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	<title>Iran News Digest &#187; Khatami</title>
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		<title>Khatami: People Dont Accept Dictatorship Anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/khatami-people-dont-accept-dictatorship-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/khatami-people-dont-accept-dictatorship-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  When will the reformists recognize that their future is outside of this system not within it?  The hardliners will NEVER allow them the space necessary to function.  The sooner they realize this reality and the sooner they stop deluding themselves about the possibility of reforming this system, the better off the Iranian people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami predicts &#8217;social crises&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/09/khatami-predicts-social-crises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/09/khatami-predicts-social-crises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GVF &#8212; In a meeting with Tehran University students, former president Mohammad Khatami told students today that “the situation of the country following the elections is bad and the nation is paying a heavy price these days; the consequences of the current management is not desirable for the society.”
According to the Iranian website belonging to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami: Radical Groups Constrain the Transition from Violence to Calm</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/09/khatami%e2%80%99s-address-to-a-group-university-students-radical-groups-constrain-the-transition-from-violence-to-calm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/09/khatami%e2%80%99s-address-to-a-group-university-students-radical-groups-constrain-the-transition-from-violence-to-calm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khatami]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=19487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Khatami.ir
The public relations division of former president Mohammad Khatami’s office reports that the  former reformist president had a meeting with a group from the youth and students association of the faction of Imam’s Line forces  in commemoration of the beloved prophet [Mohammad] (PBUH)’s birthday.
Seyyed Mohammad Khatami congratulated the attendees on the birthday of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian opposition leader rules out any form of retreat</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/iranian-opposition-leader-rules-out-any-form-of-retreat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/iranian-opposition-leader-rules-out-any-form-of-retreat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khatami]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=18785</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Iranian president, Mohammd Khatami, speaking to a group of student and youth members of the Path of Imam Forces Organization, maintained that the reformists cannot retreat in the face of all the “deviations” and “damages” that the “Islamic” and “republic” aspects of the system have suffered.
Parleman News reports that the opposition leader maintained that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former President Mohammad Khatami keeps the pressure on hard-liners</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/former-president-mohammad-khatami-keeps-the-pressure-on-hard-liners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/former-president-mohammad-khatami-keeps-the-pressure-on-hard-liners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khatami]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=18783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mohammad Khatami, the soft-spoken former Iranian president who has come under criticism for not being brave enough in his rhetoric and actions, on Monday issued a polite but firmly worded rebuke of the current hard-line establishment.
Khatami&#8217;s statement appeared to be a response to supreme leader Ali Khamenei&#8217;s insistence that reformists like Khatami had forfeited their ability to participate in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran’s Khatami criticizes defiant foreign policy</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/iran%e2%80%99s-khatami-criticizes-defiant-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/iran%e2%80%99s-khatami-criticizes-defiant-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khatami]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=18781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s ex-president Mohammad Khatami criticized on Monday Tehran&#8217;s foreign policy, saying the Islamic republic must refrain from an &#8220;adventurous&#8221; approach despite Western powers imposing sanctions on the country.
The reformist cleric, under whose presidency Iran had suspended the enrichment of uranium, said the revolution of 1979 had created a lot of &#8220;enemies&#8221; for Tehran, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami Issues Warning to Khamenei</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/03/khatami-issues-warning-to-khamenei/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/03/khatami-issues-warning-to-khamenei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khatami]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=16830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his latest remarks Mohammad Khatami blasted the violent treatment of the people and the “absolute freedom of violence-spreaders” and called on the Islamic Republic supreme leader to be the leader of all Iranians.
