10:00AM GMT – February 27 We have started a running live-blog tracking the arrests Iran’s Green opposition leaders here. 7:50AM GMT Till now, the regime has not dared arrest the main opposition figures and leaders of the Green Movement. With confirmation by the very reliable Reza Sayah that Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and their [...]
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Live-blog: Iran – Fallout from 25 Bahman protests continues
2:33AM GMT We have been away from updates for several hours so we will attempt to catch up with this entry. More Videos from 25 Bahman Clashes took place at the Tehran University of Fine Arts at a ceremony held by students there for slain 25 Bahman (February 14) protester, Saneh Jaleh. The clashes were [...]
Tehran Bureau: The Spirit of 16 Azar: Iran’s Student Day
In anticipation of 16 Azar (December 7), the 57th anniversary of University Student Day in Iran, Green students at Tehran’s major universities issued statements emphasizing that they will not stop their struggle for freedom and democracy, and condemning, in the strongest language, the hardliners’ violent crackdown on political, social, and human rights activists.
Tehran Bureau: Who’s in Charge?
Struggle for power builds between clerics, Revolutionary Guards. An important question that those who follow Iran’s political developments keep asking is, Who is the ultimate power in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and the clerics around him, or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?
Tehran Bureau: Martyrs of the Green Movement
Note from the editor of Iran News Now: While normally when we post selected headlines from the web, we post an excerpt of the article followed a link to the original, considering the magnitude and importance of the information in this article (namely, a list of confirmed martyrs of the Green Movement, who gave their [...]
An Administration Plagued by Fraud and Corruption
(Tehran Bureau) | March 30, 2010 by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles Ahmadinejad and His Men: Embodiments of Fraud and Corruption. There is no doubt in the minds of many Iranians, including the author, that Tehran’s hardliners committed fraud on a vast scale to steal the presidential election of June 12, 2009, and deny victory [...]
Early Feminist Cartoons
(Tehran Bureau) | March 8, 2010 Cartoons depicting Iranian women from 1900 to 1917 View more interesting cartoons depicting Iranian women at Tehran Bureau.
Not Defeated
(Tehran Bureau) | February 24, 2010 by ALI CHENAR in Tehran [ comment ] The month of Bahman, the 11th in the Iranian calendar, has ended. Politics will pause for a moment while Iranians turn their attention to their beloved Norouz, the New Year, which starts March 21st. Stores will advertise holiday sales, housewives will [...]
Deciphering Rafsanjani
(Tehran Bureau) | February 25, 2010 by HANA H. in Tehran [ analysis ] Iranians are a complex people. Talking in riddles and metaphors is a cultural thing that everyone learns from a young age. Iranian politicians have mastered this ‘art of riddle-talk.’ Most foreign journalists reporting on Iran do not realize that in order [...]
The Militarized Death of the Republic
(TehranBureau) | February 20, 2010 by RASOOL NAFISI This was first published by Tehran Bureau on July 6, 2009. The momentous June presidential election in Iran and its bloody aftermath will probably be remembered as a turning point in the life of this strange republic. The true face of the state, so meticulously hidden beneath [...]
The Specter Haunting Iran
(Tehran Bureau) | February 21, 2010 by DANNY POSTEL A specter is haunting Iran — the specter of democracy. The events of the last eight months in Iran have occasioned — one might even say inspired — an array of interpretations and formulations. Many attempts have been made to categorize and explain the nature of [...]
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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