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IranHerald.com Tuesday 9th February 2010 Issue 2119
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"It is unfair you enjoy a safe life while our brothers in Gaza suffer greatly. Our attacks will continue as long as you support Israel. "
Osama bin Laden
The al-Qaeda leader was addressing U.S. President Barack Obama in a recently-released videotape.

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Iran could start uranium enrichment alone: Ahmadinejad
Iran tests radar evading aircraft
Steady, plausible response to Iran is needed — but we’ve seen neither
Journalists arrested in Iran crackdown ahead of revolution anniversary
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Israeli army drags two foreigners from home in West Bank at 3am
Abbas says Obama should have been stronger with Israel
Yemen Al Qaeda leader blasts Arab states in new tape
Egyptian opposition leaders held in pre-dawn raids
Extraordinary 1,700-year-old sarcophagus cover on view in Israel

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Haredim in the Negev
Rep. John Murtha dies at 77
Meadows postpones another round of job 'auditions'
Frostburn: A party, concert, art show and extreme camping adventure
Editorial Comment: Japan’s debt woes are overstated
Egypt/Israel: Egypt Should End ‘Shoot to Stop’ Practice at Sinai Border Crossings
Sweden Implicated in Egypt’s Abuse of Suspected Militant

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Iranian opposition leader sentenced six-year jail
Tehran, Feb 9 (DPA) Former Iranian deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh has been given a six-year jail term for his involvement in the post-election protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, opposition websites reported...

Iran making 'advanced' unmanned drones
London, Feb.8 : Iran's Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi has opened two production lines for the manufacture of aircraft, especially advanced unmanned drones, which could carry out "surveillance, detection and even assaults with high precision," the country's FARS news agency has...
Iran to build 10 nuke enrichment sites within one year
Tehran, Feb 8 (DPA) Iran claimed that it would build 10 new enrichment sites within one year, the state media reported...
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Former Iranian deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh has been given a six-year jail term for his involvement in the post-election protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, opposition websites reported Monday.

Aminzadeh, who served under the reformist president Mohammad Khatami, was a supporter of Green Movement leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi in last June's presidential election.

Aminzadeh was one of Ahmadinejad's fiercest critics before the election and, along with the opposition, accused the president of election fraud and refused to acknowledge his re-election.

Numerous reformist officials, students, journalists and dissidents were arrested after the election on charges of having planned to topple the Islamic establishment and sentenced to long jail terms.

Nine have been sentenced to death and two have already been executed due to their links to radical monarchist groups abroad.

Opposition websites also reported that nine journalists, belonging mainly to opposition groups, have been arrested within the last 48 hours, bringing the number of detained journalists since the June election to 55.

Reports and statistics posted by opposition websites cannot be independently verified as the Iranian government banned foreign media from directly covering the protests and related news last July.

Iranian opposition groups plan to use the February 11 mass rallies marking the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution to renew their protests against President Ahmadinejad.

Police and security forces have warned that all protest gatherings during the annual state-run rallies will be treated harshly.


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