Posted on 09 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Ahvaz, Amir Kabir University, Azadi Square, Babol, Basij, Clerical Rule, Clerics, Dezfol, Dictatorship, Eghelab Square, European Union, Evin Prison, Freedom Movement, Government Sanctioned Murder, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hamadan, Human Rights, Iran, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran News, Iran Protests, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Isfahan, Israel, July 9, Kerman, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashad, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Mullacracy, Mullahs, Nicolas Sarkozy, NiteOwl, Pasdaran, Police brutality, republican guard, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sari, Sea of Green, Shiraz, Shirin Ebadi, Student Uprising, Tabriz, tear gas, Tehran, Tehran University, Valiasr, Vanak
I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]
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Posted on 09 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Basij, Cyrus the Great, Freedom, Iran, Iran Green Movement, Islam, July 9, memoirs, Pasdaran, Revolutionary Guards, Zoarastrianism
I have been following Iranian news daily now since about 1997, when I would trawl the internet, looking for anything I could find that would help quench a thirst that I must have been building up since my earliest days. A thirst for an understanding of the land I was born in, and that I [...]
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Posted on 08 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Arrests, Basij, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hashemi Rafsanjani, IIPF, Iran, Iran Green Movement, Iran Guardian Council, Iran News, Islamic Iranian Participation Front, July 9, Kermanshah, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashad, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sea of Green, Shiraz, Tehran
International media is reporting that Mojtaba Khamenei – the son of Ayatollah Khamenei – has taken direct control of Iran’s militia group (Basij) in order to suppress the Sea of Green. They also report that officials within other security forces, along with the powerful clergy, are not happy with the situation. However, solid confirmations from our Iranian sources have yet to be confirmed.
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