Speaking to central committee members of Khane Ahzab (House of Parties), Khatami warned against the “supreme leader’s affinity with a certain faction,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami:The source of power is people and their satisfaction must be met</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/20/khatamithe-source-of-power-is-people-and-their-satisfaction-must-be-met/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/20/khatamithe-source-of-power-is-people-and-their-satisfaction-must-be-met/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=15902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, former president, in a meeting with a group of political prisoner who were arrested after the election and were temporary released on heavy bails said: “unfortunately we are witnessing arrests and imprisonments of recognized figures who are devotees of the revolution. It was believed that after the events of the past few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Leader Warns Opposition Ahead Of Revolution Day</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/19/iran-leader-warns-opposition-ahead-of-revolution-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/19/iran-leader-warns-opposition-ahead-of-revolution-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=15851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s supreme leader called on the opposition today to distance itself from the Islamic republic&#8217;s Western enemies, in a warning ahead of expected new antigovernment protests next month.
Despite intensifying pressure, opposition backers are expected to take to the streets again on February 11, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Opposition Iranians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than 40 arrested after demo photos: Iran police</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/19/more-than-40-arrested-after-demo-photos-iran-police/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/19/more-than-40-arrested-after-demo-photos-iran-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=15833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 40 people have been arrested on the basis of tip-offs after police circulated photographs of demonstrators at a December rally which turned deadly, a police website reported on Tuesday.
But the reformist ex-president Mohammad Khatami defended the protesters and condemned the new wave of arrests of government critics launched after the bloody protests during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami’s speech to the Islamic Committees at University of Tehran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/03/khatami%e2%80%99s-speech-to-the-islamic-committees-at-university-of-tehran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/03/khatami%e2%80%99s-speech-to-the-islamic-committees-at-university-of-tehran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=14777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Khatami.ir
Date: December 23, 2009
The former president of our country, Mr. Mohammad Khatami, expressed his grave disappointment from the attacks on the mourners of Ayatollah Montazeri, and objected to lies that some [in the establishment] spread around in the name of the Islamic Republic. He also alluded to news of his writing a letter to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basij Militia Halt Khatami Ashoora Sermon in Jamaran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/27/basij-militia-halt-khatami-ashoora-sermon-in-jamaran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/27/basij-militia-halt-khatami-ashoora-sermon-in-jamaran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=14308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
On Saturday night in Tehran, members of a pro-government militia broke into a mosque where former President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist leader, was speaking, forcing him to break off before concluding his remarks. “about 50 vigilantes armed with chains, batons and pepper spray disrupted a speech by Mr. Khatami at Jamaran Mosque in Tehran, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Glimpse at Khatami and Nouri</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/24/a-glimpse-at-khatami-and-nouri/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/24/a-glimpse-at-khatami-and-nouri/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=14056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Khatami and Nouri at Dar Al Zahra.
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		<title>Former President Mohammad Khatami Talks About 16 Azar [Persian]</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/16/former-president-mohammad-khatami-talks-about-16-azar-persian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/16/former-president-mohammad-khatami-talks-about-16-azar-persian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=13492</guid>
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&#8220;Release the detained students as well as the other political prisoners and return the safe environment for dialogue to the universities&#8221; says the former President.
 
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		<title>Khatami&#8217;s Video Message to Students</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/16/khatamis-video-message-to-students/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/16/khatamis-video-message-to-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=13480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Video here.
