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  • Iran's two opposition leaders, their wives are placed in safe house

    02/26/2011 7:16:37 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 5 replies
    cnn.com ^ | Feb. 26, 2011 | Reza Sayah and Michael Martinez
    (CNN) -- Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi and their wives were placed in a safe house for their own welfare, but they have not been arrested, Iranian government sources told CNN Saturday. "The opposition movement is very much looking for martyrs so if this is true it's for their own safety," one source told CNN. The pro-reform opposition movement "is always looking for an excuse to create something, so this may be done to keep someone from doing something to them," the source added. But the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed concern for...
  • Vienna Objects to U.S. Anti-Iran Policy (who's side are they on?)

    06/17/2002 3:24:55 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 6 replies · 283+ views
    Tehran Times ^ | June 17 2002
    VIENNA -- Speaker of Austrian National Council (Nationalrat) Heinz Fischer said on Monday that Austria and the majority of the European Union (EU) member states are opposed to the term of 'axis of evil' Washington has attributed to states of Iran, Iraq, and N. Korea. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Mahdi Karrubi in Vienna, Fischer said "I object to any mentality which sees every thing black and white and believe that in dealing with others every aspect should be observed." The speaker of Austria's Nationalrat said that every country should accept criticism, adding that all...