Iranian Election

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Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

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BEIRUT — An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man ...

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Leave Punishing Iran to Iranians

Melody Moezzi | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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It's clear that Iran's strongest adversary today remains within its own borders. The current Iranian regime has far more to fear from its own people than it does from any foreign powers.

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Ahmadinejad Kicks Diversion Efforts into High Gear

Melody Moezzi | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

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In the lead-up to his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is up to his old tricks. And sadly, the global community seems to be falling for them.

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New York, New York: My Kind of Town

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

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It won't surprise Ahmadinejad that the largest gathering of Iranians in exile in thirty years will be waiting for him here in New York City with green bandanas -- but the sight of rabbis next to them might.

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Iranian Regime Faces Worst Enemy Yet: Itself

Melody Moezzi | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Iranians could empathize with Palestinians Friday more than ever, but not in the way that Iran's self-proclaimed President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wanted them to.

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Green Is the New Black

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style

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Ultimately, those who embraced green in clothing or fashion accessories were rejecting the status quo. Fashion sometimes has a way of getting under the skin.

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Stand Your Ground, Obama

Josh Shahryar | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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As a journalist who has been covering the Iranian Election, I was shocked and dismayed when I read Kaveh L. Afrasiabi's article that urges President Obama to congratulate Ahmadinejad on his victory.

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Iran Approves First Female Minister

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a broad mandate Thursday as parliament backed his main Cabinet choices – naming the ...

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Iran Abuse Confirmations Abound: Mohsen and Saeedeh's Stories

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

This week, two more official accounts come out of Iran, confirming the extent of violence that is taking place in the country's detention centers.

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Obama Should Congratulate Ahmadinejad

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Ph.D. | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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There are several good reasons why president Barack Obama should join dozens of other world leaders who have extended congratulations to Iran's duly re-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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The Unconstitutional Un-Islamic Republic of Iran

Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

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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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With Iran, a Tactical Pause Is Needed

Trita Parsi | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

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The best way to enhance prospects for diplomacy with Iran might actually be not to pursue diplomacy for now. Better instead to make a tactical pause and be ready to engage at the right time.

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Iran's Red Tulip Revolution

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

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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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Voices of Protest: The Iranian Word

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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

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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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Shahpour Kazemi, Mousavi Brother-In-Law, Arrested In Iran

AP | NASSER KARIMI and LEE KEATH | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — The wife of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said Thursday that her 62-year-old brother is among the hundreds arrested in Ir...

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Hey DJ Rafsanjani, Play Us Some Ayatollah Khomeini

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

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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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Kian Tajbakhsh: Iran Arrests First American Citizen

AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

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NEW YORK — An Iranian-American scholar whom Iran once accused of fomenting political unrest has been arrested by authorities there for the secon...

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Exhibit A: Word From Iran

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Reporters keep complaining about the difficulty of getting information out of Iran, but communicating with Iran is far from a challenge. I frequently get through on the first try.

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A Revelation in Midst of a Revolution

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

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I wasn't quite sure what I felt. I was born in Iran but my family left when I was two years old. I have no memory of the country. I could never read Farsi. It was my parents who were Iranian; I was not.

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Attack the Cyberwalls!: The Internet Is the Pathway to Democracy in Places Like Iran

Sen. Arlen Specter | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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The walls used by 21st century tyrannies to control their citizens are increasingly electronic rather than physical. American interests will be powerfully advanced in finding ways to breach those walls.

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Iran's Underground Railroad

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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The Iranian Underground Railroad isn't meant to move people from one area of the country to another, it is an attempt to create shelter and make way for freedom.

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

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

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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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Iason Athanasiadis: Iran Releases British-Greek Reporter Held For Weeks

AP | NASSER KARIMI and JASON KEYSER | Posted 08.05.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Sunday it has released a British-Greek journalist detained for two weeks during its postelection crackdown as oppositio...

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Iran Now Harder To Bomb: Commentary

GlobalPost | Michael Moran | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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NEW YORK -- In the weeks since moderate Iranians threw down the gauntlet to the conservative clerics who run their lives, Israel has watched the unf...

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