December 2010
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Ensemble Dastan & Salar Aghili / Tasnif-e...
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We Have Lost Shahla Jahed Tonight
Fars News Agency reports that she was executed at 5am, Iran time. She was crying and praying until the last minute.
We mourn you, dear Shahla.
November 2010
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“The attack on two of Iran’s leading nuclear physicists is likely the work of a...”
– Reza Aslan for the Daily Beast
Told you so.
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Robert Fisk: Now we know. America really doesn't... →
I came to the latest uproarious US diplomatic history with the deepest cynicism. And yesterday, in the dust of post-election Cairo - the Egyptian parliamentary poll was as usual a mixture of farce and fraud, which is at least better than shock and awe - I ploughed through so many thousands of American diplomatic reports with something approaching utter hopelessness. After all, they do quote...
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WikiLeaks: Ayatollah Khameni has terminal cancer... →
As I said before: Ahmadickejad will be in power as long as Khamenei is alive.
Will this trigger a civil war? It most certainly could.
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“The president of the Upper House of the Jordanian Parliament, Zeid Rifai, was...”
– Ever get the feeling you’re paying the tab for a meal you didn’t want, didn’t order, and didn’t eat?
Bomb, Bomb Iran: The Top 5 Most Shocking Things About The Wikileaks
(via theoriginaljoefisher)
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“An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and another injured in separate...”
– Iranian nuclear scientist killed and another wounded in separate bomb attacks | Mail Online
mikehudack: This is either Mossad or CIA. I’d put heavy, heavy money on Mossad.
Sea of Green: They’re sort of interchangeable now.
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NYT: WikiLeaks: Around the World, Distress Over... →
In late May 2009, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, used a visit from a Congressional delegation to send a pointed message to the new American president. In a secret cable sent back to Washington, the American ambassador to Israel, James B. Cunningham, reported that Mr. Barak had argued that the world had 6 to 18 months “in which stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons might still be...
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Bait and switch, Daily Beast edition
peterfeld:
Here are some quotes from a Daily Beast article which their Twitter feed slugged as follows: “So Long, Ahmadinejad. The Iranian President is in Trouble”:
“…few lawmakers dare to speak up. ‘All the behind-the-scenes…powers support him,’ Akbar Alami, a former Iranian lawmaker, told The Daily Beast in a telephone interview. ‘It is through the support of these individuals…that...
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Reza Aslan: Iranian lawmakers—including former... →
I reported on this very possibility last month, noting that a number of high-profile members of Iran’s parliament—many of them Ahmadinejad’s former supporters—have threatened the president with impeachment.
Now comes word from Iran that the country’s right-leaning parliament did in fact attempt to impeach Ahmadinejad on 14 counts of violating the law, including illegally trading 76.5 million...
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NYT: Iran Calls German Journalists Spies for... →
As Reuters reports, an Iranian judiciary official said on Tuesday that two German reporters, who had traveled to Iran posing as tourists to interview the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning have been charged with espionage.
On Monday night, a photograph of the two reporters was included in a report broadcast on Iranian state television that also featured interviews with the woman...
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NYT: Glenn Beck Sees George Soros as Iran Does →
Glenn Beck was accused this week of deploying “a symphony of anti-Semitic dog whistles” in his lengthy attack on the political activities of George Soros, a billionaire investor and philanthropist Beck repeatedly described as a “puppet master” who “collapses regimes.”
Soros has helped fund the ‘Velvet Revolution’ in the Czech Republic, the ‘Orange Revolution’ in the Ukraine, the ‘Rose...
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U.N.: North Korea is Exporting Arms to Iran →
The experts said North Korea is exporting nuclear and ballistic missile technology and using multiple intermediaries, shell companies and overseas criminal networks to circumvent U.N. sanctions.
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Breaking: Iran Fails to Get Seat on UN Women Board →
Iran failed in an election on Wednesday to secure a seat on the executive board of the new UN super agency to improve women’s rights after fierce lobbying by western nations and rights groups.
Saudi Arabia, whose candidacy was also criticised, secured an automatic seat.
Iran was beaten to an Asian regional seat by East Timor, a late entrant to the contest, in a vote at the UN General...
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“Good idea: Send the Tea Party to Iran so they can wreck their government.”
– Andy Borowitz
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Iran plans to execute Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani... →
According to news received by the International Committee against Stoning and International Committee against Execution yesterday, the authorities in Tehran have given the go ahead for the execution of Iran stoning case Ashtiani; she is to be executed this Wednesday 3 November.
We had previously reported that the casefile regarding the murder case of Ms Ashtiani’s husband had been seized from...
