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Live-blog: Student Day in Iran – December 7, 2010 (16 Azar)
This is a live-blog report on events on December 7, 2010, Student Day in Iran. Any videos and information contained in this report are obtained through various online sources. Iran News Now is not affiliated with any of the groups or individuals who produced any of the videos. We are simply an outlet and conduit [...]
Tehran Bureau: Who’s in Charge?
Struggle for power builds between clerics, Revolutionary Guards. An important question that those who follow Iran’s political developments keep asking is, Who is the ultimate power in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and the clerics around him, or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?
Full text of Karoubi’s Nowruz Message to Iran (Blasting the Hardliners)
(Khordaad88) | March 19, 2010 Thanks to Khordaad88 for providing the English Translation of Karoubi’s Nowruz Speech Source: Saham News Date: Friday, March 19, 2010 In the Name of God, the Compassionate and the Merciful, I extend a happy new year to all Iranians both inside and outside Iran. I offer my good wishes to [...]
Regime Seeks to Appoint New “Grand Ayatollahs”
(Rooz Online) November 20, 2009 By Ali Farokhi Following the escalation of protests by Iran’s senior ayatollahs against the regime, some members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association (the most important organization of clerics affiliated with the regime) are planning to present a new list of “grand ayatollahs” under the supervision of Mohammad Yazdi, Ahmad [...]
Hardline Cleric Jannati: Iran’s struggle with America should continue
Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:39am EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran must continue its struggle against the United States, a hardline cleric said on Friday a day after Washington renewed long-standing U.S. financial sanctions against Iran. U.S. President Barack Obama offered a new approach toward Iran when he took office in January, but Iran remains locked [...]
Green Report #17 – Fresh News from Iran – Summary of tweets on Iran from Friday, July 3
I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]








