully tested, and delivered to the armed forces today," Iranian State television channel in the Arabic language Al-Alam said.

It reveals, the missile area, the elite revolutionary guards are brought to the attention of the aviation wing, but said it was designed in less than older models can easily detect.

"The missile without fins Qiyam-stabilizer for the production of the first mass display of the Islamic Republic of Iran to produce different types of missiles for self-sufficiency," Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi played the semi-official Fars news agency as saying.

Iran has significant powers to loggerheads in the nuclear sector in their work, which it says are peaceful and intended exclusively for the supply of electricity, but which Washington and its allies fear is the objective is to make nuclear bombs.

Israel sees the establishment of nuclear-armed Iran, which refuses to recognize the Jewish State-of-the-art of the State and supports the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah--a major threat, and that it and its ally Washington to rule out military operations to prevent such a scenario.

Iran has said it would respond to attacks by the interests of the United States and Israel.

(Written By Mitra Amiri; Edit By Peter Graff)

 

US to extend the 2-year visas to Iranian students (AP)

WASHINGTON-the Obama administration will pursue the detailed examination for the Iranian students who are eligible for up to two years in the U.S. In their efforts to improve relations between Americans and Iranians.

Iranian students, and individuals, academic or professional exchange programs enrolled could only get a single-entry visa good for up to three months. They now enter and leave the United States several times and stay for up to two years.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as Representative Tony Blair made the announcement Friday YouTube messages in English and Farsi.

Clinton says Us wants to show the young Iranians, which is a great American, while helping them to bring the change in their own country.

 

12 Iranian engineers kidnapped in Afghanistan (AP)

TEHRAN, Iran-because of armed violence and the creation of the captured 12 Iranian engineers road in the West in Afghanistan, Iran and Afghanistan, said the officials on Monday.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iranian engineers were employed in the Western Farah province, the construction company and the event was in the Iranian and Afghanistan authorities subject to the investigation.

In the area of responsibility of Egypt claimed kidnapping and threatened to kill the hostages if the working journey is halted, said General Sayed Mohammad, Farah province, the police chief.

"So far, the road construction has been stopped. Police have launched a search operation when they were kidnapped, in the area, "he said.

Mohammad added that, according to the information he had been involved with two Afghans while driving towards the site of two of the vehicles, the 13 Iranians.

The reason for the discrepancy in numbers was not immediately Clear.

Public works for the province, Hazrat Ghulman, the Director said worked Shahiq Jahidi Nasri Tehran company, the agreement will create 75 miles (121 km) the road to Farah and is ready for approximately half.

Kidnappings, mostly Afghans, as well as for use in potentially explosive atmospheres — — for the purpose of ransom or for political reasons are common in Afghanistan, where violence has taken the actions of the country's costly and dangerous.

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Rahim Faiez associated Press Writer Kabul contributed to this report.

 

Iranian engineers kidnapped in Afghanistan released (AFP)

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP)-the 12 Iranian engineers kidnapped in Western Afghanistan has been released with the three Afghan colleagues, police and officials of the two countries said Wednesday.

The men, who, working on a project, the construction of the road were snatched at gunpoint Monday Post-i-Road in the province of Farah district, which borders Iran.

"All the 12 hostages were released at 5: 00 pm (1230 GMT) around today. They were published in the local elders, who have acted as intermediaries, to Help the police, "said Farah, the Chief Sayed Mohammad Roshandel. "They are in a safe place in Farah."

Later, he added that the three Afghans, who were also kidnapped alongside them was released.

Officials had previously indicated that the five Afghans were abducted but said was only the Roshandel, three.

Iran's state news agency IRNA also quoted the Foreign Ministry confirmed the news Tehran.

"Fortunately, the efforts of the Embassy of the Foreign Ministry and the us. Iranian citizens are released, and they will be transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a safe place, "spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast played as saying.

On Monday, had said, Mehmanparast that Tehran's Embassy in Afghanistan was in the press, "the Iranian authorities in Kabul to take this responsibility vis-à-vis the citizens and the capture of a stable and fast."

