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Iran's Protests: Why 2009 Won't Be a Repeat of 1999
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyTen years ago Thursday, the world watched as students from Tehran University in Iran took to the streets in protest. It seemed to many as though history were repeating itself when protests -- which seemed to have been cooling in the face of a government crackdown -- began anew in Iran, both in commemoration of 1999 and in reaction to the recent election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. CNN estimates that Thursday's protest at Tehran University had 2,000-3,000 people when a clash with the state militia began. The protests in 1999 lasted a week. The dissidents were jailed and some were ...
The World Cannot Avoid Neda's Eyes
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyHer dark eyes are haunting. They reveal the intimate agony of a brutal death, but Neda Soltan died publicly -- for the world to see. I am deeply stirred by the screenshot from a YouTube video showing Neda's eyes as she lay dying Saturday on a Tehran street. A highly connected world allows us to experience things as they happen and that, believe it or not, makes us accountable for those events. They are no longer foreign news items posted on a ticker that does not force us to engage. What is happening in Iran binds us as humans. What is happening does not allow us to be dislocated and remote. ...
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