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Iran Expands Efforts To Stifle Opposition
nytimes.com | ROBERT F. WORTH | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
DAMASCUS, Syria -- After last summer's disputed presidential election, Iran's government relied largely on brute force -- beatings, arrests and show t...
Cries for Democracy in Iran
Reza Pahlavi | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
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.
Devouring their Own: The Basij in the Islamlic Republic
Narges Bajoghli | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
Yet not all of the basij adhere to the ultra-conservative elements of the Islamic Republic that have caught the world's attention in the past two months. Many are actually strong supporters of the reformists
Why The ICC Should Speak Out on Iran
Christopher Santora | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
Of the many criticisms levied against the international community's efforts to promote accountability, perhaps the most pervasive critique is a rather simple one -- the lack of consistency.
How 30 Years of U.S. Mistakes Saved Ahmadinejad in Iran
Dr. Adam Lankford | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
In a misguided attempt to punish Iran for a range of crimes, including its state sponsorship of terrorism, the U.S. has insisted on comprehensive sanctions and deliberately worked to cut Iran off from the rest of the world.
The Global Tug-of-War Over Iran
Pye Ian | Posted 07.29.2009 | World
With regard to the Obama administration's next moves towards Iran, at the very least the utmost prudence must be exercised, and unprecedented diplomacy deployed, in order to preserve the American and Western way of life.
In Solidarity with the Iranian People!
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
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.
Iran's Uprising: Food for Thought
Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.27.2009 | World
Ever since the Iranian revolution stunned the world in 1979, the Arab regimes and their allies in the West have been obsessing over Iran's "exporting of the revolution."
Obama is Doing Right by the Iranian People, So Far
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, which Bush et al either supported or outright committed, actually strengthened the Ahmadinejad government.
Iran and America: The Spirit of 1908
John Ghazvinian | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Is 101 years a bit far to go back to help us understand what's happening today? Not in Iran.
An Arrest Suggests Ahmadinejad Backstabbing Supreme Leader in Iran
Sam Sedaei | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
It may be the case that factions of individuals within Ahmadinejad's government have been actively working to keep Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, in the dark on a number of domestic matters.
nytimes.com | NAZILA FATHI | Posted 11.30.2009 | World