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Iran and America: The Spirit of 1908

John Ghazvinian | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Constitutional Revolution, Iran, 1908, Iranian Revolution, Iran Election, Russia, Britain, Twitter, Shah of Iran, Evangelical Christians, Cossacks, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Federalist Papers, Barack Obama, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Morgan Shuster, Islamic Republic of Iran, Basij, Regime Change, Middle East, Iran Protests, Protest, Tehran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, Tea Party, World News
John Ghazvinian

Is 101 years a bit far to go back to help us understand what's happening today? Not in Iran.

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Facebook's Digital Rascals and the Iran Election

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Palo Alto, Iran Election, Netroots, Edinburgh, Democracy, Iran, Tehran, Shaquille O'Neal, Clay Shirky, Facebook, Barack Obama, Media News
Pablo Manriquez

What was once a hopeful demand becomes a site-busting tsunami, a brute digital force veiled in Mousavi green.

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Ayatollah: Green Twitter Avatars 'Number One Threat' to Regime

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Tehran, Iran, Andy Borowitz, Twitter, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Green Twitter Avatars, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

Khamenei said that Iran's government had stared down many challenges to its authority since the 1979 revolution, but none have been as "terrifying and intimidating" as the ubiquitous green avatars.

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An Exclusive Interview with a Pro-Ahmadinejad Cleric in Qom, Iran

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Twitter, Judaism, Iran Election, Shia, Iran, Supreme Leader, Media, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Facebook, Khatami, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Qom, Youtube, Tehran, Zionism, Neda, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

A recurring theme in many of the cleric's answers is his very strong belief that "foreign" Western powers, particularly England, are behind the current unrest in Tehran

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Guardian Council Rules Out Vote Annulment In Iran

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Election, Iranian Election, Iran Election 2009, Guardian Council, Guardian Council Vote Annulment, Iran, Iran Protests 2009, Twitter Revolution, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Neda, Neda Soltan, Neda Agha, Who Is Neda, Neda Video, Tehran, Twitter, Neda Agha Soltan Video, Neda Agha Soltan., Video of Neda, Neda Agha Soltan,, Caspian Makan, World News

CAIRO — Overwhelmed by police and left with limited alternatives, Iranian demonstrators resorted Tuesday to more subtle ways of challenging the ...

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Iran's Fine Green Line Between a People's Right to Protest and Violence

Patt Cottingham | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Violence, Human Rights, Youth, Death, Green, Women's Rights, Freedom, Barack Hussein Obama, Citizen Reporters, Martin Luther King, Internet, Mir Hussein Moussavi, Tehran, Change, Father, Neda Agha Soltan, Sacrafice, Living News
Patt Cottingham

Although the US is a nation of immigrants that came here to escape repressive regimes or governments, as a society, we have largely forgotten what it is like to put our lives on the line to call forth change.

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Iran's Revolution: A Hard and Uncertain Path

Howard Schweber | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: Protests, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Opposition, Tehran, World News
Howard Schweber

How long can the opposition sustain itself? Four, five, or six weeks from now, will the protests still continue? Will the world still be watching Youtube videos being recycled on CNN?

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CNN, Please Stop!

Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: La, Iran, Msnbc, Cnn, Pundits, Christiane-Amanpour, Tehran, Fox, Cable News, Media, Iranians, Michael Moore, ireport.com, World News
Parvez Sharma

Just a few thoughts on the cable news media here in the US (and the delightful possibility of its extinction after the dust settles on all of this).

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Revolution.com

Cedric Perrier | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blackberry, Left Wing, Twitter, Digg, Referendum, Obama, Iran, China, Tiananmen Square, Iphone, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Change in Regime, Centrism, Conservatives, Revolution, Tehran, Mao Zedong, Bono, Politics News
Cedric Perrier

In the last six months alone, we have begun to see the rise of the electronic electorate and with it a real prospect for the growth of Referendum politics.

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Iran's Graphic Coverage: "Distributed Activism"

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 07.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Tehran, Iran, Twitter, Tehran-Iran, Iran Election, Steve Rosenbaum, Media News
Steve Rosenbaum

It's hard work, being media literate in a fast moving world where truth can have multiple lenses.

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Obama Must Speak Up Quickly or Iran Can Become His Rwanda

Sam Sedaei | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran, Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Voice of America, Iran Election, World News
Sam Sedaei

What ignited the protests may have been Ahmadinejad's hijacking of the election, but what has been fueling the protests and disobedience by millions of Iranians goes much deeper than this election.

