Guardian | June 11, 2010 Exclusive: Zahra Rahnavard, wife of defeated reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, says opposition remains strong despite repression and violence under Ahmadinejad regime since disputed election a year ago Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Ian Black opposition Green movement, fighting for democracy since the disputed election a year ago, has not been [...]
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Live-blog: Anniversary of the 2009 Iran Presidential Election and People’s Uprising
This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on the anniversary of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up. Please also note that the time-stamps are for when [...]
MUST WATCH VIDEO: Ground-breaking Investigative Journalism: Former elite officers in Revolutionary Guard reveal increasing tensions in Iran regime
Guardian | June 11, 2010 INN Comment: This is an ABSOLUTE MUST SEE VIDEO. This is one of the best videos yet on the situation in Iran. Well done Guardian! Please distribute this far and wide. We will discuss the significance shortly as there are many ground-breaking allegations in this. A two-month investigation by Guardian [...]
Must See HBO Video on Neda Agha-Soltan: For Neda
Watch this. Absorb it. Share it. Help the world bear witness to the plight of a brave people through the life of a woman who has already changed not only Iran, but the world, forever. A martyr for freedom. A proud Iranian woman that makes us proud and who reminds us that we all must [...]
France frees killer of Iranian ex-PM Shapour Bakhtiar
BBC | May 18, 2010 An Iranian convicted of the 1991 murder of Iranian former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar has been released from prison in France. Ali Vakili Rad, who faced a deportation order, boarded a flight from Orly airport to Tehran soon after leaving his prison in Poissy under escort. Iran recently freed a [...]
Anti-Ahmadinejad Demonstrations at Shahid Beheshi and Elm-o-Sanat Universities in Iran Today
Yesterday, the Iranian government executed five Kurdish Iranians timed to intimidate and frighten people away from anticipated anti-government rallies on the anniversary of the disputed June 12, 2009 presidential election that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad another term in office. The political situation in Iran–while on the surface appearing to be relatively stable after a year of [...]
Cameraman killed as Thai protesters clash with police
(CNN) | April 10, 2010 Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Anti-government protesters displayed Saturday the bodies of two people who they said were protesters killed in clashes with security forces. Also Saturday a Reuters cameraman was also shot and killed, the news agency’s bureau told CNN. He was Japanese, the bureau said, although he has not [...]
Iran: View from Tehran “Changes within the System are Impossible”
(Enduring America) | March 22, 2010 Scott Lucas A reliable EA source passes on these insights from a well-placed contact: Today an Iranian friend called. According to him, the Government did effectively scare the people by killing and arresting them and relentlessly summoning political activists or journalists to court. It also is promoting itself through intense propaganda. Oppositional administrative structures [...]
Six execution sentences for Iran’s Ashura Day detainees
(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 15, 2010 Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi, Tehran’s Prosecutor-General announced that Iranian judiciary has issued execution sentences for six of the Ashura Day detainees. Fars News Agency reports that after meeting with Ayatollah Nouri Hamadani in Qom, Tehran’s Prosecutor-General declared that these sentences have been issued and are now in the appeals court. [...]
Enduring America: The Latest from Iran (11 March): Marathon
(Enduring America) | March 11, 2010 The tireless Dr. Scott Lucas, professor of American Studies at Birmingham University in the U.K., and editor of the esteemed Enduring America news blog covers today’s notable news on Iran. While it’s worth reading the liveblog in its entirity, I found this part to be particularly interesting because of [...]
The Destination was to Begin the Journey
(The Pedestrian Blog) | March 10, 2010 The Pedestrian is an excellent blog providing insightful pieces on Iranian culture, politics and life. Highly recommended by Iran News Now. 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 Baha’i Community, Human Rights, and the Construction of a New Iranian Identity
(Gozaar.org) | February 24, 2010 A Lecture by Dr. Akhavan in Chicago Human rights and Iranian identity What does it mean to be Iranian? What does it mean to be a human being? These are the questions confronting the Iranian people at this crucial juncture in their long history. In the incredible and unforgettable scenes [...]
Selected Headlines – February 2, 2010
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 [...]
Video of Regime Police Running Over a Protester
Yesterday we posted a video of a man on the ground, yelling in anguish about witnessing a police car run people over. This may or may not be video of the actual incident but it is proof of the viciousness of the so-called anti-riot police on Ashura, December 27, during the protests on that day. [...]
Video confirms that police in Iran ran over protesters
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 God! Oh [...]
No going back
PBS just released a documentary on Neda’s murder: FRONTLINE: A Death in Tehran. This is a must see. Watching it, I couldn’t believe how raw the feelings and emotions evoked by it were for me. I felt as though the events were happening all over again. I was overcome by a panopoly of emotions: rage, [...]
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