Khatami&#8217;s Video Message to Students: Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, former president, could not attend the gathering in Tehran University, titled “Swear to every moment of these Red days that the aroma of the Greenest season is in the air”, that was held on Dec 14th in &#8230;person due to security issues, but in a video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami:We are proud of defending freedom and free elections</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/11/26/khatamiwe-are-proud-of-defending-freedom-and-free-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/11/26/khatamiwe-are-proud-of-defending-freedom-and-free-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=12470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Khatami, who was speaking for the members of central branch of the Islamic Society of Physicians, emphasized that one of the proud features of religions and particularly Islam is giving value to the dignity of human and said that in the reformists’ view of Islam and that of the Islamic Revolution, human deserve to determine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami:People’s doubts about election won’t be resolved by repression</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/11/18/khatamipeople%e2%80%99s-doubts-about-election-won%e2%80%99t-be-resolved-by-repression/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/11/18/khatamipeople%e2%80%99s-doubts-about-election-won%e2%80%99t-be-resolved-by-repression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=12077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, former president, met with a group of student activists of University of Tehran, Sharif University, Alame-Tabatabai University and Amir-Kabir University. At the beginning of this meeting Khatami said: “I am very pleased to meet with you and I believe it would be better if others who have responsibilities in the system would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami: Today the dictators are claiming to be from the people</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/11/13/khatami-today-the-dictators-are-claiming-to-be-from-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/11/13/khatami-today-the-dictators-are-claiming-to-be-from-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=11820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, former president, in a meeting with a group of faculty members of Iran University of Science &#38; Technology while strongly criticising the continuation of the militarised environment and the security measures enforced on the society said that one of the problems of our society is the lack of understanding and not taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRAN: Defying supreme leader, reformist Khatami continues to question election</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/11/08/iran-defying-supreme-leader-reformist-khatami-continues-to-question-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s moderate former President Mohammad Khatami continued to question the results of the June 12 presidential election, defying the nation&#8217;s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said flatly last week that publicly voicing such doubts was illegal.
&#8220;We should not decide for people,&#8221; Khatami said in an a lengthy interview (in Persian) published today by Jamaran, a news website [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mousavi: The Nation Will Witness Trial of Interrogators</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/04/mousavi-the-nation-will-witness-trial-of-interrogators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this connection, opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi released a statement denouncing the trial as “fake,” announcing, “now they dare to pick their victims from those who have great contributions to the country and the regime in their resumes.”  The country’s former prime minister also denounced the trial of political activists and journalists as “sloppy preparations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Mass Trial Continues, Hard-Liners Demand Arrests Of Musavi And Khatami</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/04/as-mass-trial-continues-hard-liners-demand-arrests-of-musavi-and-khatami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main leader of Iran&#8217;s opposition, defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Musavi, so far remains a free man. But that could change if hard-liners have their way.   Some allies of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad are now publicly calling for the arrest and prosecution of Musavi as well as former President Mohammad Khatami.   On August 2, Iran’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What A Difference Four Years Can Make</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/03/what-a-difference-four-years-can-make-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

The supreme leader&#8217;s endorsement of Mahmud Ahmadinejad as president, 2009 (top) and 2005, with former Presidents Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami in attendance.

Iran&#8217;s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today formally endorsed Mahmud Ahmadinejad for a second term as president in a ceremony that was snubbed by prominent critics of the disputed election, including former President Akbar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Show Trials: The Hard-Liners Build Their Case</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/03/irans-show-trials-the-hard-liners-build-their-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Amid the turmoil following the controversial June 12 presidential election, Iran&#8217;s ruling hard-liners have escalated their showdown with the opposition by putting more than 100 political dissidents on what many outside the regime have denounced as a show trial. Among those &#8220;confessing&#8221; so far has been a reporter for Newsweek, Maziar Bahari, a Canadian citizen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran protesters confessed after torture: Mousavi</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/02/iran-protesters-confessed-after-torture-mousavi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mousavi said on Sunday that confessions made by protesters at a closed-door trial were made after they were put through &#8220;medieval-era torture,&#8221; while Iranian MPs revealed they filed a judicial complaint against him.  &#8220;They expect a court, which itself is fraudulent, to prove that there was no fraud committed in the election,&#8221; said Mousavi, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s &#8220;show trial&#8221; of foes hurts system: Khatami</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/08/02/irans-show-trial-of-foes-hurts-system-khatami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian authorities have tightened pressure on their opponents by staging what former President Mohammad Khatami derided on Sunday as a &#8220;show trial&#8221; of 100 reformists accused of trying to instigate a &#8220;velvet revolution.&#8221;  Khatami, several of whose close associates were in the dock on Saturday, said the trial violated Iran&#8217;s constitution.  &#8220;Such show trials will [...]]]></description>
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