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Friends and Foes

Many Iranians, imitating the Egyptian and Tunisians, have opened Facebook pages in order to spark new street demonstrations. In fact, Facebook has been instrumental in organizing the demonstrations that have taken place this week, turning out thousands of protesters. Although there are no statistics on the exact number of Facebook users in Iran, it is estimated that about 700,000 Facebook users were active from February 2008 to June 2009>>>

Glorified Military Coup

How can one explain the jubilation of Egyptian people if what took place in Egypt was in essence a military coup d'état? One straightforward answer seems to be that the majority of Egyptians think of the army as a national institution and a force for good. Perhaps they still see it as the army of Gamal Abdel Nasser. However, there is another possible explanation for equating a military coup with a revolution: Egyptians had lowered their expectation of what a genuine revolution could achieve to the mere act of ousting Mubarak>>>

بلای خانمسوز تمامیت خواهی تفرقه و فساد در خاورمیانه و دنیا

 .... شیوخ عرب هم که روی دریای تلای سیاه خوابیده اند و آنرا ملک شخصی خودشان میدانند  همچنین  سرمایه های مردم راغارت و در کافرستانها برای روز مبادا یا رشوه دادن به دروازه بانان بهشت   .

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1000 beehejabs

The protests have shown that a lot of people are dissatisfied with the regime and want freedom. But what is freedom and is the current approach the correct way? The green movement is by its definition a social movement against social injustices. The method chosen to show discontent is to gather people and yelling "we want freedom", "death to X", "down with dictatorship" and clashing with security forces>>>

American policy shift

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing>>>

RUDI's CALL: Rudi Bakhtiar on the importance of human rights activism

Rudi Bakhtiar Director of Communications for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran speaks on TAVANA about the importance of alerting public opinion on HR violations in Iran>>>