(Guardian UK) It’s no joke! City council starts laughing clubs in colleges and jails to put smile back on citizens’ faces and boost health Amid simmering political tensions, a fierce post-election crackdown and a depressed economy, reasons to be cheerful are hardly in abundant supply in Iran. Now Tehran city council has found an antidote [...]
Archive | November, 2009
Newsweek: Khamenei will be Iran’s last Supreme Leader
(Newsweek) Future Perfect The clerical establishment has become so sick of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that they will not replace him when he dies. By Geneive Abdo | Newsweek Web Exclusive Iranian reformists and liberals worldwide can be forgiven for thinking that the election and crackdown last summer strengthened the hardliners. In the short [...]
No going back
PBS just released a documentary on Neda’s murder: FRONTLINE: A Death in Tehran. This is a must see. Watching it, I couldn’t believe how raw the feelings and emotions evoked by it were for me. I felt as though the events were happening all over again. I was overcome by a panopoly of emotions: rage, [...]
Clerics side with people of Iran
From Mowjcamp.com: Ever since the fraudulent Presidential Elections in Iran in June 2009, the role of Shiite clerics from Qom and even Iraq in standing up to the coup government of Ahmadinejad and its backers has been unprecedented throughout the 30 year history of the Islamic Republic to say the least. Indeed the positions held [...]
Iran sentences 5 to death in postelection turmoil
By NASSER KARIMI (AP) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday. The five apparently include three death sentences announced last month. None of the five have been identified by [...]
Iran student gets 8 yrs over post-election protests
TEHRAN (Reuters) – An Iranian court on Saturday sentenced a student who took part in protests following Iran’s disputed presidential election this year to eight years in prison, a website reported. The June 12 vote triggered big street demonstrations by opposition supporters accusing the authorities of rigging the result, which gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a [...]
Iran forms unit to go after opposition on Internet
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday. Police Col. Mehrdad Omidi, who heads the Internet crime unit, said the [...]
Khamenei aide: ‘Leader should not have to abide by law’
In an extraordinary series of comments, the Supreme Leader’s official representative in the Revolutionary Guards Corps has made the headlines again by claiming that neither the people nor the Assembly of Experts are able to oust the Leader from power as he has been “chosen by God” for this position.
YEMEN: Raging insurgency exacerbates tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran
In August, the Yemeni government launched Operation Scorched Earth against Zaidi Shiite rebels in the north, known as Houthis. Although the government has denied the crackdown is religiously motivated, the struggle has broken down along sectarian lines, with the Houthis accusing Saudi Arabia of providing military support to the government and the government accusing Iran of supporting the rebels.
Iran to try brother-in-law of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi
The brother-in-law of Iran’s main opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, will be put on trial before the revolutionary court, months after his arrest in the country’s post-election crackdown, Tehran’s public prosecutor said today.
Hardline Cleric Jannati: Iran’s struggle with America should continue
Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:39am EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran must continue its struggle against the United States, a hardline cleric said on Friday a day after Washington renewed long-standing U.S. financial sanctions against Iran. U.S. President Barack Obama offered a new approach toward Iran when he took office in January, but Iran remains locked [...]
Iranian doctor Arash Hejazi who tried to rescue Neda Soltan tells of wounds that never heal
November 13, 2009 Martin Fletcher As Arash Hejazi sat in an Oxford coffee bar, members of Iran’s Basij militia in Tehran were demanding his extradition outside the British Embassy. The previous day the Iranian regime had sent an Oxford college a letter of protest over a scholarship given to honour Neda Soltan, the student killed [...]
Brainwashing children: Basij militia to be established in 6,000 elementary schools
The following article is written by a Twitter blogger who goes by Homy Lafayette (http://twitter.com/homylafayette). Link to HomyLayette’s Blogspot: http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/. A senior Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) official has announced that the Basij militia will soon be established in Iranian elementary schools for the first time since the Islamic revolution. The extensive plan calls for the introduction [...]
Iran ‘executes Kurdish activist’
Iran ‘executes Kurdish activist’ A Kurdish opposition activist convicted of carrying weapons and working against national security has been executed in western Iran, local media have said. Kordestan province judiciary chief Ali Akbar Gharoussi told the semi-official Fars news agency that Ehsan Fatahian had been hanged in Sanandaj prison. Human rights groups said Mr Fatahian [...]
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