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MAZIAR BAHARI RELEASED: Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter On Bail

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...

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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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Iran Sentences 3 To Death In Post-Election Mass Opposition Trial

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — Three defendants in Iran's mass trial of opposition figures accused of fueling the country's postelection unrest have been senten...

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Ahmadinejad Kicks Diversion Efforts into High Gear

Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.23.2009 | 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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Iranian Regime Faces Worst Enemy Yet: Itself

Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.19.2009 | 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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Mousavi Calls For More Civil Disobedience

Los Angeles Times | Borzou Daragahi | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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Iran's leading opposition figure today called on his supporters to continue acts of peaceful civil disobedience in his first major communiqué in week...

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Iran: So Far Away, But Also Mine

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home

My cousin in Iran called my uncle often in the early days of mass protests and police crackdowns. Those moments full of hushed tones and furrowed brows would snap us back to the reality of the situation.

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Taking the Long View on Iran

Ajay Singh Chaudhary | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

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In Iran, these periods of quiet should not be interpreted as meaning that this movement has died off or that aspirations have folded.

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Iranian Police Beat Protesters At Neda Graveside Memorial (VIDEO)

AP/Huffington Post | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian police fired tear gas and beat anti-government protesters with batons to disperse thousands at a graveside memorial ...

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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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Iran: Regime Intentions Revealed - What's Next?

Mark Fowler | Posted 08.18.2009 | World

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Powerful regime insiders have lost confidence in the Supreme Leader's ability to preserve what they had all built together. This domestic fault line has the potential to be devastating in its long term impact.

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Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, Iranian Nuclear Chief And Mousavi Ally, Resigns

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad railed against the U.S. in a speech Thursday, showing little indication of embracing Washin...

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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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Mousavi A US Agent: Claims Iranian Hardliner

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 08.04.2009 | World

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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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Mousavi Faces Prison Threat

The Independent | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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Kim Sengupta | The Independent Iran's embattled opposition leader, Mirhossein Mousavi, faces a new threat after the Basiji militia accused him of "of...

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The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran

Dilip Hiro | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

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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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Americans Protest In Solidarity With Iranians

The Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

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The streets of Iran have been filled with chants since protesters took to the streets two weeks ago in the aftermath of an election with considerable ...

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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

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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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In Solidarity with the Iranian People!

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

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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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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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The Many Crises of Iranian Youth

Navtej Dhillon | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

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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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Iran's Second Islamic Revolution?

Matthew Duss | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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It is significant that the Iranian clerical-dictatorial regime is being challenged from within Islam, and that a very credible scholarly-religious critique seems to have found a vehicle in Moussavi.

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Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran Won't Give In To Pressure

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 07.25.2009 | 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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Mir Hossein Mousavi Facebook Status Update A Message To All

Mashable | Posted 07.23.2009 | Home

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"Today you are the media, it is your duty to report and keep the hope alive", reads the latest Facebook update from Iranian opposition presidential ca...

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A Way Out Of The Iranian Stalemate

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

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By declaring a new run-off between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi, Khamenei could uphold the law and will of the council while simultaneously assuaging the protesters.

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