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1 Jan 2010

Iran opposition Denies Leaders Had Fled

TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iran's state news agency IRNA said today that two leaders of "sedition" in the country have fled to a northern Iranian province, but the opposition said its leaders were still in the capital.
TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iran's state news agency IRNA said today that two leaders of "sedition" in the country have fled to...
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30 Dec 2009

Iran accuses Britain of meddling

Iran has called on the British ambassador to respond to accusations of his government's "interference" in the Islamic Republic, as pro-government rallies continue. Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister, told a news conference on Tuesday that the ambassador had been summoned over Britain's interference in Iran's domestic affairs.
Iran has called on the British ambassador to respond to accusations of his government's "interference" in the Islamic...
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30 Dec 2009

Timeline Iran after the election

The re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after presidential polls on June 12 was heavily disputed by two defeated candidates, who claimed there had been mass fraud.The dispute of the result brought tens of thousands of supporters of the reformist candidates out onto the streets to demand that the result be annulled and there have been sporadic protests every since.
The re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after presidential polls on June 12 was heavily disputed by two defeated...
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22 Dec 2009

West should allow Iran to solve its own problems, says opposition leader

President Ahmadinejad has betrayed the Iranian Revolution, violated the country s Constitution and may be unable to serve his full term, his most vocal opposition rival has told The Times. In a surprising twist, however, Mehdi Karroubi warned the West against exploiting the regime s weakness to strike a deal to halt a nuclear programme that was, he insisted, for peaceful purposes.
President Ahmadinejad has betrayed the Iranian Revolution, violated the country s Constitution and may be unable to...
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20 Dec 2009

Top Iranian Dissident Cleric Dies

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, his grandson said Sunday. He was 87. Nasser Montazeri said his grandfather, who was seen as the spiritual father of Iran's reform movement, died in his sleep overnight
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, his grandson...
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20 Dec 2009

Iranian cleric reacts to Khomeini scandal – UPI.com

TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An opposition cleric in Iran said the government was disrespecting the Islamic republic by exploiting the vandalism of pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who fell out of favor with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei following disputes over civil rights, condemned the way the government handled the vandalism of pictures of the founder of the Islamic republic.
TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An opposition cleric in Iran said the government was disrespecting the Islamic republic by...
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20 Dec 2009

Moderate Cleric Montazeri Accuses Iranian Authorities of Defaming Revolution Leader

Ayatollah Montazeri, the most outspoken critic of the Iranian government condemned what he called the "strategic use" of tearing Ayatollah Khomeini's picture by the establishment. "By doing this you are defaming him (Ayatollah Khomeini) and saying that people would tear Imam Khomeini's picture. If anything, you should have kept it silent! "he maintained.
Ayatollah Montazeri, the most outspoken critic of the Iranian government condemned what he called the "strategic use" of...
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20 Dec 2009

Iran cleric Montazeri dies

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran's most senior dissident cleric, has died, official media has reported. Montazeri, 87, was an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution who fell out with the present leadership.
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran's most senior dissident cleric, has died, official media has reported....
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24 Nov 2009

Iran Expanding Effort to Stifle the Opposition

DAMASCUS, Syria After last summer s disputed presidential election, Iran s government relied largely on brute force beatings, arrests and show trials to stifle the country s embattled opposition movement.
DAMASCUS, Syria After last summer s disputed presidential election, Iran s government relied largely on brute force...
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23 Nov 2009

Iran’s Death Penalty Is Seen as a Political Tactic

CAIRO - A flurry of executions and death sentences in Iran has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to intimidate the political opposition and quell pockets of ethnic unrest around the nation, human rights groups and Iran experts said.
CAIRO - A flurry of executions and death sentences in Iran has raised concern that the government is using judicially...
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24 Oct 2009

More Iranian Injustice

The journalist Maziar Bahari joined his pregnant wife in London this week after being freed from an Iranian prison where he had been held for five months. That is welcome news, but it would be a mistake to think that the mullahs who run the government had been seized with humanitarian spirit. If anything, they seem more determined to shift the blame for the unrest that followed the fraudulent June 12 election to America and other foreigners.
The journalist Maziar Bahari joined his pregnant wife in London this week after being freed from an Iranian prison where...
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23 Oct 2009

