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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami came to New York City on Nov. 8 to attend a U.N. summit as U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies explored new information tying his regime's intelligence services to Sept. 11 and to previous anti-American terrorist attacks, Insight has learned.The information is coming from a variety of sources and shows a clear pattern of operational contacts between the Iranian government and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization. These contacts include joint planning of terrorist operations, military training of bin Laden operatives inside Iran and by Iranian personnel in Syria and Lebanon, financial assistance to clandestine terrorist and surveillance ...

TEHRAN - The first session of the trial of 23 suspects charged in connection with the 2009 Tehran University dormitory incident was held in a military court in Tehran on Tuesday. At the court session, indictments against 23 of the 27 suspects charged in connection with the 2009 Tehran University dormitory incident were read out, the ISNA news agency reported. The plaintiffs and their lawyers as well as legal representatives from Tehran University and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology then submitted their complaints to the court. The presiding judge said the court will reveal the names of the...

In 2003, administrators at Stanford University's Electrical Engineering Department were startled when a group of foreign students aced the notoriously difficult Ph.D. entrance exam, getting some of the highest scores ever. That the whiz kids weren't American wasn't odd; students from Asia and elsewhere excel in U.S. programs. The surprising thing, say Stanford administrators, is that the majority came from one country and one school: Sharif University of Science and Technology in Iran. Stanford has become a favorite destination of Sharif grads. Bruce A. Wooley, a former chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, has said that's because Sharif now has...

<p>TEHRAN, Iran -- An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator," which prompted scuffles with hardline students at Tehran University.</p> <p>Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of "death to the dictator" and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said.</p>

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Tuesday sentenced a leading student activist to five years in prison for various charges including acting against state security, the dissident student said. Prominent student leader Abdollah Momeni said one of the charges related to organising student protests in 2002-2003 against a death sentence issued against reformist academic Hashem Aghajari for blasphemy. The death sentence for Aghajari, who angered the religious establishment by saying that Muslims should not blindly follow the teachings of clerics, was later overturned and he was freed. Momeni said he would appeal his sentence and free pending his appeal...

http://www.daneshjooyan.org/english/communique/2004/200304a.html March 20, 2003, marks the first day of spring. Similarly, it is the first day of the Iranian New Year 1383. The Alliance of Iranian Students recaps the past year 1382 as a year of achievements, a year of sorrow, a year of triumph, a year of blood loss, and most importantly a year gone resulting in a step closer to freedom. We look back to the past year in how it has shaped our lives, contributed to the Third Force Movement, and brought us closer to our gratifying purpose: Freedom, Human Rights, and a Secular Democracy. July...