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Monday 29 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...
- 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...
Sunday 15 February 2009
- "We Had Done It. The Ayatollah Had Come" - "We Had Done It. The Ayatollah Had Come" By David Patrikarakos Published: February 7 2009 02:00 As late as 1978, US security officials were lauding the stability of Iran, their Gulf ally. The oil-rich state had a highly sophisticated army...
Sunday 19 August 2007
- Iranian Guards amass secret fortunes - Sunday Telegraph By Philip Sherwell Aug 19, 2007 As the zealous enforcers of Iran's Islamic revolution, they are at pains to be seen living humbly, maintaining homes in the crumbling Soviet-style slums of downtown Teheran and driving modest, imported Korean...
Wednesday 18 April 2007
- Revolutionary Guard Wields Power Inside and Outside Iran - Voice of America - USA By Gary Thomas - Washington - 17 April 2007 Recent events in the Middle East have put the spotlight on Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Guard naval units seized 15 British service personnel in the waters of...
Friday 10 November 2006
- U.S. VOTE: IRAN INDIFFERENT TO DEMOCRATS' WIN -AKI - (by Ahmad Rafat) Nov-09-06 - Tehran, 9 Nov. (AKI) - (by Ahmad Rafat) - Iranian policy makers and opinionists agreed on Thursday that the victory of the Democrats in US mid-term elections would not have an impact on the country's policy towards Iran and its...
Wednesday 1 November 2006
- Russia, Iran: Brothers in Arms - November 1, 2006http://www.cfr.org/publication/11873/russia_iran.htmlPrepared by: Lionel BeehnerWith the Iran-Iraq War winding down in 1987, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini reportedly told a roomful of ambassadors: “Today Iran is so isolated that we can count the number of our friends on one hand.” Two...
Saturday 24 June 2006
- THE IRANIAN MOMENT "Iran on the Potomac"-washingtonpost- Sunday, June 25, 2006; Laura Rozen - As the Bush administration frets over Iran's nuclear program, Iranian dissidents are descending on Washington, seeking help in fostering regime change back home. Just one problem: The exiles can't agree on a strategy.Iran's oppositionists are divided over what kind of...
Thursday 22 June 2006
- Iran Death Judge Lands U.N. Seat On Human Rights By ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun June 22, 2006 - WASHINGTON - Iran's delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Council faces being isolated by the envoys of free nations this week after it emerged that its leader is one of Iran's most notorious censors and prosecutors of dissidents who the...
Thursday 1 June 2006
- Condi’s Play By Laura Rozen 06.01.06 - Rice headed off the hardliners with her bold move, but will the United States and Iran ever get to the negotiating table? After six years of the Bush administration often resisting calls for pragmatism and compromise from allies and home-grown...
Tuesday 9 May 2006
- No Proposals in Iranian's Letter to Bush, U.S. Says, By Karl Vick and Colum Lynch - Washington Post Foreign Service, Tuesday, May 9, 2006; Page A18 - ISTANBUL, May 8 -- Senior U.S. officials dismissed an 18-page letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to President Bush on Monday, saying the document that broke 27 years of official and hostile silence between leaders of the two governments...
- Is hard-line Iran leader softening his stance? By Karl Vick, The Washington Post, Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - Page updated at 02:10 PM, The Seattle Times - ISTANBUL, Turkey — Senior U.S. officials dismissed an 18-page letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to President Bush on Monday, saying the document that broke 27 years of official and hostile silence between leaders of the two governments contained...
- Ayoon Wa Azan (Threaten and Recoil), Jihad el-Khazen Al-Hayat - 09/05/06// - It feels as though, for the past two years, I have been writing the same article about Iran and its nuclear program, American threats, the role of European countries and the stand taken by the International Agency for Atomic Energy...
Friday 5 May 2006
- Iran exiles struggle for US influence, By Jonathan Beale, BBC News, Washington Friday, 5 May 2006, 05:30 GMT 06:30 UK - Ahmad Baharloo is being dubbed the Iranian Larry King, after the veteran CNN interviewer. Roundtable With You, Mr Baharloo's snappily-titled weekly television programme in Farsi on Voice of America, will soon be broadcast six times a week - beamed directly...
Friday 28 April 2006
- Gabriel Bueno, the brazilian journalist that interviewed with Sazegara was published (27/4), newspaper, O Estado de São Paulo - ENTREVISTA Mohsen Sazegara, político do Irã e professor-visitante em Yale Ativista que saiu do Irã após duas prisões e luta por mais democratização do país avisa que quem manda é Khamenei Gabriel Bueno Mohsen Sazegara é um dos mais importantes...
