Posted on 27 February 2010. Tags: Breaking News, Chile, Chile Earthquake, Hawaii, Japan, Santiago, Tsunami Warning
This is a live-blog report on an earthquake that has struck Chili near Santiago. As we get information, we will post it here.
[3:00PM Pacific Time]
The death toll in Chile is now 214 people.
Google has launched a resource to help find people in Chile: Chile Person Finder.
The first big waves are hitting Hawaii now, [...]
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Posted on 10 February 2010. Tags: 22Bahman, 31st Anniversary of Islamic Revolution, Live-blogging
This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up.
(You can also follow us via our Twitter feed: Iran [...]
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Posted on 31 December 2009. Tags: Featured
This is a live-blog started on reports of military vehicles and troops moving in Tehran. Reports are made as they arrive to us in real-time. To read chronologically, start from the bottom of this report and read upward.
[3:35PM Tehran Time]
After almost an hour of no new information, an unconfirmed report of tanks moving [...]
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Posted on 26 December 2009. Tags: Ashura, Featured, Iran Green Movement, Iran Revolution
This is a live-blog report on clashes occurring in Iran on December 27, during the Shia mourning day of Ashura. As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up.
Be sure to watch the videos. [...]
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Posted on 26 December 2009. Tags: Featured
This is a live-blog report on clashes occurring in Iran on December 26, on the eve of Ashura. As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up.
[10:13AM Tehran Time]
This video is of footage from Jamaran [...]
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Posted on 06 December 2009. Tags: Featured
[11:00PM Tehran Time]
The following video has surfaced, showing that girls in an Iran high school protesting (via Iran1st):
Just an opinion, but when high school girls are protesting, you have to know that the protests are in the mainstream.
[10:40PM Tehran Time]
What a day it has been.
There are reports of Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard, being [...]
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Posted on 03 November 2009. Tags: 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Azad University, Barack Obama, Basij, Beatings, Bloodshed, Featured, Freedom Movement, Ghods Day, Government Sanctioned Violence, Haft-Tir Square, Human Rights, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khamenei, Live-blogging, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, revolution, Revolutionary Guards, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sharif University, Student's Day, Twitter, Video
[7:00AM Tehran Time]
A lot of additional videos are still being posted to social media sites. The following two are particularly troubling: security forces beating women and innocents:
[5:00PM Tehran Time]
What a day it has been. The boldest protests yet since the rigged election took place on June 12. While thousands of people protesting [...]
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Posted on 17 September 2009. Tags: Anti-government Protests, Featured, Ghods Day, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Jerusalem Day, Sea of Green
[3:21 PM Tehran Time]
I have to step away from the live-blog for a few hours. In the meantime, if you have been following us and would like to help out, please post new incoming Qods Day news in the comments section at the bottom of this live-blog post. Spread the word on [...]
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Posted on 05 August 2009. Tags: Ali Reza Beheshti, Baharestan, Democracy, Elie Weisel, Iran, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran Parliament, Iran Reform Movement, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic Republic, Live-blogging, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Majles, Meritocracy, Mousavi, Nationalism, Nightly protest chants, Ocean of Green, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sea of Green, secular government, Secularism, Shirin Ebadi, Twitter
[2:12 AM (August 6) Tehran Time]
On the night of Ahmadinejads inauguration as President-Select, the people of Iran protest against the regime by chanting “Allah-o-Akbar!” and “Down with the dictator!” from their rooftops and balconies. One cannot help but feel awe-inspired by their bravery:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8EGyzd8o0]
[1:52 AM (August 6) Tehran Time]
A full-page ad has been taken out [...]
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Posted on 30 July 2009. Tags: 40th day after Neda killed, Basij, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, CBC, Civil Disobedience, Haddi Ghaffari, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Iranian Republic, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khamenei, Live-blogging, Martyr Culture, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Neda, NewsWeek, Reza Sayah, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shiraz, TIME
[10:30 AM Tehran Time]
Quote “The feeling today”:
One plus One, adds to two,
The percentage of the vote that went to You.
Two plus Two, three and four,
The max number of months till you’re out the Door.
Three plus three, adds to six,
The system that you have just can’t be Fixed.
Four plus four, totals eight,
Everything you are adds up [...]
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