Iran has already begun blaming the West for the death on Tuesday of Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a professor at Tehran University, who was a nuclear physics professor. While a nuclear expert, he was also a public backer of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the contested June presidential election.

Reminiscent of the protests which came soon right the aftermath of the disputed Iranian elections, Twitter is being used to spread Iran news. Users are tweeting at #iranelection, to spread word of the protests, and apparent killings of protesters.

Twitter was hacked overnight, with users of the site being redirected to a different web page, credited to the "Iranian Cyber Army." For a while, Twitter was down, in fact. Things seem to have returned to semblance of normalcy at the site, but a Twitter blog post indicates the issue was a DNS hack and that they are investigating.

Iran has picked up a racing yacht piloted by five British citizens in the Persian gulf. The yacht might have strayed unintentionally into Iranian waters. The crew members are still being held by Iran and are said to be "in good condition."

The U.S. has moved to seize assets of the Alavi Foundation, which purports to be "a private not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion and support of Islamic culture and Persian language, literature and civilization." In doing so, federal authorities said the Foundation is a front for the goverment of Iran.

The three U.S. hikers which wandered into Iran from Iraq and were subsequently captured have been accused of espionage, an Iran prosecutor said on Monday. The three have been in custody since late July.

The Cyrus cylinder is perhaps the world's oldest charter of human rights, 539-530 B.C. artifact dating back to the reign of Cyrus the Great, is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform. Iran's Hamid Baqaei - vice president in charge of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization - is asking the British Museum for a loan of the Cylinder.

The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard today accused the United States and Britain of supporting the Sunni Muslim militants who staged a suicide bombing in southeast Iran on Sunday that killed more than 40 military personnel, including five senior officers in the powerful Revolutionary Guard.

The Internet is abuzz with rumors that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has died after slipping into a coma. "Khamenei died" phrases circulates all over the internet and blogsphere.

Three protesters who were arrested in the violent unrest that occurred after the disputed Iranian elections in June have been sentenced to death. The report came from the ISNA news agency on Saturday.

A report by the Telegraph purports to have solid evidence that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has Jewish roots. The proof of this is the photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 which the site states "clearly displays the evidence."