Tag Archives: Rooz Online

Rooz: Mousavi: People Will Not Await Message to Assemble

August 14, 2010: Mousavi: “Voicing demands, wishes and the right to assembly are among people’s clear rights and no one can deprive them of these.”

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Rooz: The Eyes and Ears of the Green Movement

If in the past year, thousands of Iranians have been imprisoned, wounded, exiled, tortured and more than a hundred people have been killed on the streets, it is all because of the regime’s fear of the Movement’s expansion and its widespread use of violence against the people.

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Hashemi Announced Unity in Absence of Yazdi

(Rooz Online) | February 25, 2010 Farzaneh Bazrpour The seventh of Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Leadership, mandated by the constitution oversee the performance of the supreme leader began its annual session yesterday with Hashemi Rafsanjani’s speech but in the absence of Mohammad Yazdi. On Monday, the hardline Kayhan daily announced the session’s agenda to [...]

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Pressure Mounts to Dissolve Student Association (Office to Strengthen Unity) Daftar Tahkim Vahdat

(Rooz Online) | February 18, 2010 Arash Bahmani Note from INN (not in the original article in Rooz Online): The Student Association, the Office to Strengthen Unity is one of Iran’s largest and strongest student organizations, and has played a significant role in organizing student protests since the rigged presidential elections in June of 2009. [...]

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Feature: Instagrams from Iran (picture compilation)

A few pictures from Iran, taken by ordinary people and posted to Instagram

Iran Feature: Former Detainee Sarah Shourd “The Plight of Iranians and 3 Decades of US Foreign Policy”

The incredible thing for me was that so many Iranians worldwide took the time to care about us despite the thousands of other political prisoners they have to worry about. “I’m an Iranian boy ashamed for what our government did to three American hikers,” another message on Facebook says. “I want you to know Iranian people are with you and against their own government. Iran’s regime is not chosen by Iranian people. They kill and torture us and we are all in a very big prison named Iran.”

Iran Feature: The Supreme Leader Is Worried — Three Developments You Probably Don’t Know

Our partner, EAWorldView, has published a ground-breaking piece on Iran’s Supreme Leader. This is a must-read.

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Live-blog: Egypt Elections, Day 1

A historic day: The first post-Mubarak elections in Egypt

Journalist Mona Eltahawy’s harrowing ordeal – beating, sexual assault and arrest in Egypt – in her own words and tweets

“The past 12 hrs were painful and surreal but I know I got off much much easier than so many other Egyptians.”