The Plank (Free subscription) | yesterday
CFR has an illuminating interview with Carnegie's George Perkovich: [W]hat happened is that Jalili returned from Vienna to a place where the leadership had systematically made enemies of many in the Iranian establishment, including the speaker of the Parliament, Ali Larijani, who was the former chief nuclear negotiator and who himself has been regarded as a pretty hard-line guy. Ahmadinejad in the...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iran says Israel would pay a heavy price if the West launched airstrikes. Meanwhile, opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi praises anti-government protesters. Iran on Sunday launched what it described as its biggest air-defense drill ever with the aim of preparing to protect its nuclear sites from possible airstrikes as international talks to resolve the long stalemate over the nation's atomic research...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Mohammad Ali Abtahi jailed for six years after being accused of fomenting unrest after disputed June election in Iran A former vice president has been jailed for six years after being accused of fomenting unrest to overthrow the Iranian government, his lawyer said today . Mohammad Ali Abtahi is the most senior reformer to be jailed following the disputed presidential election in June. Abtahi was vice...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The last few days of Sky News has been dominated by the floods in Cumbria. And the story may not be over yet, with river levels in the region rising again. The Environment Secretary Hilary Benn will join Adam Boulton to discuss what lessons need to be learned from this - and whether more money needs to be ploughed into the flood defences budget. We will also get the thoughts of the government's former...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
TEHRAN, Iran — One of Iran's prominent pro-reform figures was released on bail Wednesday after spending nearly four months in jail on charges of inciting the country's postelection unrest, the official IRNA news agency reported. It said Saeed Shariati , one of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi's campaign aides during the disputed June election, has been released on the order of Tehran's Revolutionary...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Team set up with view to pressing charges against those 'spreading lies' is seen as attempt to gag Mousavi and Karroubi Iran has moved to block the last remaining outlet of expression for the country's political opposition with the launch of a special force to police the internet. A 12-member team reporting to the chief prosecutor will scour websites with a view to pressing charges against those judged...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
An Iranian killed in protests over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection in June was willing to be "shot in the heart" for her cause, her boyfriend said in an interview Sunday. The killing of Neda Agha-Soltan on June 20 came to symbolise the public uprising against Ahmadinejad's victory earlier that month in presidential elections against Mir Hossein Mousavi which the opposition says...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Neda was prepared 'to take a bullet in the heart' in fight against President Ahmadinejad Neda Agha Soltan, the young Iranian woman whose face became the international symbol of protest against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told her fiancé she was prepared to "take a bullet in the heart" in the fight against the president's regime. The revelation comes as her boyfriend speaks out for the first...
KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, who lead the protest movement rejecting the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June re-election, said authorities wielding batons even struck women on their heads. They called such treatment an ugly act that was not even seen during Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's response to the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled him. TEHRAN, Iran — The showdown...
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Time for the Iranians to throw the bums out! The brother-in-law of Iran's main opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, will be put on trial before the revolutionary court, months after his arrest in the country's post-election crackdown, Tehran's public prosecutor said today. The opposition denounced the arrest of Shapour Kazemi as an attempt to put on pressure Mousavi. The brother of Mousavi's wife,...
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
TEHRAN, Iran ( AP )— Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Saturday, and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown aimed at choking off the reform movement's last real means of keeping its campaign alive. Two of Iran's top pro-reform figures said police used excessive force against anti-government protesters...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
TEHRAN, Iran — The showdown between Iran's clerical leaders and a resilient protest movement sharpened Saturday, as opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown. Two of Iran's top pro-reform figures said in a Web statement that police used excessive force against anti-government protesters who took...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Saturday, and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown aimed at choking off the reform movement's last real means of keeping its campaign alive. Two of Iran's top pro-reform figures said police used excessive force against anti-government protesters...
France24 (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Iran's main opposition leader and defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has repeated his call for a new election, after unrest this month saw clashes between police and protesters, a reformist website reported on Saturday. "The Green Path condemns violence... though we may suffer losses... we want political prisoners to be freed, we want guarantees for a clean (new) election, we...
The Age (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Iran's main opposition leader and defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has repeated his call for a new election, after unrest this month saw clashes between police and protesters, a reformist website reported on Saturday.
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Nadia Marques de Carvalho | 26/09/2009
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell After 30 years of a harsh, totalitarian and dogmatic Islamic theocracy, the June 12 th elections in Iran have provided a platform for people, for the first time, to voice their opinion on not only the vacuum of democracy but also criticise how Islam is being used as a veneer for this abusive, austere and autocratic...
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Fascinating contention, Nadia! I very much enjoyed it! And I agree: false binary between moderates and extremists. On a different, more provocative...
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