Iran's Intelligence Ministry has compiled a list of 60 groups -- several based in the United States -- saying it considers them "soft war" agents against the country, Iranian media reported Monday.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi tells CNN Iran's crackdown on anti-government protesters will increase their will.
The good news: data from governments and other organizations is increasingly open and online. The bad news: it's rather dull.
From the mid-1980s, Hungarian-born investor and philanthropist George Soros pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into foundations in Eastern Europe dedicated to promoting the idea of the "open society" and challenging the region's Soviet-backed regimes. Since then his Open Society Institute has evolved into a network of foundations and offices working in over 60 countries. Here, writing exclusively for CNN.com, he describes how the work of his foundations ultimately contributed to the collapse of communism.
An Iranian-American man has been sentenced to 15 years in an Iranian prison for his role in protests after the disputed presidential election in June, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Tuesday.
Iran resumed Tuesday its mass trial of political reformists it has accused of trying to overthrow the government in the wake of the disputed presidential election in June, according to state-run media reports.
The United States on Tuesday expressed its deep concern about an Iranian-American scholar who was recently charged in connection with post-election violence in the Islamic republic.
Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American social scientist who has been held in Iran since May, has been released from Tehran's Evin Prison, according to his employer.
A detained Iranian-American academic accused of conspiring against the government was freed on bail Tuesday from a Tehran prison
The United States was using some of the four Iranian-Americans detained by Tehran to meddle in Iranian affairs and is trying to cover it up, Tehran's security chief charged Saturday.
President Bush on Friday called on Tehran to release four detained Iranian-Americans "immediately and unconditionally."
Iran has formally charged Iranian-American Haleh Esfandiari with trying to topple the government, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary told CNN on Tuesday.
Iran recently imprisoned a fourth person of dual Iranian and American citizenship, the man's family and colleagues told CNN on Wednesday
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Soros's Open Society Institute, which takes its name from philosopher Karl Popper's phrase for free and democratic states, supports 33 foundations that funnel money into global philanthropy. Many o...
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