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Live-blog: Iran – February 28, 2011 – 10 Esfand – Regime raises stakes on day of expected opposition protests
This is a live-blog of events in Iran on March 1, 2011 (10 Esfand in Iran). The majority of the reports in this blog are sourced via social media. With regards to the videos and images in this live-blog, we are not affiliated with the people or groups that produced them and the posting of [...]
Live-blog: Iran – February 27, 2011 – The pressure builds
3:00AM GMT – February 28 We just came across this video that we had not seen, from the protests in Tehran on February 14 / 25 Bahman. It is being filmed by someone on a bus that captures the heavy security presence in the street. Nearing the end of the video, you can see regime [...]
Live-blog: Iran – GREEN OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRESTED!
6:15AM GMT – March 1 A Look Back… In order to give those who might be new to what is happening in Iran some context that helps to put things in perspective, we thought it timely to post this historic video that shows Mir Hossein Mousavi, standing on top of a car and addressing a [...]
Live-blog: Iran – February 26 – Regime hypocrisy continues as opposition protests loom
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 [...]
Live-blog: Iran – February 18 – Regime’s Day of Hate
This is a live-blog report on events in Iran, and about Iran. The majority of the information is sourced via social media channels. The videos or links to other sites posted are not produced by Iran News Now, and their posting here does not equate to an endorsement of their content or message. Every update [...]
Radio Zamaneh: Zahra Rahnavard Attacked by Pro-government Forces
Radio Zamaneh | September 1, 2010 Zahra Rahnavard, Iranian opposition figure, was attacked by a group of plainclothes forces of the Islamic Republic on the streets of Tehran. Kaleme website reports that the attack occurred a few nights ago in an alley close to her residence. The report notes that Rahnavard was surrounded by her [...]
Rooz: Mousavi: People Will Not Await Message to Assemble
August 14, 2010: Mousavi: “Voicing demands, wishes and the right to assembly are among people’s clear rights and no one can deprive them of these.”
Radio Zamaneh: Rahnavard call for end to discrimination against women in Islamic Republic
Radio Zamaneh | June 20, 2010 Zahra Rahnavard marked the anniversary of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan by issuing a statement stressing that freedom and democracy cannot be achieved without “ending discrimination against women.” In her statement published in Kaleme website, she stressed that the Green Movement is indebted to the “resistance” of women who [...]
Iran’s defiant Green movement vows to fight on
Guardian | June 11, 2010 Exclusive: Zahra Rahnavard, wife of defeated reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, says opposition remains strong despite repression and violence under Ahmadinejad regime since disputed election a year ago Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Ian Black opposition Green movement, fighting for democracy since the disputed election a year ago, has not been [...]
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard messages to Iranian People for Nowruz
Iran Opposition Leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, have both put out messages to the Iranian people for Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Here are the videos. Khordaad88 has provided English translations of the original speech (see below the videos). Mousavi: In the name of God, the Compassionate and the Merciful, The [...]
BREAKING: Mir Hossein Mousavi & Zahra Rahnavard to release video addressing the Iranian People for Nowruz (Iranian New Year)
Kalameh, the official website of Iran opposition and green leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi reports that Mousavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard will be releasing a video addressing the Iranian People for Nowruz (Iranian New Year). We will post the video as soon as it is released.
Zahra Rahnavard, Mousavi’s Wife, says Iran Government is Illegitimate
(Kaleme [Persian]) | March 11, 2010 Mir Hossein Mousavi’s official website published an interview with Zahra Rahnavard, the popular wife of Iranian opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in which she said that the current Iranian government (under the administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) is illegitimate, but because they occupy the executive branch of the Iranian government, [...]
Zahra Rahnavard condemns discriminatory laws against women
(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 6, 2010 Zahra Rahnavard issued a statement today, condemning “backward” laws that discriminate against women in the Islamic Republic. In her statement, which was published today at the threshold of the International Women’s Day, in the Kalemeh website connected with the opposition leader MirHosein Mousavi, she declared that the “family protection” [...]
The Mousavi Mission
(The New Republic) | February 17 Abbas Milani Iran finds its Nelson Mandela. Traditional Iranian husbands, the sort found in the highest ranks of the Islamic Republic, sometimes refer to their wives as “the house.” For them, this is not just an expression of their understanding of gender relations. It is viewed as a necessary [...]
Iran’s Dissident Cleric, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Passed Away
NOTE: This is a live-blog article in which updates are being made in real-time as information comes in. To read this in chronological order, read from the bottom up.
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