Tag Archives: Ashura

Live-blog: Ashura in Iran – December 16, 2010

This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on December 16, 2010, 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. [8:30AM Tehran Time - December 17, 2010] [...]

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BREAKING NEWS: Car bombings in Tehran, one professor killed, two others injured

Semi-official Iranian government English-language news site, PressTV, reports that the cars of two professors were “exploded” by “unknown terrorists” in separate places in Tehran today. It is not clear if they were simultaneous bombings, but, according to the report, one professor, Dr. Majid Shariari, was killed while another professor, Fereydoun Abbasiin, and his wife were [...]

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AFP: Iran sentences Ebadi’s former aide to jail

Iran has sentenced a former aide to Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi to two years in jail, an opposition website reported on Thursday.

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Extended video from the December 27, 2009, Ashura clashes with security forces in Tehran

From Mehdi Saharkhiz: Video shows police motorcycles on fire as crowds of anti-government protesters chant slogans against the security forces, the regime, and the “Supreme Leader” Khamenei himself. This was just six months ago. The chants are extremely defiant in the Islamic Republic government of Iran: “I will kill, I will kill, he who kills [...]

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The Good Ayatollah

(Foreign Policy) | March 26, 2010 Why my former cellmate’s legacy will live on. BY ABBAS MILANI If 2010 turns out to be the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it may well be because of the death of one of the regime’s founders, a man I met three decades ago [...]

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The Double Lives of Tehran’s Middle Class

(Mianeh) | March 19, 2010 Jafar Farshian They’re at the heart of resistance to the regime – but that doesn’t stop them from having fun. After a brief period of retreat from the outside world following the months of post- election protests, many middle-class Tehranis, who form the backbone of the opposition movement, are out [...]

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Six execution sentences for Iran’s Ashura Day detainees

(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 15, 2010 Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi, Tehran’s Prosecutor-General announced that Iranian judiciary has issued execution sentences for six of the Ashura Day detainees. Fars News Agency reports that after meeting with Ayatollah Nouri Hamadani in Qom, Tehran’s Prosecutor-General declared that these sentences have been issued and are now in the appeals court. [...]

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Why Is Iran Releasing Some Postelection Detainees?

(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 12, 2010 by Golnaz Esfandiari The Iranian authorities in recent weeks have begun to release some of the former officials, activists, and intellectuals detained in last year’s post-election unrest. Those released in recent days include former Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, activist Abdollah Momeni, and student leader [...]

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Tehran police chief retires

(RadioZamaneh) | February 20, 2010 Iranian media report that Birgadier-General Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Head of Tehran Police retires after only six months at this post. He has reportedly been in the police service for 36 years and his valediction ceremony will take place tomorrow, Sunday. Rajabzadeh took over from Ahmad-Reza Radan in the September of 2009. [...]

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Selected Headlines – January 22, 2010

Channel 4 News (UK), January 22 Neda’s death ‘ignited an awakening’ in Iran Neda Agha Soltan’s fiance, Caspian Makan: “The 23 January is Neda’s precious birthday. Neda will be 27 on that day. I felt that this should be marked in the world. “I’ve asked the people of Iran, wherever they may be, in whichever [...]

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Video showing regime police attacking peaceful mourners and protesters

Another video from the Ashura protests. This one shows peaceful mourners and protesters being charged and attacked by regime anti-riot police:

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Video of Regime Police Running Over a Protester

Yesterday we posted a video of a man on the ground, yelling in anguish about witnessing a police car run people over. This may or may not be video of the actual incident but it is proof of the viciousness of the so-called anti-riot police on Ashura, December 27, during the protests on that day. [...]

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Two videos showing protesters trap and humiliate regime police

We have already shown the first of these videos in our Ashura Live-blog on December, 27, two days ago. But the two following videos together paint a more full picture of protesters confronting the regime police during Ashura, cornering them, and then humiliating them by forcing one of them to remove his uniform. In the [...]

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Video confirms that police in Iran ran over protesters

The following video proves that the so-called police in Iran deliberately ran over protesters during Ashura, December 27, 2009, killing them. An eye-witness, lying down on the ground, who may have also been injured screams in sheer agony: “They ran him over! Three times they ran him over with a police car! Oh God! Oh [...]

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First video of protests in Iran on December 28, first day after Ashura protests

Videos have surfaced purported to be from today’s protests in Iran, one day following the massive uprising on the tenth day of Moharram, an important day in the shia faith called Ashura. For extensive coverage of yesterdays events, including video, pictures, and commentary check out our live-blog from yesterday: Live-blog coverage of Ashura Uprising in [...]

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What will the regime do now? Arrest people.

Ashura is over, and what a day it was. People turned out in at least the hundreds of thousands and faced down the regime. The regime started the day by trying to create a virtual martial law, security atmosphere. They occupied the major squares in Tehran and various cities throughout Iran. In what has now [...]

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Feature: Instagrams from Iran (picture compilation)

A few pictures from Iran, taken by ordinary people and posted to Instagram

Iran Feature: Former Detainee Sarah Shourd “The Plight of Iranians and 3 Decades of US Foreign Policy”

The incredible thing for me was that so many Iranians worldwide took the time to care about us despite the thousands of other political prisoners they have to worry about. “I’m an Iranian boy ashamed for what our government did to three American hikers,” another message on Facebook says. “I want you to know Iranian people are with you and against their own government. Iran’s regime is not chosen by Iranian people. They kill and torture us and we are all in a very big prison named Iran.”

Iran Feature: The Supreme Leader Is Worried — Three Developments You Probably Don’t Know

Our partner, EAWorldView, has published a ground-breaking piece on Iran’s Supreme Leader. This is a must-read.

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Live-blog: Egypt Elections, Day 1

A historic day: The first post-Mubarak elections in Egypt

Journalist Mona Eltahawy’s harrowing ordeal – beating, sexual assault and arrest in Egypt – in her own words and tweets

“The past 12 hrs were painful and surreal but I know I got off much much easier than so many other Egyptians.”