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Biden Israel-Iran Statements Cause Storm Of Regional Responses

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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The effects of Vice President Joe Biden's recent remarks during an interview with ABC's "This Week"--where he implied that Israel has a sovereign righ...

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Ayatollah Khamenei: Dickipedia

Dickipedia/HuffPost Comedy | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khamene'i (born July 17, 1939) is an Iranian politician, brutal dictator in religious leader's clothing, and a dick...

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Khamenei: West's Meddling In Iran's Affairs Will Damage Relations

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Khamenei Obama, Khamenei, Khamenei West, Iran Election, Obama Iran, Iranian Election, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran-Iran, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Mashhad-Iran, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi made his first public appearance in a week Monday, vowing to continue his campaign ...

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Technology Rules the Day Again in Iranian Uprising

Joshua Gleis | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Allahu-Akbar, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Twitter, Iran Election, Women-Iran-Election, Iran Protests, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Technology, World News
Joshua Gleis

The ruling Islamists appear to have forgotten their own history, and the role that technology can play in a popular uprising.

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The Guest is God's Friend: The Detention of Iason Athanasiadis in Iran

Sandy Tolan | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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Sandy Tolan

Iason's detention is part a pattern of arrests and detentions of foreign reporters and Iranians working for Western news agencies.

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The Iranian Revolution Didn't Die with Michael Jackson

Sam Sedaei | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Michael Jackson, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Iran Election, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Media, Ayatollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, World News
Sam Sedaei

Make no mistake about it; the revolution in Iran has passed a tipping point and entered into a new phase. In this period, the worst thing that the Western media can do is to allow itself to get distracted.

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The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran

Dilip Hiro | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Elections, Ahmadinejad, World News
Dilip Hiro

Khamanei has won the immediate battle, but the conflict between hard-liners and reformists is far from over. The demographic make-up of Iran favors their reformist adversaries.

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Courage Contagion: Social Influence in Protests

Jamil Zaki | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fear, Neuroscience, Courage, Iran Election, Protest, Social Movements, Iran, Psychology, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Neda, Social Psychology, World News
Jamil Zaki

The last few weeks in Iran have reminded us of many things we'd rather not remember about governments, and of at least one thing that we should remember about people: they can stand up for their beliefs even when doing so poses great risk.

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Iran: One Revolution at a Time

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Revolution, Iran Obama, Shah, Iran Protests, Iran, Tehran, Obama, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranians, Robert Allison, World News
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Today's protests are different. This is not about the West. It is about which revolutionary political camp will prevail in 2009 and a path that rejects the "secularism versus political Islam" dichotomy.

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Separation of Mosque and Mosul

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Obama, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khomeni, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Revolution, World News
Jeff Schweitzer

With the Supreme Leader's divine authority in question, the appeal to God as a source of legitimacy is no longer a viable basis on which to promote democracy.

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In Solidarity with the Iranian People!

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

Read More: Mousavi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Basij, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bernard Henri Levy, Ahmadinejad, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

Today the Iranian people are gagged. Today the Iranian people are counting their dead, their wounded, and the disappeared. Today Iranians' most fundamental rights are systematically and brutally violated.

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What Should President Obama do? Letter Responses From Iran

Sam Sedaei | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Election, Iran, Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Voice of America, The Green Revolution, World News
Sam Sedaei

The best way for us to know what kind of stance Iranians want President Obama to take is to ask them directly.

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Learning from Iran's Past Revolutions

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: June 12, Iranian Revolution, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Uprising, Mosque, Mobilization, Iranian Election, The Green Revolution, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Constitutional Revolution, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Revolution, Social Protest, Bazaar, Islamic Revolution, 1979, Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Tobacco Portest, World News
Nathan Gonzalez

If the uprising can grow to include the massive bazaars of Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan and Shiraz, it is hard to imagine how Ayatollah Khamenei would not change his tune, or even be forced to step aside.

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Iran: Is Larijani the New Rafsanjani?

John Ghazvinian | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Assembly of Experts, Iran Election, Majles, Ali Larijani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, World News
John Ghazvinian

Where should we be looking for an early indication of which way things might go in Iran's election crisis? Two words: Watch Larijani.

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White House Rescinds July Fourth Invites For Iran Diplomats

AP | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — An offer for Iranian envoys to attend U.S. embassy Fourth of July parties has been rescinded as the violent crackdown in Tehran con...

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White House Rescinds Fourth Of July Invites For Iran Diplomats

AP | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — An offer for Iranian envoys to attend U.S. embassy Fourth of July parties has been rescinded as the violent crackdown in Tehran con...

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The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change

Keith Thomson | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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Keith Thomson

I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

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Ahmadinejad Tweets Back (VIDEO)

Posted 07.25.2009 | Comedy

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No doubt Twitter has been an amazing force during the Iranian protests, allowing reporters and students alike to document the oppression and violence ...

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Iran's Second Islamic Revolution?

Matthew Duss | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Mousavi, Islamism, Islam, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, Iran Election, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Elections, World News
Matthew Duss

It is significant that the Iranian clerical-dictatorial regime is being challenged from within Islam, and that a very credible scholarly-religious critique seems to have found a vehicle in Moussavi.

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Khamenei Ridicules Obama For Pre-Election Letter

The Washington Times | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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Prior to this month's disputed presidential election in Iran, the Obama administration sent a letter to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Kh...

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Ayatollah to Obama: Don't Tell Me What to Do with My Fist

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.24.2009 | Comedy

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Andy Borowitz

"Anyone who thinks that the Ayatollah's fist is going to be unclenched does not know this particular fist," one source said. "It's a stubborn fist.

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Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran Won't Give In To Pressure

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay...

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Iran's Martin Luther Moment -- The Problem of Fixing Elections

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Martin Luther, Catholic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Guardian Council, Iranian, World News
Michael B. Laskoff

The political evolution of Martin Luther is relevant to what's going on in Iran. Like Luther, Mousavi has become much reform-minded so as to distinguish himself from the incumbent administration.

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Iran Uprising: Is Mousavi Becoming Irrelevant?

Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Uprising, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Foreign Affairs, Iran Uprising 2009, Iran, Guardian Council, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Protests 2009, Green Wave, Advocacy, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Neda, World News
Stuart Whatley

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

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Iran and America: The Spirit of 1908

John Ghazvinian | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Constitutional Revolution, Iran, 1908, Iranian Revolution, Iran Election, Russia, Britain, Twitter, Shah of Iran, Evangelical Christians, Cossacks, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Federalist Papers, Barack Obama, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Morgan Shuster, Islamic Republic of Iran, Basij, Regime Change, Middle East, Iran Protests, Protest, Tehran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, Tea Party, World News
John Ghazvinian

Is 101 years a bit far to go back to help us understand what's happening today? Not in Iran.

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