First of all, the 2009 Iranian election protests drew off of aspects of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Protesters drew on the same tactics such as stopping work to hold peaceful stand-ins in bazaars and holding demonstrations in Tehran …
The state thus does not have a social base, and when it is weak not only some social classes but also the entire society rises against the state, as happened in the Iranian Revolution of February 1979. Homa Katouzian …
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution. The media has been highlighting it as an “Islamic revolution”, when in actual fact what we witnessed thirty years ago was a genuine workers’ revolution that was hijacked …
Much of his rise to Iran’s presidency is shrouded in the secrecy which surrounds what has gone on in the pariah state since the Iranian Revolution in 1979 swept the late Ayatollah Khomeini to power. Now this photograph, unearthed by The …
Reading the book by Con Coughlin titled Khomeini’s Ghost – The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam while as usual not totally correct it certainly makes you think and put everything in its proper frightening perspective. …
election fraud and prompted supporters of leading reformist candidate Mir Hussein Musavi and others to hold public demonstrations in several major cities of a size and intensity unprecedented since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. …
Ayatollah Beheshti was one of the founding fathers of the Iranian Revolution and the first head of the Supreme Court after the establishment of the Islamic Republic….
It wouldn’t have helped Waldheim to admit his involvement in Nazi activities, and it wouldn’t help Ahmadinejad to admit his involvement in Iran’s revolution. Now Ahmadinejad is the President of Iran. …
Since the Iranian revolution in 1979 the country has been going through a roller-coaster ride; a costly war of attrition with Iraq in 1980s, a longstanding confrontation with the US and a growing suspicion of its intentions by its Gulf …
Her name was Neda Agha Soltan and she was 27 years old. Stories on the web indicate that she was standing along side her father at a protest rally in Tehran, Iran. A regime police thug hiding on a roof shot her in the heart and she died …
June 16, 2009. Twitter’s Role In The Iranian Revolution. The State Department asked Twitter to postpone a scheduled site maintenance that would have shutdown the most powerful communication tool for protesters in Iran. …
In a day or so we’re going to publish a splendid piece by Mohammad of Vancouver disputing James Petras’s argument that Obama is going to attack Iran. Part of Mohammad’s critique is a long meditation on the character of the …
In the past few days, Western journalists and pundits have focused on the seemingly telltale indications that more votes were tabulated than there are voters in Iran, and the response from Iran’s Guardian Council that the phenomenon did …
When I first began considering possible comparisons, I did think of that Serbian Revolution, but dismissed it for reasons that seemed good at the time, but do not now. I will say though that the apparatus behind the Iranian Revolution …
