SIGNS

Bold words

Bold words

Photo essay: Written messages in the Iranian uprising

by Shirzan
13-Jul-2009 (2 comments)

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SOLIDARITY

President Ahmadinejad. NOT!

President Ahmadinejad. NOT!

Photo essay: Southern Californian sign "Green Scroll"

by Bita
13-Jul-2009

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Troneg
13-Jul-2009 (3 comments)
In the eve of July 14, would we be tough enough for a new revolution, I hope so and may be one day we will have our Evin Day  >>>

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC

How to lose friends

... and alienate your own people

13-Jul-2009 (5 comments)
How does the Ahmadinejad-Khamenei alliance intend to rule Iran like this? Judging by its paranoid rhetoric about “foreign plots”, which in itself adds insult to injury to millions of Iranians, a siege mentality has already developed at the top - and siege they may well face. What the regime is doing to its own people, the “children of the revolution”, is essentially political and economic suicide in the long term. According to the International Monetary Fund, over 150,000 qualified Iranians emigrate from Iran each year, the highest brain in the world. The commitment of ordinary Iranians in science, art, business and academia has been a pillar of the Islamic Republic>>>

Ayatollah Who?

rosie is roxy is roshan

Raja News claims Ayatollah Montazeri suffering from memory loss

niac/raja news
13-Jul-2009 (3 comments)
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ROADMAP

كدام دیوار را بشكنیم

تاكتیك انقلابی و استراتژی رفرمیستی!

13-Jul-2009 (14 comments)
شكی نیست كه در آینده و در صورت ادامه و دور گرفتن حركت اعتراضی تمامی این حصار فروخواهد ریخت و جنبش حاضر، اگر عمرش به دنیا باشد، به كلی شكل دیگری خواهد گرفت. آنچه وضعیت فعلی را به این آیندهٌ فرضی پیوند می­دهد اراده و همت ماست. باید ببینیم كدام بخش آن ضعیف تر است تا نیرو را رویش متمركز كنیم. وگرنه چیزی كه محرز است، ماندن در چارچوب فعلی كار یعنی درجا زدن و شكست. در شرایط فعلی رهبری حاضر و آماده نداریم كه جای این اسلامگرایان بازیافت شده را بگیرد. طرح استراتژی هم كاری نیست كه بتواند به صورت دستجعی شكل بگیرد و از دل تظاهرات مردمی به نحو خودجوش بیرون بیاید. تاكتیك البته می­تواند در نقطه ای طرح و به كار گرفته شود و به محض نشان دادن كارآیی به سرعت در همه جا شیوع بیابد ولی این را باید بر عهدهٌ كسانی گذاشت كه در میدان حاضرند و به مجال موجود عملیاتی آگاهند>>>
Orang Gholikhani
13-Jul-2009
دوباره  وقت طوفان
میرسم به  آخر داستان >>>

Nice analysis by Hooman Majd

alexarjomand

Dawn of the Revolt

The New Republic / Hooman Majd
recommended by alexarjomand
13-Jul-2009 (11 comments)
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TOOLS

Shout or tweet

Social networking technologies like Twitter are capable of both furthering and endangering democracy

13-Jul-2009 (4 comments)
When the struggle for democracy recharged itself in Iran a few weeks ago, after 30 years of repression, many Iranians living abroad flew to their computer screens to get a taste of what was going on inside. The bloody murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, the vast protests on the streets and in the towns, and the assault of the Basij militia upon students were suddenly visible to the rest of the world, and all credit is due to mini amateur phone lenses documenting the crisis. Mobile platforms have already influenced the aftermath of the presidential election and may have forever changed the tide of Iranian politics. But still, the government isn’t standing idly by>>>

Sohrab laid to rest

TelevisionWashington.com

Funeral held for Iranian teen killed in post-election unrest

TelevisionWashington.com / WashingtonTV
13-Jul-2009
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Reza-Rio de Janeiro
13-Jul-2009
Ferdowsi explains our pain today!>>>
fozolie
13-Jul-2009
Warning - this entry has photo of Sohrab's broken body >>>
ocpersian
13-Jul-2009
It is the month of August; a resort town sits next to the shores of a lake. It is raining,  and the little town looks totally deserted.  It is tough times,  everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. >>>
Red Wine
13-Jul-2009 (7 comments)

غم نامه

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COUP

Nine Theses

On the Iranian Uprising

13-Jul-2009 (4 comments)
It saddens me and millions of my compatriots within and without Iran to admit that the regime will likely live to see another day. Yet it’s important to resist defeatism at this point. A moment of respite should compel us to reflect on the successes and failures of uprising in order to draw lessons for the future. Here are some of the conclusions I’m drawing in the form of nine theses: 1. The recent uprising in Iran initially occured in response to what was, in effect, a coup carried out by the most extreme elements of the Iranian regime>>>