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 …
On Saturday, the 20th of June, an Iranian woman named Neda Soltani was reportedly standing next to her university professor and some other students, among the crowds of protesters, when a Basij driving by on a motorcycle shot into the …
Now it turns out the Neda Soltani was a Christian — a telling indication that the analysts who dismissed the protesters as simply wanting more Sharia, or better Sharia, or Sharia with a different face, were wrong: it just wasn’t that …
… ad been raped while in custody, the official Iranian news agency reported Saturday. … The panel’s recommendation ratchets up the pressure against Karroubi, who President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hard-line clerics and Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders h…A high-level Iranian judicial panel rejected allegations by pro-reform presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi that protesters detained after a disputed June election h…
Iran – A student leader and five other protesters who opposed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were in the dock on Monday as Iran resumed the mass t rial of anti-vote demonstrators….
Six more activists/protesters/possibly totally random people were put on trial today in Iran. Agence France-Presse reports: A student leader and five other protesters who opposed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were in the dock on Monday as Iran resumed the mass trial of anti-vote …
Protesters savagely raped in jail: Iran’s Karroubi…Lawmaker accuses US citizens of having a hand in unrest… Al Arabiya. Karroubi says even young boys have been raped (File). Forget the “rape” and the rest of the bullshit (that’s a joke …
Defeated presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi have dismissed the government as “illegitimate” and have vowed to confront the ruling system by exposing reports that detained protesters were raped by their …
… ad been raped while in custody, the official Iranian news agency reported Saturday. … The panel’s recommendation ratchets up the pressure against Karroubi, who President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hard-line clerics and Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders h…A high-level Iranian judicial panel rejected allegations by pro-reform presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi that protesters detained after a disputed June election h…
Mass trial continues of Iran opposition protestersTEHRAN, Iran — Iran resumed Tuesday the mass trial of opposition activists and protesters charged with rioting and plotting to topple the ruling Islamic system through a. …
the date of Iran’s annual pro-Palestinian rally, to avoid further tension. Protesters and opposition leaders, including Mr. Karroubi, have said that they will use the occasion to hold antigovernment street protests. …
