September 2010
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Washington Post: Pioneer Iran blogger sentenced to... →
An Iranian court sentenced the founder of one of the first Farsi-language blogs, credited with sparking the boom in Iranian reform bloggers, to more than 19 years in prison for his writings, a news web site reported Tuesday.
Iranian-Canadian Hossein Derakhshan, 35, was a controversial figure among Iran’s blogging community. Writing his blog from Canada, he was initially a critic of...
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Our dear friend, Abbas Milani, repeating the...
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WatchInternational House of Handshakes
Jon Stewart: Israel doesn’t show up for a speech about the Middle East peace process, and Ahmadinejad is mad at America for not saying hello.
“I don’t know why you hate Jews, you sound like one of us.”
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NYT: U.S. Walks Out as Iran Leader Speaks →
The General Assembly started formally on Thursday with more than 30 presidents, kings and other heads of state scheduled to speak. Ahmadinejad’s comments prompted a walkout by representatives of the United States, 27 European nations, the European Union, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Costa Rica, noting in particular that some people believe the United States orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks...
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Obama dismisses Iran War Prospects, overrules... →
The Obama administration is clearly trying to send signals to Iran during the General Assembly session of the United Nations that Washington is open to engagement and just wants Iran to be more transparent about its nuclear power research program:
“The door is open to them [Iran] having a better relationship with the United States and with the international community,” White House deputy...
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NYT: Ahmadinejad Defends Record →
Ahmadinejad ran through his standard talking points at his annual gathering with American journalists on Tuesday — denying that dissidents languish in jail or that economic sanctions were biting, and rejecting the idea that Tehran deserves anything less than a gold star for its nuclear inspection record. But this time, he embroidered his remarks with a little fresh bluster.
The Iranian...
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Guardian: Iran Condemns Planned Execution in U.S. →
Iran accused the US of human rights violations today over plans by the state of Virginia to execute a woman for the first time in nearly 100 years, despite claims that she has severe learning difficulties.
Iran’s state-sponsored media has devoted considerable coverage to reports about Teresa Lewis, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday for arranging the murder of her...
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NYT: Ahmadinejad Wants Release of Iranians Held... →
One of the three American hikers held in Iran for 13 months on spying charges arrived in the United States on Sunday.
In an interview broadcast this morning with Christiane Amanpour on “This Week,” Ahmadinejad said that the Iranian government “took a humanitarian measure and released one of the three individuals who entered our borders,” so “I believe it would not be misplaced to ask that the...
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Maziar Bahari: Sarah Shourd may be out of Iran,... →
The hours Sarah Shourd spent between leaving Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where she was in solitary confinement for more than a year, and crossing Iranian airspace must have been the most excruciating and longest hours of her life. I know that because I have been there. After spending 118 days in Evin in 2009, being charged with espionage every day and threatened with execution on a daily...
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Iran Frees US Hiker Sarah Shourd after 410 days.... →
Iran’s judiciary announced that the detention of Shourd’s two American friends, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, had been extended for two more months
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WatchJon Stewart to Ahmadickejad: You’re Not Helping
“See, he’s just asking for respect… in the most dickish way possible. He’s like Triumph, the Insult Comic Dictator: Nice country, for me to POOP on.”
Comedy Central video brought to your dashboard by the wonderful Eric Mortensen.
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NYT: Iran to Release One of the Detained U.S.... →
Iran said it will free one of three Americans jailed for more than a year on Saturday in a clemency to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. It did not say which one would be released. But Sarah Shourd, 31, has told her mother she has serious medical problems.
Shourd’s mother said her daughter told her in a telephone call in August that prison officials have denied her...
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Reuters: Iran woman's stoning suspended after... →
“The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has stopped and it’s being reviewed,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran’s state-run English-language Press TV. The statement came a day after European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called the stoning sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani “barbaric beyond words,” the latest...
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Fidel Castro to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the... →
Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic from Cuba: “This is Part I of a report on my recent visit to Havana. I hope to post Part II tomorrow.”
Castro’s message to Ahmadinejad was not so abstract. Over the course of this first, five-hour discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism. He criticized Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and explained why the...
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Ahmadinejad urges Palestinians to continue armed... →
Ahmadinejad used the annual al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally in Tehran to scorn the Obama administration’s efforts in launching the first Arab-Israeli negotiations in nearly two years.
“What do they want to negotiate about? Who are they representing? What are they going to talk about?” the hardline Iranian leader said of the Palestinian negotiating team in Washington.
“Who...
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“Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be...”
– What Ayatolla Khamenei Tweeted about Isreal for Al-Quds day, which was yesterday. (via afghanibanani)
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Iranian Website: "Is Obama the first Jewish... →
brooklynmutt:
Sure, why not? Just add it to the list.
