(Associated Free Press hosted by Google) | March 10, 2010
TEHRAN — Iran has freed for the new year holidays a prominent opposition figure rounded up during protests against the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, news reports said Thursday.
A number of activists and journalists have also been freed under varying conditions in the last [...]

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.

(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 [...]

(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 opposition [...]

(RadioZamaneh) | February 22, 2010
Iranian Minister of Science and Technology, Kamran Daneshjou announced today that the country’s universities have no need for “secular” professors and educators who do not subscribe to the Islamic worldview (they have no place in Iran’s universities).
He also told Fars news agency that acting in partisanship is “poisonous for the universities [...]

(Zahra Rahnavard’s Facebook Page) | February 22, 2010
In the name of God, the companionate and the merciful
Great and noble people of Iran
I deeply appreciate your huge turnout in the 22nd Bahman [February 11, anniversary of the revolution] rally despite all the security pressures and the closed political atmosphere. The ceremonies this year were held while [...]

Originally published in Enduring America and The Huffington Post | February 22, 2010
Every so often, I read the news about Iran and it reminds me of growing up as a refugee in Pakistan.
The latest reminder came on 11 February, my birthday, which happened to be the Islamic Revolution’s birthday as well. The occasion brought [...]

(RadioZamaneh) | February 20, 2010
Iranian media report that Birgadier-General Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Head of Tehran Police retires after only six months at this post. He has reportedly been in the police service for 36 years and his valediction ceremony will take place tomorrow, Sunday.
Rajabzadeh took over from Ahmad-Reza Radan in the September of 2009. Prior to [...]

(insideIRAN.org) | February 17, 2010
Shayan Ghajar
The low turnout and disorganization of Green Movement protestors on February 11, Iran’s 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, highlighted the weaknesses of the opposition’s approach in the face of intensifying pressures from the government. However, while the Green Movement may have suffered its first significant blow from the government [...]

Watch this very interesting video from CNN, in which a former Basij member talks about his own experience after expressing reservations about the brutality used against protesters after the disputed election in June of last year. Fascinating.