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Iranian Demonstrators Call for Execution of Opposition Leaders
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsThousands of supporters of the Iranian regime took part in demonstrations across the country today, demanding the execution of the country's two main opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi. The two ex-presidential candidates were placed under house arrest earlier this week after being accused of organizing Monday's anti-government protest in Tehran. Two men were killed during that demonstration -- the first sizable protest held in the city for months -- and protesters are now planning a second protest on Sunday. During a prayer sermon in Tehran today, influential cleric ...
Amid Clashes, Iranian Lawmakers Want Opposition Put to Death
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran -- Hardline Iranian lawmakers called on Tuesday for the country's opposition leaders to face trial and be put to death, a day after clashes between opposition protesters and security forces left two people dead and dozens injured. Tens of thousands of people turned out for the opposition rally Monday in solidarity with Egypt's popular revolt that toppled President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years in power. The demonstration was the first major show of strength from Iran's beleaguered opposition after canceling planned rallies for the past year when authorities refused ...
Chaos Theory - It's a Good Regime in Iran, Real Good!
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Iran Holds Bodies of Slain Protesters
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO (Dec. 28) - Iranian authorities said Monday that they were holding the bodies of five slain anti-government protesters, including the nephew of the opposition leader, in what appeared be an attempt to prevent activists from using their funerals as a platform for more demonstrations. Pro-reform Web sites and activists said the government also detained at least eight prominent opposition figures - including a former foreign minister - in an intensified crackdown that could fuel more violence of the kind that engulfed the center of Tehran on Sunday. The activity pushed the bitterly opposed ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
Iran Election Stirs Fear and Hope for an Iranian Student in America
By Anonymous - Politics DailyI am writing this in despair, tears, and mixed feelings of pride and pain. While I am writing this, thousands of Iranians in Iran and all over the world feel insulted and cheated. Most of those who voted in the 10th presidential election of the Islamic Republic of Iran on June 12, 2009 did so with a strong belief in democracy and the rights of individuals to select a candidate. While the majority of the nation strongly believed that the reformist candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, was the clear winner, the election results declared President Ahmadinejad's victory, and soon after the ruling ...
Zahra Rahnavard: Not Iran's Michelle Obama, But Its Hillary Clinton
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyZahra Rahnavard, wife of Iranian presidential reform candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, is by all accounts a stirring speaker, an energizing personal presence, a respected force in her professional field and someone who enjoys high approval ratings in Iran. For those reasons, many are comparing her to Michelle Obama. But they're looking at the wrong first lady. Zahra Rahnavard is really Iran's Hillary Clinton. ...
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