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Iran to hold runoff parliamentary vote

Iran will hold run-off elections for 65 parliamentary seats, state media said on Monday, after loyalists to the paramount clerical leader won a dominating majority at the expense of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

6 March 2012
Human Rights

Fighting intensifies across Syria

Heavy fighting broke out late Sunday night between forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and rebels. According to activists, they launched small attacks on the military in the north, south and east of the country to relieve…

5 March 2012
Iran

Khamenei allies trounce Ahmadinejad in Iran election

Loyalists of Iran's paramount clerical leader have won over 75 percent of seats in parliamentary elections, a near-complete count showed, largely reducing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a lame duck in a contest between conservative…

4 March 2012
Human Rights

Turkey calls on Iran to cut support for Assad regime

As the number of deaths in Syria continues to grow, the international community can't formulate a practical decision on military intervention, the establishment of security zones for civilians fleeing from violence, or even the dispatching…

4 March 2012
Iran

Iran touts high turnout in election

According to a report by REUTERS, Iran, under intense Western pressure over its disputed nuclear program, on Saturday declared an initial turnout of 64 percent in a parliamentary election shunned by most reformists as a sham.

4 March 2012
Iran

Khatami betrays election boycott

Iranian media report that former president Mohammad Khatami, a chief reformist figure, cast a vote in the ninth parliamentary elections.

4 March 2012