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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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From Tehrangeles to Tehran: Noise and Static

Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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The cacophony of voices here in the United States rises and the confusion continues. I will (and urge you to) stay away from all of these pundits, as much as possible and keep on trying to get more voices from in there.

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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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Iran Rally: Mousavi Calls Demonstration To Mourn Dead Protesters

AP | NASSER KARIMI and ANNA JOHNSON | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Hundreds of thousands of protesters dressed in black and green flooded the streets of Tehran on Thursday in a somber, candlelit s...

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

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

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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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Is Revolution Brewing in Iran?

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Revolution, Protest, Iran, Reovlution, Tehran, Iran Elections June 12, Khatami, Green Revolution, Ahmadinejad, Twitter Revolution, Iran-Elections-June-12, World News

The supreme leader of Iran has two clear choices: Save the fragile legitimacy of the Islamic Republic by calling for new elections, or move toward a system that increasingly looks like a dictatorship.

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Revolution? No. Regime Change? Maybe

Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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It's difficult to draw any conclusions from the rapidly unfolding election crisis in Tehran. Not even the regime has any idea what is going to happen, but perhaps that's the most important point.

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Khaste Nabahsheen (Don't Be Tired)

Davyde Wachell | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Documentary, Tehran, Iran, Filmmaking, Iran Film, Mousavi, Iran Election, Iran Riot, Media News

In our first days of casting in Tehran we met a 75-year-old dervish who asked incredulously, "Why have you come here to make a film? Imagination is illegal, creativity is illegal, life here is illegal."

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Netanyahu, Palestinian, Pakistan, Fatah, Nwfp, Lebanon, Hariri, Iraq, Hamas, Hezbollah, China, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Mcchrystal, Security Council, Russia, Mitchell, Taliban, Israel, Afghanistan, Mousavi, North Korea, Rafsanjani, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : What the Lebanese Election Results Mean Facts: Saad Hariri, the son of assassinated Prime Minister Rafiq H...

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Iran Election Violence: Ahmadinejad Supporters Reportedly Attack Rival's Campaign Office

AP | ANNA JOHNSON and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A campaign organizer for the main election challenger to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says about a dozen of the president...

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Mousavi Vows To Back Women's Rights If Elected In Iran

BBC NEWS | Posted 07.01.2009 | World

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Presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi has vowed to review laws that discriminate against women in Iran if he wins an upcoming election....

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