Farah is a remote province, and facing a significant Taliban activity.

The Taliban spokesman, Yusuf told AFP Monday the Ahmadi insurgent group had knowledge of the latest kidnapping, although Egypt has been responsible for similar abductions in the past.

The abduction was the latest in the series, and the Afghans kidnappings of foreigners in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.

Most of the hostages are released following negotiations, but the violent last December, the Bangladesh road transport workers was killed in northern Afghanistan during the kidnapping. Five colleagues remain in captivity.

Two French journalists of State-owned channel France 3, the date to remain in captivity are being kidnapped, East of Kabul, in December 2009 the suspected Islamist Militia.

Approximately 130,000 troops to Afghanistan at an international level, the Taliban and other Militia.

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One was seriously wounded in Iranian Kurdistan bomb räjäytykset: IRNA (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-one person was in the West of the city of Sanandaj was seriously wounded in two of Iran's Kurdistan province, as a result of the bombing-räjäytykset, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday, the official from the province.

"Fortunately no one was seriously wounded as the result of the two blast or death ... but due to the shattering of some window panes. .. only the PASSER-BY were injured to a hospital suffering from his arms," the Iranian Kurdistan, the police, the police was quoted by IRNA Qaed komentajaEbrahim.

The first blast occurred around "10: 00 p.m. (1730 GMT) in the first blast occurred in Sanandaj Azadi Square and 10 minutes later a second blast took place near Keshavarzi Bank Branch ATM," he said, adding, "they apprehend the terrorist act behind the" Get started.

Earlier, IRNA said: "the bomb in garbage can next to the Bank's branch in Sanandaj Keshavarzi ATM hardware, adding:" blew "the person was seriously wounded as a result of the blast, but his general condition is satisfactory and he is currently in hospital in Sanandaj."

The second blast left the ATM machine is damaged and the number of the production according to the calendar in windows to close were shattered, the IRNA report added.

Last November, the authorities of the Iranian Kurdistan, Sanandaj, said they defused two bombs hidden in the city.

In Western Iran, the home of the Kurdish population, has been a major deadly clashes the year security forces and the Kurdish rebel groups active in the neighbouring countries of Iraq's support for the points in the scene.

September the deadly bombing in the West of the city hit military parade Mahabad, killing 12 people and wounding at least 81.

 

The Iranian cell planned attacks in Kuwait, Minister says (Reuters)

KUWAIT (Reuters)-the Foreign Minister of Kuwait, said: last year, the Gulf Arab State were complemented by the Iranian spy cell to monitor the US military presence and resources explosives to bomb the "strategic" facilities. "We are talking about the cell, which was only to keep track of and store (u.s.) military presence, which is in their opinion, the hostile forces, State-of-the-art-American presence in Kuwait of a catch are landed either in-but it exceeded," Sheikh Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television.

"They had explosives and the intention to explode vital facilities in Kuwait. They were the names of the officials and had very sensitive information. This indicates a bad intentions to harm the security of Kuwait ".

OPEC-Member Kuwait hosts Camp Arifjan, a vast Us base in the desert capital logistics services, which shall act in accordance with the licensing of neighboring Iraq, the Us forces for staging point on the South side.

United States is in the air and naval installations in the Gulf Arab States, some of which are little more than 200 km (120 miles) to the coast of Iran. The US central command forward headquarters to keep, although the Qatar Bahrain hosts the Us Navy Fifth Fleet.

The Court last month convicted two Kuwaiti Iranians and Kuwaiti was sentenced to death in a case that has strained Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the relations between the of the alleged spy ring, as part of the State-of-the-art.

Earlier this month Iran expelled three Kuwaiti diplomats from tit for tat Move after the Gulf emirate, it said the three diplomats from Iran, the throw away line in the spy allegations.

The move came after the three Iranian diplomats expelled from Kuwait, Kuwaiti officials had said.

Kuwaiti media said may 2010 that the authorities had arrested number of people, Kuwaitis and the metropolitan area of espionage for Iran in the fisheries sector. Media reports said they were accused of gathering information on the Kuwaiti and US armed forces sites in the Iranian revolutionary guards.

