September 2009
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Partnership for ‘Frontline’ and the Tehran Bureau... →
shaneguiter:
Tehran Bureau, an upstart news Web site that earned must-read status amid the post-election protests in Iran in June, has found a backer in “Frontline,” the PBS investigative journalism series.
“Frontline” is essentially taking Tehran Bureau under its wing by financing and hosting the Web site and providing editorial support. The bureau will help shape a coming “Frontline” program...
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Iranian state television
is showing soccer matches in black-and-white in order to hide the green articles worn by Iranian soccer players. Some of the broadcast is also without sound.
You’re not hiding anything fools, you’re highlighting it.
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WatchIranian protesters in front of the UN today: “Independence, freedom, for a united Iran”
it’s official; I cannot watch a video without tearing up.
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Handling the Iran Scorpian →
I would hope by now that the murderous crackdown on Iran’s mass democracy movement by the country’s oil-funded ruling cartel would have removed the last scales from the eyes of those Iran watchers who think this is simply a poor, misunderstood regime that really wants to repair its relations with the West, and we just have to learn how to speak to it properly. This is a brutal, cynical, corrupt,...
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Iranian Diaspora Heads for New York to Confront... →
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Some graphic descriptions of the treatment of political prisoners in Iran today, as well as discussion of the demonstrations that are certain to greet Ahmadinejad in New York. By two of the most knowledgeable NY Times reporters on Iran.
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Iranian blogger, Fariba Pajouh, has been in... →
Ms. Pajouh’s father, a retired Air Force colonel, said that he is extremely worried about his daughter’s mental health:
Solitary confinement is the absolute psychological torture. It is a violation of human rights. You have no idea how devastated I am. […] Last year Fariba was on antidepressant medications for three months. Depression is very common in Iran, especially among women....
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Where is Iran headed? →
soupsoup:garysick:
Mohammad Sahimi, an Iranian-American analyst from California, has written an excellent article in the Tehran Bureau news site. It provides one of the most thorough summaries of recent developments in Iran that I have seen. His conclusions are pessimistic:
“So, in summary, here is where the author believes the Islamic Republic is headed: A situation in which the fissures at...
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Ali Reza Beheshti, Mousavi’s top advisor, has been... →
The only step up from this action is the arrest of leaders Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. If they are arrested, the revolution will be tested as never before.
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Afghan Vote Recount Ordered By U.N.-Backed... →
The U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission, an independent body with the power to investigate and nullify fraudulent votes, ordered a recount Tuesday at polling stations where it had found “clear and convincing evidence of fraud.”
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN IRAN NEEDED YOU??!
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Iran prisoner beaten to death →
Mohsen Rouhol-Amini was the son of Abdol-Hossein Rouhol-Amini, who served as a campaign adviser to presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei. He was arrested in the violent aftermath of Iran’s presidential elections, and died from “repeated blows and severe physical injuries” and other mistreatment at Tehran’s Kahrizak prison.
