TEHRAN, Iran - A hard-line cleric sought Friday to head off an attempt to reinvigorate Iran's anti-government movement, warning against a planned opposition rally next month that would coincide with annual state-sponsored demonstrations against the
BAGHDAD - A Sunni cleric who denounced insurgents in Iraq was killed Friday north of Baghdad when a bomb tore through his car, an Iraqi police official said, the second such attack against religious officials in as many weeks. Activists and clerics
CAIRO - Egypt's top Islamic cleric said Thursday that students and teachers will not be allowed to wear face veils in classrooms and dormitories of Sunni Islam's premier institute of learning, al-Azhar, part of a government effort to curb radical Is
CAIRO - Egypt's top Islamic cleric is planning to ban students wearing the face veil from entering the schools of al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's premier institute of learning, according to an independent daily Monday. A security official also told The Asso
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has replaced a reformist, pro-opposition cleric with a hard-liner to lead the prayer service on a key anti-Israel day this week, according to a state radio report Wednesday. The announcement is a blow to Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi R
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's most senior dissident cleric on Wednesday criticized the ruling system under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a dictatorship in the name of Islam, the most serious attack on the country's top official following the disp
TEHRAN, Aug. 18 His newspaper was shut down Monday, and generals and hard-line clerics have called for him to be put on trial. Yet defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi says opposition to the government is growing by the day. The w
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