Lone Cleric, Mehdi Karroubi, Emerges to Defy IranÂ’s Leaders

A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his newspaper shut down. He himself has been threatened with arrest and, indirectly, the death penalty.
A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his...
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10 Oct 2009

Yahoo didn’t sentence 200,000 Iranians to death, and other misadventures in online journalism

In one of those wonderful ironies of scheduling that make columnists weep with joy, Larry Dignan spent yesterday at a Yahoo! hack day in New York. This is the same Larry Dignan who is Editor in Chief of ZDNet, which is the same ZDNet that yesterday published a blog post accusing Yahoo of passing the names and email addresses of thousands sorry, hundreds of thousands - of bloggers to the Iranian authorities during the country s recent election.
In one of those wonderful ironies of scheduling that make columnists weep with joy, Larry Dignan spent yesterday at a...
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7 Sep 2009

Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad

Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad ( also Ezzat Ebrahimnejad) was an Iranian student, poet and demonstrator who was shot and killed in the attack by security forces on Tehran University dormitory that preceded and provoked the July 1999 student riots in Iran.
Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad ( also Ezzat Ebrahimnejad) was an Iranian student, poet and demonstrator who was shot and killed in...
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5 Sep 2009

Student Leader Says Tehran Isolating Activists

A student leader in Iran, Abdollah Momeni, has told Radio Farda the Iranian government is trying to prevent the country's intellectuals and activists from having ties with the outside world.
A student leader in Iran, Abdollah Momeni, has told Radio Farda the Iranian government is trying to prevent the...
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1 Sep 2009

Tehran prosecutor ‘promoted’ into obscurity

The naming of the notorious Tehran prosecutor to a new post as deputy prosecutor-general gives him a fancy title and protection from future legal action, but strips him of his power to pursue his hardline political agenda, said two Iranian lawyers.
The naming of the notorious Tehran prosecutor to a new post as deputy prosecutor-general gives him a fancy title and...
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30 Aug 2009

Creative Opportunism’ on Iran

What I'm arguing for is an Iran policy of "creative opportunism." We should take advantage of the fact that our biggest adversary in the Middle East has just had a political crackup. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vote-rigging putsch has backfired. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's attempt to squelch protest has only revealed his weakness. In the post-election turmoil, even Ahmadinejad and Khamenei have been squabbling.
What I'm arguing for is an Iran policy of "creative opportunism." We should take advantage of the fact that our biggest...
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26 Aug 2009

Intellectual movements in Iran – VisWiki

Intellectual movements in Iran involve the Iranian experience of modernity and its associated art, science, literature, poetry, and political structures that have been changing since the 19th century.
Intellectual movements in Iran involve the Iranian experience of modernity and its associated art, science, literature,...
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16 Jun 2009

Cyberwar guide for Iran elections

Yishay sez, "The road to hell is paved with the best intentions (including mine). Learn how to actually help the protesters and not the gov't in Iran."
Yishay sez, "The road to hell is paved with the best intentions (including mine). Learn how to actually help the...
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1 Nov 2007

King of the Iranian bloggers

Hossein Derakhshan's T-shirt is the only thing that gives him away. "I love Tehran," it says. Actually the shirt is the only thing that would lead one to guess that the affable, young-and-restless technology aficionado is not from here. He's from Iran, and proud of it. He was born in Tehran, grew up there and thinks it's the most fantastic city in the world. Even today, even now. Because even though Derakhshan cannot live in Iran at present, he is still an Iranian patriot. He despises Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but admires Khomeini; he's a total atheist, but thinks that an Islamic republic is the solution for the future; he's a friend of Israel, who thinks that Ahmadinejad's anti-Israeli policy is the leader's stupidest mistake, but he's also an enthusiastic supporter of the Iranian nuclear program and believes it would be very good for Iran to have an atom bomb. Good for Iran - and good for Israel.
Hossein Derakhshan's T-shirt is the only thing that gives him away. "I love Tehran," it says. Actually the shirt is the...
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