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Khamenei's Obsession with the Mahdi

Melody Moezzi | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Obama Iran, Imam, Khamenei, Shiraz, Obama Iran Policy, Khomeini, Iranian Election, Mahdi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Protests, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Election 2009, Tehran, Obama Iran Engagement, Ayatullah, Twelver, Shi’A, Shi’ite, World News
Melody Moezzi

As an Iranian Twelver, I have no doubt that if the Mahdi is among us, he would agree that the so-called Islamic republic has indeed constituted a great disservice to Islam.

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I Caught a Case of Iran Fever - And it's now a Pandemic

Taufiq Rahim | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Democracy, Iran, Tehran, Youth, Middle East, Election, Protest, Iran Election, Iran Protests, World News
Taufiq Rahim

The fight is not for the West and against Islam nor vice versa, but is rather a struggle for freedom pure and simple.

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The Basij Will Face Retribution: Exiled by the regime, Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar Gives His Own Sermon

Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Cnn, Tehran-Iran, Tehran, Ayatollah Montazeri, Radio Farda, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mohsen Kadivar, Un, Bill O'Reilly, Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, World News
Parvez Sharma

Kadivar is one of Iran's most respected clerics. His words are powerful because he is able to counter the religious arguments of the Ayatollah with his own sound religious and theological logic.

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From Iran: Interview with Filmmaker James Longley

Adriana Dunn | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tehran, James Longley, Censorship, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Documentary Films, Politics News
Adriana Dunn

James Longley, director of Gaza Strip and Iraq in Fragments, is in Iran filming a new documentary.

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House Condemns Tehran Crackdown On Protesters

AP | ROBERT BURNS and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Condemns Crackdown, Crackdown on Protestors, House, Tehran Protestors, Crackdown, Congress, Iran Rallies, Tehran Rallys, Tehran, Iran, Protestors, Tehran Rallies, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday stuck to a measured response to the uprising in Iran over a disputed presidential election, even...

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Iranian Rockers Find Their Voice

GlobalPost | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: King Raam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran, Iran, Music, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Iranian Rock Movement, Rockers, World News

King Raam's biggest fear in those heady days of March 2007, sleeping on friends' floors and playing gigs in late-opening bars on Manhattan's Lower Eas...

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There Will Be Blood -- Exclusive Interview With an Iranian Journalist in Tehran

Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Tehran, Friday Prayer, You Tube, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Twitter, Iran Elections, Iran Election, Iran Protests, World News
Parvez Sharma

The journalist, who wishes to remain anonymous, fears that Khamenei's sermon has opened the doors for a Tiananmen in Tehran.

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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
Charlotte Safavi

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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From Tehrangeles to Tehran: Noise and Static

Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Shohreh Agdashloo, Radio-Farda, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Larry King, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Abbas-Kiarostami, Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mousavi, Eu, Firdausi, World News
Parvez Sharma

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 and Thinking Before You Speak (or Tweet)

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iran Election, John Kerry, Tehran, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

For every valuable piece of information circulating via Twitter, there seems to be an unverified string of gossip attached to it. Such is the danger of citizen journalism.

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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
Melody Moezzi

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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Exclusive: YouTube Blocked in Iran: Traffic Down 90 Percent

Andy Plesser | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Press Censorship, Youtube, Iran, Tehran, Iran Press Freedom, Iran YouTube, YouTube Iran, Media News
Andy Plesser

Earlier this week, authorities in Iran blocked YouTube along with several other sites and mobile networks. For YouTube, the crackdown has been highly effective, with traffic dropping by 90 percent.

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Iran: Washington Responsible For Post-Election Protests

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

Read More: Mousavi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mousavi Rally, Iran Blogs, Iran Rallies, Iranian Opposition, Iran Election, Iranian Election, Iran Protests, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Iran Twitter, Faezeh Hashemi, Tehran, Iran, Iran News, Iran Election 2009 Green, Iran Election Protests, Iran Election 2009 June 17, Rafsanjani, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, World News

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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A Report From Inside as Tehran Twitters

Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: State Television, Iran, 1388, Sarkozy, Russia, Vali Asr, Twitter, Obama, Tehran, Media News
Parvez Sharma

I almost wish that those in Tehran could watch the spectacle of US "media" falling all over themselves trying to report from behind the Chador, while exclaiming the virtues of Twitter.

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