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News Source: Truthout
| 5 months ago
Mir Hossein Mousavi waves to supporters. (Photo: AFP) Between threats from hard-line ayatollahs to execute protest leaders and the media frenzy over the death of Michael Jackson, Iran's "Green Revolution" appears to have stalled...Unless...
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News Source: Times of Oman
| 5 months ago
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Western leaders against meddling with Iran yesterday as Britain said that all but one embassy employee detained for allegedly stoking unrest has now been freed. Khameini admitted there are...
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News Source: CNSNews.com
| 5 months ago
A strong and unified international stance towards the Iranian government following last month’s disputed election and subsequent crackdown is looking increasingly unlikely. The European Union is divided on the issue and its new presidency appears...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Strong winds are blowing from the east as the battle between Iran's ruling conservative establishment and a formerly disparate collection of reformists and moderates has become increasingly intractable. In consecutive editorials over the weekend,...
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News Source: Times of India
| 5 months ago
Iran on Sunday freed a British-Greek journalist and police said they had let go most other people detained in election protests but fresh challenges were made to the outcome of the presidential vote. Washington Times reporter Iason Athanasiadis-...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
Two of the three defeated candidates, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, have kept up their outspoken defiance, repeating their demand for fresh elections and rejecting the legitimacy of any government headed by Mr Ahmadinejad. They are openly...
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News Source: Pakistan Chronicle
| 5 months ago
A powerful Iranian cleric said on Friday that British embassy local staff arrested for allegedly stoking post-election unrest will be put on trial, a move that prompted coordinated protests from European governments. Britain’s Foreign Secretary...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
EDT In the heat of all the evaluations of the administration of President Barack Obama, we should not let this moment pass that connects his speech in Cairo to the progressive movement in Iran. I don't agree with Benjamin Netanyahu, the...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
In Tehran, police have begun summoning residents to warn that they will be arrested if they don't stop rooftop protest chants that have become a nightly ritual of defiance throughout the capital and other cities. The moves are the latest steps by...
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News Source: Santa Barbara Independent
| 5 months ago
However, this is not a surprise to anyone familiar with Iranian society. Iranian women long have been involved in their country's sociopolitical affairs. They were essential political organizers as far back as the 1905 Constitutional Revolution;...