Tag Archive | "Tehran University"
Posted on 09 March 2010. Tags: Islamic Republic of Iran, Khamenei, Mohammad Maleki, Mohareb, Political Prisoners, Tehran University
(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 6, 2010
Mohammad Maleki, former president of Tehran University, has been accused of “enmity with God” (Moharebeh) according to his lawyer, Mohammad Sharif. Reportedly, he is accused of “insulting Imam Khomeini and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as well as propaganda against the regime.”
Mohammad Maleki was released on bail Monday night after 191 [...]
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Posted on 24 February 2010. Tags: Mohammad Maleki, post-election crackdown, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Tehran University
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | February 23, 2010
The first chancellor of Tehran University after the 1979 Islamic Revolution remains in jail despite what his wife says is his deteriorating health, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Mohammad Maleki, who is 76 and suffers from prostate cancer, was arrested in August during the crackdown that followed the [...]
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Posted on 23 February 2010. Tags: Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Basij, BBC, Government Vigilantes, Iran Anti-riot Police, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Iran University Dorm Attacks, Khamenei, Police brutality, Tehran University
(Guardian, UK) | February 23, 2010
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Shocking film footage has emerged showing how riot police brutally suppressed protesting Tehran University students
Last night the BBC Persian service broadcast for the first time a very disturbing video of the attack by the Basij militia and riot police on Tehran University’s campus just two days after the [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2010. Tags: Basij, Government Sanctioned Violence, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Iran University Dorm Attacks, Iranian Universities, Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, political unrest, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Tehran University, Video
About 9 months ago Iran fell into turmoil after the presidential elections were rigged in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Millions of Iranians protested this in the streets, including many students from Iran’s universities.
Numerous reports came in during those heady days of attacks on Iranian University dorms by the dreaded regime goons including plainclothed Basij [...]
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Posted on 20 January 2010. Tags: Ali Larijani, Ali Reza Beheshti, Ali-Mohammadi, Amir Kabir University, Arrests, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Baidu, Cough Protest, Cyber warfare, Day of Green Silence, Enduring America, Evin Prison, Featured, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Hashemi Rafsanjani, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran Intelligence Ministry, Iran Military, Iran Supreme Leader, Iranian Currency, Iranian Cyber Army, Iranian Nuclear Program, Israel, Kahrizak Prison, Khamenei, Majid Tavakoli, Mashaei, Mehdi Jalil-Khani, Mousavi, Nuclear Diplomacy, Political Prisoners, Rial, Selected Headlines, Stas Misezhnikov, Tehran University
Previously, when posting selected headlines, we published one selected headline per post. Iran News Now will be trying out a new format for our selected headlines over the next few days. Based on your feedback we may continue with this format moving forward. Basically, we will publish a daily list of selected [...]
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Posted on 12 December 2009. Tags: Featured, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Iranian Student Activism, Student Uprising, Tehran University
The following video was posted by Mehdi Saharkhiz on his Youtube channel today, showing students protesting in front of the gates of Tehran University, chanting:
“Students will die but will not surrender to oppression”
and:
“Dean of the University, Resign! Resign!”
Watch the video:
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Posted on 09 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Ahvaz, Amir Kabir University, Azadi Square, Babol, Basij, Clerical Rule, Clerics, Dezfol, Dictatorship, Eghelab Square, European Union, Evin Prison, Freedom Movement, Government Sanctioned Murder, Government Sanctioned Violence, Hamadan, Human Rights, Iran, Iran Election Protests, Iran Green Movement, Iran News, Iran Protests, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Isfahan, Israel, July 9, Kerman, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashad, Mojtaba Khamenei, Mousavi, Mullacracy, Mullahs, Nicolas Sarkozy, NiteOwl, Pasdaran, Police brutality, republican guard, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sari, Sea of Green, Shiraz, Shirin Ebadi, Student Uprising, Tabriz, tear gas, Tehran, Tehran University, Valiasr, Vanak
I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]
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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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Posted on 25 June 2009. Tags: Basij, Iran, Iran Election Protests, Iran Protests, Mousavi, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Tehran University
This a good report on the latest happening in Iran. Mentions 70 professors from Tehran University have have been arrested. Contains footage of Basij attacking protesters.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
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