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Iran Uprising

Reflecting on Iran, Social Media, and Change

Adam Elkus | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

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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.

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

Mahmood Delkhasteh | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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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.

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

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

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AMSTERDAM — A Dutch university fired Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on Tuesday for hosting a show on Iran's state television, which the school sa...

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Iran Inmates 'Tortured To Death': Karroubi

BBC NEWS | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

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One of Iran's defeated opposition presidential candidates has said some protesters held after July's disputed poll were tortured to death in prison....

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Iran's Women A Driving Force Behind Green Movement

GlobalPost | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

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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...

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

Jamsheed K. Choksy | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

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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.

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

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media

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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

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Iran Frees More British Staff

BBC | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

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Three more Iranian British embassy staff have been released by the authorities in Tehran, Iran's state-run Press TV reports....

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

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 07.27.2009 | 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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Ahmadinejad Lashes Out At Obama, Compares Him To Bush

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 07.26.2009 | 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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Saberi To Iran: Free My Cellmate Silva Harotonian

AP | HELENE GOUPIL | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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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...

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Iran Uprising: Is Mousavi Becoming Irrelevant?

Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

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

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Dramatically hardening the U.S. reaction to Iran's disputed elections and bloody aftermath, President Barack Obama condemned the vi...

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The Uprising in Tehran

Mona Sarika | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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Mona Sarika

Iranians are convinced that polls were heavily rigged and falsified to ensure Ahmadinejad remains in power.

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Iranian Girl Shot: Neda Becomes Symbol Of Rebellion In Iran

AP | MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANNA JOHNSON | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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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...

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Iran: Riot Police Attack Hundreds Of Demonstrators With Tear Gas, Bullets

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE and REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Riot police cracked down anew on demonstrators in Iran's capital on Monday hours after the feared Revolutionary Guard threatened to crus...

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

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

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Jacob Heilbrunn

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

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

Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

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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.

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Ayatollah Khamenei Warns Iranians Of Protest Crackdown

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader sought Friday to end the deepening crisis over disputed elections with one decisive speech _ declaring the ...

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

Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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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.

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John Kerry: McCain Should Try Listening To The Iranians

nytimes.com | JOHN KERRY | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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THE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines -- ...

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Women Without Men: Iran and Its People in Transition

Angella Nazarian | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

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Angella Nazarian

2009-06-18-SN122_PULL.jpg It is in these gripping scenes that we see history repeating itself, and that art and the artist, a nation and its people, are inexplicably linked through their longing for what is absent.

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Iran Twitter: Why The Movement Adopted This Medium

TIME | Lev Grossman Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2009 | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

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The U.S. State Department doesn't usually take an interest in the maintenance schedules of dot-com startups. But over the weekend officials there reac...

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Iran Uprising: Historic Parallels To Today's Protests

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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The massive socio-political movement in Iran, following the highly controversial announcement Saturday declaring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the victor of tha...

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Ahmadinejad In Russia Blasts US, Declares An End To The "Age Of Empires"

AFP | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AFP) - Iran's under-fire President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday sat side-by-side with world leaders at a summit in Russia, defia...

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