Posted on 10 March 2010. Tags: 1979 Islamic Revolution, 22Bahman, Ali Motahari, Amir Mohebian, Assembly of Experts, Civil Disobedience, Faridedin Adel, Government Sanctioned Intimidation, Government Sanctioned Murder, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hadad Adel, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Human Rights, Iran Awakening, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Crisis, Iran Green Movement, Iran Guardian Council, Iran Hardliners, Iran Military, Iran Pragmatic Conservatives, Iran Principalists, Iran Reform Movement, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Islamic Republic of Iran, Khamenei, Khatami, Khomeini, Leadership of the Jurist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mesbah Yazdi, Military Dictatorship, Mohsen Rezai, Navab Safavi, Pedestrian, Police brutality, Political Prisoners, political unrest, Reformists, Rigged Iran Presidential Election, Saeed Hajjarian, Saeed Mortazavi, Sheykh Fazlollah, Velayate Faghi
(The Pedestrian Blog) | 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 the election, [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2010. Tags: Javad Larijani, Mesbah Yazdi, Nikaghangh Kowsar, Pedestrian
(The Pedestrian Blog) | February 22, 2010
Javad Larijani is the head of the Human Rights Council in the judiciary and a top adviser to the supreme leader. Additionally Larijani has been the Director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in Tehran. His two brothers, Ali Larijani and Sadeq Larijani are heads of [...]
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Posted on 20 November 2009. Tags: Ayatollah Bayat-Zanjani, Ayatollah Dastgheib, Ayatollah Jannati, Ayatollahs, Fatwa, Featured, Grand Ayatollah Ali Safi, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Grand Ayatollah Sanei, Iran Supreme Leader, Jafar Sobhani, Khamenei, Khoshvaght, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Marja, Mesbah Yazdi, Mohammad Yazdi, Qom Seminary Teachers Association
(Rooz Online)
November 20, 2009
By Ali Farokhi
Following the escalation of protests by Iran’s senior ayatollahs against the regime, some members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association (the most important organization of clerics affiliated with the regime) are planning to present a new list of “grand ayatollahs” under the supervision of Mohammad Yazdi, Ahmad Jannati and Mesbah [...]
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Posted on 12 September 2009. Tags: 60 Minutes, Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Barack Obama, Carole Jerome, Featured, Friday Prayers, Ghods Day, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hojjatieh, Iran Coup Government, Iran Green Movement, Iran Supreme Leader, Iran-Contra, Iranian Nuclear Program, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khamenei, Khatami, Khomeini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mesbah Yazdi, Mike Wallace, Moscow, Mousavi, Reagan, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Russia, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, U.S.-Iran Negotiations, U.S.-Iran Relations, Vladimir Putin, Zahra Rahnavard
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
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