As the main stream media slip back into their pre-2009-Iran-presidential-election coma of blissful ignorance, the story is no longer about the courageous Iranian protesters facing their government and revealing to the world how their government torments and terrorizes them. The now almost decade long story about the threat of the Iranian nuclear program has started [...]
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France frees killer of Iranian ex-PM Shapour Bakhtiar
BBC | May 18, 2010 An Iranian convicted of the 1991 murder of Iranian former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar has been released from prison in France. Ali Vakili Rad, who faced a deportation order, boarded a flight from Orly airport to Tehran soon after leaving his prison in Poissy under escort. Iran recently freed a [...]
Interview with Mehdi Karroubi: “This regime is worse than the Shah’s”
(Corriere della Sera) | February 26, 2010 Mehdi Karroubi, 73-year-old cleric and politician, has become a leader of the protests against the Iranian regime. A disciple of Khomeini, since the age of 24 he fought at his side against the Shah (and paid with six years in prison) in order to create the Islamic Republic. [...]
Selected Headlines – February 2, 2010
Khordaad 88, February 2 Mir Hossein Mousavi ’s Interview with Kaleme Kaleme reports that in this interview which took place close to February 11th [22 of Bahman], the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Mousavi stated that the main reason for the collapse of the dictatorial and unpopular regime of the Shah was its illegitimacy [...]
Why the Green Movement will Prevail
Sadness to me is the happiest time When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe. Rumi It has now been almost six months since those fateful days in June when the [...]
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.
Iran’s Protesters: Phase 2 of Their Feisty Campaign
The tactics are unorganized, largely leaderless and only just beginning. They spread by e-mail, websites and word of mouth. But their variety and scope indicate that Iran’s uprising is not a passing phenomenon like the student protests of 1999, which were quickly quashed. This time, Iranians are rising above their fears. Although embryonic, today’s public resolve is reminiscent of civil disobedience in colonial India before independence or in the American Deep South in the 1960s.
Shah of Iran on Persian Gulf, and American Jewish Lobby
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