Posted on 10 March 2010. Tags: 1979 Islamic Revolution, 22Bahman, Ali Motahari, Amir Mohebian, Assembly of Experts, Civil Disobedience, Faridedin Adel, Government Sanctioned Intimidation, Government Sanctioned Murder, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hadad Adel, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Human Rights, Iran Awakening, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Crisis, Iran Green Movement, Iran Guardian Council, Iran Hardliners, Iran Military, Iran Pragmatic Conservatives, Iran Principalists, Iran Reform Movement, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Islamic Republic of Iran, Khamenei, Khatami, Khomeini, Leadership of the Jurist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mesbah Yazdi, Military Dictatorship, Mohsen Rezai, Navab Safavi, Pedestrian, Police brutality, Political Prisoners, political unrest, Reformists, Rigged Iran Presidential Election, Saeed Hajjarian, Saeed Mortazavi, Sheykh Fazlollah, Velayate Faghi
(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 the election, [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2010. Tags: Ali Fazli, Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Kahrizak Prison, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, RadioZamaneh, Sadegh Larijani, Saeed Mortazavi
(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 confrontation with [...]
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Posted on 21 January 2010. Tags: Ashura, Central Bank of Iran, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Featured, Government Sanctioned Intimidation, Hassan Khomeini, Hillary Clinton, Iran Opposition, Iranian Academics, Khomeini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Manoucher Mottaki, Mohammad Ali Jafari, Mousavi, Mousavi Statement, Saeed Mortazavi, Selected Headlines, U.S.-Iran Relations
Channel 4 News (UK), January 22
Neda’s death ‘ignited an awakening’ in Iran
Neda Agha Soltan’s fiance, Caspian Makan: “The 23 January is Neda’s precious birthday. Neda will be 27 on that day. I felt that this should be marked in the world.
“I’ve asked the people of Iran, wherever they may be, in whichever corner of the [...]
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Posted on 30 August 2009. Tags: Basij, Hojjatieh, Iran Green Movement, Iran Supreme Leader, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khamenei, Khatami, Mousavi, Prisoner Rape, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sadegh Larijani, Saeed Mortazavi, Torture, Yazdi, Zahra Kazemi
As the Machiavellian plots continue to unfold in the power structures of Iran, one thing remains certain: the quiet that we are experiencing right now from the people does not mean that they have been silenced. Far from it, this is the quiet before the storm. The Green Movement is alive and well and in waiting for the next opportunity to put a stick in the eye of this regime.
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Posted on 01 July 2009. Tags: Basij, Censorship, Evin Prison, Forced Confession, Green Brief, Iran, Iran Guardian Council, Iran News, Isfahan, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Maziar Bahari, Mehdi Karoubi, Mousavi, NiteOwl, Press TV, Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran, Tehran University, Twitter, Valiasr
Maziar Bahari was forced to confess at a press conference that the protests were pre-planned and organized from abroad. Bahari is an adroit Iranian-Canadian Journalist and filmmaker, who has written for Newsweek and the New Statesman. Meanwhile,the torture of university students continues in the Ministry of Interior. Some Iranians traveling to Iran for the holidays have been taken in for questioning directly at the airport as they tried to leave the country. They were questioned because of updated information on their Facebook accounts.
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