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Cries for Democracy in Iran

Reza Pahlavi | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights, Reza Pahlavi, Basij, Foreign Affairs, Iran Council of Guardians, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Pahlavi, Cries for Democracy in Iran, Cries for Democracy by Reza Pahlavi, Cries Democrcy in Iran, Reza, Reza Pahlavi Huffington Post, World News
Reza Pahlavi

The Iran issue is not about nuclear capabilities, but rather, whose finger is on the trigger. And currently, that finger belongs to a Holocaust-denying, brutal regime that kills its own people.

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Green Wheels

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Web, Islamic Republic of Iran, U2, Tehran, Iran Election 2009, Green, Youtube, Twitter, Social Networking Sites, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Film, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News
Charlotte Safavi

No matter how many or how few people in Iran remain dissatisfied with the state of affairs, so long as they show their green and voice their heartfelt longing for reform, the movement is alive.

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Ahmadinejad -- the Economic Reformer

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejand, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Terrorism, World News
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

Ahmadinejad's privatization is no laissez-faire style capitalism. Iran's latest sham is designed to consolidate the Revolutionary Guard's power over the state controlled economy.

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Yale Chickens Out On Academic Freedom

Sandy Goodman | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Sherry Jones, Jytte Klausen, Theo Van Gogh, U.S.S. Cole, U.S. Embassies Kenya and Tanzania, Reza Aslan, Muhammad, Danish Cartoons, World Trade Center Bombing, Cary Nelson, Pentagon Bombing, Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini, John Donatich, Yale-University-Press, Cartoons That Shook the World, Media News
Sandy Goodman

A book entitled The Cartoons That Shook The World is being published without any of the cartoons in the book. It's the latest in a long series of Western reactions to violent threats to freedom of expression.

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The Unconstitutional Un-Islamic Republic of Iran

Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Taraneh-Mousavi, Shiraz, Iran Twitter, Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Laleh, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Friday-Prayer, World News, Karroubi Rape, Shah, Iran, Green Movement, Shi’A, Mehdi Karroubi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran Protests, Revolution, Iranian Constitution, Iranian Election 2009, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Rafsanjani, Islam, Neda Agha-Soltan, Rape, Ayatollah, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran-Opposition, Rape Iran, Shi’ite, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Martyr, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Evin, Constitution, Show Trials, Iranian Election, Martyrs, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda, Torture, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, World News
Melody Moezzi

With increasing accounts of rape, torture, forced confessions and skewed judicial proceedings, the Iranian government is losing any credibility it had left, including any legitimate claim to Islam.

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Iran's Revolution Leaders Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri And Hashemi Rafsanjani Struggle For Power In Tehran

Spiegel International | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

Read More: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Election, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ahmadinejad, World News

In the wake of a bogus election, the deadly harassment of protesters and squabbling among hardliners, everything seems to have changed in Tehran. Two ...

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Iran's Red Tulip Revolution

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Shiraz, Iran Twitter, Underground Railroad, Media, Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Friday-Prayer, World News, Shah, Iran, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran Protests, Revolution, Iranian Election 2009, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Rafsanjani, Neda Agha-Soltan, Ayatollah, Ayatollah Khamenei, Facebook, Shi’ite, Martyr, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iranian Election, Martyrs, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Laleh, Taraneh-Mousavi, Tulip, Evin, Iran-Opposition, World News
Melody Moezzi

With each death at the hands of the regime, a martyr is born, and with each martyr, the seed of revolution is planted.

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Western Hubris Won't Reform Iran

Kevin Sullivan | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tehran, Iran, Green Wave, Ayatollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, Iranian Revolution, Nuclear Weapons, Iranian Election 2009, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Kevin Sullivan

A genuine reform movement in Iran will likely take years, if not decades, to foment and prosper. The courageous youth in green may yet win the day, whenever that day comes.

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Voices of Protest: The Iranian Word

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Literature, Islam, Theocracy, Dissent, Iranian, Mahnaz Badihian, Iranian Election, Iranian Poetry, Poetry, Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Politics, Persian Poetry, Iran Protests, Rooftop Protest, Esmail Kho'i, War Poetry, Iranian Poets, Ayatollah Khomeini, Islamic Republic, Political Poetry, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

There is an old saying in Persian, that every Iranian has written at least one line of poetry in their lifetime -- one can only imagine how many millions of lines have been written this summer alone.

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The Basij Are Cordially Invited to Join the Opposition

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.25.2009 | World

Read More: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah, Shiraz, Iran Twitter, Underground Railroad, Media, Ayatollah Khomeini, Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Facebook, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Friday-Prayer, World News, Shi’ite, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Shah, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Election, Tehran, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda, Iran Protests, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian Election 2009, World News
Melody Moezzi

Thanks to their new duties, which include increasingly violent and inhumane acts, reports of Basiji taking protesters up on their invitations to join the opposition movement are growing.

