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Tehran - Iranian police arrested 109 people during opposition protests on the sidelines of an official rally marking three decades since the seizure of the US embassy, Tehran's police chief said on Saturday.

Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi, whose supporters clashed with police in a rally last week, accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday of double standards in his U.S. policy.

Russia should keep its word on selling a missile defense system to Iran, an influential parliamentarian was quoted by Iranian media as saying Sunday.

The violent images of the 1979 Iranian revolution - women clad in chadors chanting passionately, protesters burning American flags and students being beaten on the street - are hauntingly similar to those that continue to trickle out of the country today.

A Danish journalism student has been arrested in Iran, the Danish Foreign Ministry told CNN on Saturday.

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

Iranian police have detained 109 people for "disturbing public order" during an opposition rally this week, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.

The Japan News.Net Friday 6th November, 2009 Iranian security forces arrested four journalists, including one Japanese and two Canadian nationals, during the protests in Tehran this week, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Friday.

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Security forces and militia used brutal force to disperse thousands of protesters on the streets of Tehran and other cities today, resulting in a number of injuries and arrests, in violation of international standards regarding the proportionate use of force against peaceful demonstrations, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his visiting British counterpart David Miliband on Monday both urged an answer from Tehran to the proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency on the enrichment of uranium aboard.

It was America's first showdown with radical Islam. On November 4, 1979, radical Islamist students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran.

Iran's opposition organized some of the biggest street protests since June's disputed elections in an attempt to overshadow the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran.

Iranian security forces arrested an Agence France Presse reporter covering Wednesday's rally marking the anniversary of seizure of the U.S. embassy, the agency said on Thursday.

Uzbekistan News.Net Wednesday 4th November, 2009 Thousands of Iranians including students held a protest march Wednesday marking the anniversary of the US embassy seizure in Iran 30 years ago, a report said.

Iran's denial of Israel's right to exist is unacceptable and Tehran must be prevented from obtaining a nuclear weapon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a speech before the U.S. Congress on Tuesday.

The head of Tehran's anti-riot police threatened opposition protesters Tuesday with a full-scale assault if they return to the streets during government-backed events marking the takeover of the U.S. Embassy.

Nov 4 - Opposition demonstrators in Iran clash with police as 30th anniversary celebrations are held of the storming of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.

The term "lose my number " is the top trending topic at 8:30 AM GMT on November 4. Twitter users are sharing the reasons why they would like people to lose their telephone numbers.

IRAN "must choose" whether to open the door to opportunity and prosperity, US President Barack Obama said in a statement marking 30 years since the storming of the US embassy in Tehran.