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		<title>Why Is Iran Releasing Some Postelection Detainees?</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/03/why-is-iran-releasing-some-postelection-detainees/</link>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) &#124; March 12, 2010
by Golnaz Esfandiari
The Iranian authorities in recent weeks have begun to release some of the former officials, activists, and intellectuals detained in last year&#8217;s post-election unrest.
Those released in recent days include former Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, activist Abdollah Momeni, and student leader Mehdi Arabshahi.
Those detainees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafsanjani&#8217;s Long-term Strategy: Empowering Himself Through Helping the Greens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Newest Deal) &#124; March 12, 2010
Masoud Shafaee
As the Persian Nowruz New Year fast approaches and Iran&#8217;s post-election crisis enters its ninth month, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remains as mercurial a figure as ever in Iranian politics. True to his nickname of Kooseh, or &#8220;The Shark,&#8221; Rafsanjani has been paying lip-service to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Census, Iranians and Italians… Starring Maz Jobrani (hilarious!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton Addresses Iranian Women on Women&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<title>Selected Headlines, March 11, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran frees top opposition figure for new year
Prague&#8217;s One World Festival Puts Focus On Iran
Interview: UN Envoy On Torture Says Concerned About Iran 
Rafsanjani stresses people&#8217;s role in government stability
American and Iranian: 2 homelands at an impasse
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		<title>Iran frees top opposition figure for new year: reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Associated Free Press hosted by Google) &#124; March 10, 2010
TEHRAN — Iran has freed for the new year holidays a prominent opposition figure rounded up during protests against the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, news reports said Thursday.
A number of activists and journalists have also been freed under varying conditions in the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus On Iran As Prague&#8217;s One World Film Festival Kicks Off</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/03/focus-on-iran-as-pragues-one-world-film-festival-kicks-off-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) &#124; March 10, 2010
By Kristin Deasy
The poster advertising the opening of Europe&#8217;s largest human rights film festival shows a 20-something brunette in leather pants ready to lasso, cowgirl-style, the attention of potential attendees.
She&#8217;s also wearing a green jacket. It&#8217;s a good fit for the festival&#8217;s opening film, &#8220;Green Days,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: UN Envoy On Torture Says Concerned About Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) &#124; March 11, 2010
In the wake of the UN Human Rights Council&#8217;s recent session on Iran, RFE/RL&#8217;s Radio Farda correspondent Javad Kouroshy asked Manfred Nowak, the UN&#8217;s special rapporteur on torture, about his attempts to visit Tehran and his efforts to make governments around the world take better care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafsanjani stresses people&#8217;s role in government stability</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/03/rafsanjani-stresses-peoples-role-in-government-stability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Radio Zamaaneh) &#124; March 11, 2010
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council stressed the role of people in governance and maintained that with the growth and spread of media, governments that do not have popular bases can not last long.
ILNA reports that speaking in a meeting of members of municipal councils of Tehran Province, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American and Iranian: 2 homelands at an impasse</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/03/american-and-iranian-2-homelands-at-an-impasse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we can't force Iran out of its nuclear intentions, whatever they are. Pragmatism might prompt Iranian leaders to abandon their current course, but that seems unlikely at this point, as, internally, doing so would certainly be taken as a sign of weakness. Approaching Iran as an autonomous state — one with the same rights as ours (energy, weapons, and all) — is the only way to get beyond this impasse.
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