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Smoke billows from a burning car after it was set on fire by supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi to protest against the killing of a demonstrator in Tehran on Monday.

Tehran - Iranian police arrested 109 people during opposition protests on the sidelines of an official rally marking three decades since the seizure of the US embassy, Tehran's police chief said on Saturday.

A Danish journalism student has been arrested in Iran, the Danish Foreign Ministry told CNN on Saturday.

"Killing people for what they did as children is wrong and repellent, and killing them for alleged homosexual conduct is just as wrong and repellent.

The violent images of the 1979 Iranian revolution - women clad in chadors chanting passionately, protesters burning American flags and students being beaten on the street - are hauntingly similar to those that continue to trickle out of the country today.

The United States and Germany said Thursday that their patience to Iran "is not endless," urging Tehran to accept a UN-backed draft deal over its nuclear program.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards accused Pakistan Friday of releasing the leader of a Sunni rebel group ahead of a deadly attack it carried out in southeast Iran, state television IRIB reported.

Opposition protesters gathered in the streets of Tehran and other cities November 4, 2009.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki discussed regional issues and weapons allegations with his Syrian counterpart Wednesday in Tehran.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 6 /Trend News, T. Jafarov /

Azerbaijan's policies have allowed the country to become a bridge for Islamic countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Iranian Inter-Religious Rapprochement Committee head Sheikh Mohammad Ali Taskhiri said at a news conference at the Iranian Cultural Center in Azerbaijan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has again reiterated that Iran's 'technical and economic' concerns must be taken into account regarding the nuclear draft deal, Press TV reported.

Iranian security forces arrested an Agence France Presse reporter covering Wednesday's rally marking the anniversary of seizure of the U.S. embassy, the agency said on Thursday.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Turkey to attend an upcoming conference of the Permanent Committee of Social and Economic Cooperation (COMSEC), Press TV reported.

The United States and Germany said Thursday that their patience to Iran "is not endless," urging Tehran to accept a UN-backed draft deal over its nuclear program, Xinhua reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said a draft nuclear cooperation deal between Iran and three major powers will not be changed and urged Iran to accept it as is, Reuters reported.

U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday, Reuters reported.

We interrupt reveries about the Yankees with a dose of reality: Iran is racing headlong toward a nuclear weapon, fueling ever more terrorism and brutalizing its citizens.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday cited his country's seizure of a weapons-carrying cargo ship as evidence that Iran is committing war crimes by supplying the Lebanese Hezbollah movement with weapons intended to "kill as many civilians as possible", Xinhua reported.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and visiting Emir (Ruler) of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani on Thursday called for unity and solidarity of the Muslim nations, Xinhua reported according to official IRNA news agency.

A reporter for the news agency Agence France Presse was detained by Iranian authorities during coverage of events marking the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, a colleague said Thursday, AP reported.