(The Pedestrian Blog) | March 10, 2010
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Emad Bahavar [1979] is a political activist, writer and the head of “Supporters of Khatami and Mousavi” in the 2009 presidential campaign. He was arrested shortly after the election, [...]

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.”

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, and [...]

Channel 4 News (UK), January 22
Neda’s death ‘ignited an awakening’ in Iran

Neda Agha Soltan’s fiance, Caspian Makan: “The 23 January is Neda’s precious birthday. Neda will be 27 on that day. I felt that this should be marked in the world.
“I’ve asked the people of Iran, wherever they may be, in whichever corner of the [...]

The following video proves that the so-called police in Iran deliberately ran over protesters during Ashura, December 27, 2009, killing them.
An eye-witness, lying down on the ground, who may have also been injured screams in sheer agony: “They ran him over! Three times they ran him over with a police car! Oh [...]

The Iranian government has arrested Shirin Ebadi’s sister, Noushin Ebadi, in Iran in an attempt to intimidate the Nobel Prize winner.
Shirin Ebadi is currently not inside Iran. She spoke today with Reza Sayah from CNN.
Click here to read the full story on CNN.

(Newsweek)
Published Nov 21, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Nov 30, 2009
They warned him not to talk. When Maziar Bahari was finally freed after 118 days in an Iranian prison on phony espionage charges, he was instructed never to speak of what had happened in jail. If he told his story, his interrogator said, he would [...]

(MowjCamp (English))
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:07 PM
Iran’s Prosecutor General and former Minister of Intelligence warned on Thursday that “the Judiciary is determined to decisively and primitively confront any new unrest [caused] by those against the results of the Presidential Elections of Iran.”
Appearing on Iranian state-run television, Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje’i promised that any action deemed as [...]

(RFE/RL))
November 20, 2009
Iranian human rights advocate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi said she has been receiving death threats, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 and who is currently outside of Iran, told RFE/RL that Iranian security agents have warned her husband that she “is not safe no matter where [...]

November 13, 2009
Martin Fletcher
As Arash Hejazi sat in an Oxford coffee bar, members of Iran’s Basij militia in Tehran were demanding his extradition outside the British Embassy.
The previous day the Iranian regime had sent an Oxford college a letter of protest over a scholarship given to honour Neda Soltan, the student killed during a [...]