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		<title>Live-blog: Iran &#8211; Fallout from 25 Bahman protests continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2:33AM GMT We have been away from updates for several hours so we will attempt to catch up with this entry. More Videos from 25 Bahman Clashes took place at the Tehran University of Fine Arts at a ceremony held by students there for slain 25 Bahman (February 14) protester, Saneh Jaleh. The clashes were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blog: Ashura in Iran – December 16, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on December 16, 2010, during the Shia mourning day of Ashura. 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. [8:30AM Tehran Time - December 17, 2010] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty International: Iran urged to end harassment of rights activist facing seven years in prison</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/09/amnesty-international-iran-urged-to-end-harassment-of-rights-activist-facing-seven-years-in-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["His plight is emblematic of the continuing government crackdown on activists in Iran, where those who speak out against human rights violations face intimidation, arrest or worse." ]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Ayatollah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Foreign Policy) &#124; March 26, 2010 Why my former cellmate&#8217;s legacy will live on. BY ABBAS MILANI If 2010 turns out to be the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it may well be because of the death of one of the regime&#8217;s founders, a man I met three decades ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selected Headlines &#8211; January 21, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, when posting selected headlines, we published one selected headline per post. Iran News Now will be trying out a new format for our selected headlines over the next few days. Based on your feedback we may continue with this format moving forward. Basically, we will publish a daily list of selected headlines, along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Dissident Cleric, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Passed Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This is a live-blog article in which updates are being made in real-time as information comes in. To read this in chronological order, read from the bottom up.]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Green Movement will Prevail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networking and the Making of a Civil Rights Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Mowjcamp) Hamid Dabashi A rather peculiar reference to a prominent nineteenth century philosopher made Mir Hossein Mousavi&#8217;s letter to Ayatollah Montazeri of some urgent interest. More than three months into the post-electoral crisis of June 2009, the chief oppositional candidate, who had cried foul soon after the officially declared victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montazeri: Basij not supposed to support path of Satan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Radio Zamaneh) Prominent Iranian reformist cleric, Ayatollah Hoseinali Montazeri criticized the role of Basij militia in the violent suppression of the post-election protesters and maintained the Basij was not established to serve “in the path of the Satan.” In the post election events, Basij militia played an instrumental role in confronting protesters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regime Seeks to Appoint New “Grand Ayatollahs”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Rooz Online) November 20, 2009 By Ali Farokhi Following the escalation of protests by Iran’s senior ayatollahs against the regime, some members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association (the most important organization of clerics affiliated with the regime) are planning to present a new list of “grand ayatollahs” under the supervision of Mohammad Yazdi, Ahmad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clerics side with people of Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Mowjcamp.com: Ever since the fraudulent Presidential Elections in Iran in June 2009, the role of Shiite clerics from Qom and even Iraq in standing up to the coup government of Ahmadinejad and its backers has been unprecedented throughout the 30 year history of the Islamic Republic to say the least. Indeed the positions held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dust of dissent can still choke this regime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, “order” has been enforced. But only on the surface. Inside Iran, public anger still burns, flaring up wherever opportunity presents. At the core of the Islamic regime, a struggle has been unleashed that — by stepping off his pedestal into the thick of the fray — the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has lost his once- undisputed power to bring under control. Far from subsiding, dissent is shaking the regime to its roots.]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Cleric Says Leaders Of Iran Are Unfit to Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In my estimate this is the strongest criticism ever of the supreme leader,” said Rasool Nafisi, a United States-based academic and Iran expert. “Although it doesn’t mention Ayatollah Khamenei by name, it is clear he is referring to him.” ]]></description>
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