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• Iran Opposition: Government More Brutal Than Shah

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 611
  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 ...
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• The price of trying to save killed Iranian protester Neda Soltan

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 611
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Flux In Iran affecting its handle on foreign policy, nuclear issues?

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 576
  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 ...
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• Iran Condemns Oxford University Scholarship Honoring Woman Killed

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 611
  Iran has protested to an Oxford University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student who became an icon of mass street protests sparked by the disputed June election. In Tehran, a small group of hard-line women demonstrated Wednesday against the scholarship in front of the British ...
  3 days ago

• IRAN: Is Obama administration dissing the green opposition movement?

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 649
  As the United States attempts to grapple with Iran over its nuclear program, some worry that it will sacrifice the Islamic Republics grass-roots opposition movement . Karim Sadjadpour is an Iran analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Hes regularly hobnobbing with Beltway ...
  3 days ago

• IRAN: Scholarship honoring slain protester Neda Agha-Soltan irks Iranian officials

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 649
  Iranian officials are up in arms over a decision by The Queens College at the University of Oxford in Britain to establish a scholarship fund in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 27-year-old Iranian woman whose videotaped June 20 death at the hands of an unknown gunman made her an international symbol of Irans ...
  4 days ago

• Iran Update

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 611
  These events have been reported to World Threats. A large number of women participated in the Student’s Day protests of November Fourth. At Tehran University female students chained hands and stood in front of male students to keep the men from being beaten. In an incident on Karimkand Zand St., a young ...
  6 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  1 week ago

• IRAN: Defying supreme leader, reformist Khatami continues to question election

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 649
  Irans moderate former President Mohammad Khatami continued to question the results of the June 12 presidential election, defying the nations supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said flatly last week that publicly voicing such doubts was illegal .  "We should not decide for people," Khatami said in an  a ...
  1 week ago

• Iran: Stop Covering Up Sexual Assaults in Prison

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 679
  (New York) - Irans judiciary should immediately investigate cases of sexual assaults in prison and prosecute those responsible, instead of covering up these crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
  1 week ago

• IRAN: Prayer leader condemns protesters, shuns satanic nuclear negotiations

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 649
  Friday prayer leader Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line acolyte of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, condemned the protesters who took part in Wednesdays anti-government march , and attempted to create divisions within the ranks of the protest movement. Khatami, not to be confused with the reformist former president of the ...
  1 week ago

• Why was the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Captured in 1978?: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 733
  Pro-regime demonstrators lampoon President Obama at the site of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on the 30th anniversary of the storming of the facility. Continuing with our coverage of the 30th anniversary of the storming of the American Embassy in Tehran, this editorial from the state-run Web site of Islamic ...
  1 week ago

• IRAN: In wake of protests, accusations and counter-accusations of media lies

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 649
    It was supposed to be a public show of Iranian unity during day marking the 30-year anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by Islamic revolutionaries. But not only did anti-government demonstrators, many of them dressed in green scarves and headbands,  hijack the state-sponsored event. They ...
  1 week ago

• "Courage in their Coverage" Iranian Rally Outside CNN, Los Angeles

  
  CNN.com - Most Popular — Authority: 854
  November the 4th marks the 30th Anniversary of the take over of the American Embassy and the Hostage Crisis in Iran. This year the Green Movement decided to use this date in the opposite direction, "calling for all Iranians both inside and outside Iran to come to the streets and announce this day as a day of ...
  1 week ago

• Tehran Dissidents Counter Anti-American Government Rally

  
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  Filed under: Iran Tens of thousands of protesters tried to reassert their opposition to the Iranian government Monday by demonstrating against a state-sponsored anti-American rally in Tehran, the New York Times reports . The government event, which followed an angry speech by Ayatollah Khamenei, marked the 30th ...
  1 week ago

• Iran Unrest Part Two

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 576
  Relative calm has returned to Iran after a day of protests. Widespread pro- and anti-government protests, and the police forces’, Basij’s, and IRGC’s attempts to suppress the Green movement using force have come to an end. Here is the second part of the Green Freedom Wave’s report on anti-government ...
  1 week ago

• The Storming of the U.S. Embassy: ‘A Day that Shook the World’ – Kayhan, Islamic Republic of Iran

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 733
  Two of the 53 American Embassy workers being held hostage with the approval of the Iranian regime, after the facility was stormed on November 4, 1979. Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in Tehran was stormed by followers of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It is a day that the current regime ...
  1 week ago

• Iran Update: Student’s Day, 4 Nov

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 611
  These events have been reported to World Threats. This is an eyewitness report from Tehran On 1530 people started a demonstration in Motahari St. and chanted lots of slogans including: “Khamenei is a murderer, his leadership is invalid”, “while Ahmadinejad is in office there is protests every day” and ...
  1 week ago

• Latest report on Iran Protests

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 576
  This just in from the Green Freedom Wave : (Translation copyright New York Times Company. Please do not repost without giving credit) Based on the latest reports from the earliest hours of today’s protests, Green-wearing protesters have flooded the streets in Tehran and the provinces once again rewnewed their ...
  1 week ago

• IRAN: Protesters turn anti-American holiday on its head, videos show

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 649
  Thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Tehran today, hijacking what was supposed to be a state-sponsored celebration of the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the American Embassy by Islamist revolutionaries.  Videos posted on Facebook and YouTube show police forces clashing violently with ...
  1 week ago

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