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, [...]
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IRAN: Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi challenges hard-line authorities to a duel of rallies
(Los Angeles Times) | February 22, 2010 In his first major comments since the opposition failed to gather large numbers of supporters for protests coinciding with the Feb. 11 anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution, former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi on Monday issued a bold challenge to the hard-line rulers of the Islamic Republic: Give the [...]
Selected Headlines – January 21, 2010
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Iran’s Dissident Cleric, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Passed Away
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.
Source : On the Truce (between Rafsanjani, Khamenei and company)
This was reported by an inside source, September 21, 2009 Rafsanjani incorporated [into an agreed upon truce with Khamenei] reformist agendas such as re-establishment of Khatami’s standing and dignity, avoidance of further public attacks against him and other reformists, a return to mutual respect, and curbing of coup-like behavior of Sepah [IRGC]. In exchange, [the [...]
Insider Opinion: Back to Square One
The following Q&A is between INN contributor MikVerbrugge (Mehrzad Vafa) and an insider source with which he is in communication. Following this Q&A is a brief analysis by an analyst that has been providing Iran News Now with insightful information ever since the rigged June 12 elections (preferring to remain anonymous). Insider Opinion: Back to [...]
Musical pulpits: How the choice of Ghods Day’s prayer leader put the regime in overdrive
This article was written by Twitter activist: homylafayette. We have published this article in full with their permission. 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 [...]
On Rafsanjani
In the current conflicts that are taking place in Iran, Rafsanjani is one of the key players. It is important to understand who he is though, and in the opinion of the author, not to put too much hope in his support for the Green Movement’s ultimate goal, which is a secular Iran where human [...]
Iran’s Power Brokers Part 3 – Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani – The Shark
While the Green Movement can’t count on Rafsanjani to support them unconditionally (far from it in fact), the situation has some light at the end of the tunnel in that Rafsanjani is likely seething with anger at how Khamenei is handling things. His interests will be aligned with those of the Green Movement insofar as sharing the goal of neutering Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and the IRGC, but they will likely diverge when this is accomplished. The people want freedom. Rafsanjani wants a comfortable life for Rafsanjani and family
Iran’s Powerful Revolutionary Guard Chief Comes Under Fire
Who is damaging the Islamic republic?
This question pits two increasingly irreconcilable camps against each other as the debate continues to heat up in Tehran.
To hard-liners, the answer is clear: it is the reformists, who are accused of plotting a “velvet coup.” To reformists, it is the hard-liners themselves, whose actions undermine the very system they seek to preserve.
The dust of dissent can still choke this regime
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.
Iran’s Protesters: Phase 2 of Their Feisty Campaign
The tactics are unorganized, largely leaderless and only just beginning. They spread by e-mail, websites and word of mouth. But their variety and scope indicate that Iran’s uprising is not a passing phenomenon like the student protests of 1999, which were quickly quashed. This time, Iranians are rising above their fears. Although embryonic, today’s public resolve is reminiscent of civil disobedience in colonial India before independence or in the American Deep South in the 1960s.
Rafsanjani denies power struggle in Iran
Rafsanjani, 75, pointed to more than half a century of friendship between himself and Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 70, starting long before the 1979 Islamic revolution. “He is a progressive and forward-looking thinker in different subjects,” the former president said.
Iran’s Power Brokers
On February 1, 1979, Khomeini returned to Iran from France, accompanied by various supporters and western media personalities like Peter Jennings. Millions showed up at the airport to welcome him.
On the airplane returning to Iran, Peter Jennings asked him, “What do you feel in returning to Iran?”
Khomeini did not express any elation. His foreboding reply was, “Hichi.” Hichi is the Farsi word for, Nothing.
It was probably at this moment that some in Iran started to question what they were getting themselves into. Iranians are fiercely proud of their 2500 years of history and heritage. Hichi, is simply not acceptable as the feeling that most of them have towards their national and cultural identity.
Little did most Iranians know what Khomeini’s return would herald. A dark era had begun.
Khamenei and Ahmadinejad undermine each other over VP pick
Sometimes, when reading the words various leaders, you can almost feel an undercurrent to what they really meant to say. I had one of these moments when I read the following quote from President-select Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently (source: Reuters): “They [arrogant western powers] should wait as a new wave of revolutionary thinking … from the [...]
Ayatollah warns against helping Iran’s enemies
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned senior officials on Monday not to help Tehran’s enemies after two former presidents expressed defiant opposition to the result of June’s disputed presidential poll.
Clashes erupted between police and reformist protesters for the first time in weeks in Tehran on Friday after former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani declared the Islamic Republic in crisis and said there were doubts about the election result.
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