﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Iranian election news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more Iranian election stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/38195/iranian-election.html</link><copyright>2009 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 6:36:57 CST</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/74244/iran-sentences-5-to-death-for-election-protests.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Iran Sentences 5 to Death for Election Protests</title><description>Five people have been sentenced to death over the unrest that followed Iran's disputed June presidential election, according to state television reports. The report quotes a statement by the Justice Department saying the five sentenced were members of terrorist and armed opposition groups.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/74244/iran-sentences-5-to-death-for-election-protests.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:15:36 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/74067/nedas-boyfriend-this-movement-will-never-die.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Neda's Boyfriend: 'This Movement Will Never Die'</title><description>"I still cannot believe it. I think I will see Neda again," the boyfriend of the iconic slain Iranian protester tells the Guardian in his first interview since fleeing the country. "Now I have left Iran, I can cry out," says Caspian Makan, who was tossed in the notorious Evin...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/74067/nedas-boyfriend-this-movement-will-never-die.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:48:22 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/73281/iranian-police-clash-with-protesters.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Iranian Police Clash With Protesters</title><description>Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons and fired tear gas today on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies in Tehran to mark the 30th anniversary of the US Embassy takeover. While pro-government demonstrators chanted "death to America" outside the former embassy, opposition marchers nearby cried "death to the dictator....</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/73281/iranian-police-clash-with-protesters.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 6:34:53 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/73151/iran-students-hope-to-reignite-smoldering-unrest.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Iran Students Hope to Reignite Smoldering Unrest</title><description>Iranian students are planning a major protest tomorrow, their first in six weeks, hoping to turn an annual parade commemorating the taking of the US embassy in 1979 into an anti-government rally. Though largely forgotten by the media and discounted by Western policy makers, the so-called “green movement” that erupted...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/73151/iran-students-hope-to-reignite-smoldering-unrest.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:05:01 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/68300/iran-admits-protester-was-beaten-to-death.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Iran Admits Protester Was Beaten to Death</title><description>A man arrested in the upheaval following Iran's presidential election was beaten to death in jail, Iranian media reported yesterday—offering the first official acknowledgment that a detained protester died after the disputed vote. Officials had originally said the man died of an illness, but a coroner's report said he...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/68300/iran-admits-protester-was-beaten-to-death.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 7:09:02 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/67691/iran-reformist-publishes-prison-rape-account.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Iran Reformist Publishes Prison Rape Account</title><description>A testimony released by defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi details a male protester's beating and rape at a notorious prison after the disputed election. The first-person account is just one of many, Karroubi alleges, and CNN reports that he will continue to publish them on his website "if the...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/67691/iran-reformist-publishes-prison-rape-account.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 4:30:26 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/67076/ahmadinejad-names-3-women-to-cabinet.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Ahmadinejad Names 3 Women to Cabinet</title><description>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today he would nominate three women to join his cabinet, reports the Guardian , attempting to soften his image after the brutal crackdowns following his disputed re-election. The decision is significant in a country where just eight of 290 MPs are female. But the two women whose names...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/67076/ahmadinejad-names-3-women-to-cabinet.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 5:37:08 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/66532/iranian-protesters-raped-in-prison-candidate.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Iranian Protesters Raped in Prison: Candidate</title><description>Iranian protesters, both male and female, were raped in a notorious prison in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election, one of the defeated candidates alleged today. Reformist Mehdi Karroubi wrote on his website that senior prison officials told him about "really shameful issues," including sexual violence that "caused serious...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/66532/iranian-protesters-raped-in-prison-candidate.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 7:23:12 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/66425/iran-charges-dozens-more-in-another-mass-trial.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Iran Charges Dozens More in Another Mass Trial</title><description>Iran staged another mass trial of protesters today, charging a Frenchwoman, two employees of the French and British embassies, and dozens of Iranian nationals with spying and fomenting unrest following the election, Reuters reports. Once again, defendants offered confessions and sought leniency. “We deplore these trials and the so-called confessions...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/66425/iran-charges-dozens-more-in-another-mass-trial.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:28:49 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>