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A day after the largest antigovernment protests in Iran in more than a year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday dismissed opposition attempts to revive mass demonstrations as certain to fail, while members of the Iranian Parliament clamored for the two most prominent leaders of the protest movement to be executed. Critics have called in the past for the two men, Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, to be prosecuted for alleged crimes that would merit the death penalty. The calls for punishment on Tuesday, however, appeared to be the most strident yet -- with members of Parliament shouting in unison, ''Moussavi, Karroubi should be hanged!'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mehdi Karroubi, an Iranian opposition leader, said Tuesday that a demonstration planned in Tehran next week, nominally in solidarity with the protest movements in Egypt and Tunisia, was a test both for the Iranian government and its opponents. Since Tehran is painting events in Cairo and elsewhere as the long-awaited regional blossoming of its own Islamic Revolution, to deny a permit for such a march would show that its position in support of the Arab movements is fake, Mr. Karroubi said in a rare interview from Tehran, conducted via an Internet video link. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED A political tract hammered out by an Iranian feminist this spring presents a snapshot of activism from exile. Incensed by an aging ayatollah's pronouncement that women exposing excessive flesh cause earthquakes, the young lawyer, who fled to Germany after her arrest in Iran, fired off a Web post accusing all Iranian men of complicity in the oppression of women propagated by the ayatollahs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An Iranian man arrested in his country's postelection unrest has been sentenced to death, according to reports on a Web site aligned with the reformist movement. If so, it is the first death sentence to be issued in cases involving the hundreds charged in the vast protests that followed the declaration of a landslide victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 elections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi announced the formation of a new social and political movement on his Web site on Saturday, following through on a promise made last month and defying a renewed government campaign of intimidation aimed at him and his supporters. The movement is not a political party -- which would require a government permit -- but a ''grass-roots and social network'' that will promote democracy and adherence to the law, Mr. Moussavi wrote in a statement on his site. It is to be known as the Green Way of Hope, in deference to the signature bright green color of his campaign for the June 12 presidential election, which he maintains was rigged in favor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the opposition movements of the National Council of Resistance of Iran to stir up revolution between Iran and France.

Reports on the fatalities arising from the violence in the Kurdish region of Iran.

Reports on the protest outside the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Reasons behind the protest; People involved in the protest.

Presents a photograph depicting the demonstration of Iranians in Tehran, accusing President Mohammad Khatami's government of laxity in fighting vice.

Reports the rally staged by youths in Iran on June 4, 2001 signifying their support for the second term of President Mohammad Khatami.