(CNN) | February 20, 2010
Yusuf Bassil
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — A key Sunni Arab party is boycotting Iraq’s March 7 elections because of what it says was Iranian influence that led to the banning of participants in the upcoming race, including the bloc’s leader.
The Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, headed by Saleh al-Mutlaq, said the move [...]

(New York Times) | February 18, 2010
By ROGER COHEN
NEW YORK — Here’s what happens when a business linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) is targeted with sanctions. A representative of the Revolutionary Guards finds a lawyer in Dubai and says: “Look, I’m on this stupid U.S. Treasury list. I’ll give you 10 percent. [...]

China’s largest search engine, Baidu, has been hacked. For a period of time the website showed the following (click to enlarge):

We do not yet know if this is the same individual or group that managed to change the IP address for Twitter several weeks ago, redirecting to a page with an image and text [...]

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.

(Radio Zamaneh)
Prominent Iranian reformist cleric, Ayatollah Hoseinali Montazeri criticized the role of Basij militia in the violent suppression of the post-election protesters and maintained the Basij was not established to serve “in the path of the Satan.”
In the post election events, Basij militia played an instrumental role in confronting protesters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s alleged fraudulent [...]

(Newsweek)
Published Nov 21, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Nov 30, 2009
They warned him not to talk. When Maziar Bahari was finally freed after 118 days in an Iranian prison on phony espionage charges, he was instructed never to speak of what had happened in jail. If he told his story, his interrogator said, he would [...]

(WashingtonTV)
Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009
Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said on Thursday that US President Barack Obama should increase his public support for Iran’s democratic movement, and intensify sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
Makhmalbaf, who has become a spokesperson outside of Iran for the main opposition movement, said that the movement supports targeted economic sanctions [...]

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday.
Police Col. Mehrdad Omidi, who heads the Internet crime unit, said the committee will [...]

The following article is written by a Twitter blogger who goes by Homy Lafayette (http://twitter.com/homylafayette). Link to HomyLayette’s Blogspot: http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/.
A senior Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) official has announced that the Basij militia will soon be established in Iranian elementary schools for the first time since the Islamic revolution.
The extensive plan calls for the introduction of [...]

The following article is written by a Twitter blogger who goes by Homy Lafayette (http://twitter.com/homylafayette). Link to HomyLayette’s Blogspot: http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/.
Delusions of candor: IRGC political bureau chief sees Satanists among the Greens

‘Delusions of candor’ is an ongoing series on the regime’s efforts to spin the news, create disinformation, and spread propaganda.
A publication of the Islamic [...]