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Opinion: While World Looks Away, Iran Cracks Down
By Barbara Slavin - AOL NewsWhile the world focuses its attention on the unrest in Libya, and on other Middle Eastern countries trying to throw off tyrannical leaders, Iran is seizing the opportunity to increase repression of its political dissidents. On Monday, Iranian opposition websites confirmed that security forces have arrested two 2009 presidential candidates who are the nominal leaders of the dissident Green Movement -- Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi -- along with their wives. The couples had been prisoners in their homes for weeks, but even house arrest was not enough to assuage the Iranian government's ...
Report: Iranian Scientist Says He's Escaped US Agents
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 30) -- Iranian state television has broadcast a video of a man who purports to be an abducted Iranian nuclear scientist, and he now claims that he has escaped from U.S. custody. Shahram Amiri -- an expert in radioactive isotopes at Tehran's Malek Ashtar University, which has close ties to the Revolutionary Guard -- mysteriously vanished in June 2009, just three day after arriving in Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj pilgrimage. Iran has claimed that the U.S. kidnapped Amiri with the help of the Saudis. But in March, ABC News reported that the scientist had willingly defected and was ...
'Anonymous' Captured Neda's Death, and Now the Polk Award
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIn Farsi her name means "voice." Almost instantaneously, screengrabs of 26-year-old student Neda Agha-Soltan, shot through the heart on June 20, 2009, by the Iranian regime's hired guns, became the face of a movement. So powerful was the 40-second video of Neda dying before our eyes, the regime tried to denounce it as a fake. When that didn't work, they blamed Neda's death on unarmed protesters and the CIA. ...
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 ...
Chaos Theory - It's a Good Regime in Iran, Real Good!
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Chaos Theory - Iran: Human Rights, No! File Cabinets, Yes!
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Iranian Authorities Arrest Sister of Nobel Laureate
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 29) -- Iranian security forces made a wave of new arrests Tuesday, including Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's sister and a relative of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, pressing forward with a broadening crackdown on the reformist movement in the wake of deadly protests this week. The government accused Western countries of fomenting the violence, threatening to "slap" Britain in the face as it summoned London's ambassador to an urgent meeting. The new arrests, along with tough criticism of the U.S. and Britain, added to rising tensions with the West, which is ...
Reform Leader's Nephew Among Dead in Iran Clashes
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 7) - Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed. Some accounts of the violence in Tehran were vivid and detailed, but they could not be independently confirmed because of government restrictions on media coverage. Police, who denied using firearms, said dozens of officers were injured and more than 300 protesters were arrested. The dead included a nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, ...
Day of Reckoning Looms for Iran
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Dec. 24) -- Anti-government protests escalated in Iran even as authorities issued tougher threats to shut them down, as a day of reckoning for a re-energized reform movement loomed this weekend. The government on Thursday banned memorials for the late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri that had been planned for the town of Kashan, south of Tehran, and warned that all public commemorations for the respected dissident cleric would be limited to the holy city of Qom and Montazeri's hometown, Najafabad. The ban and warnings come a day after police used tear gas and pepper spray on ...
The Other Climate Change Fight, McCain's New Role, and More
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 7) -- With so many news aggregators out there, who can keep up? Sphere filters the filters to steer you to the headlines that really matter. Skip Those, Read This: The Slatest points to the newsiest of the many articles on the opening of the Copenhagen climate summit, highlighting an interesting Wall Street Journal report that says that American businesses are more focused on what might happen in Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as today to "formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant." The declaration would hit businesses sooner than anything ...
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