Clerical Leaders Defy Ayatollah on Iran Election An important group of religious leaders in Iran called for the results to be thrown out, the most public sign of a major split in the clerical establishment. ×

Iranian Cleric Sex Tape The Daily Beast reports on Iran's hottest porn video—a government cleric committing adultery (and mooning the camera). It's fairly tame as far as sex tapes go but is a big step for Iran in terms of humiliating public figures online. So co… ×

Arrests of Rafsanjani kin show Iran clerics split AP - Iran’s government said Sunday it arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the country’s most powerful men, in a move that exposed a rift among the ruling Islamic clerics over the disputed p… ×