August 2009
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Reformers call for probe of Iran supreme leader →
“Young people were beaten severely … to death because they chanted slogans,” said Karroubi, a cleric who also ran in the June 12 election. “It is deplorable that people detained over election protests are tortured. Do such treatments conform with Islam, which is a religion of mercy?”
Karroubi criticized Larijani’s speedy denial of the rape allegations, saying...
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WatchMaddow talks to the 6&1/2 month pregnant wife of captive Newsweek journalist, Maziar Bahari.
Do what you can to help.
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“I’ve been inside those walls and I’ve seen teenage girls who were raped before...”
– As a CIA spy, I saw in Iran what the West cannot ignore | csmonitor.com (via danielholter)
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“Is Sarah Palin America’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The two differ in many key...”
– Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Salon
via Andrew Sullivan
(via danielholter)
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CNN: “Ahmadinejad may face bumpy 2nd term”
peterfeld:
Old media has its critics, but no one should doubt its continued ability to amaze you with facts and insights you would never have known.
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Mousavi: Torture has reached the bone →
Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a new statement, blasting the sham trials that got under way yesterday:
What we and you watched was nothing but amateurish preparation for the start of the 10th administration [after the Revolution]. They [the hardliners] expect to prove that the election was honest by putting on a show trial in which everything is fake. If you really did not commit fraud, why do...
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