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By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 9) -- This Saturday marks the first anniversary of Iran's disputed presidential election, which the opposition claims was rigged to guarantee the victory of the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For many people across the world, the runner-up in that flawed vote, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has become a symbol of hope and dignity in the face of repression. Despite threats from the regime's enforcers, who shot dead his nephew during a street protest last December, and have arrested and tortured hundreds of his Green Movement supporters, Mousavi has continued to push for much-needed reform of the ...
Tehran Dissidents Counter Anti-American Government Rally
By David Sessions - Politics DailyTens of thousands of protesters tried to reassert their opposition to the Iranian government Monday by demonstrating against a state-sponsored anti-American rally in Tehran, the New York Times reports. The government event, which followed an angry speech by Ayatollah Khamenei, marked the 30th anniversary of the country's takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Iran's capital city. Despite warnings, the protesters flooded into the streets, wearing the signature green of the burgeoning opposition movement, shouting "death to the dictator" and asserting that Russia, not the United States, is Iran's real ...
Iran's First Female Cabinet Member a Setback for Women
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyFirst the good news: On Thursday, the BBC reports that Iran approved its first female cabinet member since the revolution 30 years ago, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi. The bad news: Dastjerdi is a long-time proponent of sex-segregating medical care, so that Iranian women can only be seen by female doctors -- a move that reduces women's access to medical care, particularly to specialists. In Iran's hotly contested elections this year, opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard (once a political adviser herself to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami) ...
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. ...
The Many Faces of Dissent: Women in Iran's Election
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyDonna correctly says that dissent in Iran has been given a new face -- and it's a woman's face. But it would be more accurate to say that dissent in Iran has been given many new faces. Well before the video of Neda Agha Soltan's tragic death spread around the world, images of female protesters -- often young, often in hijab and wearing green armbands or face paint -- were common. It's no coincidence. Women turned out in huge numbers both on the campaign trail and at the polls for Mir Hossein Mousavi. Now it's those same groups of women who have largely been disenfranchised. ...
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