Even under house arrest, Grand Ayatollah Hosein Ali Montazeri, who died on December 19, remained critical of the Iranian government's abuse of power and its oppression of the public.
AP | By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.07.2009 | World
(AP) TEHRAN, Iran - Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University on ...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...
Melody Moezzi | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
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.
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...
Melody Moezzi | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
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.
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.
Los Angeles Times | Borzou Daragahi | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
Iran's leading opposition figure today called on his supporters to continue acts of peaceful civil disobedience in his first major communiqué in week...
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.
Ajay Singh Chaudhary | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
In Iran, these periods of quiet should not be interpreted as meaning that this movement has died off or that aspirations have folded.
AP/Huffington Post | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian police fired tear gas and beat anti-government protesters with batons to disperse thousands at a graveside memorial ...
AP | NASSER KARIMI and LEE KEATH | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
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...
Mark Fowler | Posted 08.18.2009 | World
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.
AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad railed against the U.S. in a speech Thursday, showing little indication of embracing Washin...
Aram Khayatpour | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
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.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 08.04.2009 | World
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...
The Independent | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Kim Sengupta | The Independent Iran's embattled opposition leader, Mirhossein Mousavi, faces a new threat after the Basiji militia accused him of "of...
Dilip Hiro | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
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.
The Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
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 ...
Max Keiser | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media
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.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
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.
AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 07.27.2009 | World
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay...
Navtej Dhillon | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
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.
Matthew Duss | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
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.
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay...
Meir Javedanfar | Posted 12.22.2009 | World