Tag Archive | "Dictatorship"
Posted on 02 February 2010. Tags: 22Bahman, Ahmadinejad's Cabinet, Anniversary of 1979 Iran Revolution, Dictatorship, executions, Featured, February 11, Government Sanctioned Murder, Hassan Khomeini, Iran Green Movement, Iran Opposition, Iran Protests, Iranian Flag, Iranian Nuclear Program, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Joe Biden, Khomeini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, Mousavi Statement, Nuclear Diplomacy, Regime Change, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, sanctions, Selected Headlines, Shah of Iran, U.S.-Iran Negotiations
Khordaad 88, February 2
Mir Hossein Mousavi ’s Interview with Kaleme
Kaleme reports that in this interview which took place close to February 11th [22 of Bahman], the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Mousavi stated that the main reason for the collapse of the dictatorial and unpopular regime of the Shah was its illegitimacy [in the [...]
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Posted on 06 December 2009. Tags: 16th of Azar, 2009 TIME Person of the Year, Action Potential, Basij, Chaos Theory, Cohesion, Communications, Conscious Reflection, Consciousness, Dictatorship, Election Protests, Facebook, Featured, Fractals, Government Censorship, Government Sanctioned Violence, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Opposition, Iran Supreme Leader, Islam, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mainstream Media, Mousavi, Neda Agha-Soltan, Non-violent resistance, People Power, Power, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shah of Iran, Student's Day, Twitter, Tyranny, Web 2.0, Where is my vote?, YouTube
Sadness to me is the happiest time
When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind
Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth,
The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
Rumi
It has now been almost six months since those fateful days in June when the people of Iran shattered the [...]
Posted in Arts and Culture, Exclusive, Featured, General, Opinion
Posted on 30 July 2009. Tags: 40th day after Neda killed, Basij, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, Civil Disobedience, Dictatorship, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Military, Iran Protests, Khamenei, Letter from Iran, Martyr, Martyr Culture, Military Dictatorship, Mojtaba Khamenei, mousavai, Neda, Neda Agha-Soltan, Police brutality, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shooting, Sohrab
The security forces were using batons, chains, whips, tasers, paint-ball guns, and I saw handguns in the hands of three of them. There was a rumor that a few were shot at in Vanak Square. Two people were picked up near us and people tried to chase after the security forces to get the young men back, but it was a futile chase. Until around 11pm the streets were full of people. At 10pm the shouts of Allah-o Akbar and Death to the Dictator were being screamed from the rooftops all over the city until 10.30pm.
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Posted on 09 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Ahvaz, Amir Kabir University, Azadi Square, Babol, Basij, Clerical Rule, Clerics, Dezfol, Dictatorship, Eghelab Square, European Union, Evin Prison, Freedom Movement, Government Sanctioned Murder, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hamadan, Human Rights, Iran, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran News, Iran Protests, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Isfahan, Israel, July 9, Kerman, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashad, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Mullacracy, Mullahs, Nicolas Sarkozy, NiteOwl, Pasdaran, Police brutality, republican guard, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sari, Sea of Green, Shiraz, Shirin Ebadi, Student Uprising, Tabriz, tear gas, Tehran, Tehran University, Valiasr, Vanak
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 [...]
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Posted on 02 July 2009. Tags: Ahmad Khatami, Amnesty International, Arash Hejazi, Arrests, Ayatollah Bayat-Zanjani, Ayatollah Taheri, Basij, BBC, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, Canada, Censorship, China, Dictatorship, Egypt, European Union, Evin Prison, Facebook, Government Censorship, Green Brief, Haddi Ghaffari, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Interpol, Iran Elections, Iran Green Movement, Iran Majles, Iran Parliament, Iran Protests, Jordan, Khamenei, Kharasan, Laleh Park, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Majles, Maziar Bahari, Mehdi Karoubi, Montazeri, Mourning Mothers, Mousavi, Muslim Brotherhood, Neda, NewsWeek, Press TV, Qazvin, Qom, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Russia, Saeed Hajjarian, Shiraz, Tabriz, Torture
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 [...]
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Posted on 13 June 2009. Tags: Dictatorship, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections
“I’m warning that I won’t surrender to this manipulation,” said the Mousavi statement Saturday. “The outcome of what we’ve seen from the performance of officials … is nothing but shaking the pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran sacred system and governance of lies and dictatorship.”
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