Tag Archives: Neda Agha-Soltan
Featured, General November 12, 2009

Iranian doctor Arash Hejazi who tried to rescue Neda Soltan tells of wounds that never heal

November 13, 2009 Martin Fletcher As Arash Hejazi sat in an Oxford coffee bar, members of Iran’s Basij militia in Tehran were demanding his extradition outside the British Embassy. The previous day the Iranian regime had sent an Oxford college a letter of protest over a scholarship given to honour Neda Soltan, the student killed [...]

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Featured, General July 30, 2009

Letter from Iran: Eye-witness Account of Uprising in Iran on 40th Day after Neda was Killed

The security forces were using batons, chains, whips, tasers, paint-ball guns, and I saw handguns in the hands of three of them. There was a rumor that a few were shot at in Vanak Square. Two people were picked up near us and people tried to chase after the security forces to get the young men back, but it was a futile chase. Until around 11pm the streets were full of people. At 10pm the shouts of Allah-o Akbar and Death to the Dictator were being screamed from the rooftops all over the city until 10.30pm.

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Featured, General, Video July 27, 2009

We are Neda: Song and Video

Enjoy (Please thank WeAreNeda@gmail.com for this video): [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZnlh3phbs& 285 234]

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Featured, General July 27, 2009

The dust of dissent can still choke this regime

On the surface, “order” has been enforced. But only on the surface. Inside Iran, public anger still burns, flaring up wherever opportunity presents. At the core of the Islamic regime, a struggle has been unleashed that — by stepping off his pedestal into the thick of the fray — the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has lost his once- undisputed power to bring under control. Far from subsiding, dissent is shaking the regime to its roots.

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Featured, General July 6, 2009

Green Report #18 & #19 – Fresh News from Iran – July 4-5

Hamid Maddah, a core member of Mousavi’s campaign in Mashhad, died in custody on Saturday. He had been arrested in Gowharshad Mosque along with many other Mousavi supporters. According to sources, he had been tortured badly and wasn’t able to recover. The official death certificate registers the cause of death as internal bleeding in the skull.

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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.