Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: 22Bahman, Expediency Council, Faezeh Hashemi, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hillary Clinton, Iran Constitution, Iran Green Movement, Iran Guardian Council, Iran Majles, Iran Parliament, Iran Supreme Leader, Kalameh, Karoubi, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashaei, Military Dictatorship, Mousavi, Mousavi Interview with Kalame, Mousavi Statement, Rigged Iran Presidential Election, The Newest Deal, Theocracy, Thugocracy, Velayate Faghi
(The Newest Deal) | March 12, 2010
Masoud Shafaee
As the Persian Nowruz New Year fast approaches and Iran’s post-election crisis enters its ninth month, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remains as mercurial a figure as ever in Iranian politics. True to his nickname of Kooseh, or “The Shark,” Rafsanjani has been paying lip-service to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei [...]
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Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: Hillary Clinton, Iranian Women, Video, Women's Day, Women's Rights
Hillary Clinton Addresses Iranian Women:
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Posted on 09 March 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, Facebook, Falun Gong, Global Internet Freedom Consortium, Google, Hillary Clinton, Internet Freedom, Internet Technology, Iran Revolutionary Guards, New York Times, Twitter, Twitter Revolution, U.S. Congress, U.S. State Department, U.S. Treasury Department
(The New York Times) | March 7, 2010
By MARK LANDLER
WASHINGTON — Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said Sunday.
On Monday, he said, the [...]
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Posted on 21 January 2010. Tags: Ashura, Central Bank of Iran, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Featured, Government Sanctioned Intimidation, Hassan Khomeini, Hillary Clinton, Iran Opposition, Iranian Academics, Khomeini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Manoucher Mottaki, Mohammad Ali Jafari, Mousavi, Mousavi Statement, Saeed Mortazavi, Selected Headlines, U.S.-Iran Relations
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 [...]
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Posted on 12 November 2009. Tags: Barack Obama, Featured, Hillary Clinton, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.S.-Iran Relations
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. wants a “civil, diplomatic relationship” with Iran and has told the regime that possessing a nuclear weapon isn’t in the nation’s best interests, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
President Barack Obama conveyed that message to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini Khamenei, Clinton said in an [...]
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Posted on 23 April 2009. Tags: Diplomacy, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iranian Nuclear Program, sanctions, U.S.-Iran Negotiations
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned that Iran faces “very tough sanctions” if it rejects offers of engagement over its nuclear programme.
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Posted on 18 April 2009. Tags: Barack Obama, Diplomacy, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iran Judiciary, Saberi, U.S.-Iran Negotiations, U.S.-Iran Relations
President Barack Obama “is deeply disappointed at this news,” his spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Correspondents say the case will have serious implications for US-Iranian relations at a time when Mr Obama has reached out to the Tehran.
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Posted on 18 April 2009. Tags: Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iran Judiciary, Saberi, U.S.-Iran Relations
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — A U.S. journalist in Iran was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage, her father, lawyer and news reports said Saturday — a sentence that prompted denunciation from the United States.
Reports in Iranian media, including an Iranian judiciary source quoted Saturday by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, confirmed the sentence of Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old Iranian-American from North Dakota.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was “deeply disappointed” by the news.
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