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Tehran Revolutionary Guard chief replaced

(RadioZamaneh) | February 22, 2010 Commander Ali Fazli, head of Seyed-ol-Shoahda Revolutionary Guards has been replaced as Tehran security heads are being shuffled around. This week, Tehran police chief, Azizollah Rajabzadeh also retired only after six months at his post. Governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamaddon lauded Commander Fazli’s actions in the post-election events and his [...]

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Iran police chief extols organization of February 11 events

(RadioZamaneh) | February 20, 2010 Head of Iran’s national police forces announced that the February 11 ceremonies were conducted under the supervision of a “single command unit” which resulted in the “exuberant fifty-million people demonstration.” Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam expressed satisfaction with the “coordinated efforts” of the unit. On February 11, the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 [...]

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Tehran police chief retires

(RadioZamaneh) | February 20, 2010 Iranian media report that Birgadier-General Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Head of Tehran Police retires after only six months at this post. He has reportedly been in the police service for 36 years and his valediction ceremony will take place tomorrow, Sunday. Rajabzadeh took over from Ahmad-Reza Radan in the September of 2009. [...]

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Iranian student activist handed six-year prison term

(RadioZamaneh) | February 19, 2010 Iranian authorities have sentenced student activist, Morteza Samiari to six years imprisonment after six weeks in Evin Prison. The executive member of Iran’s national student union was arrested in connection with an open and official invitation to meet with representatives of a European Parliamentary Committee in Tehran. In his trial, [...]

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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 [...]

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”

INN Exclusive: Huge Media Fail – A CNN Correspondent’s Nuclear Misquote of President Obama

Did President Obama really call it a “nuclear weapons program?”

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.

Special: A Dichotomy of the “Chatter” vs. Instagrams from Iran

Acknowledging Iran in the drowning din of media chatter

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.