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• Iranian protester Neda person of the year

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 547
  A BRITISH newspaper has named an Iranian woman shot dead during protests against her countrys disputed June elections as its "person of the year". The Times said Neda Agha-Soltan became a "global symbol of opposition to tyranny" after images of her bleeding to death during the protests in Tehran were shown ...
  7 hours ago

• IRAN: Former prisoner says interrogators increasingly indifferent to Ahmadinejad

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 669
  Out of jail on $800,000 bail for just a few days after weeks in Tehrans Evin Prison, former Iranian Vice President Abdollah Ramezanzadeh told an Iranian news website that some of his interrogators were unenthusiastic about their jobs and had little love lost for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The story, ...
  19 hours ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  2 days ago

• IRAN: Ahmadinejad fires Mousavi from arts academy; faculty members threaten to quit

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 669
  Irans Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution announced late Tuesday that it had removed opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi from his position as head of the Academy of Arts , apparently at the behest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mousavi, a successful artist and architect, had been the head of the academy ...
  2 days ago

• Ayatollahs Death Could Unify Opposition

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 547
  Can a deceased ayatollah offer in death what no one alive seems to be able to provide: a single, unifying figure for Irans opposition? Thats the central question that emerges from the weekend death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a towering figure in the history of Irans revolutionary government. At ...
  3 days ago

• Top Facebook & Twitter Trends for 2009

  
  Trakin' the india business buzz — Authority: 558
  We have now at the fag end of the year. You will be seeing quite a few “popular” , “top”,  “trends” kind of list in coming days through out the web. We will also be publishing some of the interesting lists that would make an interesting read for all our readers. As we all know Twitter and Facebook have ...
  4 days ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  4 days ago

• The Significance of Today’s Events

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 476
    The hardline newspaper Kayhan reported that there were "a maximum of 5000" in the crowd mourning Montazeris death. (h/t enduringamerica.com)   Today clearly breathed new life into Iran’s opposition movement. Opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi both took the risk and attended ...
  4 days ago

• Iranian authorities latest attempt to squash dissent backfires yet again

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 133
  The latest crude and ham-fisted attempt made by the Iranian government to stifle the legitimate expressions of dissent by its citizens–like all other similar attempts–failed spectacularly. Majid Tavakkoli, a student leader, was arrested after he gave a speech at Amir Kabir University in Tehran marking Student ...
  4 days ago

• IRAN: Video of dissident clerics funeral ceremony

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 669
  Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri died late Saturday at the age of 87 after three decades in the storms eye of Iranian political life, first as a supporter of the Islamic revolution and later as an outspoken defender of the opposition. His funeral today quickly became a rallying point for renewed demonstrations by ...
  4 days ago

• Clashes at funeral of Iranian dissident cleric

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 627
  Iranian reformists have clashed with police after the funeral of a dissident cleric, opposition websites say. Earlier, tens of thousands took part in a procession for Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri in the holy city of Qom. Clashes reportedly broke out, but the scale of the confrontation is not clear, the BBC ...
  4 days ago

• Iran: protests at funeral of prominent dissident

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 607
  Iranian authorities have acknowledged that at least three protesters jailed after the countries disputed presidential elections in June were beaten to death in prison. A military court announced that 12 prison officials had been charged with murder and other crimes. Opposition leaders say at least 73 people are known ...
  5 days ago

• The Doctor Who Defied Tehran

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 547
  By FARNAZ FASSIHI At the height of Irans bloody civil unrest this year, a young doctor named Ramin Pourandarjani defied his superiors. He refused to sign death certificates at a Tehran prison that he said were falsified to cover up murder. He testified to a parliamentary committee that jailers were ...
  5 days ago

• Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Dies

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 476
  Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri died on Sunday at the age of 87. Though Montazeri was a father of the Revolution in 79 and a drafter of the Iranian Constitution, he like many became disenchanted by the path of the Iranian leadership. According to AP , ” he accused the country’s ruling Islamic establishment ...
  5 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  6 days ago

• Iranian cyber army hacks Twitter

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 547
  The popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down after a group apparently calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army launched attack on the site. Visitors to the site found that Twitters homepage had been replaced by a page showing a green flag under red text reading "This site has been hacked by ...
  1 week ago

• The Basiji Road

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 476
  “Now that I look back on it, I feel those men deserve pity,” says Ebrahim Mehtari.  He is responding to an Al Jazeera English interview question , asking “If you could face your torturers again, what would you say to them?” “It’s a difficult question, but I feel they are more tortured than me…[They] ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter Attacked by Iranian Cyber Army

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 434
  Last night, TechCrunch reported that Twitter was hacked by a group claiming to be the “Iranian Cyber Army.” As far as we know, no sensitive user information was compromised during the attack. The technical explanation of what happened to Twitter is that the site’s DNS records were compromised, which means that ...
  1 week ago

• A Year of Seismic Significance in Iran

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 133
  As 2009 draws to a close we marvel at the extraordinary—and what is sure to be remembered as pivotal—year in Iran. Amnesty International marked International Human Rights Day on December 10 with the launch of its comprehensive report on the post-June 12 election crackdown .  While the litany of gruesome horrors ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter Attacked by Iranian Cyber Army

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 766
  Twitter, the Web wunderkind with a $1 billion valuation, was attacked Thursday night by a group calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army." The cyber attack was an alarming injection of apparent geopolitics onto the worlds biggest social messaging service. The hackers, who took over Twitters website for several hours, ...
  1 week ago

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