Iran's most consequential election in a generation is tomorrow.
Iran will elect a new Parliament along with the fifth “Assembly of Experts” on Friday, February 25.The Parliamentary elections occur every four years, and 290 representatives are elected. Five seats...
View Article[169] Mousavi is hardly an angel
I hate to go against the flow here on Kos, there were probably some irregularities in the vote, and yes the result is not as we would have liked.However how much fraud went on is debatable and how the...
View ArticleGOP's Catch-22 on Iran and Obama
One thing that I learned fairly quickly the election of 2008 is that the Republicans and GOP have mastered the art of the Catch-22. Don't get me wrong, Obama hasn't done too bad in doing the same...
View ArticleIran Election = Florida 2000?
As I write, a diary on the rec list has Mousavi winning in Iran today. But wait! It's been deleted. That's how strange things are.Josh Marshall notes that the Iranian state media have called the...
View ArticleIran & the Jasmine revolution
I'm glued to PBS's Tehran bureau, al Jazeera and whyweprotest.net these days, waiting to see if the heady scent of jasmine-laced freedom is strong enough to bring the bloody, inhumane rule of...
View ArticleEyes on Egypt & Region Liveblog #110
You are in the the 110th Child Diary of the Liveblog of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and other uprisings spreading throughout the Mideast. We stand with our international friends and their courageous...
View ArticleBrad Sherman wants to hurt Iranians
Amidst the constant political posturing on Iran, most people at least acknowledge that measures should be taken to minimize the impact of sanctions on the Iranian people. People around the world were...
View ArticleThe Fall of Khamenei
Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Leader are adding fuel to the fire of a new Iranian revolution. Why we could be on the cusp of significant changes in the Middle East.
View ArticleGREEN IRAN: Mousavi's Nephew Martyred [UPDATED]
I'll admit it. I've been as bad as the news agencies at ignoring Iran this weekend. I heard that things were afoot, that the protests I'd followed so closely this summer, never really gone, were back...
View ArticleIran Recap (yes, stuff's still going on over there!)
Like many of you, I intensely watched the Iranian protests in June, and cheered on the demonstrators, was shocked to see the photos of Neda and the others who were killed, and hoped-apparently in...
View ArticleIran: Mousavi Backs Karoubi On Detainee Rape Charges
So Mousavi has written a letter to Karoubi supporting him in his claims that some detainees arrested in Iran for protesting the farcical election outcome have been raped. TEHRAN: Opposition leader Mir...
View ArticleIran -- Prayers Make History
Iran doesn't seem to making news so much lately, but the Green people of Iran are still fighting. Here is a beautiful piece written by a young Iranian about what's going on there now. Prayers Make...
View ArticleNews from Iran-more protests, accounts of torture, abuse of imprisoned...
You know, the place that seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth since Michael Jackson died? Well, there's still news coming out-some of it hopeful, and some of it truly sickening. More below.
View ArticleAn Iranian Pro-Democracy & Solidarity Photo-Video (DC)
Well, here's my first attempt at making a photo-collage & music video ("Stand By Me", the duet by Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora) with photos that I recently took at the rallies in DC i:), which were...
View ArticleMousavi admits Ahmadinejad won the election, and the other big lie on Iran
What, you didn't read that? Well, that's because the headlines read the opposite: "Iranian Details Alleged Fraud." But if you remember, the last we heard from Mousavi, he was claiming he actually won...
View ArticleAccuracy in headlines on events in Iran
A few days ago the Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf uploaded a video of him giving a message to Mousavi from the Iranian people. The original video is in Persian and an English translation was...
View ArticleIran Open Thread: The Calm of the Grave
The BBC writes (via Nico Pitney): In the centre of Tehran there are many fewer security forces on the streets... But the power of the regime is not far from the surface. On the main avenues black cars...
View ArticleThe Revolution Will Be Twitterized
The rebellion in the streets of Iran has taught us that in a world of technology and social networking, oppressive regimes no longer can operate in the dark. The world's reaction to the brutal killing...
View ArticleIran Open Thread: The Resistance Continues
I posting this diary for general discussion of the situation of Iran. The resistance continues. Mousavi is oganizing a large gathering for Thursday, though he himself is under constant monitoring. The...
View ArticleNew strategy in Iran
Both Andrew Sullivan and Al Giordano are reporting a potential new development in the tactics to be used by the resistance in Iran.
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