February 2011
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“Piers: Here’s the problem with that [giving people what they want]:...”
– Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran on Piers Morgan Tonight
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January 2011
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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– Howard Zinn (via kateoplis)
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#Egypt →
staff:
We’re incredibly moved by the events happening across North Africa and the Middle East, especially the recent images, videos and commentary we’ve seen on Tumblr about Egypt. To our bloggers in the region and to those looking to get a message to them, please make sure to tag your posts “egypt”.
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CNN: Iran hangs 2 men who made videos of... →
Iran hanged two men Monday for their actions during post-election unrest in 2009, state media reported, months after the United States’ secretary of state called for Iran to drop the “imminent” executions.
Iran’s Press TV described the men as terrorists and members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). Jafar Kazemi and Mohammad Ali Haj Aqaei were hanged on Monday...
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“More than once in Iran’s history, after the country was vanquished by...”
– Our dear family friend, Dr. Abbas Milani, Zoroaster and the Ayatollahs
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Lapham’s Quarterly: Ten Megacities of the Near... →
The history of cities was once the history of empires, writ small. Imperial Rome, Baghdad under the Abbasids, Mamluk Cairo, Ottoman Istanbul, Beijing during the Ming and Qing dynasties—the megacities of the past, at their demographic peaks, reflected all the sordid glory of political and economic dominance. Nor was this any less true when London, gilded with industrial and imperial gains, became...
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Daily Beast: Time to Get Over the Iran Hostage... →
Thirty years after American hostages in Iran were released, Margaret Thatcher’s conservative Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, said in a radio interview that the American policy of sanctioning Iran was foolish and self-defeating. Shocked, I asked him why he thinks the United States pursues this policy, and why it has been so relentlessly hostile to Iran for so long.
“It goes back to the hostage crisis,”...
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Guardian: Iran has hanged 47 people in three weeks →
An average of one person every eight hours has been executed so far this year, including at least two political activists.
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“Is it possible that Iran’s blustering president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, long...”
– Reza Aslan thinks the West may have Ahmadinejad all wrong.
Read the full article here.
(via theatlantic)
Oh Reza, you are so cute. But, NO.
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Iran has arrested 70 Christians since Christmas →
The latest raids have targeted grass-roots Christian groups Iran describes as “hard-liners” who pose a threat to the Islamic state. Authorities increasingly view them with suspicions that range from trying to convert Muslims to being possible footholds for foreign influence.
Christian activists claim their Iranian brethren are being persecuted simply for worshipping outside...
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More on Iran's myriad airplane maintenance...
shortformblog:
seaofgreen:
We have a myriad of things we can sanction Iran on; this does not need to be one of them. And this hasn’t just “started to become a little too troublesome to ignore”; thousands of people have been killed by crashes in more than three decades.
As for your “advice to Iran”, that they “should build some new planes,” let me say this: You do realize that there are...
More on Iran's myriad airplane maintenance...
shortformblog:
seaofgreen:
shortformblog:
sadafie says: So sad. Not sure I appreciate shortformblog’s take though. Plane crashes are an unfortunate reality and happen all around the world. When they do happen, more often than not, they’re related to mechanical malfunctions. That doesn’t mean that a country cares less about it’s people. Just sayin’… I’d be interested in the full story.
» We...
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On Iran's myriad airplane maintenance problems
shortformblog:
sadafie says: So sad. Not sure I appreciate shortformblog’s take though. Plane crashes are an unfortunate reality and happen all around the world. When they do happen, more often than not, they’re related to mechanical malfunctions. That doesn’t mean that a country cares less about it’s people. Just sayin’… I’d be interested in the full story.
» We say: They are, yes, and I don’t...
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Guardian: Iran 'arrests' US woman on spy charges →
Iran has arrested an American woman on charges of spying after she illegally entered the country on foot.
According to the Iran newspaper, the US national, named as Hall Talayan, had spying equipment hidden on her body when customs authorities held her in the border town of Nordouz, 370 miles north-west of Tehran.
Khabaronline, a conservative news website, also named Talayan, saying she had a...
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