Tag Archives: IRGC
Featured, General November 12, 2009

Delusions of candor: IRGC political bureau chief sees Satanists among the Greens

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 [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Opinion September 20, 2009

Insider Opinion: Back to Square One

The following Q&A is between INN contributor MikVerbrugge (Mehrzad Vafa) and an insider source with which he is in communication. Following this Q&A is a brief analysis by an analyst that has been providing Iran News Now with insightful information ever since the rigged June 12 elections (preferring to remain anonymous). Insider Opinion: Back to [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Opinion September 12, 2009

Iran’s Power Brokers Part 3 – Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani – The Shark

While the Green Movement can’t count on Rafsanjani to support them unconditionally (far from it in fact), the situation has some light at the end of the tunnel in that Rafsanjani is likely seething with anger at how Khamenei is handling things. His interests will be aligned with those of the Green Movement insofar as sharing the goal of neutering Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and the IRGC, but they will likely diverge when this is accomplished. The people want freedom. Rafsanjani wants a comfortable life for Rafsanjani and family

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Exclusive, Featured, General August 30, 2009

The Calm Before the Storm

As the Machiavellian plots continue to unfold in the power structures of Iran, one thing remains certain: the quiet that we are experiencing right now from the people does not mean that they have been silenced. Far from it, this is the quiet before the storm. The Green Movement is alive and well and in waiting for the next opportunity to put a stick in the eye of this regime.

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Featured, General July 6, 2009

Green Report #18 & #19 – Fresh News from Iran – July 4-5

Hamid Maddah, a core member of Mousavi’s campaign in Mashhad, died in custody on Saturday. He had been arrested in Gowharshad Mosque along with many other Mousavi supporters. According to sources, he had been tortured badly and wasn’t able to recover. The official death certificate registers the cause of death as internal bleeding in the skull.

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Featured, General, Opinion July 2, 2009

Forbes: Tyranny Loses In Iran

A tyrannical triumvirate, one that is led by Ayatollah Khamenei and supported by the military might of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the street presence of gangs with ranks numbering at least a few million, seems hell-bent on forcing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the reluctant and still-resisting people of Iran.

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Exclusive March 22, 2012

Iran, Israel and the United States: Our destinies need not be bound by political hatreds, fears, and squabblings

If you happen to have grown up in the west, you are certainly familiar with the horror that was the [...]

Exclusive March 8, 2012

Snap Analysis of Khamenei’s hailing of Obama’s call for caution on war talk

Khamenei: “This talk is good talk and shows an exit from illusion”

Exclusive March 6, 2012

INN Exclusive: Huge Media Fail – A CNN Correspondent’s Nuclear Misquote of President Obama

Did President Obama really call it a “nuclear weapons program?”

Arts and Culture February 27, 2012

Special: Press-stream of Oscar Win for Best Foreign Language Film for Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’

Snippets of sentiment and buzz captured throughout the day, surrounding the first ever Iranian film to win an Oscar, an event that will go down in history as coming at just the right moment–a time when some politicians and media clamor for war.

Arts and Culture February 24, 2012

Special: A Dichotomy of the “Chatter” vs. Instagrams from Iran

Acknowledging Iran in the drowning din of media chatter

Exclusive February 14, 2012

Iran Live-blog: 25 Bahman, One Year Later

Last year, tens of thousands Iranians protested in solidarity with uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Several people were killed, hundreds were arrested. Today we watch for signs of renewed protests.