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Iran's Opposition Finds Imaginative Ways to Protest
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Jan. 13) -- The Iranian regime's efforts to crush anti-government protests by brutally cracking down on street protests and blocking anti-government Web sites have only encouraged the opposition to find new ways to spread dissent. And their latest tactic – defacing bank notes with slogans like "Death to the dictator" or illustrations insulting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – could be costing the regime dearly. The protest takes many forms. Some bills have an "X" inked over the word "Islamic" in the country's official name – the Islamic Republic of Iran ...
The Difference One Ayatollah Might Make
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Dec. 21) -- The death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri may prove to be a turning point for Iran's embattled reform movement. It may mark the moment when the surging wave of discontent overwhelms the country's remorseless theocratic leadership -- or one when the outrage crests and then recedes. The funeral procession on Monday for Montazeri, who was an architect of Iran's mullah-led system before he became one of its most outspoken dissidents, drew tens of thousands of mourners and protesters to the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran. Montazeri, 87 years old, apparently died of ...
Iran Admits Guards Beat Prisoners to Death
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 19) - After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil were beaten to death by their jailers. The surprise announcement by the hard-line judiciary confirmed one of the opposition's most devastating and embarrassing claims against authorities and the elite Revolutionary Guard forces that led the crackdown after June's disputed presidential vote. There was no immediate public reaction from the opposition, but some activists asserted that authorities under pressure over abuse claims were merely ...
Ayatollah Khamenei: U.S. and Britain Didn't Back Election Opposition
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, now says there is no proof Western nations were directly linked with the uprising against his government -- a statement that seemed to contrast with his regime's rhetoric during Iran's explosive election earlier this year. During and after the controversial election in June, Khamenei accused the Western media and the British government of working with the opposition leader Mir Hussein Mousavi to overthrow the Iranian regime. Hossein Shariatmadari, a Khamenei adviser, insisted that Mousavi was a "foreign agent" working for the United States. But ...
Iran's Former President Calls for Protesters' Release
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyTens of thousands gathered around Iran's Tehran University as former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called on the government to release the protesters arrested since Iran's disputed presidential election in June.CNN reports Rafsanjani said: "Let the enemy not laugh at us and criticize us. We must sympathize with those who have suffered damages. The system cannot lose them. If the system reapproaches them they will come back to us." As Rafsanjani spoke as part of a Friday prayer service, police were aiming tear gas at protesters outside. Rafsanjani is not the first influential political ...
Iran: A Government on the Verge?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAs the rest of the world has watched the turmoil in Iran unfold, one of the takeaways for many people has been the ideological splits between Iran's government and Iran's people. But, as the crackdown has accelerated, the future of the dissidents has been looking more and more uncertain. Now, a split between the government and the politically pivotal clerics may be the critical leverage that finally forces not only the overturning of the election results, but maybe of the ayatollah as well. The New York Times reports that Iran's politically influential group of clerics, the Association of ...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Popularity Problem
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyMahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided who is to blame for the unrest in Iran. Is it the officials who rigged the election totals so that many cities had voter turnouts of over 100 percent? The militia members who attacked the protesters in the streets? Himself? No, Ahmadinejad has decided the fault lies with Barack Obama. ...
Imaginary Numbers in Iran's Election
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyHow do you create a phony 11 million-vote lead? That was the question that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posed to the Iranian electorate on Friday in one of his rare political addresses. The answer he was hoping to hear was that you don't, that the very size of the victory margin should be enough to kill off any allegations of fraud. Well, it turns out that one way to create a phony 11 million-vote lead is by having more votes than voters. ...
A 'Coup' by Iran's Rulers?
By Wesley Vaughn - Politics DailyOn Friday, Iranians went to the polls to decide the fate of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. One day later, government officials announced the results: 62.6 percent of the vote for Ahmadinejad and 33.75 percent for the lead opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi. The numbers were quickly disputed by Mousavi's supporters, who, according to an unidentified witness on CNN, "were mostly young 20-something men and women." Large protests such as the one seen here took place, and many others have occurred over the past few days.The government blocked text messaging, Facebook, and YouTube, but this ...
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