But Sheikh Mohammad said Kuwait still wants good relations with Iran. "We fully reject the severing ties with (Iran)," he said, although he added that Iran needs to deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council States, "sovereign" and not "the subject".

Iran's relations with its neighbours, the United States allied Gulf Arab, who provide the US forces in the different modes, has soured because of popular uprisings were limited to Government forces.

Sunni Muslims ruled the Gulf Arab States accused Iranian Shi'ite power interfering in their affairs, when Tehran was opposed to the sending of Saudi Arabia and u.a.e. in any of the American Bahrain protests in March, the Shi'ite majority.

(Reports, Mahmoud Habboush; WRITTEN By Eman Goma; Editing Mark Heinrich)

 

The Iranian parliamentary elections set for March 12 (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-the Iranians go March 2012, if they so wish, alternates, four-year tenure in Parliament, the Interior Minister told the State polls in broadcasting on Sunday.

"The elections to the Majlis (Parliament) will be held, Friday 18th of Esfand (2. March), "said Mostafa Mohammad Najjar.

The speaker, Ali Larijani, currently dominated by the conservative Christian Democratic Union, the 290-seat Jerusalem. He has repeatedly criticised the policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in particular with regard to the economy.

The House is approximately 60 reformist alternates.

Iran's election watchdog, the Guardians Council to receive the registered candidates and is also the final results of the validation.

Iran is considered to be the last presidential elections in June 2009 saw the fierce opposition to Ahmadinejad, but the Director said the vote means the positioning and is called the mass protests.

Dozens of people died in protests that, after the elections. Thousands were arrested, first of all, most were released later, but the point of democratic party leaders were sentenced to jail terms and hefty.

Opposition leaders, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, former speaker, reformist-dominated majlis, chaired, had been under house arrest in mid-February following the presentation, which took part in the many thousands of people, February 14.

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UN calls on Iraq to attack Iranian opposition to the probe team (Christian Science Monitor)

Baghdad, Iraq – United Nations called on Iraq to save the tapot of the Iranian people to an independent study of 34 opposition base after the Iraqi authorities, who authorised the camp suggested the RAID on April 8, the members of the group can run on your own.

Wildly conflicting accounts of how members of the people's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) prosessoitiin is highlighted, as well as its predecessors, the former Director of Iraq's Saddam Hussein and the United States invited by the disarmed a group of the last remaining stronghold.

Late Saturday, the UN said in a statement it expected the Commission promised an independent investigation of the Government of Iraq. Planned by the Government of the prime Ministry and of the Commission includes the Iraqi army officials and a cross-section of political parties, and it is unlikely that requirement.

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Iraqi Government spokesman Ali Dubbagh said earlier this week that some of the dead were likely to be carried out to try to prevent them from leaving the campsite managers.

Adviser to the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Saad al-Matalabi, said the tests, criminal investigations, which included experts from the US is filled with the bodies to determine whether the medical group, the provisional findings were correct.

"They were shot execution-style," Mr. al-Mutalibi told the monitor. "The first medical reports stated they shot very close to the area – packaging of wounds was found."

He also said, they seem to be shot, instead of on the one hand, and the weapons that the Iraqi army used by the guns.

Camp Ashraf is the deadly April 8 raid

The UN earlier this week confirmed it had seen 28 bodies in the camp, and six other business knew. It said dozens more had been injured before the dawn of April 8 after Iraqi forces moved in with a huge base 70 Miles North of Baghdad as part of the recovery.

It said in a statement that it had repeatedly called on the Government to refrain from the use of force in Iraq.

The Iraqi Government said at the outset, the three members of the PMOI was killed in a military operation and said they had crushed the vehicles move. It denied that the Iraqi soldiers had fired at demonstrators trying to stop the soldiers from moving to the area, which houses the organizationâ € ™ s cemetery. Speaking to reporters after the deck to camp Ashraf but denied speaking to the members of the Iraqi army in the Baltic Sea camping site family Heide officials appear slingshots and home-made weapons, which they said had been used to attack the PMOI Iraqi soldiers. Women, they said, had tried to gouge eyes of soldiersâ € ™.

