Category: Reports on Iran and Democracy

Iran leader says opposition protests “anti-Islam”
— Al Arabiya News Channel reports that:
— “Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned opposition leaders on Sunday to distance themselves from protesters whom he accused of acting “against Islam” as he labeled the June presidential election legal and said the case was closed.”

— Iran: Burned ayatollah photo sparks new Iranian protests
— Iranian state TV accused of faking burning of Khomeini portrait

Iran: Secret document exposes Iran’s nuclear trigger
— London Times: “Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.”
— Leaked memo identifies man at head of Iran’s nuclear program – Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
— Discovery of UD3 raises fears over Iran’s nuclear intentions
— “Critically, while other neutron sources have possible civilian uses, UD3 has only one application – to be the metaphorical match that lights a nuclear bomb.”
— Leaked ‘memo’ suggests Iran’s nuclear secrets
— Iran worked on atom bomb part in 2007: report

Iran to put on trial 3 Americans caught hiking across border
— Washington Post: “Iran said Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, it would try Americans Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27 who were detained by Iranian authorities after crossing an unmarked border from northern Iraq in July.”

— American hikers to go on trial in Iran

— Clinton Rejects Iranian Spy Charges Against American Hikers

Iran arrests scores of student activists
— Washington Times reports:
— “Iranian authorities have rounded up scores of student activists in a bid to head off what several young people said will be massive demonstrations on university campuses across the country Monday.”
— “Monday is National Students Day, named for the day in 1953 when armed forces entered the campus of Tehran University and killed three students protesting the government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.”
— “Hadi Ghaemi, a spokesman for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, said at least 90 students have been arrested in the past three weeks. Milad Asadi, a member of the Central Council of the Student Union to Foster Unity, Iran’s main student organization, was arrested at his home Tuesday.”