The following video has surfaced, purportedly from today, showing a heavy security presence in Tehran. We do not know the reason for this level of security, normally seen on days of planned or expected opposition street protests, but speculate that the regime is trying to maintain a heightened presence as a warning to people: “We [...]
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Live-blog: Iran – 25 Bahman – February 14, 2011
This is a live-blog report of events in Iran on February 14, 2011 (25 Bahman). The majority of the reports in this blog are sourced via social media. With regards to the videos and images in this live-blog, we are not affiliated with the people or groups that produced them. In order to follow this [...]
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] [...]
Revisiting what the “Twitter Revolution” really means
In June, 2009, incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the victor of a controversial and hotly disputed presidential election. Supporters of reformist challenger to Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, entered the streets in protest–on June 15 millions marched–clad in green, in silence, carrying placards asking simply, “Where is my vote?” Peaceful Iranian protesters were violently repressed [...]
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?
Opinion: The Shrewd Calculus Behind Khamenei’s Release of 81 Political Prisoners
By Dave Siavashi: I’m guessing not many people expected this move (Associated Press article) today by Iran’s unelected leader, Khamenei: Iran’s supreme leader pardoned 81 jailed opposition supporters who had been found guilty of having a role in the unrest triggered by last June’s disputed presidential election. Wednesday’s pardons were seen as a gesture of [...]
Video: Students Protest at Tehran Azad University
Reports are coming in of clashes between students protesting against the incarceration of their fellow students, and pro-government Basij. Golnaz Esfandiari quotes an unnamed source: students were chanting “Death to the Dictator” and “Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein.” The following video is purportedly from today’s protest, showing students singing the song from the 1979 revolution, Yare [...]
Video: Rick Sanchez and Reza Sayah Report on Student Protests at Shahid Beheshti University
Good one two punch by Rick Sanchez and Reza Sayah (although I disagree with the notion that the protests ever fizzled out): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_NxU8ojQQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=pdO3hXKNU5Q
Video: Clash Between Students and Basiji’s Shahid Beheshti University, Chants of “Death to Bisiji!”
This video shows Students at Shahid Beheshti University clashing with Basiji’s, pro-government volunteer militiamen. Students chant “Marg Bar Basiji!” (“Death to Basiji!”): View more videos of protests on May 10 at Shahid Beheshti and Elm-O-Sanat Universities.
Anti-Ahmadinejad Demonstrations at Shahid Beheshi and Elm-o-Sanat Universities in Iran Today
Yesterday, the Iranian government executed five Kurdish Iranians timed to intimidate and frighten people away from anticipated anti-government rallies on the anniversary of the disputed June 12, 2009 presidential election that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad another term in office. The political situation in Iran–while on the surface appearing to be relatively stable after a year of [...]
Live-blog: May Day in Iran – May 1, 2010
This is a live-blog report on events occurring in Iran on May 1, 2010, dubbed “May Day” in anticipation of planned protests by students and labour workers. 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. [...]
An Administration Plagued by Fraud and Corruption
(Tehran Bureau) | March 30, 2010 by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles Ahmadinejad and His Men: Embodiments of Fraud and Corruption. There is no doubt in the minds of many Iranians, including the author, that Tehran’s hardliners committed fraud on a vast scale to steal the presidential election of June 12, 2009, and deny victory [...]
Video Collection: Iran Festival of Fire, Day of Revelry and Resistance
This post contains video from Iran allegedly taken during the Nowruz Festival of Fire called Chahar Shanbe Soori. These videos are uploaded to the Internet after being filmed by people in the streets, most often with cell-phone video recorders. While I believe they are from March 16, 2010 (today) and that they are authentic, I [...]
Rafsanjani’s daughter, Faezeh Hashemi, harassed and intimidated by Basij
An interesting video has surfaced showing a crowd of what appears to be supporters of the regime, and quite likely plain-clothed Basijis harassing and intimidating, Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of the influentual cleric and former president of Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani. Since the rigged presidential election last year, Rafsanjani has, at times, cautiously supported the Greens, [...]
The truth about Iran’s campus attack
(Guardian, UK) | February 23, 2010 Saeed Kamali Dehghan Shocking film footage has emerged showing how riot police brutally suppressed protesting Tehran University students Last night the BBC Persian service broadcast for the first time a very disturbing video of the attack by the Basij militia and riot police on Tehran University’s campus just two [...]
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