Tag Archive | "Student’s Day"

Majid Tavakoli Returns to the Revolutionary Court


(RAHANA) | February 22, 2010
RAHANA – Majid Tavakolo was taken back to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran in prison uniform and with laceration marks above his right eyebrow. Tavakoli was not given any reason for his appearance before the court. He was detained in solitary confinement for 3 weeks before today’s court appearance.
According to Bamdad [...]

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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 people of Iran shattered the [...]

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Iranian Official issues threat ahead of 7 December rally


(MowjCamp (English))
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:07 PM
Iran’s Prosecutor General and former Minister of Intelligence warned on Thursday that “the Judiciary is determined to decisively and primitively confront any new unrest [caused] by those against the results of the Presidential Elections of Iran.”
Appearing on Iranian state-run television, Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje’i promised that any action deemed as [...]

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Iran Arrests Student Activists Ahead Of Student Day


(RFE/RL)
November 20, 2009
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Iran has increased its pressure on student activists ahead of the national Student Day on December 7.
Throughout Iran a dozen students are reported to have been jailed this week, including eight student activists arrested in Tehran on November 19.
Those arrested include a senior member of Iran’s largest reformist student group, Abbas [...]

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Barack Obama’s Message to Iran on November 4


The following is a message from Barack Obama to Iran, on the 30th anniversary of the hostage crisis in which 52 Americans were held hostage in the American embassy in Tehran for 444 days:
“Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in Tehran was seized. The 444 days that began on November [...]

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Cowardly Security Forces Attacking Women


How much longer can a regime that sanctions this kind of behavior last?:

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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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