Tag Archives: Rigged Iran Presidential Elections

Mousavi: Country governed under Islam should not terrorize people

(Mousavi Statement on Facebook) Mir Hossein Mousavi: A country that is governed under the name of Islam should not continue its path by terrorizing people. Mir Hossein Mousavi in his second video-internet interview with Kaleme News Agency talked about the events that happened on November 4 as well as about the plans for eliminating subsidies [...]

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Video: Pro-regime university speaker shouted down by students

(France24/RFI Pro-regime speakers are regularly invited by University Bassij to speak before students – but since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial re-election in June, they face increasingly hostile audiences. On November 16, one of Ahmadinejad’s staunchest supporters was booed to silence with calls of “murderer” and “liar, go away!” But students often pay the price for [...]

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No going back

PBS just released a documentary on Neda’s murder: FRONTLINE: A Death in Tehran. This is a must see. Watching it, I couldn’t believe how raw the feelings and emotions evoked by it were for me. I felt as though the events were happening all over again. I was overcome by a panopoly of emotions: rage, [...]

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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 [...]

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Iran sentences 5 to death in postelection turmoil

By NASSER KARIMI (AP) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday. The five apparently include three death sentences announced last month. None of the five have been identified by [...]

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Iran student gets 8 yrs over post-election protests

TEHRAN (Reuters) – An Iranian court on Saturday sentenced a student who took part in protests following Iran’s disputed presidential election this year to eight years in prison, a website reported. The June 12 vote triggered big street demonstrations by opposition supporters accusing the authorities of rigging the result, which gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a [...]

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Iran to try brother-in-law of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi

The brother-in-law of Iran’s main opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, will be put on trial before the revolutionary court, months after his arrest in the country’s post-election crackdown, Tehran’s public prosecutor said today.

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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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Live blogging – Student’s Day Demonstrations – Iran – November 4, 2009

[7:00AM Tehran Time] A lot of additional videos are still being posted to social media sites. The following two are particularly troubling: security forces beating women and innocents: [5:00PM Tehran Time] What a day it has been. The boldest protests yet since the rigged election took place on June 12. While thousands of people protesting [...]

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Source : On the Truce (between Rafsanjani, Khamenei and company)

This was reported by an inside source, September 21, 2009 Rafsanjani incorporated [into an agreed upon truce with Khamenei] reformist agendas such as re-establishment of Khatami’s standing and dignity, avoidance of further public attacks against him and other reformists, a return to mutual respect, and curbing of coup-like behavior of Sepah [IRGC]. In exchange, [the [...]

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Amazing Video of People Fighting Back Against Basij on Qods Day

The following is one of the most harrowing videos I have seen since the 18th of Tir anti-government protests in Iran, spurred by the rigged election that gave the presidency to Ahmadinejad. In this video, a scuffle ensues between the government militia accompanied by what appears to be plain-clothed government agents, and Green Movement protesters. [...]

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Insider Opinion: Back to Square One

The following Q&A is between INN contributor MikVerbrugge (Mehrzad Vafa) and an insider source with which he is in communication. Following this Q&A is a brief analysis by an analyst that has been providing Iran News Now with insightful information ever since the rigged June 12 elections (preferring to remain anonymous). Insider Opinion: Back to [...]

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Iran’s Power Brokers Part 3 – Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani – The Shark

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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Khomeini would have annulled Iran vote: Karroubi

ROME (AFP) – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini would have annulled the results of Iran’s presidential elections in June, defeated reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi told an Italian newspaper. In an interview with La Stampa, published on Saturday, Karroubi said the leader of the Islamic revolution in 1979 would have recoiled at the bloodshed that followed the re-election [...]

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Friday, September 11 – Powerful Nighly Chant in Iran!

This is amazing. In resistance to the Friday Prayers speech to the Islamic Republic’s Ayatollah Khamenei, tonights protest chants in Iran. Source: #IranElection on Twitter.com

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For Iran’s Spies, A Putsch

By David Ignatius Thursday, September 10, 2009 The political situation in Iran remains murky, to put it mildly, in the aftermath of June’s turbulent election. But some clues can be found in the recent purge of the country’s intelligence service. The turmoil suggests that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is pushing to tighten his control of the [...]

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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.