Mohsen Sazegara

June 2009

Obama isn't doing enough to help foster democracy in Iran - The security forces may have temporarily crushed the resistance in Iran, but the revolution is far from over. Iranians by the hundreds of thousands -- young and old, men and women, students and workers -- have taken to the streets... (16:16)
Which State Security Branch Rules Tehran’s Streets? - http://peace-post.com/?p=180 Two weeks after the contested results of Iran’s Presidential elections led to widespread street riots and demonstrations across the country, the Islamic Republic pronounced its harshest threat yet to protesters. At the official ceremony for Friday prayers, Ayatollah Ahmad... (16:13)
Key Iranian Dissident Riled at Obama’s Approach - Tuesday, June 23, 2009 By: Kenneth R. Timmerman A key Iranian dissident tells Newsmax he was stunned when he heard President Barack Obama tell reporters that, despite government’s brutal crackdown in Tehran, the Islamic Republic has time to regain “legitimacy”... (16:07)

What we're hearing right now - http://www.globalpost.com/notebook/general/090626/what-were-hearing-right-now Need to Know: The "calm of the grave" is how one person interviewed by the BBC's Jeremy Bowen — still in Iran — described the scene in Tehran on Friday. There was also little in the way of official... (05:00)

CNN GPS:MOHSEN SAZEGARA - WEB EXCLUSIVE - Fareed sits down with Mohsen Sazegara, scholar, political activist, and co-founder of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Sazagara discusses the present-day Revolutionary Guard and Iran's power struggle. Embedded video from CNN Video... (06:17)

Iran supreme leader's son seen as power broker with big ambitions - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-iran-khamenei-son25-2009jun25,0,2442237.story Mojtaba Khamenei is being positioned to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but he lacks the stature to overcome any opposition from a key panel, analysts say. By Jeffrey Fleishman June 25, 2009 Reporting from Cairo - There are... (16:53)
Darkness in Tehran - Darkness in Tehran A loyalist discovers the horror of the regime. By Joshua Muravchik Mohsen Sazegara was one of the youngest figures near the helm of Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979. Serving first as a press attaché to Ayatollah Ruhollah... (16:35)

Iran's streets are lost, but hope returns - THE ROVING EYE Iran's streets are lost, but hope returns By Pepe Escobar http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF25Ak02.html PARIS - The angel of history lives in Iran - even though Manichean progressives of all stripes, especially in the United States, insist on believing the... (16:50)
Key Iranian Dissident Dismayed By Obama - Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:41 PM Newsmax By: Kenneth R. Timmerman A key Iranian dissident tells Newsmax he was stunned to listen to President Barack Obama tell reporters on Tuesday that despite the brutal crackdown by security forces in Tehran,... (07:01)

As gloating over Iran's internal turmoil tunes down, exercises in the Gulf take off as scheduled - http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=27502&lang=en 22 June Talking to Al Jazeera International from his Washington DC residence, former deputy prime minister of Iran, Mohsen Sazegara, now one of the leaders of the Iranian dissident communities in exile, deplored what he defined the lack of... (04:39)
Nokia and Siemens provided surveillance tools used to bust Iranian activists - http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/22/nokia-and-siemens-pr.html A Nokia-Seimens joint venture supplied the key surveillance tech to the Iranian government that is being used to spot and bust protestors, subjecting them to massive human rights violations and endangering their lives. Seimens says it's all Nokia's fault,... (01:22)

Iran on the edge Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK - http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2515562.0.0.php Iran on the edge Riots and violence have followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial election victory. now, with protesters’ reprisals and an imposed media blackout, tehran is teetering on the brink of chaos. By Trevor Royle, Diplomatic Editor WITH A relentlessness... (16:45)
Ma anche tra i pasdaran serpeggia lo scontento - Corriere della Sera: 21 June, 2009 l colloquio Uno dei fondatori dei Guardiani della Rivoluzione, ora esule in America, intravede crepe nel regime «Ma anche tra i pasdaran serpeggia lo scontento» Mohsen Sazegara aveva 24 anni quando tornò dall’esilio a... (14:53)

Militia Adds Fear To Time of Unrest - By Tara Bahrampour Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 19, 2009 One of the more dramatic video clips from Iran this week showed a man in an upper-floor window firing onto demonstrators outside a building near Tehran's Azadi Square, killing... (06:30)

Dark side of a reformist win in Iran - By Mohsen Sazegara June 10, 2009 - The Boston Globe ON FRIDAY, my fellow Iranians will cast their vote for the Islamic Republic's next president. If some of the polls are to be believed, the victor may very well be... (05:31)