Source: Pedestrian | April 12, 2010 Ezatollah Sahabi is the 80 year old head of Iran’s Nationalist-Religious political alliance. He has spent years in prison, in both the pre and post revolution eras, and here he reflects on the state of prisons in Iran and laments all the young lives who are unjustly and mercilessly [...]
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The Purge Continues …
(Pedestrian) | April 6, 2010 Three professors have been removed from their positions in the past 24 hours: Morteza Mardiha, a professor of philosophy at Alameh Tabatabie University. And Alireza Beheshti and Ghorban Behzadian-Nejad have also been suspended from their teaching positions at Tarbiat Modarres University. At the helm of Tarbiat Modarres right now is [...]
Rafsanjani Meets with Reformist MPs
(Pedestrian) | 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 [...]
For Your Weekend Viewing Pleasure
(Pedestrian Blog) | March 26, 2010 I’ve been meaning to post this for some time now. BaroBax is one of Iran’s most famous bands right now (their site needs some English editing, calling them “an alternative video and music producer”) …And irrespective of how you feel about their music, they are part of the crowd [...]
The Destination was to Begin the Journey
(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 [...]
A Memory of Javad Larijani
(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 [...]
The Secret Army
(Pedestrian) | February 20, 2010 One of the most popular TV shows on IRIB after the revolution, was the Secret Army [1977], a join BBC/BRT [Belgian National Broadcasting] project about a Belgian/French resistance movement during the Second World War. The show originally aired in Iran in 1990. The reruns aired on IRIB for years, but [...]
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