A correspondent’s first-hand view of Iran’s ongoing turmoil. |
TEHRAN — I left Iran in 2007, after three years covering the Middle East’s most fascinating and nuanced society. |
Last week, walking out of the Iranian Consulate in London with a journalist’s visa stamped into my passport, I was already concocting mental pitches for stories I would work on when I arrived back there to cover the election. |
On the pavement outside, I asked a young Iranian man for a light. He was an Iranian diplomat who stepped out of the consulate for a cigarette. |
Choosing my words carefully, I asked him whether he would be voting in the elections. |
“Of course,” he said conspiratorially, flashing me a brilliant smile. “I’ll vote green!” |
Rather than flagposting himself as a radical Islamist by telling me he’d be choosing the color of Islam over any of the candidates, the young consular official was telling me that he would be voting against the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read more at www.globalpost.com |
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UN-supervised free election based on people’s will for Iran - Norwegian committee |
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 NCRI – In a statement on June 25, the Norwegian Committee of the Friends of a Free Iran comprised of parliamentarians and political and human rights personalities expresses support for Iranian people’s uprising and rejects mullahs’ sham election. It also calls for a UN- supervised free election based on people’s will and not the rule of the clergy. The statement follows:
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We, in the Friends of a Free Iran Committee - Norway state our support for the Iranian people’s uprising across the country, chanting “Down with dictator” and seeking a regime change and establishment of democracy in Iran. We also declare our sympathy with the families of those who were killed, injured or arrested in this uprising. Read more at ncr-iran.org |
دکتر عطاءالله مهاجرانی طی سخنانی در کانون توحید لندن به تحلیل ارتباط میان انتخابات و مبانی جمهوری اسلامی و مفهوم عدالت در اندیشه علی (ع) پرداخت و دستگیری محمدرضا جلائيپور و آزاد بودن شخص متقلبی چون علی کردان را مصداق بارز بیعدالتی عنوان کرد. Speaking at the Dr. Ta’allh Mohajerani Center Tohid London elections and analyzes the relationship between the concept of justice and principles of the Islamic Republic of thought Ali (AS) and arrest MR Jlayypvr pay and dishonest person to be free because Ali Kordan as to the true manifest injustice. Read more at 209.85.227.132 |
| ادعای بیشرمانه فارس: ستادهای موسوی بر اساس شهوت شکل گرفته بودند Gulf cheeky claim: Stadhay Mousavi were formed based on lust |
پارلماننیوز : خبرگزاری به ظاهر اصولگرای فارس در ادعایی شرمانه مدعی شد که ستاد میرحسین موسوی با آموزش دختران خبرنگار و دانشجو و بخصوص دختران دانشجوی دانشکدههای هنر و معماری بر اساس جاذبههای شهوانی پسران را جذب ستادها میکردند. Parlmannyvz: Fars News Agency claim seemingly authoritarian shamelessly claimed Headquarters Mir Hossein Mousavi educating girls journalist and female students, especially college students, and art and architecture based on carnal attraction attract staff were boys. |
Miliband warns of ‘consequences’ for ‘intimidation’ |
| London: Foreign Secretary David Miliband said an eighth employee of the British embassy in Tehran was to be released yesterday and warned of “consequences” if Iran continues its “intimidation.” |
| One person is still being held and “all of our efforts are now directed towards getting that person out,” Miliband said in a British Broadcasting Corp television interview on Sunday. |
| “I spoke to our ambassador on our daily call last night and the good news is that he was told by the deputy foreign minister “of Iran” that the eighth person would indeed be released today, that the papers have been signed and that there would not be a court process or charges,” Miliband said.
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| Miliband spoke after the lawyer for Hussain Rassam, a senior political adviser of the embassy, said Iranian authorities had charged the official with threatening national security. The move may escalate tensions with the European Union.Read more at www.gulfnews.com |
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Hackers of the World Unite (For Democracy in Iran) |
| Part One - Information and Mis-information |
‘Tavana bovad har ke dana bovad’ a famous verse by Ferdowsi on the first page of our school books in Iran. Translated by Francis Bacon as ‘knowledge is power’.
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Iran Top Judge (Shahroudi) decreed today that joining any web-based society and/or satellite gathering whose objective is to undermine the country’s national security is illegal in line with Islamic Penal Codes 498-502 and punishable by prison terms of 2-10 years.
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The prelude to this decree is twofold:
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1. The Islamic regime’s public attack on international media in particular BBC Persian Service, Voiceof America (V.O.A) Persia, Radio Farda (and many independent media based outside Iran) that are broadcasting effective news through satellites in the absence of all types of unbiased reportage from within Iran due to full censorship.
Read more at www.iranian.com |
Clerics join chorus of dissent |
Mounting opposition from Iranian clerics to the president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election is torpedoing the regime’s attempts to blame his purportedly defeated rivals and western powers, in particular Britain, for the Islamic republic’s worst crisis in its 30-year history. |
A prominent association of religious leaders in Qom, Iran’s clerical nerve centre, said the new government would be “illegitimate” and condemned the force used to crush huge pro-democracy demonstrations after the June 12 elections. |
The statement by the Assembly of Qom Seminary Teachers and Researchers directly challenges the authority of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has ordered Iranians to accept his president’s “divine” victory or face the consequences. Read more at www.thenational.ae |
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Iran: Main opponent of government speaks with France-Soir |
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 Maryam Rajavi: In Tehran, change is on the horizon |
The President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Maryam Rajavi, believes that the beginning of the end for the clerical regime has clearly been triggered. |
Maryam Rajavi heads a coalition of various parties opposing the mullahs’ regime, and says that the resistance is sufficiently organized to gain power without the threat of a civil war. |
| France-Soir: What is the current situation in Iran in your view? Do you think that a political transformation is clearly in sight? |
Maryam Rajavi: Iran is undergoing extensive change. I am very optimistic, and change in Iran is on the horizon. During their recent two-week protests, the people of Iran voiced the demand for change in the clearest possible way. |
The Iranian regime’s sham election and the subsequent developments marked the beginning of the end for the velayat-e faqih [absolute clerical rule] regime. Read more at ncr-iran.org |
Iran: Detained journalist’s son attacks Ahmadinejad |
| Son of prominent journalist Issa Saharkhiz is refusing to take his reformist father’s arrest lying down, not hesitating to publish personal attack on President Ahmadinejad online. ‘My father defends Islam, you’re defend your position,’ Mehdi Saharkhiz writes in open letter posted to his blog |
A sizeable number of activists and protestors from the reformist camp in Iran have been arrested in the weeks following the presidential elections as part of the regime’s campaign to quash the opposition. The story of one of these detainees, Issa Saharkhiz, demonstrates how this political schism is changing the way things are done in Iran. |
Saharkhiz, a well-known journalist and supporter of defeated reformist candidate Mehdi Karoubi, was taken into custody by authorities last weekend. But while arrests of this sort are an everyday occurrence, |
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A farewell to Tehran
