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Pajamas Media/2011-03-05 - Today, Iran becomes a full-member of the UN’s top women’s rights body, the UN Commission on the Status of Women. It was elected by the UN General Assembly – by consensus, meaning with the approval of the United States.

Reuters/2011-03-05 - The United States will strongly support a Swedish effort to have the U.N. Human Rights Council appoint a special investigator into rights violations in Iran, U.S. ambassador Eileen Donahoe said on Friday.

RFE/RL/2011-03-05 - Tehran's municipal bus service union is urging authorities to arrange medical treatment outside prison for its jailed leader, Mansour Osanlou, RFE/RL'S Radio Farda reports.

VOA/2011-03-05 - Iran wants to forge stronger ties with neighboring Afghanistan. This week, Iranian companies took this mission to the Afghan capital, with an exhibition they hope will attract Afghan consumers interested in doing business with Iran.

Roozonline.com/2011-03-05 - Following the creation of a special parliamentary committed to investigate the events of February 14, 2011 on the orders of the speaker of Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, a report that had been prepared in collaboration with the remarks of the security-military authorities was read out on the floor two days ago which basically condemned the leaders of the Green Movement who had invited the public to demonstrate their solidarity with the protests in the Middle East.

Radiozamenh/2011-03-05 - Iran’s opposition coalition, the Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope, has called on people to join next Tuesday’s protests for women’s rights on International Women’s Day.

Radiozamaneh/2011-03-05 - The leader of Friday Mass prayers in Mashhad accused opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi of treason, telling worshippers that their house arrest is for their own protection.

Radiozamenh/2011-03-05 - Iran’s opposition says government denials regarding the arrest of the Iranian opposition leaders reveal the state’s fear.

Persian2English/2011-03-04 - The Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners – 59 political prisoners in Rajai Shahr ‘Gohardasht’ prison released a statement announcing that they have launched an indefinite hunger strike since Tuesday morning. The hunger strike is in protest to the suppression of the Iranian people’s righteous resistance and against the limitations imposed inside the prison.

AFP/2011-03-04 - US officials have "discussed" concerns that Venezuela may be breaching international sanctions on Iran, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Thursday.

RFE/RL/2011-03-04 - The media freedom group Reporters Without Borders has joined calls for Iranian authorities to reveal the whereabouts of two opposition leaders, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.

RFE/RL/2011-03-04 - Workers at two factories in Iran are reported to have protested their employment conditions in recent days, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.

VOA/2011-03-04 - The United States said Thursday that there are indications that missing former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Robert Levinson, last seen in Iran nearly four years ago, is alive. And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made a new appeal to Iran for help in the matter.

Radiozmaneh/2011-03-04 - Iranian judiciary and prison authorities have expressed concern over the surge in the number of prisoners and called on Iranian prosecutors to reduce the number of arrests.

Radiozamaneh/2011-03-04 - The children of MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard issued a new statement today describing their latest unsuccessful attempt to see their parents at their home and their growing concern for their well-being. Last night they found no evidence of their parents continued presence there.

Insideofiran/2011-03-04 - Please join us in demanding the immediate release of Mehdi and Fatemeh Karroubi and Mir

and Zahra Moussavi and claiming respect for human rights in Iran.

Oxford Mail/2011-03-03 - An Iranian journalist who fled to Oxfordshire 18 months ago has received two death threats.

EA WorldView/2011-03-03 - Mohammad Taghi Karroubi, the son of the prominent opposition figures Mehdi and Fatemeh Karroubi, writes of the night last month that his parents were seized by security forces and taken to an unknown location, either in a house of detention or prison. Translation by Banooye Sabz:

VOA/2011-03-03 - Iran is coming under increased scrutiny for the number of executions it carries out. Media reports from Iran on Wednesday reported the punishment for 10 drug traffickers. Human rights groups say Iran executes more people per capita than any other country in the world.

Radiozamaneh/2011-03-03 - The Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi says Iranians fighting for equal gender rights will take to the streets on March 8, International Women's Day.

Radiozamaneh/2011-03-03 - The head of the Iranian judiciary has condemned the recent attacks against Ayatollah Heshemi Rafsanjani and his family, and warned that the judiciary will not tolerate such actions.

Radiozamaneh/2011-03-03 - Iranian political prisoner Farah Vazehan has been handed a 17-year prison sentence and exiled to Rejaisharh Prison in Karaj by the Islamic Republic court, following the Supreme Court’s overturning of her death sentence.

Radiozamaneh/2011-03-03 - Iran’s special parliamentary committee examining the protests of February 14 protests said today that those events were “Israeli, American, British, anti-Revolutionary and treasonous."

Rooz on Line/2011-03-03 - The range of protests against the detention of the leaders of Iran’s Green Movement extends from the country’s senior ayatollahs to Western governments while news media report on street gatherings that took place in various cities on Monday.

ABC News/2011-03-03 - US secretary of state Hillary Clinton says Iran is communicating with opposition groups in Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen in a bid to shape events in the strife-torn Middle East.

VOA/2011-03-03 - Iran is coming under increased scrutiny for the number of executions it carries out. Media reports from Iran on Wednesday reported the punishment for 10 drug traffickers. Human rights groups say Iran executes more people per capita than any other country in the world.

GVF/2011-03-02 - The Swedish foreign ministry said Wednesday it had summoned Iran's ambassador to protest the reported arrests of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi in Tehran.

RFE-RL/2011-03-02 - A number of prominent Iranian activists have written an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging him to intervene in the case of detained opposition leaders Mir Hossein Musavi and Mehdi Karrubi, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.