A NEWSPAPER editor and well-known critic of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sentenced to nine years in jail for fomenting unrest after June’s elections.

AN IRANIAN prosecutor has called for “maximum punishment” of a senior reformer for acting against national security, a crime punishable by death.

Iran’s leaders today declared the country’s parliament elections, which were carried by conservatives, a victory that showed Iranians’ defiance of the West.

Iran has today released an Iranian-American democracy scholar after spending four months in prison - the third time in recent weeks Tehran has set free holders of dual-citizenship it accuses of trying to stir up a revolution.