TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has protested to an Oxford University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student who became an icon o...
cnn.com | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
(CNN) -- The night before she was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda had a dream. "There was a war...
Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
With increasing accounts of rape, torture, forced confessions and skewed judicial proceedings, the Iranian government is losing any credibility it had left, including any legitimate claim to Islam.
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 ...
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
With each death at the hands of the regime, a martyr is born, and with each martyr, the seed of revolution is planted.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.25.2009 | World
Thanks to their new duties, which include increasingly violent and inhumane acts, reports of Basiji taking protesters up on their invitations to join the opposition movement are growing.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
At the heart of Iran's Islamic Revolution was a stencil duplicator and a tape recorder. These were the Ayatollah Khomeini's Facebook and Twitter.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media
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.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
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.
Sandy Tolan | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Iason's detention is part a pattern of arrests and detentions of foreign reporters and Iranians working for Western news agencies.
Max Blumenthal | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
When the mainstream American press chose to broadcast the Neda video, it highlighted the hypocritical attitude towards Palestinians who resist Israeli occupation on a daily basis, and who often meet the same fate as Neda.
Jamil Zaki | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
The last few weeks in Iran have reminded us of many things we'd rather not remember about governments, and of at least one thing that we should remember about people: they can stand up for their beliefs even when doing so poses great risk.
Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
No wonder, given stories like Soraya's and Neda's, that people worldwide assume Islam is oppressive of women.
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 ...
AP | JIM HEINTZ | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay...
John Lundberg | Posted 07.29.2009 | Living
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.
The Guardian | David Parkinson | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
There's a horrific irony that Neda Agha Soltan should become an icon of Iran's struggle in the same week a sensitive study of the Iranian female face ...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
On the streets of Tehran women young and old, rich and poor, in skirts and chadors were saying something powerful about the irrelevance of what feminism is and is not.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
Either show us the Neda video uncensored, or don't show the poster. You can't really have this one both ways. The American public can either handle this image or we can't. Decide, and be consistent.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living
Writing my doctoral dissertation on "The Future of Feminism: Where Do We Go From Here?" in 1995, I never imagined the answer to that question would be found in the streets of Tehran.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living
We are living in a world changing so rapidly, it's nearly impossible to keep up with shifts around the planet. This is the world our children, and their children, are inheriting.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Seeing all the blogs on the Huffington Post made me realize that Americans of all political persuasions care deeply about this issue of oppression in Iran.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Neda's death is a tragedy. But her death has now given voice to an unstoppable movement toward freedom in Iran.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Who is running the show? Is Mousavi really guiding the movement on the streets, or is the street guiding Mousavi?
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Neda, I met you on video like the millions of people around the world this past weekend. In your silence, you have spoken to me louder than any voice ever has screaming for liberty and justice.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 11.11.2009 | World