Tag Archives: Live-blogging
Exclusive, Featured, Live Blogging, Must Read, Opinion, Politics January 30, 2011

Live-blog: The Egyptian Revolt – Day 6 – Beginning of the End?

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a live-blog report on protests and unrest in Egypt and Lebanon on January 30, 2011. The information and videos in this report are sourced from various social media outlets, with Twitter being our primary source. We will do our best to interpret the events, but the situation is chaotic and information [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, Live Blogging, Must Read, Politics January 25, 2011

Live-blog: Protests and Unrest in Egypt and Lebanon

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a live-blog report on protests and unrest in Egypt and Lebanon on January 25, 2011. The information and videos in this report are sourced from various social media outlets, with Twitter being our primary source. We will do our best to interpret the events, but the situation is chaotic and information [...]

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Exclusive, Live Blogging, Must Read, Opinion, Politics December 15, 2010

Live-blog: Ashura in Iran – December 16, 2010

This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on December 16, 2010, during the Shia mourning day of Ashura. As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up. [8:30AM Tehran Time - December 17, 2010] [...]

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Exclusive, General, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read June 12, 2010

Live-blog: The Day After the Anniversary of the 2009 Rigged Iran Presidential Election

This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on the day following the anniversary of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Usually in the days following a day of protests, videos and images captured by people on the ground during the protests continue to surface. We will chronicle as many of them as we can [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read June 11, 2010

Live-blog: Anniversary of the 2009 Iran Presidential Election and People’s Uprising

This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on the anniversary of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up. Please also note that the time-stamps are for when [...]

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Exclusive, Live Blogging, Must Read June 10, 2010

Live-blog: Eve of Anniversary of 2009 Iran Presidential Election

This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on the eve of the anniversary of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.   As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up. On June 12, 2009 Ahmadinejad was [...]

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Arts and Culture, Exclusive, Featured, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read April 23, 2010

Live-blog: Lecture with Nobel Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, in Vancouver – April 23, 2010

This is a live-blogging report on the lecture with Nobel Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, in Vancouver on April 23, 2010. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom of this page upwards. NOTE: We will do our best to capture as much of the lecture and subsequent discussion as we [...]

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Featured, General March 11, 2010

Enduring America: The Latest from Iran (11 March): Marathon

(Enduring America) | March 11, 2010 The tireless Dr. Scott Lucas, professor of American Studies at Birmingham University in the U.K., and editor of the esteemed Enduring America news blog covers today’s notable news on Iran. While it’s worth reading the liveblog in its entirity, I found this part to be particularly interesting because of [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, Live Blogging February 10, 2010

Live-blog: 22 Bahman – 31st Anniversary of Islamic Revolution – February 11, 2010

This is a live-blog report on events in Iran on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up. (You can also follow us via our Twitter feed: Iran [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Live Blogging November 3, 2009

Live blogging – Student’s Day Demonstrations – Iran – November 4, 2009

[7:00AM Tehran Time] A lot of additional videos are still being posted to social media sites. The following two are particularly troubling: security forces beating women and innocents: [5:00PM Tehran Time] What a day it has been. The boldest protests yet since the rigged election took place on June 12. While thousands of people protesting [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Live Blogging August 5, 2009

Live-blogging Iran August 5th, Ahmadinejad Inauguration Day News and Events

[2:12 AM (August 6) Tehran Time] On the night of Ahmadinejads inauguration as President-Select, the people of Iran protest against the regime by chanting “Allah-o-Akbar!” and “Down with the dictator!” from their rooftops and balconies. One cannot help but feel awe-inspired by their bravery: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8EGyzd8o0] [1:52 AM (August 6) Tehran Time] A full-page ad has [...]

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Exclusive, Featured, General, Live Blogging July 30, 2009

Live-blogging July 30th, 2009 Iran Protests (40th day after Neda killed)

[10:30 AM Tehran Time] Quote “The feeling today”: One plus One, adds to two, The percentage of the vote that went to You. Two plus Two, three and four, The max number of months till you’re out the Door. Three plus three, adds to six, The system that you have just can’t be Fixed. Four [...]

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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.