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The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an...

Iran uses cyberspace to get expats to vote By Gareth Smyth in Tehran Published: June 8 2005 The Iranian government has launched a website to encourage Iranians living in the US to vote in next week's presidential election. The site (http://www.election1384.com) profiles the eight candidates for the June 17 poll, and lists 32 cities in America where voting centres will be set up. But US-allied exiles have called on the US government to close down any polling centres. Three groups - including the Student Movement Coordinating Committee for Democracy in Iran- have written to president George W Bush and the...

TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Ezzatollah Sahabi, a 77-year-old senior opposition leader freed from prison last year, dared Iran's powerful conservative clerics Friday to execute him if he was a true threat to the Islamic republic. "If you belief that I'm so harmful for the country, the people, Islam and the revolution, then execute me, because in any case there is another world where we will all be judged," Sahabi wrote in an open letter asking for support from reformist President Mohammad Khatami, Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karrubi and justice chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. Sahabi, a senior leader of the outlawed...

TEHRAN, Iran - A hard-line Islamic court banned the leading opposition party Saturday and ordered 33 leaders jailed for as long as 10 years each. The court said Freedom Movement leaders acted against national security with the intention of "overthrowing the establishment." Meanwhile, the younger brother of reformist President Mohammad Khatami was at odds with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, over whether to normalize relations with Washington. Mohammed Reza Khatami called for rapprochement, but Khamenei said such thinking meant giving in to America's expansionist policy. The court is one of several hard-line institutions controlled by unelected clerics who...