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TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit back on Wednesday after an ex-nuclear negotiator he accused of spying was cleared of espionage, calling for the publication of documents exposing the official. The Iranian judiciary the day before had cleared Hossein Moussavian on two counts of espionage and holding classified information, in direct contradiction of the government's accusations against the former atomic negotiator. "The full content of the negotiation of this ex-member of the nuclear negotiating team should be published," Ahmadinejad said after a cabinet meeting, according to the Mehr news agency. "It is very appropriate that the intelligence content...

HOLLYWOOD starlets who regret topless appearances in B-list films made before they hit the big time should spare a pitying thought for their Iranian counterparts - who risk far more than mere embarrassment.In a scandal now gripping the conservative Islamic country, police are investigating a private film circulating on the black market that purports to show a rising young soap star making love to her boyfriend. The woman is being investigated for a suspected breach of the country's morality laws that prohibit sex outside marriage. Lashing is the penalty. Her alleged partner in the footage, which has spread across the...

TEHRAN (MNA) –- Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said here on Tuesday that Westerners, and particularly the United States, are in no position to comment on the issue of human rights in light of the “Guantanamo hell” and the scandals resulting from the U.S. administration of Iraqi prisons. Disclosures of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq created worldwide uproar and many international organizations have expressed serious concern over the abuse of prisoners in the U.S. military prison in Guantanomo Bay, Cuba. In a meeting with the new Swiss ambassador to Tehran, Philippe Welti, Rafsanjani stated that the aggressive...