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Thursday September 17, 2009
IranIslamReligious Persecution:
Islam A group of ex-Muslims who converted to Christianity were preparing Wednesday, September 16, for an upcoming court hearing in Iran on suspicion of “apostasy”, after they were temporarily released on bail from one of the country’s most notorious prisons, BosNewsLife learned.

They were among 25 individuals arrested by security forces while attending a Christian gathering in Tehran.
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Monday May 11, 2009
Iran:
Roxana Saberi American Iranian free-lance journalist Roxana Saberi who reported for Vatican Radio and other international media has been freed from a Tehran prison, amid international pressure, her attorney confirmed Monday, May 11.

The 32-year-old dual American-Iranian national had been in detention for nearly three months. On April 18, Iran’s Revolutionary Court charged her with spying for the United States and sentenced her to eight years in prison.
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Tuesday February 19, 2008
Fitna MovieIran:
Iran has suggested that it will boycott Dutch products if MP Geert Wilders shows his Koran film in March as planned.
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Tuesday December 19, 2006
Iran:
The group describes itself as a Christian community of liberal evangelicals. However the Iranian evangelical community disagrees with some of the group’s unorthodox doctrines like the rejection of the concept of the Trinity.
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Wednesday December 13, 2006
Hate GroupsHolocaustIran:
A two-day gathering of Holocaust deniers and white supremacists ended Tuesday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meeting participants and telling them Israel would not survive long.
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Tuesday December 12, 2006
Hate GroupsHolocaustIran:
A gathering of Holocaust deniers in Iran touched off a firestorm of indignation Tuesday across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Nazis’ systematic extermination of 6 million Jews.
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IranJudaism:
Today’s politics may convince tomorrow’s generation that it’s simply too dangerous to be both an Iranian and a Jew.
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Friday September 22, 2006
Iran:
Although Iran and Israel are bitter enemies, few know that Iran is home to the largest number of Jews anywhere in the Middle East outside Israel. About 25,000 Jews live in Iran and most are determined to remain no matter what the pressures – as proud of their Iranian culture as of their Jewish roots.
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Monday July 31, 2006
Iran:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Nothing in the office of Iran's sole Jewish lawmaker calls attention to his faith — no Star of David, no menorah or other symbol of Judaism. But like nearly every public building in Iran, it has a portrait of the Islamic Revolution's patriarch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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Tuesday June 27, 2006
Iran:
Yazd , Iran -- The legend describes one cloud of dust chasing another across the epic desert landscape. Arab horsemen were gaining on the Iranian princess, it is said, when she reached the looming cliffs, slipped into a seam in the rock and disappeared forever.
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Monday May 15, 2006
IranSoldiers of Heaven / Supporters of Mahdi:
The key to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hardline policies may not be hidden in his revolutionary past, or in any of the nuclear facilities dispersed across Iran, but in a small farming village near the holy city of Qom.
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Monday May 8, 2006
Iran:
For the dwindling Jewish community in Iran, a sacred ritual is observed at 6.30 every evening as shortwave radios are switched on to listen to the daily Farsi broadcast from Israel.
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Thursday November 3, 2005
Iran:
Tehran - Police in northeastern Iran are launching a new morality drive by confiscating alluring mannequins from boutiques and clothes stalls in the bazaar, authorities in the city of Bojnourd said on Monday.
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Tuesday November 1, 2005
Iran:
An Iranian faith healer who claimed to have a direct line to a Shi'a Muslim Imam who disappeared more than 1 000 years ago has been arrested after swindling the sick out of thousands in dollars.
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Thursday October 27, 2005
Iran:
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 - Iran's new hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told a group of students at an anti-Israel event today that Israel must be "wiped off the map" and that attacks by Palestinians will destroy it, the Iranian student news agency, ISNA, reported.
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