Tag Archives: Live-blog
Exclusive, Featured, Live Blogging, Politics, World November 28, 2011

Live-blog: Egypt Elections, Day 1

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

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Exclusive, Featured, Live Blogging, World June 15, 2011

Live-blog: Riots in Vancouver after Hockey Game (June 15, 2011)

12:38am Pacific Time A tumblog has been setup to track pictures of the hooligans that rioted in Vancouver after the hockey game, here: Vancity Riot Criminals Tumblog 12:30am Pacific Time It is unfortunate that yet another Stanley Cup final in Vancouver has turned into a shameful riot. In 1994 we saw the same thing following [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read, Politics, World June 12, 2011

Live-blog: June 12, 2011 (22 Khordad) – Two Years after the Green Uprising

This is a live-blog reporting on Iran on the second anniversary of the disputed 2009 presidential election. Also running great live-blogs on Iran today, our colleagues EA WorldView and Dissected News. James Miller (Dissected News, EA Worldview) will be taking over the blog for a while. 2006 GMT: People march down the sidewalks under the [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read, Politics, World June 11, 2011

Live-blog: Iran – June 11, 2011 (21 Khordad) – Approaching the 2nd anniversary of the 2009 Green Uprising

4:00am, Sunday, June 12, 2011 (IRDT) Banooye Sabz has provided us with link to a live roundtable discussion in Washington with opposition spokespersons, Amir Arjomand and Mojtaba Vahedi. 2:45am, Sunday, June 12, 2011 (IRDT) Rahesabz reports loud and sustained nighttime protest chants in multiple areas throughout Tehran, and on various university campuses on the eve [...]

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Featured, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Politics June 7, 2011

June 12 (22 Khordad) – Call for a Green Anniversary

5:55 GMT A week ago a call for a silent protest in Tehran on June 12 (22 Khordad) from 6pm to 8pm, was made by the Coordination Council of the Green Path of hope, a group linked to opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. There have been expressions of disappointment, and a sense [...]

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Business, Featured, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Politics, World March 25, 2011

Live-blog: Iran – March 25, 2011 – Regime Reacts to U.N. Appointment of Iran Human Rights Investigator on Day of Remembrance for Green Martyr, Mohammad Mokhtari

12:25 GMT Cyber Watch Yesterday, news broke of a serious cyber exploit, with evidence pointing to Iran as the culprit. EFF offers an explanation of what happened. ReadWriteWeb reports it was most likely the now notorious, Iran Cyber Army, behind the attack–the same group that has now managed to hit a wide list of big [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, Live Blogging, Must Read, World March 11, 2011

Live-blog: Japan – 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake – March 11, 2011

This is a live-blog report. All information sourced from social media. Newest information will be at the top. 9:32AM GMT, March 23 Second video of the explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant emerges: 9:20AM GMT, March 12 Reuters reports that Japan chief cabinet secretary Edano confirms radiation leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant. 9:00AM GMT, March [...]

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Featured, Human Rights, Live Blogging, World March 8, 2011

Huge Security Presence on International Women’s Day

Huge security presence and sporadic protests mark International Women’s Day in Iran.

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Exclusive, Featured, Live Blogging, Must Read, Politics, World February 28, 2011

Live-blog: Iran – February 28, 2011 – 10 Esfand – Regime raises stakes on day of expected opposition protests

This is a live-blog of events in Iran on March 1, 2011 (10 Esfand in Iran). 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 and the posting of [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read, Opinion, Politics, World February 27, 2011

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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Featured, General, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World February 27, 2011

Live-blog: Iran – GREEN OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRESTED!

6:15AM GMT – March 1 A Look Back… In order to give those who might be new to what is happening in Iran some context that helps to put things in perspective, we thought it timely to post this historic video that shows Mir Hossein Mousavi, standing on top of a car and addressing a [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read, Opinion, Politics February 26, 2011

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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Exclusive, Featured, Must Read, Opinion, Politics, World February 26, 2011

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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Exclusive, Featured, General, Live Blogging, Must Read, Politics, World February 22, 2011

Live-blog: Iran – February 22, 2011 – Regime continues its lies, distractions and intimidations

This is a live-blog of events in Iran on February 21, 2011. 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 and the posting of the content by us [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Live Blogging, Must Read, Opinion, Politics, World February 21, 2011

Live-blog: Iran – February 21, 2011

This is a live-blog report of events in Iran on February 21, 2011. 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 and the posting of the content by [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read, Politics, World February 20, 2011

Live-blog: Iran – 1 Esfand – February 20, 2011

This is a live-blog report of events in Iran on February 20, 2011 (1 Esfand). 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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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.