TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has sentenced three prominent political activists to six years in prison each for involvement in the country's post-election turmoil, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday.
The three are among more than 100 opposition figures who were put on a mass trial in the wake of the country's disputed June presidential elections. The trial has led to a dozen death sentences so far.
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BEIRUT - A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.
Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate.
"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Sedighi is Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader.
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A bipartisan group of 363 House lawmakers sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday urging him to impose "crippling" sanctions on Iran with or without United Nations action.
The letter guarantees that there is bipartisan support in Congress for "tough and decisive measures" against Iran and asks Mr. Obama to fulfill his July 2008 campaign pledge to do everything in his "power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon."
"Mr. President, you have stated this issue is a priority for your administration. You have attempted to engage the Iranian regime for over a year. You have gone to the United Nations Security Council in an effort to impose tough new sanctions on Iran. But time is not on our side," the letter states. "We cannot allow those who would oppose or delay sanctions to govern either the timing or content of our efforts," it says, referring to the hesitations of China and Russia, who can veto the effort.
"There is no greater or more immediate threat to President Obama's vision and agenda of nonproliferation than Iran," said Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois, who co-authored the letter with Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, the chairman of the House Republican Conference.
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