Revenge for images that shook the world

Majid Zahrai

Iran claims photographers cooperated with 'enemy'

Committee to Protect Journalists
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29-Jul-2009
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AK69
29-Jul-2009 (4 comments)
Bakhash says what had been a fairly cautious speech by former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, as well as a call for a referendum from another former president, Mohammad Khatami, have given new life to the opposition>>>
Bahareh
29-Jul-2009 (5 comments)
A story of my own journey as a child living in Iran in the post revolution Islamic Republic of Iran >>>
msabaye
29-Jul-2009 (one comment)
I came back and defended my PhD and started my postdoctoral work, but sadness, disorder, and confusion overwhelmed me. At some point, I came across a lecture series by Jean Vanier>>>

CRITIC

So, can you take some criticism?

Some honest, friendly advice to Trita Parsi and Karim Sadjadpour

29-Jul-2009 (13 comments)
And as a polisci and communications major, it was also very cool to see Iranian American experts – not a decade older myself – on the air, explaining to Joe the Plumber and his Neanderthal clan as well as the more enlightened population in my beloved America the run down in Iran. Two of them are Trita Parsi and Karim Sadjadpour. I had never seen them on the same stage before, so it was pretty cool that they both were on PBS Newshour a few weeks ago. It was an awesome opportunity to compare their styles and analysis. I am a fan of both of them, so if they read this, I hope they don’t take this the wrong>>>

IDEAS

The Revolution Which At First, Was Not

In examining the Iranian Revolution, Westerners were too focused on what did change rather than on what remained the same

29-Jul-2009 (4 comments)
As late as September 28, 1978, several months before one of the major revolutions of the twentieth century, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency reported that the shah "is expected to remain actively in power over the next ten years." The 1979 Iranian Revolution stunned the world dramatizing just how vast a change in government orientation could be imposed. The change seemed to move Iran from a Western-allied monarchy based on Persian nationalism to an Islamic revolutionary theocracy based on Shiite Moslem fundamentalism. Middle East revolutions are usually instigated by discontented religious, ethnic, and/or ideological forces>>>

Iranain art show in Canada

Jahanshah Javid

Iranian artists speak through a lens

The Star / Nicholas Keung
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29-Jul-2009
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IRIs freedom fighters who take your freedoms away

Farhad Kashani

Hamas dress code aims to make Gaza more Islamic

AP
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29-Jul-2009
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IRI’s Islamic Revolution Exported – Part 12

Farhad Kashani

Hizb Ut-Tahrr: Shariah Takes Precedence Over U.S. Constitution

Right Side News
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29-Jul-2009
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IRI’s Islamic Revolution Exported – Part 11

Farhad Kashani

Turkey Detains 165 Suspected Members of Radical Islamist Group Hizb ut-Tahrir

FOX News
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29-Jul-2009
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US urges Iran to free prisoners

Darius Kadivar

Hillary Clinton praised the "incredible courage" of Iranian protesters

bbc
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29-Jul-2009 (2 comments)
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Kahrizak prisoner's account--appalling

IRI’s Islamic Revolution Exported – Part 10

Farhad Kashani

Moroccan court jails militant Islamist gang

REUTERS
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29-Jul-2009
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Omid Djalili plays the new Fagin

Darius Kadivar

British Iranian actor takes on Rowan Atkinson role in Musical Oliver

BBC
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29-Jul-2009
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IRI’s Islamic Revolution Exported – Part 9

Farhad Kashani

Extremists call for caliphate in London(istan)

Telegraph
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29-Jul-2009
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