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Opinion: After Egypt, Is Iran Next?
By Barbara Slavin - AOL NewsEgypt and Iran are now joined by a date on the calendar: Feb. 11 is Revolution Day in both countries. But Egypt has a far better chance at realizing the hopes of its revolutionaries for a transition to real democracy than Iran did 32 years ago. Unlike Iran, where the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini constructed a system that gave him -- and his theocratic successors -- ultimate authority, the Egyptian revolution has no charismatic leader. What it does have is the prospect of elections in which multiple qualified candidates can participate. President Hosni Mubarak could not ...
Is a Beleaguered Iran Ripe for Nuclear Negotiation?
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Dec.1) -- Iran enters next week's negotiations with the United States and other world powers boasting a long record of outfoxing opponents of its nuclear ambitions. But this time Tehran comes to the table under nearly unprecedented international and domestic pressure to relinquish enrichment of uranium and other activities the West and the United Nations suspect are aimed at producing nuclear weapons. That leads some participants to hope for some kind of breakthrough. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today that she's "encouraged" by Iran's agreement to meet with diplomats from ...
Iranian Lawmakers Move to Impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- Iran's parliament moved to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this weekend but was thwarted by orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an Ahmadinejad supporter, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing conservative papers in Iran. In a report released Sunday, which was discussed in parliament on Monday, lawmakers accused "Ahmadinejad and his government of 14 counts of violating the law, often by acting without the approval of the legislature," reports the Journal. "Charges include illegally importing gasoline and oil, failing to provide budgetary transparency and ...
US Works on a Tougher Deal for a Weakened Iran
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- The United States and its allies are trying to bring Iran back to the nuclear negotiating table with a new offer that aims to test whether Tehran's resolve has softened. But the deal's tougher terms may do nothing to deter Iran from moving toward its suspected goal of making nuclear weapons. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today confirmed that a deal was in the works, and that it would require Iran to send more of its low-enriched uranium abroad than a similar arrangement offered last year, because Iran has been able to significantly increase its stockpile since then. IIPA ...
Ayatollah Khamenei Tells Iranians to Forswear Music
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday added an odd foe to the enemies list of the Islamic republic: music. "Although music is halal [permissible under Islam], promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic," Khamenei said. His pronouncement came in response to a request from a ruling by a young man who asked the religious leader whether he should start music lessons, The Guardian reports. "It's better that our dear youth spend their valuable time in learning science and essential and useful ...
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 ...
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