Iran elections 
The Iranian regime has raised the heat on opposition leaders, closing the office of a presidential candidate and arresting a key ally of another
The chief commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard escalated the regime’s accusations against leading opposition figures, claiming that Mohammad Khatami, the reformist leader, and a son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president, had been working to weaken or remove the country’s supreme leader
Viewers and advertisers boycott state broadcaster over role as propagandist for government in disputed presidential poll
President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad called for the prosecution of reformist leaders over their alleged role in recent post-election unrest – a move that would risk sparking fresh street protests
Tehran’s top prosecutor called for Iran’s largest reformist party to be disbanded as the government held the fourth mass trial of opposition moderates since June’s disputed election
Iran is no longer the country the west had thought, or wanted to think, it was. The post-election scenes on the streets of Iranian cities surely strengthen those who argue that the way to encourage Tehran’s return to the international community is through engagement, writes Philip Stephens
Having all but put down a popular uprising in support of Mir Hossein Moussavi, the Iranian regime will not – and should not – relax. Tehran may have declared the election crisis over. But it is not
The arrest of Iranian employees of the British embassy in Tehran makes it vital that Britain and the EU convince the regime it will pay a high cost if it further crosses the lines of international law
Given the people’s will to stand up for their rights and Ayatollah Khamenei’s refusal to compromise, the crisis may have caused irreparable damage to the Islamic Republic
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blown his chance to defuse the crisis by backing a a second round run-off but it is the only course of action if the situation is to be revolved without further bloodshed
Iran’s supreme leader was once credited with every pragmatic decision taken by the Islamic Republic, but his backing for Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad has torn society apart and plunged the regime into a severe power struggle
With authorities now determined to face down protesters over the disputed election, the stand-off is entering a potentially dangerous phase
It may well prove impossible, whatever the west does, to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. But one thing that can be said for certain is that an attempt to bomb its nuclear installations would not halt the programme. To the contrary, nothing would be more calculated to entrench the present, says Philip Stephens
When Barack Obama remarked that Mir-Hossein Moussavi, leader of Iran’s opposition, might be no easier for the US to deal with than Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, he said too much, whether it was true or not
