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 [...]
Tag Archives: Government Censorship
Rooz: The Eyes and Ears of the Green Movement
If in the past year, thousands of Iranians have been imprisoned, wounded, exiled, tortured and more than a hundred people have been killed on the streets, it is all because of the regime’s fear of the Movement’s expansion and its widespread use of violence against the people.
Radio Zamaaneh: Iranian opposition leader urges supporters to counter State’s media restrictions
Source: Radio Zamaaneh | April 18, 2010 Iranian opposition leader MirHosein Mousavi called on supporters of the Green Movement to counter the attacks on the freedom of the press by replacing every banned weblog with “tens of weblogs for defending the people’s rights.” Speaking in a meeting with the student committee of reformist organization Mojahedin [...]
Art forbidden in Iran part of North Vancouver exhibition
(Vancouver Sun) | April 3, 2010 By Jessica Barrett, Canwest News Service METRO VANCOUVER — One death became a symbol of the bloody student uprising following Iran’s disputed presidential elections last June. And now Caspian Makan, the fianc? of slain student Neda Agha-Soltan, is coming to North Vancouver to speak about the plight still facing [...]
EU to act against Iran’s satellite jamming efforts
((Radio Zamaaneh) | March 22, 2010 European Union members have agreed to act in unison against Iran’s jamming of satellite broadcasts and internet controls. In the meeting today in Belgium, the European Union “calls on the Iranian authorities to stop the jamming of satellite broadcasting and Internet censorship and to put an end to this [...]
EU agrees to act to stop Iran jamming internet
(France 24) | March 19, 2010 AFP – EU nations are determined to take action to end Iran’s “unacceptable” jamming of satellite broadcasting and Internet censorship, according to a text agreed by European ambassadors in Brussels. “The EU calls on the Iranian authorities to stop the jamming of satellite broadcasting and Internet censorship and to [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tyranny ‘is crushing Iran’s artists’
But, while she says her generation of Iranians have learned “never to hope”, she believes the movement for change could soon prove unstoppable. Rather than another revolution, she says, they would like to see “an evolution – we want even the mullahs to live in peace”. “It’s like a windscreen of a car: when there’s a little crack, it will be everywhere,” she says. “Either you have to change it or it’s going to destroy itself. And now the crack is there.”
Iranian Science Minister Spurns “Secular” Professors
(RadioZamaneh) | February 22, 2010 Iranian Minister of Science and Technology, Kamran Daneshjou announced today that the country’s universities have no need for “secular” professors and educators who do not subscribe to the Islamic worldview (they have no place in Iran’s universities). He also told Fars news agency that acting in partisanship is “poisonous for [...]
Iran bans concert tours
(News24.com) | February 20, 2010 Tehran – Iran has banned travel agencies from organising tours to countries where concerts are held during Shi’ite mourning holidays, newspapers quoted a tourism official as saying on Saturday. The move came after Iran’s tourism organisation banned package holidays to neighbouring Dubai where concerts by expat Iranian singers were to [...]
To All Journalists and Media Organizations Planning to Cover the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution
In less than 48 hours Iran will be marking the 31st anniversary of the 1979 revolution that brought the Islamic Republic system to Iran. Massive opposition protests are planned to coincide with the event. The government of Mr. Khamenei in Iran has been preparing to stage bought and paid for pro-government rallies. Please–I implore you–be [...]
Why the Green Movement will Prevail
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 [...]
Unforgivable Crimes in Iran: The Under-Reporting of Deaths
As the world’s eyes and ears have turned elsewhere, the crimes of the Iranian government continues unabated. To this day, the true number of those killed, murdered and/or raped in the post-election crackdowns remains unknown.
While the government itself claims that no more than 30 people have died, the opposition puts the figure above 100. Both figures are likely gross underestimations of the true number.
Green Report #18 & #19 – Fresh News from Iran – July 4-5
Hamid Maddah, a core member of Mousavi’s campaign in Mashhad, died in custody on Saturday. He had been arrested in Gowharshad Mosque along with many other Mousavi supporters. According to sources, he had been tortured badly and wasn’t able to recover. The official death certificate registers the cause of death as internal bleeding in the skull.
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 [...]
Green Report #16 – Fresh News from Iran – Summary of tweets on Iran from Thursday, July 2
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 [...]
Subscribe to Receive Updates
Like Iran News Now? You can support us by subscribing to receive updates on our latest stories, news, and analysis by e-mail. Managed by Google Feedburner, the service is free, to the point, and no fuss. And, at any time should you wish, it is easy to opt-out.
Articles
-
Iran’s Supreme Leader attends military expo, then tweets about it
-
Live-blog: Iran – 25 Bahman – February 14, 2011
-
Angry Birds V Dictators
-
Live-blog: Iran – 1 Esfand – February 20, 2011
-
Live-blog: Riots in Vancouver after Hockey Game (June 15, 2011)
-
Feature: Instagrams from Iran (picture compilation)
-
Iran Feature: Former Detainee Sarah Shourd “The Plight of Iranians and 3 Decades of US Foreign Policy”
-
Iran Feature: The Supreme Leader Is Worried — Three Developments You Probably Don’t Know
- Live-blog: Russia, what’s next?
-
Live-blog: Egypt Elections, Day 1
- Fundamentalist Calls To Ignore Norouz Go Unheard In Iran, Afghanistan | Abbas Djavadi's Notes: [...] on RFE/RL’s website; reprinted: Peyvan...
- Families of Mousavi and Karroubi issue a joint open-letter to the World « Persian Fairy: [...] who expressed themselves on the streets [of ...
- IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER–THE LEADER OF HEZBOLLAH | Iran War Monitor: [...] some Shi’ite’s felt betrayed by Khomeini...
-
mahdi Abbas movahedi: Respectfully, I posted to you a complaint against ...
-
neo darren: visit me on http://teamchevytestdrive.com about au...