Released by group, heavily edited and impossible to verify, the video shows the Iraqi soldiers, firing weapons in the show, as well as the crushing some of the demonstrators, the battle of the vehicle. The second video released the bodies of the PMOI, many of them women, wrapped in white sheets and the Deputy Minister within the camp as the layout of lines in the street showed last week.

Iraqi officials say nearly one-third of the more than 3,000 people in camp Ashraf is foreign passports, including the Americans, and many Europeans. There was some doubt about whether they are among the dead. Some diplomats say, the number of foreign passports is much smaller, even if a thousand residents of the camp in the Western countries have ties.

US considers PMOI terrorist offences

The United States considers a terrorist organization but is the PMOI, said in the past, it is returned from the bar, where they are not personally wanted the members of the legal authorities. Although Iraq has made clear that it intends to shut down the camp before the end of the year, such as the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe of members of the cult, to refuse to leave, and other countries are reluctant to take them.

The Iraqi Government has been intense pressure on Iran years to close the camp.

Camp Ashraf was invited by Saddam Hussein of Iraq will launch attacks on Iran in the 1980 's the Organization's main military base.

after they agree to renounce tykistöä and tanks in the United States in the protection and designation of non-combatants will be in exchange for the hostilities continue. But the US Army in Iraq to be handed over to the camp when the took responsibility for safety throughout the country two years ago.

In the United States, which is reluctant to publicly criticize the Iraqi authorities, has said it "applies to" the deaths in the report.

Iranian leader warns West against Libyan intervention (AFP)

MADRID (AFP)-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Western powers Tuesday, as a consequence of the introduction of the black zone or other military operations in Libya.

Ahmadinejad in his judgment, the new Chief Moamer Kadhafi of Libya with responsibility for the bombing in an interview with Spanish television, the opponents of Tehran in their own country.

But he told the European and the United States in the war of the Iraqi and Afghanistan, saying the armed intervention in Libya would make things worse.

"I believe that military intervention would make things even worse. We have experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is not made worse by their things, "Ahmadinejad told the public better television TVE.

You will be asked whether Tehran would support the black zone, he said: "the Western military intervention intends to make the situation more complex. Westerners have cast aside their colonialist intentions. "

The United Nations Security Council will review the plans, while the French and British warplanes to impose a black zone to the Libyan bombing and firing against the rebels.

Kadhafi condemned Ahmadinejad's actions.

"That is not acceptable," he said. "Whoever, within the framework of its own people should have the bombards condemned."

But he called on the United States and the European forces to remain in the region.

"I hope that the Governments of Europe and the United States to intervene in the Affairs of this region and decide on their future in this region of the people," the Iranian leader said.

"If they do not participate in this area I think the issues in this area, for example, the Libyan people, the future of their people to decide," he said.

Ahmadinejad, Tehran was blocked for his own repressed Klimaflüchtlinge.

"Never, never. We never have done so. for 30 years we have had 30 free elections in the past. Every week, I am the streets four hours talking to people, "he said.

When the interviewer asked him of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi of fate, he asked whether he had their lawyers.

"Each country are opponents, is the opposition. And it is also the law. If the application for registration, may violate the law? "Iran's President asked.

Iran's Ahmadinejad drew the parallel Klimaflüchtlinge and the Basque armed Separatist group ETA, which is held by more than 800 to more than four decades of violence.

"You can allow these Separatist armed forces of the burning public buildings and hit people in the street? If you want to burn people's homes? If someone makes these atrocities in Spain, in what the judge? The judge look at what they do?

"They burned buildings in the street," he charged. "What the police are going to do with this person? And what the judge is expected to do this? Does not the right to rule in Spain? "

Ahmadinejad accused the Western world's Dictatorships propping up.

"My question is clear: sold 60 billion (dollars) of arms to the countries in this area?" He asked.

"The world, which in the past 50 years has supported dictatorships? Show me one single dictator, that does not support the United States and Europe, "he added.

