EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official …

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A man sits among worshipper as they perform their Friday prayers, at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 26, 2009. A senior Iranian cleric called Friday for harsh punishment for leaders of the country’s post-election protests …

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Egyptian anti-riot policemen prevent demonstrators from gathering at a Cairo downtown street on Saturday, June 27, 2009, during a protest to commemorate the 7th day of the death of slain Iranian protester Neda Agha Soltan, who was killed by a shot to …

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Her blood flows to the gutter
and he smiles to watch it go,
and every word he utters
only brings his nation woe.

While freedom is threatened, the People "basijed",
and every man alone,
he’s clenched today an iron fist
and made Tehran his throne.

Khamenei of the bloody hands
- the murder-loving cleric -
now rules by terror in Tehran
with edicts quite hysteric:

"We’ll beat you, and we’ll shoot you,
and we will bring you grief!"
Then he daintily turns and issues rulings
on proper Islamic belief:

"The Koran can be interpreted
a thousand different ways,
but nine hundred and ninety-nine of them
are wrong and earn no praise!

"When it comes to understanding it,
only I am right,
and whoever disagrees with me
is looking for a fight!

"Whatever Muslims today believe
does not set up the norm.
It’s what I say, and, when I say it,
people must conform!

"Because I am so holy
only I am free to state
where…

My son reads this web site, he is 13. My 6 year old daughter saw me cry tonight, for people I do not know. She asked me our my cousins safe? I said yes, because they are in America not in Iran.

As a women and Mother’s it is unacceptable to see our children cold, hungry, sick, or die before we see our grandchildren live! The Women of the world need to reach out with a loud clear voice to all countries and their leaders.

The women in Iran both young and old are fighting for their lives and freedom, not just for themselves but for their children. They stand tall and strong. They are fighting a battle for human rights. I do not know how may women read this web site, but we must UNITE. Today, this hour, this year, always, because without us there is no future. We bring life into this world.

I will give my name and email to the moderators of this web site, so women of all races and religions can unite. We need to come together, make a plans, and stand as one!

TRIESTE, Italy (Reuters) - Washington is to dramatically overhaul its Afghan anti-drug strategy, phasing out opium poppy eradication, the U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan told allies on Saturday. Richard Holbrooke, attending a G8 conference on …

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The Obama administration expects Iran’s hard-line leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his protege, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to weather the protests that followed this month’s apparently rigged election. And no matter how the political turmoil …

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The Iranian government has seized and detained several hundred activists, journalists and students across the nation, in one of the most extensive crackdowns on key dissidents since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Even as unprecedented protests broke …

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official …

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi on Saturday rejected authorities’ proposals for a partial recount of votes from this month’s election and repeated his demand the entire ballot be annulled. EDITORS’ NOTE …

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