Iran's presidential election
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In a provocative move, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who lost to Ahmadinejad in a controversial election, asks his supporters to flood Tehran during a festival next week.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad angers fellow hard-liners by firing at least two ministers but backtracks later, blaming the media for the furor.
A split within the hard-line faction appears to widen as supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei releases a letter telling the president to fire his first vice president.
Mohsen Ruholamini, whose father was a senior advisor to conservative politician Mohsen Rezai, was reportedly arrested during a July 9 protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi praises the protest movement as a cornerstone for change in Iran. The opposition continues to challenge the authority of supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad.
Iran's president refuses an order by the supreme leader to dump the newly chosen official, who is despised by hard-liners for his remarks on Israelis. In Tehran, authorities crack down on protesters.
Inspired by protests in Iran over the contested reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, community leaders hope recent unity between different factions can coalesce into a greater voice at home.
Iran's president refuses an order by the supreme leader to dump the newly chosen official, who is despised by hard-liners for his remarks on Israelis. In Tehran, authorities crack down on protesters.
Since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei openly sided with President Ahmadinejad with the election results still in dispute, 'opposing him is no longer the same as opposing God,' one analyst says.
Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's harsh rebuke of Ahmadinejad supporters is followed by renewed violence, suggesting the discontent over recent election results is as strong as ever.
Since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei openly sided with President Ahmadinejad with the election results still in dispute, 'opposing him is no longer the same as opposing God,' one analyst says.
Sohrab Aarabi, 19, had gone missing June 15 during an election protest. Authorities finally handed over his body to his mother, who says she will not remain silent.
Former President Mohammad Khatami reportedly will also attend Iran's weekly keynote sermon Friday. The reformists' return to the event can be seen as a challenge to hard-liners or a sign of a truce.
The cleric urges the government to reach out to protesters, even as a top military official warns that troops are willing to sacrifice their lives to quell unrest.
Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani tells worshipers that spelling out rules regarding campaigns and debates could remove tensions. An Iranian American academic is detained again.
Clashes erupt between demonstrators and police in Tehran, as the dispute over Iran's presidential election results continues.
Baton-wielding officers chase, beat demonstrators, many wearing surgical masks to hide their identity.
Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, a former child fighter and political prisoner, says Iran's bloody crackdown on protesters prompted him to 'out' ex-colleagues in Ansar-e Hezbollah who took part in the beatings.
Clotilde Reiss has been fascinated by Iran since she was a child. Now she finds herself in the notorious Evin Prison, accused of espionage, a charge her friends call absurd.
The Iranian president says vote, despite being derided by critics, was the "freest and the healthiest election the world has ever seen" and that "the path people are taking is clearer than before."
The statement by Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's party heightens the confrontation between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's camp and supporters of reformist challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Avesta, a 70-year-old Iranian expatriate, says elections are meaningless in a nation run by mullahs. Pouneh, his 24-year-old daughter, voted for Mousavi, hoping he could bring change to the country.
The man, mistakenly detained, was crammed into a cell with hundreds of others seized in the election unrest. They were threatened by a pistol-wielding young man and interrogated. Some were beaten.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says unspecified foes caused the turmoil in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians protested alleged election fraud. A reformist group calls for an end to demonstrations.
Watching the election protests in their homeland, an Iran-born mother and daughter -- a poet and a singer -- are part of a growing expatriate artistic movement.
Britain demands staffers' release amid souring relations between Iran and the West following a crackdown against protesters opposed to the reelection of President Ahmadinejad.
The Iranian president says President Obama's 'meddlesome' stance on protesters makes direct talks between their governments unlikely.
Mojtaba Khamenei is being positioned to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but he lacks the stature to overcome any opposition from a key panel, analysts say.
Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, "was a beam of light" and not an activist, friends say. The video footage of her bleeding on the street has turned her into an international symbol of the protest movement.
Some wonder how far Iran's opposition leader is willing to go. They note that as premier, he was sidelined by his inability to play factional politics. Backers say he is an open-minded technocrat.
BBC Persian and VOA's Persian News Network deny Tehran's accusations of bias and meddling.
Opinion: In light of the disputed election, should the president rethink his policy of engagement with Tehran? Michael Rubin and Matthew Duss debate.
Besides holding demonstrations, they use tools like Facebook and Twitter to share information with and from friends and family in the motherland. Photos: Southland Iranians join protest
Though Tehran has largely shut down communication outlets, protesters are getting out snippets of text and stealthily uploaded photos in a guerrilla-style Internet game of strategies and slogans.
Crowds go wild for Zahra Rahnavard, who has impressed female voters with her lengthy resume and seemingly modern relationship with her husband, reformist front-runner Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
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