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Hey DJ Rafsanjani, Play Us Some Ayatollah Khomeini

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Rafsanjani, Twitter, Ayatollah, Shiraz, Iran Twitter, Friday-Prayer, Underground Railroad, Media, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khamenei, Facebook, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, World News, Shi’ite, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Twittering, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Shah, Iranian Election, Tehran, Islamic Revolution, Neda, Iran Protests, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Election 2009, World News
Melody Moezzi

At the heart of Iran's Islamic Revolution was a stencil duplicator and a tape recorder. These were the Ayatollah Khomeini's Facebook and Twitter.

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A Cabal in the College of Mullahs?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Assembly of Experts, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Expediency Council, Mohsen Rezai, Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Revolutionary Guards, U.S.-Iran Relations, Supreme Leader, Majles, Ali-Akbar-Hashemi-Rafsanjani, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

With growing resentment directed against Ali Khamenei by his own peers, how ironic would it be that the first political casualty of Iran's election dispute turned out to be the supreme leader and not Ahmadinejad?

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Iran and the C.I.A

Tom Gabbay | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Iran, Ayatollah, Islamic Republic of Iran, Cia, President Obama, US-Iran Relations, Jimmy Carter, Tehran, Iran, Supreme Leader, Operation Ajax, Ayatollah Khomeini, Wolf Blitzer, World News
Tom Gabbay

This revolution, if that's what it is, can only come from the Iranian people. The US must remain on the sidelines; a spectator to what could be a game changer in the Middle East and beyond.

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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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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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Clueless in Iran: America's Déjà Vu All Over Again

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Paris, Islamic Revolution, CBS News, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, Tehran, World News
Joan Z. Shore

Almost 31 years ago the Ayatollah Khomeini was granted asylum in France. As a junior correspondent in Paris, I was sent out with a camera crew to interview Khomeini.

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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 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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Obama vs. Khomeinism

Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, Harold Washington, World News
Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston

How should we deal with Khomeinism? Listen to the Iranian people. Are they asking for our help? Their signs are written in English because they want the world to know their struggle.

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CNN Praises a Dictator

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Kerry, Media, Sanjeev Bery, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Election, Khomeini, Bery, Media News, Shah of Iran, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, Shah, Iran, Savak, Cnn, cnn.com, Iranian Democracy, John Kerry, Mossadegh, Cia, Operation Ajax, Media Bias, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.

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An Exclusive Interview with a Pro-Ahmadinejad Cleric in Qom, Iran

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Twitter, Judaism, Iran Election, Shia, Iran, Supreme Leader, Media, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Facebook, Khatami, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Qom, Youtube, Tehran, Zionism, Neda, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

A recurring theme in many of the cleric's answers is his very strong belief that "foreign" Western powers, particularly England, are behind the current unrest in Tehran

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CNN's Navarrette Gets Iran Wrong

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Iran, Ruben Navarrette, Cnn, Obama, cnn.com, Barack Obama, Stephen Kinzer, Sanjeev Bery, Eisenhower, Iranian Democracy, Cia, Ayatollah Khomeini, All the Shah's Men, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, British Colonialism, Iran Protests, Reza Pahlavi, Decolonization, Britain in Iran, John Kerry, Iran Election, Shah of Iran, Operation Ajax, Savak, San Diego Union-Tribune, Ahmadinejad, Dwight Eisenhower, Mossadegh, Navarrette, Media, Shah, Kerry, Khomeini, Bery, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

While tempting, the calls to get tougher with the Iranian government fail to consider the legacy of 25 years of U.S. intervention against Iranian democracy.

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Ayatollah Warns Iranians: "I am Following You All on Twitter"

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Andy Borowitz, Twitter, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

To back up his words, the Supreme Leader then displayed his Twitter page, showing that he was indeed following 65,875,224 people, but had only one follower, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Media Literacy 101: "Allah O Akbar!" has become a cry for freedom

Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Islam, Terrorism, Technology, Twitter, Media News, Facebook, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Youtube, Youtube Diplomacy, Media Literacy, Iranian Revolution, Abc, Ayatollah Khomeini, Allah O Akbar, Media News
Susan Moeller

The pictures from Tehran are showing that Iranians are not monolithic in their beliefs. Demonstrably they can be both committed to God and to free and fair elections.

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Green is the Color of Growth

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Grassroots Activism, Grassroots, Iran, Tehran, Iran Elections, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News
Charlotte Safavi

Whatever the short-term political outcome, for me, this is no longer about who wins the election. It is about growth, about grassroots, about the green.

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