AHMADINEJAD AND his oligarch cronies have been having a rough couple of months. The ayatollah is out for blood, and those in “elected” office are under attack.
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Live-blog: Iran – March 25, 2011 – Regime Reacts to U.N. Appointment of Iran Human Rights Investigator on Day of Remembrance for Green Martyr, Mohammad Mokhtari
12:25 GMT Cyber Watch Yesterday, news broke of a serious cyber exploit, with evidence pointing to Iran as the culprit. EFF offers an explanation of what happened. ReadWriteWeb reports it was most likely the now notorious, Iran Cyber Army, behind the attack–the same group that has now managed to hit a wide list of big [...]
Live-blog: Iran – February 18 – Regime’s Day of Hate
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RFE/RL: ‘Convincing’ Revolutionary Guards Who Support Green Movement ‘Better Than Eliminating Them’
RFE/RL | July 26, 2010 by Golnaz Esfandiari July 26, 2010 The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has officially acknowledged that some members have been supportive of the country’s opposition movement. General Mohammad Ali Jafari said that it is better “to convince” guards who support the opposition than to get rid of them. [...]
Rahesabz Reports Deal between Khamenei and Rafsanjani to End Dispute over Azad University
The Iran opposition website, Rahesabz, has reported that the dispute between Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Parliament has ended. Apparently, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani met with Ayatollah Khamenei (the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader), where an agreement was made between the two that Khamenei would asked the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution (SCCR) to stop the dispute in exchange [...]
Enduring America: Iran Special: The Escalating Crisis Within
Enduring America | July 3, 2010 By Mr. Verde Weeks into the Parliament v. President v. Rafsanjani crisis over control of Islamic Azad University, there is no resolution. There have been efforts to play down the immediate conflict, for example, with the denial of Yasr Rafsanjani, the son of Hashemi Rafsanjani, that the university’s office [...]
Iran’s Hidden Cyberjihad
Foreign Policy | June 7, 2010 By Abbas Milani Taking a cue from the Soviets, the regime is creating a new Iron Curtain — online. To the untrained eye or the rushed glance of a tourist, there is an eerie calm in Iran right now. And Iran’s brutal rulers have done everything imaginable to turn [...]
Sunni party to boycott Iraqi elections
(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, [...]
Target Iran’s Censors
(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 [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Iranian Cyber Army Strikes Again: Baidu, China’s largest search engine hacked!
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 [...]
Iran’s Dissident Cleric, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Passed Away
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.
Montazeri: Basij not supposed to support path of Satan
(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 [...]
Bearing Witness to Totalitarianism
(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 [...]
Iran opposition urges targeted sanctions against Tehran
(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 [...]
Iran forms unit to go after opposition on Internet
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 [...]
Brainwashing children: Basij militia to be established in 6,000 elementary schools
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 [...]
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