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Iran Flexes Muscle With Military Exercises

Ground, naval, missile testing in response to growing US presence

(Newser) - Iranian state television says Tehran will hold 10 days of ground, naval, and missile exercises starting today. "The Great Prophet Six" will include tests of long-range missiles such as the Sajjil, which boasts a rang of more than 1,240 miles, reports Iranian media. Medium- and short-range missiles, drone...

Jailed Iran Activists: Guards Help Criminals Rape Us

They provide condoms to encourage it, smuggled letters say

(Newser) - Iranian prison guards are systematically encouraging other prisoners to rape young opposition activists, even giving them condoms to do so with, according to letters smuggled out from jailed activists. “In various cells inside the prison, rape has become a common act and acceptable,” writes one Participation Front member...

Iran Launching Monkey Into Space

Second Iranian satellite successfully launched

(Newser) - Iran launched its second satellite into space this week and it plans to follow up by sending a live monkey this summer. The head of Iran's space organization says a capsule containing the monkey will be sent to an altitude of 74 miles by the Kavoshgar-5 rocket, AOL reports....

Iran Bans Necklaces on Men
 Iran Bans Necklaces on Men 
Jun 14, 2011 4:19 PM CDT

Iran Bans Necklaces on Men

'Moral police' enforce law against 'un-Islamic' practice

(Newser) - Iranian leaders have banned men from wearing necklaces as the latest part of a “moral security plan” against “un-Islamic” trends. Under the plan, the country is cracking down on short pants and loose headscarves on women and certain hairstyles on men. The movement is meant to fight “...

OPEC Shocks Market, Leaves Production Flat

Investors had been expecting a rise

(Newser) - Crude prices are headed north this morning, after OPEC surprised the market by keeping production flat instead of ramping it up, the Wall Street Journal reports. Nymex crude is currently up almost 2%, above $100 a barrel, after being down ahead of the announcement. OPEC's secretary-general told reporters that...

Iran Flexes Muscle, Sends Submarines to Red Sea

It's first time vessels have been sent to distant waters

(Newser) - Iran has sent submarines to the Red Sea in the first such deployment by the country's navy in distant waters, a semi-official news agency reported today. The deployment reflects Iran's efforts to show off its naval power. The Fars news agency said the submarines would collect data in...

'Anonymous' Hackers Hit Iran Government

They get 10K emails, plans bigger attack on June 12

(Newser) - Iran is trying to ban open Internet , and a group of particularly adept hackers probably has Tehran hoping it can speed things along. The notorious Anonymous group infiltrated government servers and got its hands on more than 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Next...

Chavez Jokes About Missiles Aimed at US

Venezuelan leader slams new US sanctions

(Newser) - Poking fun at American fears about Venezuela's ties with Iran and irked by new sanctions, Hugo Chavez quipped about having missiles pointed at the US. "Here they are," he said, holding up a picture of windmills along the country's coast. "They are pointing directly at...

Ayatollah Khamenei Backs Ahmadinejad in Power Struggle

But Iran supreme leader also issues warning to the president

(Newser) - A power struggle in Iran between president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei appears to be resolving, as the country's supreme leader publicly backed Ahmadinejad yesterday, reports the Los Angeles Times . "While there are weaknesses and problems, the composition of the executive branch is good and appropriate, and the...

Iran Plans to Unplug Internet, Create Its Own

Tehran aims to put all citizens on internal network

(Newser) - Iran is waging war on open Internet. Looking to limit the cyber-infiltration of Western ideas, Iran's telecommunications chief claimed that, in two years time, all Iranians would be forced to use a state-censored, fully-internal Internet. About 60% of the nation's homes and businesses are expected to be on...

Saudis Forming Anti-Shiite 'Club of Kings'

Royal family moves to form alliance against Iran, uprisings

(Newser) - Saudi Arabia is moving to firm up alliances with Sunni nations in a bid to limit Iran’s influence and stem the tide of revolts in the Arab world. It has asked several countries across the Middle East and Asia, including Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia, to join an informal alliance...

Ahmadinejad Retreats in Ayatollah Feud

President appears to be losing power struggle with supreme leader

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not attend an OPEC summit next month, noteworthy only because it's being read as a signal that he's losing his power struggle with the nation's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, reports the New York Times . Ahmadinejad had announced earlier this month that he would go...

Iran's Largest Lake Turning to Salt

Oroumieh Lake shrunk by 60% thanks to drought, over-damming of rivers

(Newser) - It's the third largest saltwater lake on Earth—or was. Iran's Oroumieh Lake, home to migrating flamingos, pelicans, and gulls, has shrunk by 60% and could disappear entirely in just a few years, thanks to persistent drought, misguided irrigation policies, and the damming of rivers that feed it....

Nuke Watchdog: Iran Worked on Nuclear Triggers

Disclosure buried in 9-page International Atomic Energy Agency report

(Newser) - In the kind of revelation that doesn't help one sleep at night, the International Atomic Energy Agency yesterday disclosed that it has evidence that Iran has worked on nuclear triggering technology that has but a single use: setting off a nuke. The New York Times reports that the detail...

Ahmadinejad: Europe Stealing Our Rain

West using 'special equipment' on clouds to cause droughts

(Newser) - Conspiracy theorist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again: He says Europe is hijacking Iran's rainclouds. "Western countries have designed plans to cause drought in certain areas of the world, including Iran," the state news agency quoted him as saying at the inauguration of a dam. "...

9/11 Families Say Iran Helped Plan Attacks

Lawsuit accuses Tehran and Hezbollah of aiding al-Qaeda

(Newser) - Lawyers representing 9/11 families are asking a federal judge to find Iran culpable in the Sept. 11 attacks, saying new evidence shows Iranian officials had advance word and even helped train the hijackers. The lawyers said Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah entered into a terrorist alliance with al-Qaeda in...

Iran Hikers' Moms Start a Hunger Strike

Cindy Hickey and Laura Fattal mark anniversary of seeing sons

(Newser) - Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the hikers imprisoned in Iran since 2009, have not seen their mothers since a hasty visit exactly one year ago today . To mark that anniversary, mothers Cindy Hickey and Laura Fattal today announced that they will start a hunger strike. They fear their sons have...

UN Nuclear Experts: Iran Hacked Us
UN Nuclear Experts:
Iran Hacked Us
May 18, 2011 11:07 AM CDT

UN Nuclear Experts: Iran Hacked Us

IAEA investigating suspicions of tampering

(Newser) - Some of the International Atomic Energy Agency's top experts think Iranians hacked their cell phones and laptops, diplomats tell the AP. The incident is believed to have occurred earlier this year, when the diplomats left the equipment unattended during an inspection tour in Iran. The watchdog group became suspicious...

Al-Jazeera Journalist Held in Mideast for 19 Days Freed

Dorothy Parvaz was detained in Damascus then sent to Iran

(Newser) - An al-Jazeera journalist has safely landed in Qatar, having been released by Iranian officials after being detained in Damascus last month. Al-Jazeera confirms that Dorothy Parvaz is "safe and well and back with us in Doha. She has been in contact with her family, and we are with her...

Ayatollah: Aide Has 'Bewitched' Ahmadinejad

Cleric says president's 'unnatural' behavior is due to spells, charms

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad’s feud with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei isn't his fault: He’s under a magic spell. At least, that’s the theory one influential cleric is peddling. In an interview with an Iranian magazine, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a former Ahmadinejad supporter, says he believes...

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