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		<title>P2E: “My Bitter Memories” &#124; A Letter by Majid Tavakoli on the Occasion of 18 Tir</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persian2English &#124; July 8, 2010 HRANA - Majid Tavakoli, imprisoned Amirkabir University (AUT) student writes a letter on the occasion of the anniversary of attacks on the student dormitories that took place on July 9, 1999 (18 Tir).  According to HRANA, the full content of the letter is as follows: My Bitter Memories By MAJID [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Around the world, freedom is in peril</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So at decade's end, the correlation of forces, as the Communists used to say, looks bleak. Three assertive powers -- China, Russia and Iran -- not only resist democratization but actively seek to disseminate their model of authoritarian rule in their spheres of influence. Europe, the engine of democratization of the 1990s, looks inward, more interested in appeasing Russia than reforming it. Newer or less wealthy democracies such as South Africa, Turkey, Brazil and India seem stuck in anti-colonial mind-sets that discourage cooperation to promote democracy. And the Obama administration remains skittish about adopting a "freedom agenda" that its predecessor had tarnished in the minds of many Democrats. ]]></description>
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		<title>Time to bust the myth of the slumdog Islamists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Globe and Mail) Doug Saunders It&#8217;s always been a dangerous fallacy to believe that the main boosters of Islamic fundamentalism are the Muslim poor. Now, movements in impoverished parts of Cairo, Tehran and elsewhere are demanding more from their rulers than pious rhetoric If you take an evening stroll around the southern fringes of Tehran, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging Iran August 5th, Ahmadinejad Inauguration Day News and Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[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 &#8220;Allah-o-Akbar!&#8221; and &#8220;Down with the dictator!&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dawn of the Age of Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people have not sat idly by, and in the past month a clear distinction has been made between the people on one-side, and the regime on the other.  The world has seen the people's aspirations for freedom, and their bravery in the face of terror and the tyranny of a false theocracy.  The world has also seen the last shred of legitimacy that the government of Iran may have held disappear to reveal what can be safely described as a government structured like a mafia that sees itself as God's representative on earth with the right to butcher its own people.  It can't be more clear than that.

The price has been paid in blood by the Iranian people.  And blood has been spilled across every facet of Iranian society.]]></description>
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