Jezebel (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
"People go and write on her grave in red ink the word 'martyr,' and then the authorities go and wipe it off." — Neda Agha-Soltan's mother [CNN] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The mother of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young Iranian woman who became a symbol of the Iranian election protests, has granted her first American interview to CNN. When her daughter was shot to death with a single bullet to the chest during a election protest in Tehran on June 20, the brutal murder, captured on video, swiftly went viral, and the phrase “I am Neda” became a rallying cry of support...
Just World News (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
MTV (Music Television) "University" has selected Simin Behbahani, " the poet who never sold her soul or her pen ," to be its second poet laureate . For a visually challenged 82-years-young Iranian, how cool is that !? Beginning Monday, Nov. 2nd and for the next year, Behbahani's poems, classic and new, will be featured on MTV-U in a series of 19 short films. Why would MTV do this?...
CRAFT Magazine (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts is hosting a thought-provoking group exhibit that opens this upcoming Wednesday, November the 4th. From the site: Featuring the work of eight artists living in Tehran, Iran — Nima Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh, Mohammad Ghazali, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Abbas Kowsari, Mehran Mohajer, Neda Razavipour, and Homayoun Sirizi — alongside new work by San Francisco-...
Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
I’ve never really quoted anyone that I’ve never met,’ he said. The same could not be said for much of the Western press, who, faced with the alternative of reporting nothing, often relied on broadcasting messages and videos before investigating their provenance. This is the view of Iason Athanasiadis who was detaines in Iran during the protests over the summer election.He writes over...
KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Reporters Without Borders keeps on getting requests for help from terrified Iranian journalists who have been forced to flee their country after receiving summonses from the authorities. With 32 of their colleagues now detained in Iran and with a president and a Supreme Leader bent on suppressing all criticism, around 30 journalists have fled since last June’s disputed elections. Reporters Without...
France24 (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
A person makes the V- sign in front of a poster of Iranian Neda Agha-Soltan, who was killed when hit by a bullet during a protest in Tehran earlier this year. Iran's Martyr Foundation says it will declare Neda Agha-Soltan a martyr if it is proven that an enemy of the state caused the young woman's death during a protest rally after the June election.
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
I realize that there has to be a little more latitude given to op-eds than to straight news reporting, but it seems to me that there has to be a certain level of fact-checking for even editorials for the sake of the credibility of the paper. But then again, maybe WaPo is so deep into their Obama Derangement that they no longer are able to care about credibility . People can, and undoubtedly will,...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
The next-to-last straw was the Washington Post editorial saying Neda Agha Soltan should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, which isn't awarded posthumously. The last straw was today's op-ed raising—but not bothering to answer—the question of whether President Obama can even accept the honor without violating the Constitution....
The Plank (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
It's quite disappointing that, as Jim Fallows notes , no one involved in writing or editing The Washington Post 's lead editorial Saturday--which argued that, rather than Barack Obama, Iranian martyr Neda Agha-Soltan ought to have received the Nobel Peace Prize--seems to have been aware, or made any effort to become aware, of the facts that a) the Nobel is not given posthumously; and b) the deadline...
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
While The Washington Post’s Saturday editorial is far from the most tendentious thing written on the already-tired topic of Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, James Fallows makes a good point: it is peculiar that the editorial board, in expressing its preference for the Iranian martyr Neda Agha-Soltan, did not at least mention in passing...
Bill Baar's West Side (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
They wrote , It's an odd Nobel Peace Prize that almost makes you embarrassed for the honoree. In blessing President Obama, the Nobel Committee intended to boost what it called his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." A more suitable time for the prize would have been after those efforts had borne some fruit. The Nobel Committee's decision...
Ghost Blog (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
I am purely mazed by the hoo-rah about Obama receiving the Nobel. The Insanity Saturation Level of Known Blogspace is pegging over 50%. Sully and the Wapo want Neda Agha Sultan and/or Mousavi/Karroubi to have the award, ignoring the fact that those old swedes would have had to have a time machine to nominate any of them. Miss Agha Sultan was a university student and Mousavi and Karroubi were vetted...
The COFFEE SHOP (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Suppose this year's Nobel Peace Prize had gone to the scores of Iranians now on trial for having protested the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last June. For the three defendants who were sentenced to death over the weekend, a Nobel might have made all the difference in the nick of time. At a minimum, it could have validated their struggle.... In his Rose Garden remarks about the Nobel,...
My view by Silvio Canto, Jr. (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
How about giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Neda Agha-Soltan , the young woman killed in Tehran? Or what about all of those who stood up to the thugs in Iran? The liberal Washington Post was not very impressed with "The Nobel-istas": Our Laureate: Neda of Iran Frankly, who is? I like this: "We understand how much Scandinavians and other Europeans welcomed the end of the Bush administration;...
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