Potent and Poetic Words Spoken Over Sounds of Tehran at Night
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Google Launches Farsi Translations
Google has just announced a new service to translate Farsi text is now available. The search engine also relaxed it’s rules on violent content to allow posts from Iran to […]
Iranian American Post-Election Rap Music Video
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Letter from Tehran (To Fellow Iranians)
Letter from Tehran June 18. 2009 The events of the last couple of days have been so moving that I haven’t digested them yet. Life was already too fast in […]
Photographs of Iran’s Feared Basiji Special Forces
The following images were sent to me by a friend taken over the last few days. They show the feared Basiji militiamen, a volunteer-based paramilitary organization that takes orders from […]
In Pictures: Mass Mourning March for the Fallen in Tehran
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Yesterday’s Silent March in Tehran Estimates One Million Participants
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Iranian Militia Attack on Tehran University Students Leaves Dead and Injured in it’s Wake
“One medical student said he and his roommate blocked their door with furniture and hid in the closet when they heard the militia’s motorcycles approaching. He heard the militia breaking […]
Iran’s Basiji Shoot at Protesters
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Show of Numbers at Tuesday’s March in Tehran
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More Video From the Protests
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Iran – A Nation of Bloggers
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Photos From Wednesday’s Silent Protest in Tehran
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Foreign Journalists Tell of Arrests and Beatings of Press Corps in Iran
I received a first hand report from an Iranian I know inside Iran that he was arrested and his cameras were taken away from him. Also this has appeared on […]
British Parliamentarians Speak Out Against Gaza Offensive 1
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British Parliamentarians Speak Out Against Gaza Offensive 2
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Letter From the Grave
Last Thursday, Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of the Sri Lankan newspaper the Sunday Leader, was assassinated on his way to work by two gunmen riding motorcycles. He knew it was only […]
Propaganda Wars and the Gaza Offensive
by Anne Holmes Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who is working to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza said yesterday that slanted coverage of the war mocks world opinion. […]
NYC Pro and Anti-Israeli Rallies
Transcript from Democracy Now’s coverage of a counter-protest held the next day on the same spot by New York Jews: On Monday, a group called Jews Against the Occupation staged […]
Ending the War in Gaza
International Crisis Group A war neither Israel nor Hamas truly wanted turned into a war both are willing to wage. The six-month ceasefire that expired on 19 December was far […]