Iran protests
Fearing for people’s safety, Iranian opposition leaders canceled a demonstration planned for the anniversary of last year’s disputed presidential election, according to a statement posted on Facebook Thursday.
The protests were to have taken place...
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hard-line government said Monday it has banned Iran’s largest pro-reform political party in a new strike against an...
made popular Mar 16 2010
On Wednesday, progovernment militia attacked and beat students at a school in northeastern Iran. Since last Sunday’s massive protests nationwide, dozens of...
made popular Jan 1 2010
Iran never returned to peace and stability after the presidential elections. The protests and violence that started with the election rigging never seem to calm down....
made popular Dec 30 2009
Tehran University students have been filing into their classes past giant posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and the stern slogans of the Islamic revolution for the last 30...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Six months after Iran’s disputed presidential election the bloodied and battered opposition movement refuses to give up. On campuses across the country yesterday tens...
made popular Dec 8 2009
An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country’s most powerful man to his face.
Mahmoud...
made popular Nov 6 2009
The brothers Larijani — often referred to as the Kennedys of Iran — are emerging as a powerful counterweight to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from within the...
made popular Aug 17 2009
Not a single fan showed up Aug. 7 for the opening match of Iran’s avidly followed football season. After the government caught wind of plans by protesters to...
made popular Aug 11 2009
On the morning of the inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to his second term, the regime knew it had the upper hand. Baharestan Square, next to the Majlis, the Iranian...
made popular Aug 6 2009
The trial has begun in Iran of 100 people arrested for their alleged involvement in post-election violence.
The charges included rioting, vandalism, “acting...
made popular Aug 1 2009
Iran’s human rights activists say they live in dread of the midnight knock on the door or the car that pulls up next to them on the street, fearing that at any...
made popular Jul 31 2009
Whatever one may say about the Iranian regime, you have to admire their shrewd diplomacy, language and use of irony.
The Iranian regime recently demonstrated quite...
made popular Jul 17 2009
The Iranian regime, a theocratic dictatorship that has secured its own de-legitimization by revoking the last vintage of democracy, has officially surpassed China as...
made popular Jul 13 2009
People around the world are not all the same. They don’t all want the same exact things. But at the end of the day, my guess would be that most people the world over...
made popular Jul 6 2009
For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
made popular Jul 4 2009
In these incidents, their embassy had a presence, some people were arrested. Naturally they will be put on trial, they have made confessions,” Ahmad Jannati...
made popular Jul 3 2009
In escalating tensions between Britain and Iran, the Iranian hard-line government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad still holds in custody four local staffers of the...
made popular Jun 30 2009
In my previous article “Iran-Twitter-Revolution” I had some doubts that revolution is coming soon concluding however that something historic is afoot in Iran today....
made popular Jun 30 2009
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In escalating tensions between the two nations, Iran’s hard-line government has arrested nine local staff at the British embassy in Tehran.
The government of...
made popular Jun 29 2009
A hardline cleric close to the Iranian regime demanded the execution of leading demonstrators yesterday as the opposition ended the week in disarray.
In a televised...
made popular Jun 27 2009
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The happiness of some of “moderate Arab states ” about what is happening in Tehran and the arise of...
made popular Jun 24 2009
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Iran’s Guardian Council, the ruling body of clerics that is supreme above all else in the Islamic Republic, has reported that many voting regions in...
made popular Jun 24 2009
In what is an unsurprising news, Iranian state television reports that the Guardian Council has ruled that the Iranian election deemed to be fraudulent by millions of...
made popular Jun 23 2009
The protesters in Iran defying the murdering, fanatical regime of undemocratic mullahs are courageous youth worthy of our support. But let us be clear, Western nations...
made popular Jun 23 2009
What is happening to Iran also happened to Kenya a year ago, and I can only imagine of the tension and unease that the people of Iran have to contend with right...
made popular Jun 22 2009
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