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Armed with steel clubs, electric batons, pepper spray and tear gas, members of the Basij paramilitary organization attacked a group of several hundred students on the campus of the University of Tehran.

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Published: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 4:38 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 4:38 a.m. TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian nuclear official says the purpose of a U.N. warning station set up in Turkmenistan near the border with Iran is "espionage." The U.N. announced last week the new nuclear warning station - one of dozens such ...

The chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, right, arrives to attend a meeting of lawmakers with the country's top officials to commemorate Parliament day, at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Dec.

In this Sunday, June 14, 2009 file photo, Iranian supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi are followed by Iranian riot-police in front of Tehran University during riots in Tehran, Iran .

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TEHRAN, Iran -- On the eve of student demonstrations planned for today, Iran choked off Internet access and warned journalists working for foreign media to stick to their offices for the next three days.

Eds: APNewsNow. . AP Photo VAH503, VAH502, VAH501 By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran Witnesses say thousands of riot police and Revolutionary Guard members armed with tear gas, batons and firearms are deployed outside Tehran University to prevent student demonstrations backed by the opposition.

Iranian authorities have slowed Internet connections to a crawl or choked them off completely before expected student protests Monday to deny the opposition a vital means of communication.

The death toll has grown to 103 after a fire tore through a crowded nightspot in Russia.

As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions.

In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency , the reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen, just outside the port city of Bushehr 750 miles south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov.

Payvand.com - Iran's writers' associations will be paying homage to Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, on the 11th anniversary of death of these writers, by holding a gathering on Friday December 4th at Emamzadeh Taher cemetery at Mehrshahr in Karaj.

November 2008 photo released by Team Pindar of the race yacht Kingdom of Bahrain off the coast of France.

By Manish Chand , Washington, Nov 25 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said he supported the engagement between Tehran and the five permanent members of the Security Council over the nuclear standoff, but reiterated that India did not support Iranian nuclear ambitions.

A Philippine politician has filed to run for governor of a remote, lawless region despite the recent slaughter of members of his family and dozens of other people.

Report by VOA News; Photos Amir Kholoosi, by ISNA Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khatami's comments came in reaction to an IAEA resolution adopted on Friday demanding that Iran halt construction of a new uranium enrichment facility.

Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh briefs the media during the IAEA's 35-nation board meeting at Vienna's International Center, in Vienna, on Friday, Nov.

TEHRAN Iran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog said on Sunday that Tehran wants a guaranteed supply of fuel for a research reactor as a military chief warned that any attack on its nuclear sites would be crushed.

In this Thursday July 9, 2009 file photo, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, center, gestures with youths wearing T-shirts with "Peace" written on the front, as she visits the Scampia district, in Secondigliano on the outskirts of Naples, southern Italy.