News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 month ago
On Wednesday, the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, the streets of Iran were filled with ordinary citizens demonstrating not for the humiliation of the United States but for peaceful political change in their country.
News Source: The Nation
| about 1 month ago
The Green Movement opposition flexed its muscles again in Iran this week, taking advantage of anti-American protests on the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran (aka "the nest of spies") to rally thousands of anti-Ahmadinejad...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
The so-called Green Movement in Iran is a manifestation of a student revolution and not the work of Reformist officials challenging the regime, analysts say. Student protesters clashed with riot police in the streets of Tehran on Wednesday as the...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
The night before she was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda had a dream. "There was a war going on," she told her mom the next morning, "and I was in the front." Neda's mother had joined her in the...
News Source: Truthout
| about 1 month ago
Cynthia Boaz, t r u t h o u t Interview Nobel Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi, a prominent human rights lawyer and democracy activist from Iran. (Photo: Jack Greene) "The Iranian women's movement is not simply demanding equal rights alone.