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• Washington Can Give An Israeli Attack On Iran The Red Light

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
  Cross-posted from the Huffington Post: Only a few weeks after US-Iran diplomacy began in earnest, it seems to be heading towards a premature ending. Rather than tensions reduction, the world has witnessed the opposite. Iran is refusing to accept a fuel swap deal brokered by the IAEA, the IAEA has passed a ...
  2 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Women’s rights in Iran

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 590
  Iran’s authorities recently confiscated Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Peace prize medal. Activists say the move against the Iranian human rights lawyer exemplifies Tehran’s hostility toward women. Mahnaz Afkhami was the Minister for Women’s Affairs in Iran before the 1979 revolution. She now lives in Bethesda, ...
  5 days ago

• Iran Update

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 610
  These events have been reported to World Threats. Nov. 24 - Approximately 100 students from Ahwaz Free University were threatened with dismissal or long term suspensions by Discipline Committees of the university. This was in relation to their participation in the November Fourth protests that ended in the ...
  5 days ago

• More details: Iran confiscates Nobel winners medal from hardline critic Shirin Ebadi

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 610
  IRAN has confiscated the Nobel peace medal and diploma of Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer who is one of the hardline regimes most outspoken critics. Her bank account has also been frozen on the pretext that she owes almost £250,000 in tax. The seizure of the award, unprecedented in its 108-year history, ...
  6 days ago

• 118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
    Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari has written a touching and horrifying account of his experience in Evin prison following this summer’s tumultuous election crisis. His story is not unique, either, and should be read as an indication of the ordeal so many other political prisoners are still enduring in ...
  1 week ago

• Iranian Opposition Specifically Asks for More U.S. Support

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 610
  Time and time again, we heard that the U.S. shouldn’t inject itself into Iran’s internal affairs during the post-election unrest, because it might de-legitimize them and make them look like foreign agents and strengthen the regime through nationalism. I argued in a recent article for Pajamas Media that the ...
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• Last NYT Reporter In Iran Flees To Canada

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 796
  Here’s some news that has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. We’ve mentioned a couple of times on this blog before the New York Times reporter Nazila Fathi , who during the protests over the Iran election this past June was often the only reporter on the ground reporting for the Times . Last month Fathi ...
  2 weeks ago

• “A Death in Tehran”

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
  Frontline’s “ A Death in Tehran ” has long been billed as a documentary re-visiting the June 20, 2009 murder of Neda Agha Soltan. However, the segment focuses more on those who are still alive, and who carry the emotional scars of those who have both lost a loved one and had their government turned against them. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Five Iranian Activists Sentenced to Death

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
  Tehran’s prosecutor office announced on Tuesday that five Iranian activists, accused of instigating unrest after the June 2009 presidential election, have been sentenced to death.  According to Radio Farda , these activists have been charged with accusations such as “acting against national security,” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Suspicious death of Iranian student who knew too much about dissidents prison torture

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 610
  Martin Fletcher RAMIN Pourandarjani was a brilliant medical student with a promising future, until he was found dead in a dormitory at Tehran police headquarters last week. He is now the new cause celebre of the Iranian Opposition, with MPs and Western organisations demanding an investigation into the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Green Movement Keeps Neda’s Memory Alive

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
  The Green Movement and its supporters are determined to keep Neda Agha-Soltan’s memory alive as a symbol of the ongoing struggle against the current Iranian government. A Facebook page, “Neda Agha-Soltan for Time Magazine’s Person of the Year” has gained 454 members so far and encourages viewers to write ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tonight on Frontline, A Death in Tehran

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 611
  Tonight on PBS’s Frontline they explore the recent conflict in Iran and the death of the Iranian protester named Neda with a piece called A Death in Tehran .  From the PBS website : FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the ...
  2 weeks ago

• PBS: A Death in Tehran

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
  Check your local listings. At the height of the protests following Iran’s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death — filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web — quickly became an international outrage, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mousavi & Karroubi: Current Rulers Worse than the Shah

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
  Leaders of the opposition Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have decried the Iranian government for their brutal tactics in the continuing post-election unrest in statements made on several websites on Saturday. They chided the state for using “excessive force,” and specifically hitting women over the head ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iran Opposition: Government More Brutal Than Shah

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 610
  TEHRAN, Iran — The showdown between Irans clerical leaders and a resilient protest movement sharpened Saturday, as opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shahs regime and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown. Two of Irans top pro-reform figures said in a Web ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• The price of trying to save killed Iranian protester Neda Soltan

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 610
  Martin Fletcher THE death of Neda Soltan in the protests that followed the Iranian presidential election touched the world, but what of the doctor who went to her aid? As Arash Hejazi sat in an Oxford coffee bar, members of Irans Basij militia in Tehran were demanding his extradition outside the ...
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• Flux In Iran affecting its handle on foreign policy, nuclear issues?

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
  In an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations, Iran expert Ray Takeyh suggested that the Iranian government is preoccupied with internal divisions both among its officials and with a state-society divide that has subsequently impeded its foreign policy. Takeyh: I don’t believe at this point that the ...
  2 weeks ago

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