WORLD IN BRIEF : IRAN : Tehran Bans Only Opposition Party

The Iranian government has banned the country’s only remaining legal opposition party after arresting eight of its members, an exiled Iranian group said in reports monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus. The reported actions against the Freedom Movement signal the final crushing of any organized domestic opposition to the cleric-led government, the sources said. A ruling by the revolutionary prosecutor in Tehran declared the group illegal, according to Ali Safavi, spokesman in Baghdad for the Moujahedeen or Holy Warriors, an Iranian opposition group based in Iraq.