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Mir Hossein Mousavi

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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Juan Cole on Iranian Protests and the Reform Movement's Future

ZP Heller | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Twitter, Nico Pitney, Facebook, Reform Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Juan Cole, World News
ZP Heller

Cole said that while Obama administration can't intervene to the point that they enable a reformist victory, they must continue engaging Iranian hardliners if the current regime remains in power.

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Exhibit A: Word From Iran

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah, Shiraz, Thriller, Underground Railroad, Media, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Journalism, World News, Shi’ite, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Election, Tehran, Neda, Iran Protests, Iranian Election 2009, Media News
Melody Moezzi

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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Iran Will Never Be the Same Again

Meir Javedanfar | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iran Election, Iran Protests, World News
Meir Javedanfar

The fact is, even with an Ahmadinejad victory, the regime -- and Iran itself -- will never be the same again. The emergence of a mass protest movement, reminiscent of 1979 itself, is a sure sign that a new path has been set.

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Iran's Underground Railroad

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Rafsanjani, Ayatollah, Shiraz, Underground Railroad, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, World News, Shi’ite, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Election, Tehran, Neda, Iran Protests, Iranian Election 2009, World News
Melody Moezzi

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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Biden Israel-Iran Statements Cause Storm Of Regional Responses

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, US-Iran Relations, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Joe Biden, Qatar, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Binyamin Netanyahu, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ali Larijani, Us Israel Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Israel, Israel Iran, Advocacy, Us Israel, Israel News, Biden Israel Iran, Biden Israel, Biden, Obama Israel Iran, Israel Biden, Israel on Iran, Israel Iran News, Obama Biden Israel, Israel Iran Conflict, Vp Biden's Recent Statements, Obama Biden Israel Iran, Biden Israel Comment, World News

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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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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Mousavi A US Agent: Claims Iranian Hardliner

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 08.04.2009 | World

Read More: Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Hoseein Shariatmadari, Mir Housein Mousavi, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Iran, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — A top aide to Iran's all-powerful leader has accused the country's main opposition leader of being an American agent who should b...

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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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Get to the Doctor, Dr. Ahmadinejad!

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah, Shiraz, Iranian Election, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian Election 2009, Twelver, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Protests, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Medicine, Shi’ite, Satire, Tehran, Mental Illness, World News
Melody Moezzi

I'm the last person to take any mental health issues lightly, but when it comes to racking up crazy points, Dr. Ahmadinejad wins the prize.

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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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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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Habib Ahmadzadeh: Mousavi Must Say Which Ballot Boxes He Disputes

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Habib Ahmadzadeh, Iran Election 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Iran Election, World News
Robert Naiman

Like many Iranians, writer Habib Ahmadzadeh is deeply skeptical of opposition claims that the Presidential election on June 12 was "stolen," and has demanded that the opposition provide specific evidence of its claims.

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It's Not Easy Being Green

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Web, Internet, Music, Iran Election, Twitter, Social Networking, Green, Facebook, World News
Charlotte Safavi

With ever-tightening restrictions on international press organizations in Iran, social networking sites have continued to play a critical role in imparting news from and about Iran.

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If Iraq Was Main Stream Media's Failure, Will Iran Be Social Network Media's Failure?

Max Keiser | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Mousavi, New York Times, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Journalism, Twitter, Iran Twitter, Media News
Max Keiser

Social networking sites and blogs are naturally emotional and subjective, but a healthy democracy needs also to have a dispassionate journalism that is able to question the motives of sources.

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Was the Iranian Election Stolen? Does It Matter?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Revolution, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Obama Iran, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Iran, Iran Elections, The Green Revolution, World News
Mark Weisbrot

If in fact the election was not stolen, and Washington (and Europe) pretend that it was, this can contribute to a worsening of relations.

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Poetry Of The Revolution

John Lundberg | Posted 07.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Iran Revolution, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ahmad Shamlu Iran National Poet, Rumi, Tehran Protests, Iran, Tehran, Neda, Poetry, John Lundberg, Ahmad Shamlu, Poetic Life, The Poetic Life, Living News
John Lundberg

One of the most powerful videos to come out of the turmoil in Iran is of a woman reciting a poem from the rooftops of Tehran at night. Recorded on the eve of the first wave of violent crackdowns against protesters, the poem gives voice to the inner turmoil of a people coping with a sudden and potentially violent revolution and struggling with a new conception of their homeland.

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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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The Many Crises of Iranian Youth

Navtej Dhillon | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Youth Iran, Islamic Revolution, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Youth, Economy, Mousavi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Election, Iran Education, Iran Economy, Baby Boom, Ahmadinejad, World News
Navtej Dhillon

The dissension in Iran's polity emanates from a growing gap between the promises and the dim reality facing its young citizens. The current political turmoil marks the breakdown of an intergenerational bargain.

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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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Iran: Electronic Warfare Versus the Islamic Republic

Eric Margolis | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Iran Protests, World News
Eric Margolis

Washington is in a quandary. Do we really need another monster crisis after "liberating" Afghanistan, and Iraq, or after the messes in Pakistan and Palestine?

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Iranian-American Tells Why He Believes Ahmadinejad Got More Votes (UPDATES)

Diane Tucker | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

Read More: Women in Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shah of Iran, Iran Protests, Iranian Riots, Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Women in Burkas, Demonstrations in Tehran, Nico Pitney, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Diane Tucker, Russia, Women's Rights, China, Politico, Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett, Iran, Iraq, Nico Pitney Asks Obama a Question, Taylor Marsh, Iranian Election, World News
Diane Tucker

I drove over to see my friend Ahmad. I figured he would say he was pro-Mousavi and very eager to see Iran revert back to the modern country it once was. I was wrong on both counts.

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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

Read More: Robert Gibbs, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Ira Elections, Fourth of July, Iran Diplomacy, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, State Department, Politics News

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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