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		<title>Iran Feature: The Supreme Leader Is Worried &#8212; Three Developments You Probably Don&#8217;t Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our partner, EAWorldView, has published a ground-breaking piece on Iran’s Supreme Leader. This is a must-read.]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blog: Iran &#8211; February 26 &#8211; Regime hypocrisy continues as opposition protests loom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10:00AM GMT &#8211; February 27 We have started a running live-blog tracking the arrests Iran&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFE/RL &#8211; Persian Letters: Khamenei, Ahmadinejad: It’s Complicated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 05:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Khamenei: "...when the Supreme Leader says something, the president accepts it and acts accordingly"]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent Iranian Journalist and Prisoner of Conscience, Isa Saharkhiz, Presents Written Statement of Defense to Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Negar Irani on July 19, 2010 Translator&#8217;s Note: I am translating Isa Saharkhiz&#8217;s moving defense behind closed doors of the Revolutionary Court in parts as it is too long to translate in one piece. In Part I Mr. Saharkhiz provides an overview of the circumstances in which he was forcefully and illegally arrested on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enduring America: Iran Special: The Escalating Crisis Within</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enduring America &#124; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hardline MP confirms travel ban for Iranian opposition leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardline MP maintained that the three opposition figures' only aim in leaving the country would be to use international platforms to “keep the seditious movement alive.”
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		<title>Rafsanjani Meets with Reformist MPs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Pedestrian) &#124; April 5, 2010 Rafsanjani Meets with Reformist MPs The delegates of the coalition of reformist parties – the Imam Khomeini Line – met with Mir Hossein Mousavi and Rafsanjani today. The Rafsanjani visit is translated below (crossposted at Khordaad88). The Mousavi visit will follow soon on Khordaad88. ————————- In continuing their new year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Administration Plagued by Fraud and Corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Tehran Bureau) &#124; March 30, 2010 by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles Ahmadinejad and His Men: Embodiments of Fraud and Corruption. There is no doubt in the minds of many Iranians, including the author, that Tehran&#8217;s hardliners committed fraud on a vast scale to steal the presidential election of June 12, 2009, and deny victory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fatemeh Karoubi speaks out after Karoubi home vandalized by pro-government vigilantes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Radio Zamaaneh) &#124; March 15, 2010 Assailants attack Iranian opposition leader&#8217;s home Fatemeh Karroubi announced that her husband, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi is under threat and pressure because of blowing the whistle on the “dirty crimes” that took place following the elections and claimed that if the pressures persist, she will have to “publicize many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Destination was to Begin the Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Pedestrian Blog) &#124; March 10, 2010 The Pedestrian is an excellent blog providing insightful pieces on Iranian culture, politics and life.   Highly recommended by Iran News Now. Emad Bahavar [1979] is a political activist, writer and the head of “Supporters of Khatami and Mousavi” in the 2009 presidential campaign. He was arrested shortly after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Militarized Death of the Republic</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/02/the-militarized-death-of-the-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(TehranBureau) &#124; February 20, 2010 by RASOOL NAFISI This was first published by Tehran Bureau on July 6, 2009. The momentous June presidential election in Iran and its bloody aftermath will probably be remembered as a turning point in the life of this strange republic. The true face of the state, so meticulously hidden beneath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Dissident Cleric, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Passed Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Green Movement will Prevail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadness to me is the happiest time When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe. Rumi It has now been almost six months since those fateful days in June when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Source : On the Truce (between Rafsanjani, Khamenei and company)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikVerbrugge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was reported by an inside source, September 21, 2009 Rafsanjani incorporated [into an agreed upon truce with Khamenei] reformist agendas such as re-establishment of Khatami’s standing and dignity, avoidance of further public attacks against him and other reformists, a return to mutual respect, and curbing of coup-like behavior of Sepah [IRGC]. In exchange, [the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insider Opinion: Back to Square One</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikVerbrugge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following Q&#038;A is between INN contributor MikVerbrugge (Mehrzad Vafa) and an insider source with which he is in communication. Following this Q&#038;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Power Brokers Part 3 &#8211; Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani &#8211; The Shark</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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