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Special Dispatch - No. 2456 July 22, 2009 Iranian VP Parviz Davoudi: Iran is Operating Over 12,000 Centrifuges; Any Attempt to Destabilize the Iranian Regime Will Undermine the Security of the Middle East and Entire World At a July 12, 2009 conference on promoting the mentality of self-sacrifice among women, convened under the auspices of the Martyrs Foundation in Tehran, Iranian Vice President Parviz Davoudi stated that Iran was making progress in nuclear technology as well as in the field of ballistic missiles, and that it currently was operating over 12,000 centrifuges. Davoudi stated that the struggle between Iran and...

Kidnapped, jailed, beaten ... over a bloodied T-shirt Sunday April 4, 2004 The Observer Repression goes on while Iran seeks friendship with the West. Dan De Luce reports from Tehran His handsome face was seen around the world. The photograph, used on the front of the Economist magazine, showed Ahmad Batebi, his hands holding the bloodstained T-shirt of a fellow student beaten by paramilitaries. His look of indignation captured the mood of young Iranians demonstrating for democracy in the summer of 1999. Just holding that shirt earned Batebi a 15-year prison sentence for endangering national security, served in the notorious...