An 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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The 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleIran'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...
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