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• Iran: The Arrest of Majid Tavakoli “His 16 Azar Speech on Video”

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  It appears that the case of Majid Tavakoli, the student leader arrested after he gave a speech to the 16 Azar demonstrators at Amir Kabir University, may become another powerfully symbolic moment for the Green movement. This is a combination of his profile — Tavakoli has been arrested twice before and spent more ...
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• Gates sees more sanctions on Iran over nuclear plans

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 717
  Source: Reuters KIRKUK, Iraq, Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said on Friday he expected the international community to impose significant additional sanctions against Iran for its nuclear ...
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• Iran: “The Military Will Stand with the Iranian People”? (with Audio)

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  UPDATE 0845 GMT: The claimed audio of the announcement of the eight regiments has now been posted. The letter, on the reformist website Gooya , appeared last evening: “The Army is the Refuge of the People”. This morning it is still causing excitement and uncertainty: is a section of the Iranian army ...
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• Obama, The Nobel Peace Prize & Justifications For War

  
  Wolf Howling — Authority: 541
  The Nobel Peace Prize is an award Obama should have rejected when he was first told that he had won it. He has done nothing to rate this award - nothing beyond not being Bush, at least, and more often than not, treating America with the same disdain as your average European elite. As to the latter, there was none of ...
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• What Obama Really Thinks About the Surge

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 725
  By Eugene Robinson The president believes his Afghanistan surge will most likely create the conditions to bring the greatest number of U.S. troops home at the earliest possible date, a senior official said. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries December 10, 2009 What Obama Really Thinks About the Surge ...
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• “Cross-dressing” Revolution in Iran

  
  Roger L. Simon — Authority: 125
  Well, we all knew Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was psycho-sexually disturbed when he uttered his risible comments about there being no homosexuals in Iran when speaking at Columbia University a couple of years back. And he is not alone in the mullocracy, which, like much of Islam, alas, is a homophobic and, even more, a ...
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• A Closer Look at Israel’s Role in Terrorism

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 545
  Best of the Web: A Closer Look at Israel’s Role in Terrorism Jeff Gates Criminal State Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:00 EST “ It’s very good….Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel) “. Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when asked on September ...
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• Materialism is alive and well in Iran

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 443
  Iranian blogger Kamangir , currently living in Canada, tells us about a particular sub-set in the Islamic Republic: My friend is fascinated by a community of bloggers she tends to call the “Shooshoo Joon”s. The name can be translated to “My Beloved Husband” but I assure you that the Persian expression she ...
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• Iran’s Diaspora: Beware Change for Its Own Sake

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 144
  As international attention has turned from the disputed June 12 Iranian presidential election and that regime’s brutal crackdown to the negotiations surrounding Tehran’s nuclear program, hardline neoconservatives in the United States, Iranian opposition leaders and some within the Iranian Diaspora have ...
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• One Step Closer to Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 144
  Congress has given new momentum to a bill imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran — a move seen by many as an ineffective form of sanctions and potentially antagonistic against valuable U.S. allies on the U.N. Security Council. This comes ahead of the end of the year deadline set [...]
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• The shame of those running Iran in 2009

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 443
  The Islamic Republic lashes out at its own citizens and creates more revolutionaries: Human rights abuses in Iran are now as bad as at any time in the past 20 years, Amnesty International reports tomorrow in a survey marking six months since June’s disputed presidential election. Amnesty documents ...
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• What does courage look like?

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 566
  While the majority of mainstream news media’s focus on Iran has returned to the debate over who has the right to control the country’s nuclear energy ambitions, Iranian students continue to risk their lives while protesting for their human and civil rights.  Hundreds of Iranian men and women have been arrested ...
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• Observing Iranian Sanctions and Options

  
  Information Dissemination — Authority: 135
  From the Washington Post A U.N. sanctions committee expressed "grave concern" Thursday about what it called apparent Iranian violations of a U.N. ban on arms exports, triggering a renewed threat by the United States and its European allies to press for broader sanctions against Tehran if it does not mend its ways. ...
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• UN close to new sanctions on Iran, France says

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 166
  The UN no longer has any reason to wait to consider new sanctions on Iran if it does not respond to concerns over its nuclear programme, France says.
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• With W Gone, Good Thing We Have France

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 133
  As Iran gets closer to a nuke each day, France has decided to fill the void Obama has left in leadership, and take the lead on the Iranian problem. France threw down the gauntlet over Iran’s nuclear program yesterday, effectively eclipsing the United States as it pledged to take the lead in pushing for more United ...
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• Clintons Cover-up: 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, an al-Qaeda plot involving several Iraqis

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 136
  What Carter did for Muslims in Iran, Clinton did for Muslims in Europe...
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• Mohammad Morassafar Designs Mercedes-Benz Archimed Concept

  
  Elite Choice — Authority: 571
  Mohammad Morassafar is a designer who is based in Tehran, Iran. He is also a Mechanical Engineering Student – AZAD University . He has designed the cool new Mercedes-Benz Archimed Concept which comes with gullwings doors. It is a concept vehicle with 3 wheels and can carry 4 passengers. It is a hybrid car and ...
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• U.N. panel voices concern over Irans apparent violations of arms-export embargo

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 958
  UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. sanctions committee expressed "grave concern" Thursday about what it called apparent Iranian violations of a U.N. ban on arms exports, triggering a renewed threat by the United States and its European allies to press for broader sanctions against Tehran if it does not mend...
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• What power does U.S. have to stop ‘third war’ in Middle East? (what about BDS?)

  
  Mondoweiss — Authority: 147
  Washington Stakeout got Russ Feingold to admit that Israel has nukes, though the senator tried to avoid the question. How helpful is this kind of hypocrisy? Andrew Sullivan is worried about Israeli nuclear policy [emphasis mine]: One reason I have been focusing on Israel lately is because I can see this conflict ...
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• NYT > World: In Iran, Protests Gaining a Radical Tinge

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The creeping radicalization of Iran’s opposition movement has underscored a rift within it, analysts say, and poses a dilemma for its leaders.
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