Tehran

Foreign journalists arrested in Tehran crackdown

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Iranian regime has responded to mass protests in Tehran this week by implementing a crackdown on foreign journalists.

Tehran police arrested 109 during protests

France24 (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Police arrested 109 people during opposition protests on the sidelines of an official demonstration marking three decades since the seizure of the US embassy, Tehran's police chief said on Saturday. "A hundred and nine people were arrested. Forty-seven were released on bail and 62 are in prison and their files are with the judicial authorities," General Azizollah Rajabzadeh was quoted as...

• Iran: 109 detained at opposition rally - Seattle Times
• Iran: 109 detained at opposition rally - Miami Herald
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War by proxy: Tehran caught arming terrorists (again) - Threat Matrix

1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

The recent seizure by Israeli commandos of a weapons cache on board a container ship bound for Syria illustrates yet another way Tehran is rashly disregarding international law. According to UN Security Council Resolution 1747, it is illegal for the international community to export or engage in commerce of weapons with the Islamic Republic. Interestingly [...]

Max Weber: Enemy of the State in Tehran

monochrom (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

An unlikely suspect was fingered at the recent show trials of Iranian dissidents: Max Weber, whose ideas on rational authority were blamed for fomenting a "velvet revolution" against the Islamic Republic. "Theories of the human sciences contain ideological weapons that can be converted into strategies and tactics and mustered against the country's official ideology," Saeed Hajjarian,...

Iran police detain 109 over rally

BBC News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

More than 100 people were detained in Tehran following protests on Wednesday , Iranian officials say.

Tehran Protestors: Obama, Are You With Us Or With The Regime?

Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

In November 4 demonstrations, protestors in Tehran called on U.S. President Barack Obama: "Obama, Are You With Us or With Them [i.e. the Iranian regime]?" The Hammihannews website reported that dozens of supporters of reformist leader Mir Hossein ... November 6, 2009, 1:15 pm

Qatari Emir In Tehran: Our Ties With Iran Are Strategic

Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met in Tehran with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa Aal-Thani; during the meeting, Khamenei said that the enemy was trying to prevent unity among the countries of the ... November 6, 2009, 1:10 pm

November 4, 1979 - The Embassy Takeover in Tehran

Drunk at idrunk.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

DOWNLOADS: 25 PLAYS: 7 (On a scale of bad to worse - eleven) Continuing our odyssey of November 4th, we arrive [...]

• November 4, 1979 - The Embassy Takeover in Tehran - Crooks and Liars

Paterson: Albany Is Like Bosnia, Tehran

Gothamist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Governor Paterson on how the State Senate doesn't want to head to Albany for a special session to deal with issues like the budget and gay marriage: "I'm getting some push back about even being allowed to speak before my colleagues. Now if this was Bosnia or in the middle of Tehran, maybe I would understand why this is happening, but this is New York State and the United States of America."...

• Gov. Paterson compares state's do-nothing Capitol to Iran and Bosnia - NYDailyNews
• Paterson: This Is Isn’t “Middle of Tehran” - Politics on the Hudson

World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: Reporter Detained in Tehran

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

An Iranian reporter for Agence France-Presse was detained by the Iranian authorities during coverage of events observing the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the United States Embassy.

Tehran experimenting with 'advanced nuclear warhead design'...

DrudgeSiren.com - All Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tehran experimenting with 'advanced nuclear warhead design'...

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi in exile: 'I can't sit and say nothing as Iran suffers'

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Crown Prince of Iran tells Simon Heffer he is ready to help bring change to his country but says the West needs to increase pressure on the Tehran regime.

Maryam & Marzieh on Apostacy Charges

Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

By Stephen Sizer On August 9 two Christian women, Maryam and Marzieh appeared before an Iranian judge who asked them to deny their faith and return to Islam. The women have been held in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran since March 5. When both women refused to recant their faith, the judge sent them back [...]

Obama: To Hell With Democrats - In Tehran

Liberally Conservative (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

In spite of repression by the Basiji thugs and the West’s short attention span, the Green Revolution lives on in Iran. Tens of thousands of protestors yesterday braved police batons and tear gas canisters. It was the 30th anniversary of the hostage taking at the US Embassy in Tehran, their message was to a large degree [...]

Tehran Dissidents Counter Anti-American Government Rally

Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Filed under: Iran Tens of thousands of protesters tried to reassert their opposition to the Iranian government Monday by demonstrating against a state-sponsored anti-American rally in Tehran, the New York Times reports. The government event, which followed an angry speech by Ayatollah Khamenei, marked the 30th anniversary of the country’s takeover of the U.S. Embassy in [...]

Victory of President Ahmadinejad: Unnecessary Alarm in West (1) -Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

abdulruff | 18/06/2009

Victory of President Ahmadinejad: Unnecessary Alarm in West -I -Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal (Part-1) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won with a clear majority, but the anti-Islamic nations led by USA and Israel are deeply worried because they will have to revise their terror strategies now. US-led western powers seem to have roped in as many anti-Ahmadinejad leaders as possible in a poll coup in Iran,...