Tag Archive | "Iran Civil Rights Movement"
Posted on 10 March 2010. Tags: 1979 Islamic Revolution, 22Bahman, Ali Motahari, Amir Mohebian, Assembly of Experts, Civil Disobedience, Faridedin Adel, Government Sanctioned Intimidation, Government Sanctioned Murder, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hadad Adel, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Human Rights, Iran Awakening, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Crisis, Iran Green Movement, Iran Guardian Council, Iran Hardliners, Iran Military, Iran Pragmatic Conservatives, Iran Principalists, Iran Reform Movement, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Islamic Republic of Iran, Khamenei, Khatami, Khomeini, Leadership of the Jurist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mesbah Yazdi, Military Dictatorship, Mohsen Rezai, Navab Safavi, Pedestrian, Police brutality, Political Prisoners, political unrest, Reformists, Rigged Iran Presidential Election, Saeed Hajjarian, Saeed Mortazavi, Sheykh Fazlollah, Velayate Faghi
(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 election, [...]
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Posted on 06 December 2009. Tags: 16th of Azar, 2009 TIME Person of the Year, Action Potential, Basij, Chaos Theory, Cohesion, Communications, Conscious Reflection, Consciousness, Dictatorship, Election Protests, Facebook, Featured, Fractals, Government Censorship, Government Sanctioned Violence, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Opposition, Iran Supreme Leader, Islam, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mainstream Media, Mousavi, Neda Agha-Soltan, Non-violent resistance, People Power, Power, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shah of Iran, Student's Day, Twitter, Tyranny, Web 2.0, Where is my vote?, YouTube
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 people of Iran shattered the [...]
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Posted on 05 August 2009. Tags: Ali Reza Beheshti, Baharestan, Democracy, Elie Weisel, Iran, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran Parliament, Iran Reform Movement, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic Republic, Live-blogging, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Majles, Meritocracy, Mousavi, Nationalism, Nightly protest chants, Ocean of Green, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sea of Green, secular government, Secularism, Shirin Ebadi, Twitter
[2:12 AM (August 6) Tehran Time]
On the night of Ahmadinejads inauguration as President-Select, the people of Iran protest against the regime by chanting “Allah-o-Akbar!” and “Down with the dictator!” from their rooftops and balconies. One cannot help but feel awe-inspired by their bravery:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8EGyzd8o0]
[1:52 AM (August 6) Tehran Time]
A full-page ad has been taken out [...]
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Posted on 30 July 2009. Tags: 40th day after Neda killed, Basij, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, Civil Disobedience, Dictatorship, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Military, Iran Protests, Khamenei, Letter from Iran, Martyr, Martyr Culture, Military Dictatorship, Mojtaba Khamenei, mousavai, Neda, Neda Agha-Soltan, Police brutality, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shooting, Sohrab
The security forces were using batons, chains, whips, tasers, paint-ball guns, and I saw handguns in the hands of three of them. There was a rumor that a few were shot at in Vanak Square. Two people were picked up near us and people tried to chase after the security forces to get the young men back, but it was a futile chase. Until around 11pm the streets were full of people. At 10pm the shouts of Allah-o Akbar and Death to the Dictator were being screamed from the rooftops all over the city until 10.30pm.
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Posted on 30 July 2009. Tags: 40th day after Neda killed, Basij, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, CBC, Civil Disobedience, Haddi Ghaffari, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Iranian Republic, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khamenei, Live-blogging, Martyr Culture, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Neda, NewsWeek, Reza Sayah, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shiraz, TIME
[10:30 AM Tehran Time]
Quote “The feeling today”:
One plus One, adds to two,
The percentage of the vote that went to You.
Two plus Two, three and four,
The max number of months till you’re out the Door.
Three plus three, adds to six,
The system that you have just can’t be Fixed.
Four plus four, totals eight,
Everything you are adds up [...]
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Posted on 27 July 2009. Tags: Iran, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Music, Neda, Neda Agha-Soltan, Song, Video
Enjoy (Please thank WeAreNeda@gmail.com for this video):
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZnlh3phbs& 285 234]
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Posted on 27 July 2009. Tags: Basij, Fatwa, Fear, Forced Confession, Government Sanctioned Murder, Government Sanctioned Violence, Government Vigilantes, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran Opposition, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Iran Supreme Leader, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Government Propoganda, Iranian People, Karoubi, Khamenei, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Marja, Martyr Culture, Mashaei, Mousavi, Neda Agha-Soltan, Pahlavi, Qajar Shah Mohammad, Qom, revolution, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shah of Iran, Terror, Theocracy, Tyranny, Velayate Faghi
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.
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Posted on 27 July 2009. Tags: Basij, Civil Disobedience, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran Opposition, Iran Supreme Leader, Mossadegh, Mousavi, Political Prisoners, political unrest, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shah of Iran, Tehran Friday Prayers, Tobacco Protest
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.
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