Iranian claims Neda’s death staged ’shocking’: US

September 22nd, 2009 Ahmadinejad tells AP he regrets protester deathsNEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he regrets the deaths of protesters in the violence that followed his country's disputed presidential elections. But he denied that his government had any role in the killings.

September 9th, 2009 Iranian exiles vent fury at US over Iraq attacksLONDON — Iranian exiles camped outside the American Embassy in London say they've been on hunger strike for weeks to push the United States to protect their compatriots in Iraq. The People's Mujahedeen of Iran say the U.S.

August 12th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday dismissed allegations that protesters detained in the post-election unrest were raped as "sheer lies". "Following a precise and comprehensive inquiry into (the treatment of) detainees at Kahrizak and Evin prisons, no cases of rape or sexual abuse were found," Larijani was quoted as saying by the Press TV.

July 28th, 2009 Appeals court keeps alive suit against IranWASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday kept alive a wrongful death lawsuit against Iran over Hezbollah's assassination of the former chief of the country's armed forces 25 years ago. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington said the lower court applied the wrong law when it dismissed the claims of Gholam Oveissi's grandson, who sued Iran because it funded and directed Hezbollah's activities.

July 11th, 2009 Iranian-Americans rally in front of White HouseWASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters, many of them Iranian-Americans, marched from Capitol Hill to the White House on Saturday, most holding Iranian flags and chanting demands for the U.S. to take more action after Iran's disputed election.

July 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iranian claims that the death of a young Iranian woman was staged during the recent demonstrations to tarnish the government's image is "shocking" and equate to a "campaign of misinformation", the White House has said. "That is the ongoing campaign of misinformation about what's going on," spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

July 1st, 2009 SIRTE, Libya — Iran's president canceled a last-minute call to attend an African Union summit in Libya on Wednesday amid a stir among African delegates, who complained the contentious Iranian leader would divert the conference's attention from Africa's pressing problems. There was no immediate explanation from Iranian or Libyan officials present at the AU summit as to why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad didn't arrive at the summit as planned Wednsday morning in Sirte, Libya.

June 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - A senior Iranian cleric called on the judiciary Friday to impose death sentences on the leaders of the recent protests against an alleged fraud in the June 12 presidential election. "I call on the judiciary for a decisive confrontation with the leaders of these illegal demonstrations and ask for capital punishment against them without any mercy," Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, who is close to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said at Friday prayers.

June 25th, 2009 Iranian says militiaman killed protester in TehranLONDON — An Iranian doctor who claims he tried to save Neda Agha Soltan as the young Iranian protester bled to death on the streets of Tehran said Thursday that she apparently was shot by a member of Iran's pro-government Basij militia. Video images of 26-year-old Soltan, with blood pouring from her mouth and nose as a few Iranian men struggled to save her, have became a powerful symbol of the protests taking place over Iran's disputed presidential election.

June 23rd, 2009 Britain expels 2 Iranian diplomatsLONDON — Britain's government says it has expelled two Iranian diplomats in retaliation for Tehran's decision to order out two staff members from the British Embassy in Tehran. The Foreign Office said Tuesday that Tehran's decision was baseless and unjustifiable.

June 22nd, 2009 BRUSSELS - The European Union (EU) Monday dismissed as "baseless and unacceptable" Iranian claims that some of the bloc's biggest members are trying to topple its regime. "The EU considers the accusations made by various Iranian authorities towards the EU and its member states concerning European interference in the Iranian elections as baseless and unacceptable.

June 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - The death of Neda, which means "voice" in Farsi, has become the central rallying cry of the Iranian protests that followed the disputed presidential election. Iranian state media has confirmed 17 deaths as a result of the protests.

June 17th, 2009 US official denies charge of interference in IranWASHINGTON — The State Department is disputing an allegation by the Iranian government that the United States is meddling excessively in its internal affairs. State Department spokesman P.J.

June 4th, 2009 PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran Wednesday that it faces increasing isolation from the international community if it refuses to negotiate over its nuclear programme. Sarkozy, who met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Paris, said Iran must respect UN resolutions and only negotiations would pave the way for cooperation.

April 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - After watching Monica Bellucci's rape scene in 'Irreversible', Sienna Miller fears she'll never be shocked by a love scene in a film ever again. The British actress has admitted that she was left 'traumatised' after watching the harrowing sex scene in Gaspar Noe's controversial 2002 film.