"Suppose that we can resolve the problem, for example, if the Libyan today, tomorrow is a thousand more problems. Since this is in Europe and the United States as a result of the intervention. "

Iranian liberal dissident Director Resigns (AP)

TEHRAN, Iran – the Liberal Democratic Party leader Sunday resigned from the tax breaks for Iranian dissident was released from prison after one hour.

"I resign from the movement by the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Iran," the official IRNA news agency quoted the Ebrahim Yazdi, 79, as saying Sunday. In order to clarify the criteria for the role of Yazdi et.

Yazdi was jailed in October and released on Sunday at the beginning of Nowruz, the Persian new year's Eve. IRNA also said several jailed political activists, including Mohsen Aminzadeh, a former reformist Minister of the leaves of the Nowruz.

Yazdi, a former Foreign Minister, has been jailed repeatedly draw a vague charges against the clerical establishment.

The free movement of Iran opposes Iran's clerical rule. The party, which had a major role in the 1979 Islamic revolution, but turned against the consolidated experience of active and crushed dissent, eschews violence and in favour of democratic reforms.

Established in 1961, the Party took the country in the Transitional Government following the 1979 Islamic revolution, but Mahdi Bazargan, its leader at the time of the Us Embassy in Tehran was an attachment against the free of charge.

Iranian dissident Karroubi, wife of ' good ': son (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-Iran's opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi and his wife, who is under house arrest Tehran, are "good," Ali said Monday the son of Karroubi

The Karroubis were to host the Sunday night to celebrate the son or the Iranian Norouz: new year's argument that Karroubi's website Sahamnews.net.

"The presence of the coordination and security services, my wife and I were able to meet my parents, and eat with the good (...) who are the good "the network quoted Ali Karroubi, in fact, the store recently, saying.

In the meantime, the opposition leader and former intercourse of Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi and his wife, "was his father's presence to respond to the security agents," according to the ultra-conservative newspaper Javan website.

Mehdi Karroubi and his wife, Fatemeh account between "completed" under house arrest after February in the middle of that month, calling is the anti-regime for the protest.

Thousands gathered on the February 14 demonstration, in which unknown number of injured and many arrested.

A sudden rise through the minor was held to 20. February and 1 March, the police made a massive.

The opposition appealed to the sites of the demonstrations of March 8 and 15, but the reports whether or not in coils, of any demonstrations Tehran, where the security forces, was introduced by the numbers.

The sites have been advised of the possibility of incorrectly claim February that Karroubi and Moussavi was imprisoned at the end.

Authorities have branded the two men, who have never accepted President Mahmud Ahmadinejad contested election in June 2009, "Nazism" harbored and threatened them with legal action.

Ali, who was arrested on Karroubi for about a month ago, was released from jail detention Office of 1 billion rials ($ 90, 000, or EUR 63,000), Sahamnews.

Bahrain expels Iranian diplomatic tit for tat move (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-Iran on Sunday called on the Bahraini diplomat to leave the Islamic Republic of reprisal is one of the diplomats in Manama, the official expulsion of the country, the IRNA news agency reported.

"After expelling diplomats, in particular, one of our reprisal, attache, Embassy of Bahrain's is to be summoned and told that one of the diplomats from the embassies of Iran, Bahrain will leave the Government's inconsistent and incomprehensible actions," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.

"The responding to the legitimate demands of the population is guaranteed by the Governments of the stability and permanence of the repression of peaceful protests, while at the same time and only aggravates the crisis and the actions of the illogical and deepen the wounds," he said.

Iran on Wednesday recalled its Ambassador to Bahrain, "the Protest, the Government of Bahrain for its people," after the killing in Manama from Tehran to remember its Ambassador, the vines of Iran "a blatant interference" in its affairs.

Tehran said Manama had made a "strategic error" by asking the forces to the Gulf, a small Kingdom, the pro-democracy protests, a success when you try to get rid of.

Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi told the official IRNA news agency Sunni Muslim Shiite majority to close but the Bahrain adopted a "strategic and political" blunder that cost would be its "legitimacy."

At least three people died when security forces firing TEAR GAS and orphaned sinalakay months old pro-democracy camp, Central Pearl Square roundabout, the capital of Bahrain on Wednesday.

