Tag Archives: Karoubi

Live-blog: Iran – February 27, 2011 – The pressure builds

3:00AM GMT – February 28 We just came across this video that we had not seen, from the protests in Tehran on February 14 / 25 Bahman. It is being filmed by someone on a bus that captures the heavy security presence in the street. Nearing the end of the video, you can see regime [...]

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Live-blog: Iran – February 26 – Regime hypocrisy continues as opposition protests loom

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 [...]

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Iran: “A marathon not a sprint”

Over the past several days in Iran, the regime has consolidated steps it has been taking for months now towards putting Iranian opposition figures, Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, and Mehdi Karroubi, under a type of permanent house arrest–a method that it has used in the past to silence individuals that it can’t [...]

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Live-blog: Iran – February 18 – Regime’s Day of Hate

This is a live-blog report on events in Iran, and about Iran. The majority of the information is sourced via social media channels. The videos or links to other sites posted are not produced by Iran News Now, and their posting here does not equate to an endorsement of their content or message. Every update [...]

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Live-blog: Iran – Fallout from 25 Bahman protests continues

2:33AM GMT We have been away from updates for several hours so we will attempt to catch up with this entry. More Videos from 25 Bahman Clashes took place at the Tehran University of Fine Arts at a ceremony held by students there for slain 25 Bahman (February 14) protester, Saneh Jaleh. The clashes were [...]

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Live-blog: Iran – After 25 Bahman – What comes next?

7:45AM GMT We had intended for our last update for the day to be the previous one, but felt that this interview of a protester, Sara, by Anderson Cooper is a must-see. She typifies the ordinary Iranians that have decided that they have to stand up for their rights. The interview is significant not only [...]

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Live-blog: Iran – 25 Bahman – February 14, 2011

This is a live-blog report of events in Iran on February 14, 2011 (25 Bahman). The majority of the reports in this blog are sourced via social media. With regards to the videos and images in this live-blog, we are not affiliated with the people or groups that produced them. In order to follow this [...]

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How the Mousavi-Karroubi request to hold a rally in support of Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings reveals hypocritical and totalitarian nature of regime

The Facebook page that supports Mir Hossein Mousavi has posted a call for public-demonstrations “on Monday, Feb 14, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. (local time) from Imam Hossein Square to Azadi Square (Tehran) to show solidarity with the popular movements in the region and in particular the freedom-seeking movements of the Tunisian and Egyptian people against [...]

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Video: Home of Green Movement Leader, Mehdi Karroubi, under Siege by Pro-government Forces

For several days now, the home of Mehdi Karroubi, presidential candidate in the 2009 rigged election in Iran, and leader of the opposition Green Movement, has been under siege by pro-government plain-clothed militia-men–the same folks we saw beating and shooting people in the streets of Iran’s cities last year during wide-spread protests against the rigged [...]

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Iran’s Turbulence Beneath

As the main stream media slip back into their pre-2009-Iran-presidential-election coma of blissful ignorance, the story is no longer about the courageous Iranian protesters facing their government and revealing to the world how their government torments and terrorizes them. The now almost decade long story about the threat of the Iranian nuclear program has started [...]

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RadioZamaneh: Karroubi attacked by Ahmadinejad supporters in Tehran

Radio Zamaneh | August 5, 2010 Fars news agency reports that the Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was attacked at Nour Mosque of Tehran which caused his bodyguards to defuse the situation by shooting into the air. Taghi Karroubi, son of the opposition leader, confirmed the news for Radio Zamaneh and informed us that a [...]

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The Seditious Ahmadinejad?

The Diplomat | July 27, 2010 By Meir Javedanfar Ultra conservative criticism of Ahmadinejad is growing and Khamenei’s fatwa looks desperate. Will regime in-fighting boil over? Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, an ongoing and constant battle has been raging between different factions of Iran’s ruling elites over whose opinion should have more sway with [...]

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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 [...]

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Tehran Bureau: Who’s in Charge?

Struggle for power builds between clerics, Revolutionary Guards. An important question that those who follow Iran’s political developments keep asking is, Who is the ultimate power in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and the clerics around him, or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?

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CNN Interview’s Karoubi: Iran opposition leader: ‘The future belongs to the people’

CNN | June 12, 2010 Editor’s note: Opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi is a former Iranian Parliament speaker and ran for Iran’s president as a reform candidate. He and others have accused the government of widespread fraud in last year’s election. (CNN) — Iran’s disputed presidential election last year sparked widespread outrage within the Islamic republic [...]

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Iran opposition leader Karroubi takes on Khamenei

Associated Free Press (hosted by Google) | June 11, 2010 TEHRAN — Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi charged on Friday that it is supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who decides the outcome of elections, not the people, ahead of the first anniversary of Iran’s disputed presidential poll. Referring to the all-powerful Khamenei but not naming him [...]

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Feature: Instagrams from Iran (picture compilation)

A few pictures from Iran, taken by ordinary people and posted to Instagram

Iran Feature: Former Detainee Sarah Shourd “The Plight of Iranians and 3 Decades of US Foreign Policy”

The incredible thing for me was that so many Iranians worldwide took the time to care about us despite the thousands of other political prisoners they have to worry about. “I’m an Iranian boy ashamed for what our government did to three American hikers,” another message on Facebook says. “I want you to know Iranian people are with you and against their own government. Iran’s regime is not chosen by Iranian people. They kill and torture us and we are all in a very big prison named Iran.”

Iran Feature: The Supreme Leader Is Worried — Three Developments You Probably Don’t Know

Our partner, EAWorldView, has published a ground-breaking piece on Iran’s Supreme Leader. This is a must-read.

Live-blog: Russia, what’s next?

Live-blog: Egypt Elections, Day 1

A historic day: The first post-Mubarak elections in Egypt

Journalist Mona Eltahawy’s harrowing ordeal – beating, sexual assault and arrest in Egypt – in her own words and tweets

“The past 12 hrs were painful and surreal but I know I got off much much easier than so many other Egyptians.”