Kyrgyz officials are looking for answers, but their behavior since discovering radioactive material aboard a train bound for Iran has raised questions. Why, for example, did it take them nine days to announce the discovery of the material?
U.S. President George W. Bush has arrived in Israel for the first leg of a Middle East tour that will also take him to a number of Arab states in an effort to encourage Israeli-Palestinian peace and rally support to contain Iranian influence in the region.
Iran's government has warned some 1.5 million illegal Afghan refugees to leave the country or face up to five years in prison. Already reeling from hundreds of thousands of Iranian expulsions, Kabul is pleading with Tehran to wait until the worst of the winter is over.
Amputation is back as a punishment in Iran. Five convicted criminals in the country's southeast received the seldom-used form of punishment for the crimes of "acting against God" and "corruption upon this Earth."
January 4, 2008 (RFE/RL) -- Two prominent Iranian women’s right activists have been released from prison on bail, while the families of students arrested last month say the authorities have agreed to let them visit the students in prison.
One is a largely secular, post-Soviet state eager to use its energy wealth to secure powerful friends in both the West and the East. The other is a repressive Islamic society whose combative policies have left it almost completely isolated. Despite having much in common, Iran and Azerbaijan are drifting apart.
Police in Tehran have raided more than 430 Internet cafes and other shops during the first days of the latest campaign against what they say is inappropriate and un-Islamic conduct.
Even as Iranians bundle up against the cold, authorities are tightening up enforcement of the strict dress code. For one 23-year-old Tehran resident arrested in last year's campaign, that means one thing: Beware bare ankles. But it also means more possible jail time, as she refuses to bow to the morality police.
The infamous "Mykonos Operation," which shone an unprecedented light on Iran's campaign to assassinate critics in exile, is back in the headlines. Some 15 years after Iranian agents killed three Iranian-Kurdish leaders in a Berlin restaurant, Germany has released and deported two of the crime's masterminds.
Authorities had not planned any official events at universities to mark Student Day, which commemorates the death of three students during protests in 1953. The students appeared to have different plans.
While women are perhaps better-off in Iran than in Saudi Arabia, a group of Iranian women is pursuing a campaign to end the legalized discrimination and injustices that plague their lives. Islamic authorities have responded with a raft of arrests, but the women's One Million Signatures Campaign vows to keep on fighting.
Tehran is welcoming a new U.S. report suggesting that Iran suspended a nuclear weapons program in 2003. It also appears eager to use the U.S. intelligence community's reversal to drive a wedge between Washington and its European allies.
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