Tag Archive | "Iran Green Movement"
Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: Film Festival, Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran Green Movement, Iranian Artists, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, One World Film Festival, Prague, RFE/RL
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 10, 2010
By Kristin Deasy
The poster advertising the opening of Europe’s largest human rights film festival shows a 20-something brunette in leather pants ready to lasso, cowgirl-style, the attention of potential attendees.
She’s also wearing a green jacket. It’s a good fit for the festival’s opening film, “Green Days,” [...]
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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 09 March 2010. Tags: Aspirations of Iranian People, Iran Green Movement, Iranian Nuclear Program, New York Times, Nowruz, Nuclear Diplomacy, Obama, People Power, Regime Change, Rigged Iran Presidential Election, Roger Cohen, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Iran Relations, war
(The New York Times) | March 4, 2010
By Roger Cohen
PARIS — A year has passed since President Obama’s groundbreaking Nowruz offer to Iran of engagement based on mutual respect. Iran is now a different country, its divided regime weaker and confronted by the Green movement, the strongest expression of people power in the Middle East [...]
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Posted on 08 March 2010. Tags: Iran Flag, Iran Green Movement, Islamic Republic
We have witnessed a strange phenomenon in Iran now for several weeks as Ahmadinejad has been appearing in various Iranian state media with the flag of Iran in the background, with the green part of the flag changed to blue, or black.
Since the rigged presidential election in Iran in June of last year, the movement [...]
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Posted on 28 February 2010. Tags: Aspirations of Iranian People, Iran Green Movement, Islamic Republic, Mousavi, Mousavi Interview with Kalame, Mousavi Statement, People of Iran
(Khordaad 88) | February 27
(Thank you Khordaad 88 for producing the complete translation!)
Source: Kaleme
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010
Kaleme: Three weeks have passed since the 22nd of Bahman rally, which has prompted many discussions and comments. What is your opinion?
Mousavi: It is not the first time that the ceremonies of 22 Bahman have been held in [...]
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Posted on 27 February 2010. Tags: Citizen Journalism, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Iranian Citizen Journalists, Iranian Film, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Twitter Revolution
Mohsen Makhmalbaf refers to Iran’s citizen journalists that have been protesting and filming those protests using cell phone cameras, and distributing those films via the use of Internet technology and social media as “real artists.”
I agree.
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Posted on 27 February 2010. Tags: 22 Bahman, 31st Anniversary of Islamic Revolution, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Mehdi Karoubi, Mousavi, Mousavi Statement
(AFP hosted by Yahoo) | February 27, 2010
Jay Deshmukh
Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi Saturday called for the staging of a fresh anti-government rally in Tehran to prove depth of support for his so-called Green Movement among disenchanted Iranians.
Opposition attempts to hold anti-government protests on February 11, when the nation marked the 31st anniversary of the [...]
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Posted on 26 February 2010. Tags: Assembly of Experts, Guardian Council, Iran Green Movement, Iran Opposition, Islamic Republic, Khamenei, Mehdi Karoubi, Mousavi, Rigged Iran Presidential Election
(Enduring America) | February 26, 2010
Scott Lucas
No doubt this morning about the big news out of Iran. On Thursday, the Supreme Leader tried to lock down the security of his position once and for all, declaring that opposition leaders “have lost their credibility by denying the results of the elections. They did not surrender to [...]
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Posted on 26 February 2010. Tags: 22 Bahman, Fascism, Iran Green Movement, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Mousavi, Mousavi's five-point plan, The Newest Deal, Tyranny
(The Newest Deal) | February 26
In his 17th statement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi made five specific points that he deemed necessary to start the political (and national) reconciliation process. The proposal lead to a noticeable uptick in talk about the need for national “unity”in the weeks leading up to 22 Bahman, and also garnered much attention from [...]
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Posted on 26 February 2010. Tags: Interview, Iran Green Movement, Khomeini, Mehdi Karoubi, Shah of Iran
(Corriere della Sera) | February 26, 2010
Mehdi Karroubi, 73-year-old cleric and politician, has become a leader of the protests against the Iranian regime. A disciple of Khomeini, since the age of 24 he fought at his side against the Shah (and paid with six years in prison) in order to create the Islamic Republic. Since [...]
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