Meanwhile,the Iranian regime has been cracking down on anti-government protests that erupted after June's disputed presidential election and flared anew last month.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04

"However,it is essential that any new regime for resolving or liquidating non-banks not rely on taxpayer funding."

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Russia's National Counterterrorism Committee issued a statement saying Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov canceled the security regime in Chechnya on orders of President Dmitri Medvedev.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

Meanwhile,thousands of Iranian supporters of Mr.Moussavi expressed their anger at what many called "the lies and fraud of the regime of mullahs" on a popular Facebook website support group for the defeated candidate.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

Mr.Bani Sadr says he thinks the Iranian regime is "sharply divided" and its fate depends on whether opposition reformists, including Mr.Moussavi,Ayatollah Karroubi and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani decide to oppose Ayatollah Khamenei.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

"These attacks have been on-going for quite some time and the sudden escalation at a time when the regime is claiming that they're going to have democracy and elections and everything is going to be better is very disturbing."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"Either this regime gets serious about reforming itself and about playing its part in taking on violent jihadists and extremists or else it seems to me we have got to consider pulling our troops out and fighting the threat of terrorism in a different way,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Ileana Ros Lehtinen is the ranking committee Republican "It should be clear that unless we impose the maximum pressure on Iran, and this bill is a major step forward in that direction, the regime will continue its march toward acquiring nuclear weapons, dominating the Persian Gulf, and expanding its network of radical militants around the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Saying President Obama has offered Iran every opportunity for constructive diplomatic dialogue on its nuclear program, Senate Democratic Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry said more robust sanctions are in his words the only way to dramatically increase the economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran from the outside and help leverage pressure on the regime from its own population which wants a different relationship with the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25