Mir Hossein Mousavi

It Ain't Over till the Ayatollah Says So

Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Supreme Leader, Twitter, Mehdi Karroubi, Egypt, Middle East, Iran Election, Arab Media, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Democracy, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Media, Barack Obama, World News

Some say tomorrow will bring another dawn and, the opposition will be back on the streets, but will they really show up? The Ayatollah may have put the nail in the coffin.

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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

Read More: Iran Revolution, Teabagging, President Obama, Iran, Obama, Joe Biden, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Protests 2009, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Tax Day Tea Party, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Uprising, Iran Protests, Iran Uprising 2009, Hillary Clinton, Tea Party, World News

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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Media Literacy 101: Cloak-and-Dagger News

Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Abc, Islam, Bbc, Voa, Twitter, Technology, Iran, Mcclatchy, Media News, Media Literacy, Facebook, Tiananmen Square, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Channel 4, Youtube, Cnn, Youtube Diplomacy, New York Times, Washington Post, Vietnam, Censor, Terrorism, World News

It's not just Iran. Getting news out of countries in the throes of political turmoil has always been dicey. And getting the news out has often meant using the most recent technology to thwart the authorities.

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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

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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We Can't Turn Our Back on Iran

Julie Menin | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Women and Politics, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Women, Obama, Iran, Hijab, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

This week Obama proclaimed there was not much difference between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad in respect to Iran's relations with the US. With respect to women's rights, this is absolutely not the case.

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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

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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Stand with Iran in Black and Green

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Democracy, Iranian Election, Iran Protests, Politics News

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have courageously taken to their streets to stand up for democracy. Why not millions of us here in the home of free expression?

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Blog Posts From Iran's Metal and Hip Hop Artists: Is Music the Weapon of the Future in Iran?

Mark Levine | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Heavy Metal, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, World Music, Ahmadinejad, Protests, Ahmadinejad-Iranian-Elections, Music, Mousavi, Hiphop, World News

While music has yet to play a public role in the protests similar to the role of artists in the Beirut Spring of 2006, they are working behind the scenes.

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Void the Elections or Risk Violence

Shirin Ebadi | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Iranian Election, Iran Election, Iran Student Protests, World News

Security forces have killed an estimated four students, many others have been injured. According to the students themselves, 300 of their brethren have been arrested in these past few days.

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Does "Changed" Iran Complicate U.S. Engagement?

Ali Gharib | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Obama Iran Engagement, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Election, World News

Even as the White House says it will let the "dust" settle in Iran first, its steadfastness belies a certitude that the changing face of Iran will be ready for U.S. engagement any time soon.

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Dispatches From a Twitter Revolutionary

Jessica Olien | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Iranian Election, Iran Twitter, Media News

I hope @SupremeLeaderK gets it together and intervenes on behalf of all of us @Mousavi supporters. Then I can finally relax and catch up on Hulu.

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How Obama Saves Iran (and Himself) by Dithering

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Michael Wolff, Iran, Iran Election, Barack Obama, President Obama, Foreign Affairs, Politics News

The president's posture now is to openly overthink the Iran situation. He's a walking existential conundrum, and letting everybody know it.

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

Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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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Iranian Women: We Feel Cheated, Frustrated, And Betrayed (UPDATES)

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Zahra Rahnavard, Iranian Women, Andrew Sullivan, Iran, Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, Iran Liveblogging, Diane Tucker, Iranian Women's Rights, Mir Hossein Mousavi Website, Iran Elections, Allahu Akbar, Demonstrations in Iran, Stolen Election, Iran Election 2009 Demonstrations, Iran Clashes, Iran Riots, Huffington Post Iran, Demonstrations in Tehran, Nico-Pitney-Iran-Election, Women's Rights, Iran Election, Twitter, Twitpic, Iran Election Protests, Sussan Tahmasebi, One Million Signatures Campaign, Npr, Christian Science Monitor, Iranian Bloggers, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian Blogger Arrested, Women in Iran, Iranian Revolution, Neda Soltani, World News

Look closely at the images of mass demonstrations taking place in Iran this week and you will see them: thousands of brave Iranian women taking to the streets to protest an election they feel was stolen.

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YouTube Diplomacy and Iran

Andrew Rosen | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Web 2.0, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Twitter, Iranian Revolution, Youtube Diplomacy, Youtube, Technology, Facebook, Media News

In Iran, a religious revolution in decline is confronting a technological revolution in ascendancy.

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The One Thing 39 Million Iranians Decisively Voted For

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Elections, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Iran Election, Democracy, Iran, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khatami, Ayatollah Khomeini, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, World News

Out of 46.2 million eligible voters, a staggering 39 million came out to vote, making a strong, unequivocal statement: Iranians value democracy

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Shirin Ebadi for President

Melody Moezzi | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Obama Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iran Protests, Islamic Republic of Iran, Shiraz, Iranian Election 2009, Obama Iran Policy, Tehran, Obama Iran Engagement, Iranian Election, World News

It took Ayatullah Khomeini to lead us away from imperialist rule and toward bona fide independence, and it will take an equally charismatic and rousing figure to lead us toward secular democracy.

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Iran's Uprising

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Hossein Mousavi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Elections, Iran Election, World News

Should the massive protests end up over turning the election and Mousavi becomes president, Iranian nuclear development is not likely to be stopped.

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Patriot Acts: Four Reasons the USA Is Still the Bomb

Dan Sweeney | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Von Brunn, Jim Adkisson, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Richard Poplawski, Minuteman American Defense, Marijuana, Joshua Cartwright, Scott Roeder, Cuba, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Legalize Marijuana, Politics News

My weekly newspaper columns are usually about local issues, but as this week's column had a national bent, I figured I'd post it here for all of you H...

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Why American Neo-Cons Wanted Ahmadinejad to Win

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iranian Election, Iran Election, Neoconservatives Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Heritage Foundation, Daniel Pipes, World News

It is unfortunate that Ahmadinejad is apparently remaining in office despite the fact that the United States now has a reformer in the White House.

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Inside Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Head

GlobalPost | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Fraud, Elections, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, New England Patriots, Iran, Ayatollah, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Election, World News

There's been a lot of talk about the key players in the Iranian election saga, but little mention of their psychological motivations. So we decided to...

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Reading The Pictures: Did Mullahs Freak Over "The Michelle Factor"

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Mousavi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Mousavi Wife, Iran Election, Media News

Maybe what caused Khamenei and the clerics to derail the Iranian election, as much as anything, was their disaffection with Mousavi's intense and outspoken confidant and wife.

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Iran: Washington Responsible For Post-Election Protests

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran directly accused the United States of meddling in the deepening crisis over a disputed presidential election and broadened i...

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Leadership in Peril: Iranians Won't Wait Out Recount

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Demonstrations, Silent Protest, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Presidential Election, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Khamenei, Rallies, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Unemployment, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Ali Larijani, Inflation, Protests, Government Control, Recount, Iranians, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

Thanks to these demonstrations, Mousavi is now firmly coming into his own as the leader of the opposition, and unless Ayotollah Khamenei acts fast, Ahmadinejad won't be the only one who has to step aside.

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Sorting Through the Facts in the Iranian Election

David Wallechinsky | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Election, World News

I am troubled by some of the U.S. media coverage of the current crisis in Iran, well-meaning though it may be. So here are a few factual clarifications.

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