(Tehran Bureau) | February 24, 2010 by ALI CHENAR in Tehran [ comment ] The month of Bahman, the 11th in the Iranian calendar, has ended. Politics will pause for a moment while Iranians turn their attention to their beloved Norouz, the New Year, which starts March 21st. Stores will advertise holiday sales, housewives will [...]
Archive | February, 2010
Selected Headlines, February 24, 2010
Not Defeated United Nations General Assembly Recognizes 21 March as International Day of Nowruz Jailed Iranian Academic In ‘Critical Condition Hashemi Announced Unity in Absence of Yazdi Deciphering Rafsanjani The Baha’i Community, Human Rights, and the Construction of a New Iranian Identity
UN Officially Recognizes March 21 as International Nowruz Day
(BusinessWeek) | February 24, 2010 By Ali Sheikholeslami Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — The United Nations General Assembly recognized March 21 as the International Day of Nowruz, a festival of Persian origin that marks the beginning of a new year for more than 300 million people. Nowruz, meaning new day in the Farsi language, has been [...]
Deciphering Rafsanjani
(Tehran Bureau) | February 25, 2010 by HANA H. in Tehran [ analysis ] Iranians are a complex people. Talking in riddles and metaphors is a cultural thing that everyone learns from a young age. Iranian politicians have mastered this ‘art of riddle-talk.’ Most foreign journalists reporting on Iran do not realize that in order [...]
Hashemi Announced Unity in Absence of Yazdi
(Rooz Online) | February 25, 2010 Farzaneh Bazrpour The seventh of Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Leadership, mandated by the constitution oversee the performance of the supreme leader began its annual session yesterday with Hashemi Rafsanjani’s speech but in the absence of Mohammad Yazdi. On Monday, the hardline Kayhan daily announced the session’s agenda to [...]
Jailed Iranian Academic In ‘Critical Condition’
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | February 23, 2010 The first chancellor of Tehran University after the 1979 Islamic Revolution remains in jail despite what his wife says is his deteriorating health, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Mohammad Maleki, who is 76 and suffers from prostate cancer, was arrested in August during the crackdown that [...]
The truth about Iran’s campus attack
(Guardian, UK) | February 23, 2010 Saeed Kamali Dehghan Shocking film footage has emerged showing how riot police brutally suppressed protesting Tehran University students Last night the BBC Persian service broadcast for the first time a very disturbing video of the attack by the Basij militia and riot police on Tehran University’s campus just two [...]
Selected Headlines, February 22, 2010
The Militarized Death of the Republic A memory of Javad Larijani The Need for Consistent Politics In the Wake of 22 Bahman Majid Tavakoli Returns to the Revolutionary Court Iran, the Green Movement, and Cricket Mehdi Karroubi’s statement regarding events of 22nd of Bahman (February 11th) Tehran Revolutionary Guard chief replaced Iranian Science Minister Spurns [...]
Video of attack on University Dorms in Iran on June 15, 2009, Three Days After the Rigged Presidential Elections
About 9 months ago Iran fell into turmoil after the presidential elections were rigged in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Millions of Iranians protested this in the streets, including many students from Iran’s universities. Numerous reports came in during those heady days of attacks on Iranian University dorms by the dreaded regime goons including plainclothed Basij [...]
IRAN: Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi challenges hard-line authorities to a duel of rallies
(Los Angeles Times) | February 22, 2010 In his first major comments since the opposition failed to gather large numbers of supporters for protests coinciding with the Feb. 11 anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution, former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi on Monday issued a bold challenge to the hard-line rulers of the Islamic Republic: Give the [...]
Texas artist breathes new life into old Iranian protest anthem
(Homy Lafayette’s Iran News Blog) | February 13, 2010 Texas artist breathes new life into old Iranian protest anthem In early December of 2009, a new, hypnotic version of the 1970s protest anthem ‘Yareh Dabestaniyeh Man’ (My schoolfriend) appeared on the web site of Where Is My Vote – New York. The fresh take on [...]
Khamenei and Khomeini in the trash: And that’s what their ‘supporters’ think of them…
(Homy Lafayette’s Iran News Blog) | February 13, 2010 Although this was posted on Homy Lafayette’s blog over a week ago it is an interesting story and still relevant. Leader and founder… A video filmed on the anniversary of the revolution, February 11, shows numerous official signs and posters bearing photos of Leader Ayatollah Ali [...]
Report on the Operation of the Iran Cyber Army in Hacking Websites
(Payvand) | February 22, 2010 By Farvartish Rezvaniyeh, www.kaleme.com During the past few months, the activities of Iran’s Cyber Army have been noted by the Iranian and even the international media. The theory that these hacker groups are connected to the Iranian government was strengthened when, after several sites were hacked, they issued warnings to [...]
Pressure Mounts to Dissolve Student Association (Office to Strengthen Unity) Daftar Tahkim Vahdat
(Rooz Online) | February 18, 2010 Arash Bahmani Note from INN (not in the original article in Rooz Online): The Student Association, the Office to Strengthen Unity is one of Iran’s largest and strongest student organizations, and has played a significant role in organizing student protests since the rigged presidential elections in June of 2009. [...]
Iranian Science Minister Spurns “Secular” Professors
(RadioZamaneh) | February 22, 2010 Iranian Minister of Science and Technology, Kamran Daneshjou announced today that the country’s universities have no need for “secular” professors and educators who do not subscribe to the Islamic worldview (they have no place in Iran’s universities). He also told Fars news agency that acting in partisanship is “poisonous for [...]
Tehran Revolutionary Guard chief replaced
(RadioZamaneh) | February 22, 2010 Commander Ali Fazli, head of Seyed-ol-Shoahda Revolutionary Guards has been replaced as Tehran security heads are being shuffled around. This week, Tehran police chief, Azizollah Rajabzadeh also retired only after six months at his post. Governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamaddon lauded Commander Fazli’s actions in the post-election events and his [...]
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