Sunday 5 March 2006
- Cheney daughter leads 'cold war' on mullahs, Sunday Times, March, 05,06-Sarah Baxter - THE war in Iraq is her father’s business but Elizabeth Cheney, the American vice-president’s daughter, has been given responsibility for bringing about a different type of regime change in Iran....
Friday 18 November 2005
- The ‘Second Islamic Revolution’ in Iran: Power Struggle at the Top, By A. Savyon - November 17, 2005 - Introduction As noted by MEMRI in June 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's win in Iran's presidential elections signaled the coming of the "Second Islamic Revolution." This is marked by Ahmadinejad's commitment to the ideal of "Islamic justice" as embodied in the messianic...
Monday 8 August 2005
- From Revolutionary to Dissident BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun August 8, 2005 - WASHINGTON - Inside a cramped room at Tehran's Milad Hospital, guarded 24 hours a day by special police, a starving writer has done something that Iran's powerful guardian council and supreme leader failed to accomplish in eight years. Akbar Ganji...
Tuesday 19 July 2005
- Iranian Dissident Rushed to Hospital BY ELI LAKE,Staff Reporter of the Sun July 19, 2005 - WASHINGTON - With his health failing and his family barred from visiting him, officials at Iran's Evin prison sent political prisoner Akbar Ganji to Tehran's Milad hospital, a decision seen by his supporters yesterday as a last-ditch effort to save...
Friday 8 July 2005
- Iranian President Suspected of Role In Kurd's Killing BY ELI LAKE Staff Reporter of the Sun July 7, 2005 of The New York Sun - WASHINGTON - A former colleague of Iran's president-elect who has since turned on the regime says he suspects that the incoming leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, played a role in the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish leader in Vienna....
Friday 24 June 2005
- AND WHAT IF DEMOCRACY IS THE WINNER IN IRAN? By Safa Haeri - PARIS, 24 June (IPS) As Iranians went to the polls in their most unprecedented elections, having to choose between the “pragmatist”, millionaire cleric and the “fundamentalist”, son of an ironsmith, some pundits said regardless of who becomes Iran’s next President,...
Wednesday 22 June 2005
- Did the Iranian Election Change Current Policies? By Amy Davis - Iran held presidential elections last week, which resulted in a runoff scheduled to take place this Friday. But few are expecting any real changes in the way the country is governed. At least that's what Mohsen Sazegara of The Washington...
Tuesday 21 June 2005
- Analysis: Iran runoff will be decisive By Stefan Nicola UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL June 21, 2005 - WASHINGTON -- Iran faces a presidential runoff Friday that might decide the Islamic republic's future political direction. The unprecedented runoff comes a week after none of the initial five candidates was able to capture more than half of...
- Size matters - IRAN: In tense Tehran, ruling mullahs press for voter turnout, but opponents put their numbers in the street by Priya Abraham - Bombings in a country five days before national elections usually cause poll jitters. In Iran's case, they caused an explosion of conspiracy theories.Blasts in the southwestern city of Ahvaz on June 12 killed at least six people and injured about...
Saturday 18 June 2005
- Bush and Hawks Try Pre-EmptiveStrike Vs. Iran VoteJim Lobe Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - WASHINGTON, Jun 18 (IPS) - A familiar clutch of hardline U.S. hawks who led the march to war against Iraq have tried to carry out yet another pre-emptive strike. But this time it wasn't military. As millions of Iranians prepared...
Thursday 16 June 2005
- Analysts Expect No Major Policy Changes in Iran after Presidential Ballot By Meredith Buel Washington - The polls will open in Iran Friday for voters to elect a successor to president Mohammad Khatami, although many analysts say none of the candidates is likely to win an outright majority and therefore a runoff election is likely. Specialists...
Wednesday 15 June 2005
- Q&A: Iran's presidential candidates Crises - New York Times - Who is running for Iran's presidency?Seven candidates are vying to succeed Mohammed Khatami as president of Iran, including frontrunner and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, reformist candidate Mustafa Moin, and former chief of police Mohammed Baqur Qalibaf. To win votes...
Monday 13 June 2005
- Internet boom alters political process in Iran All eight candidates running for president have websites By Barbara Slavin USA TODAY - Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, were alive today, he'd undoubtedly have his own website.All eight of those allowed to run for president by Iran's clerical establishment in elections this Friday have official websites as well as other sites run...
Tuesday 17 May 2005
- Interview with Sazegara - www.ia-forum.org...