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Angry Birds V Dictators

The birds are angry, the dictators are scared, and the world will never be the same. Twitter v Oppression, in a clever marketing campaign from France 24.

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Huge Security Presence on International Women’s Day

Huge security presence and sporadic protests mark International Women’s Day in Iran.

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Life in Iran’s Metaphorical “Green Zone”

Like a lime being squeezed, just as the iron fist of the regime is trying to tighten its grip, the Green Zone will expand and slip through its fingers.

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Who Won the Election in Iran?

Dissected News – Was Iran’s 2009 election rigged? James Miller analyzes polls, history, statistics, and the results themselves to cast doubt on the validity of the election.

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Radiation Sickness

Dissected News – Iran makes a deal with Turkey and Brazil, so Obama and Clinton push for sanctions. What the heck happened? Exploring America’s newest conundrum.

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As Iran’s bid to join rights body fails, U.S. claims victory

After launching a behind-the-scenes campaign to block Iran’s election to the U.N.’s Human Right’s Council, Obama celebrates as Iran withdraws its candidacy, a victory for human rights efforts in Iran.

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Agencies Suspect Iran Is Planning New Atomic Sites

Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations demands.

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Israel could use tactical nukes on Iran: thinktank

Deeply concerned as it is by the risk of a nuclear-armed Iran, Israel has never even hinted at using atomic weapons to forestall the perceived threat. But now a respected Washington think tank has said that low-radioactive yield “tactical” nuclear warheads would be one way for the Israelis to destroy Iranian uranium enrichment plants in remote, dug-in fortifications.

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US softens Iran sanctions plan to win support:

The United States has stepped back from a series of harsh measures against Iran and softened proposed UN sanctions to win the backing of China and Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

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Regime Hoarding Gasoline, Reducing Consumption in Anticipation of US Sanctions

Gasoline Near Top of Iran’s Imports List: 150 Percent Increase in Gasoline Imports – Regime Hoarding Gasoline, Reducing Consumption in Anticipation of US Sanctions

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Dissected News: Why Iran May Release U.S. Hiker

James Miller (Dissected News): Iranian officials announced freeing Sarah Shourd, 1 of the 3 U.S. hikers in Iranian Prison. The remaining question is the motive behind this move.

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Iran, Israel and the United States: Our destinies need not be bound by political hatreds, fears, and squabblings

If you happen to have grown up in the west, you are certainly familiar with the horror that was the [...]

Snap Analysis of Khamenei’s hailing of Obama’s call for caution on war talk

Khamenei: “This talk is good talk and shows an exit from illusion”

INN Exclusive: Huge Media Fail – A CNN Correspondent’s Nuclear Misquote of President Obama

Did President Obama really call it a “nuclear weapons program?”

Special: Press-stream of Oscar Win for Best Foreign Language Film for Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’

Snippets of sentiment and buzz captured throughout the day, surrounding the first ever Iranian film to win an Oscar, an event that will go down in history as coming at just the right moment–a time when some politicians and media clamor for war.

Special: A Dichotomy of the “Chatter” vs. Instagrams from Iran

Acknowledging Iran in the drowning din of media chatter

Iran Live-blog: 25 Bahman, One Year Later

Last year, tens of thousands Iranians protested in solidarity with uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Several people were killed, hundreds were arrested. Today we watch for signs of renewed protests.