Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: Ahmad Khatami, Assembly of Experts, Expediency Council, Featured, Friday Prayers, Ghods Day, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran, Iran Green Movement, Khomeini
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Will he or won’t he? The question has been burning Iranian newswires since Saturday.
Will Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani lead Tehran’s Friday Prayer on Ghods Day, September 18, which the opposition has marked in green in its calendar [...]
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Posted on 14 July 2009. Tags: Abbas Milani, Age of Justice, Assembly of Experts, Carole Jerome, Democracy, Expediency Council, Friday Prayers, Government Sanctioned Murder, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran News, Iran Parliament, Iran Protests, Iran Supreme Leader, Iranian People, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, KhamCo, Khamenei, Khatami, Khomeini, Majles, Mousavi, Murder, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Sea of Green, Tehran, Tehran Friday Prayers, terrorism, Twelver Shiism, Tyranny
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.
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