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Viet won Houston council seat; right-wingers attack BBC
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No sooner has a Vietnamese-American won a hard-fought election to the City Council of Houston that news of his victory was pushed off track to become fodder for right-wingers to crap against the BBC’s Vietnamese Service.Al Hoang, better known by his Vietnamese name Hoàng Duy Hùng, won the Dec. 12 elections to ...59 minutes ago -
Will there be a snap election?
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This week, both the political and the natural climates are getting hot, as the Tory lead appears to shrink and talk of a snap election emerges. Environment talks in Copenhagen, meanwhile, seem to heading for farce. In the studio, Tom Clark is joined by columnist Madeleine Bunting and comment editor Georgina ...12 hours ago -
Today on EA (17 December)
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Iran: We’re keeping track of the latest developments on our LiveBlog . Today, however, is quieter so far than yesterday, when threats and responses are flying between the regime, Hashemi Rafsanjani, and the Green movement. We’ve assessed the significance in a special analysis . One of the threats came from the ...13 hours ago -
Latest Iran Video: Interview of the “Basij Member” on the Election and Abuses (16 December)
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I initially refrained from posting this video, an interview of a purported Basiji militiaman by Britain’s Channel 4 News, with its explosive claims about detainee abuse and rigging of the Presidential election, as I cannot confirm the authenticity of the interviewee and Channel 4 (understandably) offers no ...19 hours ago -
The Latest from Iran (17 December): An Uncertain Regime
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0905 GMT: Defending the Opposition. The audio of the speeches by reformist members of Parliament Mohammad Reza Tabesh and Nasrullah Torabi (see yesterday’s updates and separate analysis ), warning against regime intentions to arrest political figures in the Green movement, has been posted. 0855 GMT: The Verbal ...20 hours ago -
New voters guide for 72nd Assembly race
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The runoff election for the Assembly set vacated by “Open Mike” Duvall is Jan. 12, but mail ballots began delivery Tuesday. Click here to find our new voters guide for the election, update with questions on gay marriage, the proposed water bond, and the proposed open primary, as well as previous questions on ...1 day ago -
Today on EA (16 December)
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Iran: A busy day on the political front, with threats from the regimes and spirited responses from the oppositions. We’ve got it all in the LiveBlog . We’ve posted another summary of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani’s speech in Mashhad, which has prompted a lot of the regime’s anger and nervousness. ...1 day ago -
Iran Document: The Rafsanjani Speech in Mashhad (6 December)
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On 9 December, we wrote a lengthy analysis , “Clerics and Rafsanjani Plan The ‘Third Way’ of Unity”, which laid out discussions between senior religious figures and the former President to put forth a proposal for reform of the Islamic Republic, manoeuvring between the Ahmadinejad Government and the Green ...1 day ago -
Iran Picture of the Day: Mohammad Khatami’s Cellphone
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The Latest on Iran (16 December): What’s Next?1 day ago -
The Latest on Iran (16 December): What’s Next?
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0750 GMT: Mahmoud Gives Danish TV a Slap. Hundreds of miles away from the main action, President Ahmadinejad can strike a tough pose. In an interview with Danish television , Ahmadinejad, was asked, “Would you like a nuclear bomb?” He offered the response that nuclear bombs were a bad thing which brought the ...1 day ago -
UPDATED “Where is My Vote?” (Part 2): TIME Snubs Green Movement as “Person of the Year”
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UPDATE 0925 GMT: US National Public Radio is conducting a parallel poll , so far without throwing out “Iran Protesters”. President Obama is the Leader of the Others, with 2% of the vote. Yep, 2%. He’s got a way to go to catch those pesky Protesters, who are on 93%. United4Iran offers comments on the ...1 day ago -
Latest Iran Video: The University Protests (15 December)
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Tehran University, South Branch Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. Elm-o-Sanat University Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video.2 days ago -
Iran: A Beginner’s Guide to Moharram
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EA correspodent Mr Azadi offers an introduction to EA readers (and to me, as I confused Moharram and Ashura in a post I wrote last week) of the religious month of Moharram, which is likely to be marked by opposition protests: Moharram and the message of Karbala One of the significant events for Shia Islam is the ...2 days ago -
Iran: US State Department Pushes for “Proper” Sanctions in 2010
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Josh Rogin of The Cable of Foreign Policy magazine offers a revelation about the efforts of the Obama Administration, or at least the State Department, to get control of the Congressional push for sanctions: The State Department sent a letter to Congress Friday…asking lawmakers to hold off on an Iran sanctions ...2 days ago -
The Latest from Iran (15 December): The Path to Moharram
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0935 GMT: The “Other” American Prisoner. A paradox: while “Western” media overheated yesterday over the passing comment from Iran’s Foreign Minister that the three US hikers might be tried, none of them seems to notice the latest developments in the case of Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, sentenced ...2 days ago -
Today on EA (15 December)
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Iran: In snubbing “the Iran protester” , and thus the entire Green movement, Time magazine has managed to succeed where the Iranian regime has failed. All the latest news is available on our live weblog . A group of US Congressmen introduced two proposals yesterday aimed at helping people in Iran and ...2 days ago -
“Where is My Vote?”, Part 2: TIME Snubs Green Movement as “Person of the Year”
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UPDATE 0800 GMT: Iran News Now has a spirited investigation of Time’s poll and the dropping of “Iran’s Protesters” from the final list for Person of the Year. t may not rank with the alleged theft of June’s Presidential election, but Time magazine just put itself in the role of vote-stealing villain ...2 days ago -
Today in EA (14 December)
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Iran: In addition to the latest developments , Scott Lucas has EA’s Monday analysis of the weekend’s events and an interview in the Italian newspaper La Stampa . There’s new footage from the 16 Azar protests which only surfaced over the weekend. We have a winner in our first EA caption competition ...3 days ago -
Latest Iran Video: Challenging the Regime’s Forces on 16 Azar (7 December)
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This footage from last Monday’s protests only surfaced over the weekend: Click here to view the embedded video. The Latest from Iran (14 December): Taking Stock Latest Iran Video: The Marches of 16 Azar – 4rd Set (8 December) Latest Iran Video: The Marches of 16 Azar – 3rd Set (7 December) ...3 days ago -
EA Caption Contest: We Have A Winner!
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We had a great response to our inaugural caption contest , and after a short delay (note to selves: don’t organise any more contests on busy weekends just before Christmas) we have a winner. It was a close-run thing, but we finally decided that our favourite caption was #5 by bigwinnman: “When I look at the ...3 days ago
