10:00AM GMT – February 27 We have started a running live-blog tracking the arrests Iran’s Green opposition leaders here. 7:50AM GMT Till now, the regime has not dared arrest the main opposition figures and leaders of the Green Movement. With confirmation by the very reliable Reza Sayah that Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and their [...]
The Purge Continues …
(Pedestrian) | April 6, 2010 Three professors have been removed from their positions in the past 24 hours: Morteza Mardiha, a professor of philosophy at Alameh Tabatabie University. And Alireza Beheshti and Ghorban Behzadian-Nejad have also been suspended from their teaching positions at Tarbiat Modarres University. At the helm of Tarbiat Modarres right now is [...]
Iranian Science Minister Spurns “Secular” Professors
(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 [...]








