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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
It wasn't that thousands of people took to the streets even though electricity, landline and mobile phone connections were cut...It was that citizens confounded the authorities with dispersed actions...People power is expressed through the sustained,...
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News Source: Open Democracy
| 5 months ago
The uprising in Iran against the stolen election exposes the true character and intentions of a regime that seeks to rule without and against its people, says Mahmood Delkhasteh. The uprising in Iran, which began as a protest against the rigged...
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News Source: Associated Press
| 5 months ago
There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's post-election crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds. "...
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News Source: The Economist
| 5 months ago
Iran’s disputed presidential election A hollow victory Jul 2nd 2009 From The Economist print edition Mahmoud Ahmadinejad keeps power but loses legitimacy, particularly among the middle class THE case is closed. The landslide claimed by Mahmoud...
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News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 5 months ago
Iran's former president has joined ranks with the country's embattled reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, and accused the Iranian government of failing its people in the recent election and condemning the subsequent crackdown on...
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 5 months ago
No election since the inception of the Islamic Republic has left the Iranian nation so divided in all its components as the one that took place on 12 June. It has divided the clergy in Qom, the leading political conservative or principalist actors in...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Six Reasons Why Iran Cannot be Explained in a Twitter Feed Eye on Arab Media New America Media, News Analysis, Jalal Ghazi, Posted: Jul 02, 2009 The world's attention is on Iran. But the rhetoric of reformists vs. conservatives, students vs. mullahs...
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News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 5 months ago
Mousavi said he was troubled by "the bitter, widespread distrust of the people toward the declared election results and the government that caused it." "It's not yet too late," said Mousavi, who has slipped from public view in recent days. "It's our...
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 5 months ago
Iran 's defeated presidential challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi , declared today that he considered Mahmoud Ahmadijenad's new government illegitimate, and called for protests to continue. In a defiant statement posted on his website, the moderate...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, ought to be pleased with Iran. There is no one else left in the world who would categorise Britain as uniquely evil or threatening, let alone important enough to go for full-scale diplomatic confrontation. If...