Iran Opposition Should Meet
Call for a Council of All IRI Opposition Leaders: (I wrote a call for unity a couple of weeks ago, now I present how I think we should proceed to uni...
Call for a Council of All IRI Opposition Leaders: (I wrote a call for unity a couple of weeks ago, now I present how I think we should proceed to uni...
Setareh Sabety | Posted 08.01.2011
Haleh Sahabi was given leave from her two-year prison term to attend her father's funeral. According to reports, she seems to have died of heart attack after a scuffle broke when pro-regime plainclothes thugs tried to take away the corpse.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
Who is running the show? Is Mousavi really guiding the movement on the streets, or is the street guiding Mousavi?
Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011
The Iranian uprising has ascended and, regardless of crackdown, it will not decline. Rather, it will guide future developments along the lines of toppling the clerical regime and establishing democracy in Iran.
Mahmood Delkhasteh | Posted 05.25.2011
The Green Movement needs to shed its phobia of revolution, overcome its schizophrenic character and form a more coherent identity that is based on a demand for total freedom.
Mahmood Delkhasteh | Posted 05.25.2011
The sudden willingness of the Iranian regime to compromise over the nuclear issue may be a sign of the regime's weakness, or an attempt to foster international peace in order to crackdown internally.
Mahmood Delkhasteh | Posted 05.25.2011
The violent confrontations in Iran this week, which resulted from widespread resistance to the brutality of the regime's various security forces, have shifted the balance of the struggle towards the people.
Adam Elkus | Posted 05.25.2011
Networked social movements are still in a immature stage. But as information campaigners grow more experienced, skilled, and above all else pragmatic the quality of digital campaigns is sure to improve.
AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.25.2011
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch university fired Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on Tuesday for hosting a show on Iran's state television, which the school sa...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011
One of Iran's defeated opposition presidential candidates has said some protesters held after July's disputed poll were tortured to death in prison....
GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011
Her eyes, wide open, she seemed to be staring into nothingness as her body was drained of its blood. The world watched Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26-year...
Jamsheed K. Choksy | Posted 05.25.2011
Revolutions are accurately designated as such only after the fact, not when protests begin. The protests in Iran are not yet and may never become a revolution.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
When deadly riots broke out in China last week, the Chinese government sprang into message control mode. It choked off the Internet, blocked Twitter, and deleted updates and videos from social networking sites. At the same time, it invited foreign journalists to take a tour of the area. The Chinese have clearly learned the lessons of Iran. READ MORE Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout Even the capitalist Bible is taking shots at Wall Street darling Goldman Sachs. We've now reached the point where the only people defending the administration's Wall Street policies are the people benefiting from them -- or their good friends, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers. READ MORE
BBC | Posted 05.25.2011
Three more Iranian British embassy staff have been released by the authorities in Tehran, Iran's state-run Press TV reports....
AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 05.25.2011
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay...
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.25.2011
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay...
AP | HELENE GOUPIL | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi called Wednesday for the release of a former cellmate _ a U.S. aid agency worker held in an Ir...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Dramatically hardening the U.S. reaction to Iran's disputed elections and bloody aftermath, President Barack Obama condemned the vi...
AP | MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANNA JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — She lies in the Tehran street with her headscarf half-off, blood pooling around her jeans and white sneakers. "Don't be afraid, Neda de...
AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE and REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — Riot police cracked down anew on demonstrators in Iran's capital on Monday hours after the feared Revolutionary Guard threatened to crus...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
Those who wish for Obama to adopt a stronger tone ground their argument in the arrogant belief that our endorsement is the sine qua non of any successful democratic political movement.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader sought Friday to end the deepening crisis over disputed elections with one decisive speech _ declaring the ...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's statement warning the Iranian leadership that the "world is watching" hit the appropriate note. Not intervening. But watching.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
With each new day of demonstrations comes an erosion of the Supreme Leader's power and moreover, an erosion of the system's legitimacy, which is partly based on the Supreme Leader's infallibility.
nytimes.com | JOHN KERRY | Posted 05.25.2011
THE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines -- ...
Setareh Sabety | Posted 08.15.2011