Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
Security Forces Wreck Homes, Destroy Property to Stop Protest Chants; News Access Curtailed
(New York) – Iran’s paramilitary Basij arecarrying out brutal nighttime raids, destroying property in private homes andbeating civilians in an attempt to stop nightly protest chants, Human RightsWatch said today. Human Rights Watch also said the Iranian authorities areconfiscating satellite dishes from private [...]
Iran protest leader Mir Hossein Mousavi says he holds those behind alleged “rigged” elections responsible for bloodshed during recent protests.
In a defiant statement on his website, he called for future protests to be in a way which would not “create tension.”
He complained of “complete” restrictions on his access to people and a crackdown on his [...]
For reasons best not explained, I’ve come to know a former member of the Revolutionary Guards really well.
He’s done some pretty dreadful things in his life, from attacking women in the streets for not wearing the full Islamic gear to fighting alongside Islamic revolutionaries in countries abroad.
And yet now, in the tumult that has gripped [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iran said the gunman who killed Neda Agha-Soltan may have mistaken her for the sister of an Iranian “terrorist,” the Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday.
Iran blamed the death of the woman known to the world simply as Neda squarely on “those groups who want to create division in the [...]
(CNN) — President Obama sent a direct message to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, weeks before this month’s disputed election, Iranian sources said Wednesday.
The letter requested dialogue and engagement between the two nations, the sources said.
The sources said Khamenei has yet to reply to the letter but nonetheless it “had set the negotiating table [...]
Iranian riot police are reported to have clashed with demonstrators defying government decrees to stop street protests over disputed elections.
Eyewitness reports say there have been clashes near the parliament building in the capital Tehran, in the streets around Baharestan Square.
Reporting restrictions in Iran mean the BBC cannot verify the reports.
The new protests came hours after [...]
WASHINGTON — President Obama hardened his tone toward Iran on Tuesday, condemning the government for its crackdown against election protesters and accusing Iran’s leaders of fabricating charges against the United States.
In his strongest comments since the crisis erupted 10 days ago, Mr. Obama used unambiguous language to assail the Iranian government during a news conference [...]
TEHRAN — Ruling out political compromise after a harsh crackdown on the streets, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted Wednesday the authorities would not yield to pressure from opponents demanding a new election following allegations of electoral fraud.
“I had insisted and will insist on implementing the law on the election issue,” Ayatollah Khamenei told [...]
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