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A partial recount of votes in last Friday's Iran presidential election was ordered by Iranian electoral authorities Monday after reformist candidates accused military organizations of rigging the first round of voting . The close first election resulted in...

Two reformist newspapers in Iran have been banned after publishing a letter from defeated opposition candidate Mehdi Karoubi claiming the first round of presidential elections was rigged . The Aftab Daily and the Eghbal...

The Iranian Judiciary detained a number of people on suspicion of election violations Saturday, a day after Iran's presidential election and six days before the top two candidates face each other in a runoff vote. President Bush...

New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch said Sunday that the presidential election in Iran set for Friday cannot be free and fair because the country's unelected religious authority has approved a narrow list of candidates. A...

Upon reconsidering its former ban on reformist candidates, Iran's Guardian Council has now officially reinstated former higher education minister Mostafa Moin and incumbent Vice President Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh as candidates in the...

Iran's hard-line Guardian Council Sunday rejected all reformist candidates in the upcoming presidential election, disqualifying more than 1,000 potential candidates. Just six conservative candidates were selected to run in the election, prompting a crisis meeting by reform...

The US State Department Monday released its 2004 annual reports on human rights practices in 196 countries, delivering with sharp criticisms of rights situations in Middle Eastern allies Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt. The document also censured...

Ahmad Chalabi , currently lobbying to be Iraq's Prime Minister in the wake of the recent elections which gave his Shiite party grouping a majority of seats in the new National Assembly, has promised to bring former...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, Feb. 9.The US Senate convenes today at 9:30 AM ET, and it continues debate of S. 5 , the Class...

Insurgents attacked a police station Saturday in Khanaqin near the border with Iran, killing eight people and making a total of seventeen killed across the country on the eve of elections. The latest attacks came even as security forces...