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Iran Special Analysis (Part 1): The Nuclear Report – “May” Is Not “Definitely”

Let’s start with the “smoking gun” statement from the IAEA that does not exactly smoke

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Iran Snap Analysis: The IAEA Nuclear Report — Serious, But Not That Serious….

Our take-away line at this point: “The report is more serious for Iran than previous IAEA findings but not as serious as Western officials were spinning it.”

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Video: Full interview of Ahmadinejad by NBC’s Ann Curry

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Ahmadinejad Announces Possible Release of U.S. Hikers within a “Couple Days”

Ahmadinejad says release of U.S. hikers would be a “humanitarian gesture”.

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Video Special: Documentary, “Nation of Exiles”

Dabashi: “…our civil liberties will not come the day after the revolution, but they are secured before that day–to the point where it makes that revolution irrelevant.”

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Special (Part 2): Iran’s Opposition Steps Up

The internal conflict between President Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, and the loss of close allies like Syria will play a significant role in delegitimizing the Iranian regime.

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Special (Part 1): Where is Iran’s Opposition?

Two years later, as the Arab Spring has dominated the region many wonder whether the Green Movement is still alive and if there is hope for reform in Iran.

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Mousavi Allowed to Visit Daughters, Says “Future is bright.”

Mousavi: “Given the current climate in our country, one cannot be hopeful regarding participation in the upcoming elections.”

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Shifting Focus and Fighting Ignorance

“Since you are also Muslim like the hijackers, you can explain the religion to us: What would possess these Muslims to do such a thing?”

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Iran Judiciary Sentences U.S. Hikers, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal to 8 Years Prison

The verdict came as a shock to many who had thought the Iranian government may release them during the holy month of Ramadan.

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Live-blog: Libya – Fighting in Tripoli as Rebels Advance

We are monitoring reports from various sources in Tripoli, Libya today, indicating that clashes are occurring in several neighborhoods there.

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Women on the Frontline

A documentary on The Women’s Movement in Iran. Brought to our attention by @theReelContent on Twitter.

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The National Interest: Ahmadinejad vs. The Ayatollah

AHMADINEJAD AND his oligarch cronies have been having a rough couple of months. The ayatollah is out for blood, and those in “elected” office are under attack.

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Iran’s Supreme Leader attends military expo, then tweets about it

He looks like he is somewhat annoyed and unimpressed, while those around him appear nervous (and rightfully so).

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Video: Where is My Vote? New York Tribute to 2nd Anniversary of Iran Election Protests

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Live-blog: Riots in Vancouver after Hockey Game (June 15, 2011)

12:38am Pacific Time A tumblog has been setup to track pictures of the hooligans that rioted in Vancouver after the hockey game, here: Vancity Riot Criminals Tumblog 12:30am Pacific Time It is unfortunate that yet another Stanley Cup final in Vancouver has turned into a shameful riot. In 1994 we saw the same thing following [...]

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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.