Iran Uprising

Iran Opposition Should Meet

Setareh Sabety | Posted 08.15.2011

Setareh Sabety

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...

Last Drop

Setareh Sabety | Posted 08.01.2011

Setareh Sabety

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.

Iran Uprising: Is Mousavi Becoming Irrelevant?

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Stuart Whatley

Who is running the show? Is Mousavi really guiding the movement on the streets, or is the street guiding Mousavi?

Iran's Uprising Prospects After February 11: Escalation or Decline?

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Ali Safavi

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.

Iran's Schizophrenic Green Opposition

Mahmood Delkhasteh | Posted 05.25.2011

Mahmood Delkhasteh

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.

Iran's Not-Yet-Revolution: Cause for Optimism

Mahmood Delkhasteh | Posted 05.25.2011

Mahmood Delkhasteh

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.

The 21st Century's First Authentic Revolution

Mahmood Delkhasteh | Posted 05.25.2011

Mahmood Delkhasteh

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.

Reflecting on Iran, Social Media, and Change

Adam Elkus | Posted 05.25.2011

Adam Elkus

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.

Tariq Ramadan, Islamic Scholar, Fired By Dutch University For Supporting Iran

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...

Iran Inmates 'Tortured To Death'

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....

Iran's Women A Driving Force Behind Green Movement

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...

Iran, Protest, and Intelligence: Why Strategic Reports Often Get it Wrong

Jamsheed K. Choksy | Posted 05.25.2011

Jamsheed K. Choksy

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.

Bearing Witness 2.0: You Can't Spin 10,000 Tweets and Camera Phone Uploads

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Arianna Huffington

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

Iran Frees More British Staff

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....

Ayatollah Khatami: Iran Protesters Will Be Punished "Without Mercy"

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...

Ahmadinejad Lashes Out At Obama, Comparing Him To Bush

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...

Saberi To Iran: Free My Cellmate Silva Harotonian

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...

Obama On Iran: World "Appalled And Outraged" Over Iran Violence

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...

Iranian Girl Shot: Neda Becomes Symbol Of Rebellion In Iran

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...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Issues Sternest Warning Yet To Protesters

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...

Iran Uprising: Why Do So Many Want Obama To Turn Iran's Protests Into A "Teabag Party"?

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Stuart Whatley

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.

Ayatollah Khamenei Warns Iranians Of Protest Crackdown

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 ...

Obama Has It Right on Iran -- and the Right Doesn't

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Jacob Heilbrunn

Obama's statement warning the Iranian leadership that the "world is watching" hit the appropriate note. Not intervening. But watching.

Iran Uprising: Experts Weigh In On What's Happened And What It Means

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Stuart Whatley

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.

John Kerry: McCain Should Try Listening To The Iranians

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 -- ...