Because of these fissures within the IRGC, which are of course clear to all those involved, the hard-line clique now removes and marginalizes anyone who

Eight people have been killed and hundreds arrested in the Iranian capital after clashes between police and demonstrators. The nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A number of opposition figures were arrested Monday in the wake of violent nationwide protests a day earlier, Web sites reported, including

A Holiday Season of War Why war will take no holiday in 2010. — By Tom Engelhardt This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Excuse the gloom in the

Never a Year like’09, another funny video animation from JibJab! http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/never_a_year_like_09?cmpid=1261  

حمد احرار- دیداری داشتم با مهندس شریف امامی، دو روز پس از استعفای ایشان از نخست‌وزیری در 14آبان 1357. علت استعفا را جویا شدم. گفت

Look at picture number 7 in these series.  It’s a police officer who has apparently joined the people, and is being carried on their shoulders.

Thirty years ago, something like 60-80% of Iranians wanted the Shah gone.  That was it, nothing more, nothing less.  We never thought once about the

A former regime foreign minister, three close aides to Mir Hossein Moussavi, the defeated presidential candidate, and two aides to Mohammad Khatami, the former president,

آقای دباشی، خبرهایی که طی روزهای تاسوعا و عاشورا از ایران رسیده و تصاویر و فیلم هایی که از معترضان منتشر شده، به نظر می

RAISE YOUR HAND if you believe that an SUV loaded with six Khamenei thugs rode over Mousavi’s nephew and no one else at random, given

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گفتم خدا کجائی گفتا که خود ندانم گفتم که نا توانم گفتا که ان بدانم گفتم چه بایدم کرد گفتا که من ندانم گفتم که

Arrests Continue As State TV Confirms Eight Killed In Iran Protests An injured Iranian opposition supporter flashes a V-sign during clashes with security forces in

U.S., France, Italy Condemn Iranian Violence Security forces used tear gas against the protesters December 28, 2009 The United States, Italy, and France have all

An Iranian opposition supporter covers his face with his bloodstained hand during clashes with security forces in Tehran. Photograph: Amir Sadeghi/AFP/Getty Images     Clashes

Demonstrators set fire to banks and government buildings, including local headquarters of the feared basij militia, and there were reports that some police officers were

“Security forces came to his home (in Teheran) at 3am (2330 GMT) and arrested this political activist,” the Jaras website said. It said his niece

In 2006, Mr. Morgenthau’s office began an investigation into New York’s Alavi Foundation, which turned out to be an Iranian government front. Money from the

The biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals in multi-ethnic Iran does not come from the embattled democratic opposition movement struggling to reform the

At least fifteen anti-government protesters, including a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran’s opposition leader, were shot dead yesterday as the smouldering confrontation between the

وزارت اطلاعات از بازداشت اعضای مجاهدین خلق در جریان تظاهرات روز عاشورا خبرداده و تعدادی از نهادهای طرفدار دولت خواستار برخورد با معترضان شده اند.

[خامنه‌ای یزید شد یزید رو سفید شد]* کشت سید علی‌ موسوی همچون شمر پلید شد *- شعار مردم در ایرن

Although imprecise the coroner’s report is brief: Time: Sometime between Saturday morning to midday Sunday. Place: Probably someplace with poetic connotation like the “Revolution Square”

Clashes have taken place overnight in the Iranian capital, Tehran, following anti-government protests on Sunday in which at least eight people died. Reports say police