How Iran’s Revolution Was Hijacked. By Opinion Source, 19th November 2009. Mark Bowden 11/19/2009. Islamic Revolution Three decades after Iranian college students overran and occupied the American Embassy in Tehran, Bowden considers how …
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Photo credit: Reuters/Ho New (Chavez speaks next to Iran’s Ahmadinejad in Tehran), Reuters/Brendan McDermid (Morgenthau at Reuters Financial Regulation Summit in New York, April 24, 2009). Post a comment | …
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Hot Topics: Iranian Election. Many young adult authors have been blogging and tweeting about the injustices happening in Iran, as we speak. Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series, noted that Iranian censors were seeking web sites …
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The death of Abu-Muslim of Khorasan also made clear to the Iranian populace that their hopes for greater autonomy within the Caliphate were dashed. It was under these general circumstances that a major rebellion was to break out towards …
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Says Ulrike Putz, writing in Der Spiegel (and republished on Salon), “she has … become an icon, a martyr for the opposition in Iran. Neda has given the regime’s brutality a bloody face and a name. Overnight ‘I am Neda,’ has become the …
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On Saturday June 20 a young Iranian woman, Neda, was slain in the streets and has now become a martyr for larger social causes. The Mars/Venus conjunction in Aries ( a masculine warrior sign and said) has shown the danger to women …
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4 Nikki R. Keddie, Religion and Rebellion in Iran: The Tobacco Protest of 1891-2 (London: Routeledge, 1966). 5 Nikki R. Keddie, Sayyid Jamal ad-Din “al-Afghani”: A Political Bibliography. (Berkeley: University of California Press, …
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“The Great Satan is Fomenting Revolt” · Michael J. Totten – 06.16.2009 – 7:58 PM. I don’t know if overt support for Iran’s dissidents from President Obama, should he change his mind and decide to offer it, would backfire against them or …
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‘Angel of Freedom’ Neda Agha Soltan; She is a Symbol, a Meaning, a Movement. After killing of Neda Agah Soltan by the Iranian paramilitary group, I think the West will never look the same way again towards Iran. …
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Widely circulated video footage of Neda Agha Soltan bleeding to death on a Tehran street sparked outrage worldwide over authorities’ harsh response to demonstrations. Ahmadinejad’s Web site said Soltan was slain by “unknown agents and …
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During the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, the concept of martyrdom was invoked to infuse meaning into the deaths of what were often very young boy-soldiers. In the West, the idea of ‘martyrdom’ carries some fleeting and dark images of …
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Artist as Politician: Iran’s Mousavi comments on artists and political responsibility. Thursday, June 25th, 2009 by Lucinda M. Dugger. The recent election in Iran has been getting a lot of press coverage lately. …
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