Hundreds of people, was seriously wounded in the unrest and the Government has been accused of closing of the international law away from hospitals and doctors, assaulting the wounded who tried to tend to the crimes.

And the rulers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and urged other Gulf States to contribute to the security forces, a move which infuriated Iran and caused outrage from the mainly Shiite opposition in the small island-State.

Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on Sunday with the phone, the apparent "the necessity of foreign troops to leave Bahrain," which is also home to the US fifth fleet, IRNA said.

The Iranian opposition chiefs face prosecution: official (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Opposition leaders seek to undermine the Islamic Iran will be prosecuted to the maximum extent the guillotine after protests, in which two people died, the judiciary, the Director said Thursday, the State television reported.

Monday in Tehran and other cities, uprisings, which toppled leaders of Egypt, Tunisia, and inspired by the rallies was the first large opposition protests, because authorities crush demos at the 2009 presidential election.

Dozens of people, was seriously wounded and many of the detained more demonstrations, which was prohibited by the authorities arrest Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi uprisings in support of the Arab States.

Supporters and opponents of the Government of the United States clashed Sanee Zhaleh Wednesday, who was killed during a Monday rally, even when both parties have argued, he backed up their reason for attending.

"This betrayal is clear leaders of sedition ... and the person can tolerate the Islamic system, harming the revolution," said the judiciary Chief Fadil Larijani.

"Definitely they prosecuted."

Hardline Iranian lawmakers urged to impose a moratorium on the judiciary Tuesday Karoubi and Mousavi, as the case may be, what they said was fomenting the unrest.

Karoubi said on Wednesday, he was willing to pay for the "price" for his actions, but analysts, such a claim only against the prominent figures in the Iranian tensions within. worse

Karoubi and Mousavi: n: n calls to protest has been posted on their websites and Larijani said authorities sakkorangaistusta, even if he does not elaborate.

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Opposition supporters plan second rally in solidarity with the victims of violence, from Monday to Sunday Kaleme said Mousavi's website.

Tehran's Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi is warn opposition supporters, that they are faced with a firm answer, if they defy authorities, and the rally, the students ' news agency reported Onpuuttuu.

Nationwide demonstrations organized by the State shall endeavour to demonstrate its support shall be considered Clerical institution authorities Friday.

The argument is also called on supporters of the sites of the chant "allahu Akbar" (God is great) night, that pro-the reform movement is still alive in spite of the leaders of the country of its uhmakas character.

The cry of the last Shah of Iran, who had deposed the Islamic revolution in 1979, the opponents of reform movement was adopted by the pro-during the protests against the disputed 2009 presidential election result.

(Written by Reza and Parisa Hafezi Derakhshi; Editing Jon Boyle)

U.s. slaps sanctions on Iranian Bank Refah (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters)-the United States on Thursday introduced sanctions for Iran to facilitate the creation of millions of dollars in the Bank Refah missiles and tanks for the purchase of the Ministry of defence (MOD).

These purchases on the Iranian leadership to keep its Fighter jets and submarines, the US Treasury Department said in its announcement.

Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, terrorism and financial intelligence, "the Treasury is now exposed to the Iranian Government-owned, it supports Iran's nuclear and missile programs, banks, 20, or, in the fight against terrorism," said.

Treasury said, the Bank shall also facilitate the Refah Iran aircraft industries Enterprise payments to businesses and individuals linked to Iran of weapons-related purchases.

"The pervasiveness of this illegal activity explains why legitimate financial institutions into form letters throughout the karttavat of the Iranian banks," said Levey, from Bush holdover, announced late last month.

The most recent actions to prohibit all transactions in the United States departments of companies and individuals will be nominated and seek to freeze the jurisdiction of the United States, they may be.

Previous similar move also is effectively cut off from the international finance, sanctioned entities.

The European Union imposed sanctions, which Refah Bank of July 2010, the Treasury said.

Iran says its nuclear enrichment program is designed to produce electric power. The United States and the Western allies to acquire nuclear weapons it is blamed.

(Reporting Corbett B. Daly; Editing By Xavier Briand)