TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The lawyer of a man convicted of building and promoting pornographic websites says a death sentence against his client has been converted to life imprisonment. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei is quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency, which is often used by the government to make announcements, as saying Monday that blogger Saeed ...

Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian web programmer with Canadian residency has been sentenced to death, on charges of corrupting the earth. Since Malekpour was sentenced to death two years ago, Irans Revolutionary Guard, which made the charges against him, has publicized the web programmers case as an example to Iranians who use the Internet violate its ...

Iran news headlines on Sunday includeThe head of Supervisory Committee for Irans Constitution statements on government establishment ofconstitution research center,An Iranian energy official announcement onconstructing power plant in Iraq to provide electricity for Shiite shrines,Iran's Ahmadinejad appointing new job to his aide,Iran suspending death ...

Iran has suspended the death sentence against a computer programmer convicted for allegedly designing a pornographic website after he "repented," Mehr news agency reported Sunday quoting his attorney. Saeed Malekpour, a permanent resident of Canada, was arrested in December 2008 in Iran when he returned to his native land to visit his dying father ...