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RFE/RL – Persian Letters: Khamenei, Ahmadinejad: It’s Complicated
Khamenei: “…when the Supreme Leader says something, the president accepts it and acts accordingly”
RadioZamaneh: Karroubi attacked by Ahmadinejad supporters in Tehran
Radio Zamaneh | August 5, 2010 Fars news agency reports that the Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was attacked at Nour Mosque of Tehran which caused his bodyguards to defuse the situation by shooting into the air. Taghi Karroubi, son of the opposition leader, confirmed the news for Radio Zamaneh and informed us that a [...]
Telegraph: Iran puts forward ‘evidence’ that nuclear scientist was abducted by CIA
Telegraph UK | July 4, 2010 By Richard Spencer in Dubai Iran lodged a written complaint alleging that the CIA had abducted one of its nuclear scientists amidst an international mystery over the fate of the man. Shahram Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia while on pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Medina. Since then [...]
Enduring America: Iran Special: The Escalating Crisis Within
Enduring America | July 3, 2010 By Mr. Verde Weeks into the Parliament v. President v. Rafsanjani crisis over control of Islamic Azad University, there is no resolution. There have been efforts to play down the immediate conflict, for example, with the denial of Yasr Rafsanjani, the son of Hashemi Rafsanjani, that the university’s office [...]
Tehran Bureau: Who’s in Charge?
Struggle for power builds between clerics, Revolutionary Guards. An important question that those who follow Iran’s political developments keep asking is, Who is the ultimate power in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and the clerics around him, or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?
Pedestrian: The Man in Sorrow
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 [...]
Clerics side with people of Iran
From Mowjcamp.com: Ever since the fraudulent Presidential Elections in Iran in June 2009, the role of Shiite clerics from Qom and even Iraq in standing up to the coup government of Ahmadinejad and its backers has been unprecedented throughout the 30 year history of the Islamic Republic to say the least. Indeed the positions held [...]
Powerful Protest against Iran’s Government in Holy City of Ghom on Ghadr Night
Source: IRAN ALL DAY People scream their displeasure at the government in Iran with various strong chants: One chant, “Iran has become Palestine!” is very significant because Friday, September 18 is the day that the government has designated as Ghod’s day (Jerusalem Day). The government typically uses this day to parade their loyalists in the [...]
In Wake of Election Protests, Iranian Officials Canceling Major Ramadan Events
TEHRAN, Sept. 6 — Iranian officials have canceled or downgraded major Shiite religious events during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, suggesting fear that the opposition might use them to stage protests.
A typically massive evening celebration scheduled for next weekend at the South Tehran mausoleum of the Islamic republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was canceled “due to problems,” the site’s public relations department said in a statement.
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.
What the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Khamenei, really meant to say
“How did you like the fact that with such ease I was able to have 9 of your embassy staff employees arrested and interrogated then released, just like that? I’m keeping one of them. Fair trade. Someone has to pay the price for the blood that has been spilled in the streets. I’m sure you understand.You are free to think of me as: Your Friend.”
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.
Clerical Leaders Defy Ayatollah on Iran Election
“This crack in the clerical establishment, and the fact they are siding with the people and Moussavi, in my view is the most historic crack in the 30 years of the Islamic republic,” said Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. “Remember, they are going against an election verified and sanctified by Khamenei.”
Green Report #16 – Fresh News from Iran – Summary of tweets on Iran from Thursday, July 2
I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]
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