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Deadly Protests Erupt in Iran

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Iran is battling deadly protests in the north and south.Southern Iran also experienced deadly protests and rioting in April.

Iranians Protest for Ganji's Release

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As Akbar Ganji’s health declines, some see him as a pawn to American Neo-Conservative Policy!Iranians Protest for the Release of the Jailed JournalistIranian students protest for jailed reformist journalist Akbar Ganji during a protest in central Tehran July 12, 2005.

"Outposts of Tyranny" Join Hands

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Iran and Belarus announced progress in their relations has reached a very high level.Belarus is celebrating these relations with a planned week long Iranian festival.Both Iran and Belarus were described earlier this year by US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, as two of the six “outposts of tyranny” in the world.Iran also signed four articles of understanding with Togo this week.

Jailed Iranian Writer Hospitalized

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Jailed Iranian writer Akbar Ganji who has been on a hunger strike for over 3o days has been hospitalized in Tehran: Jailed dissident Iranian writer Akbar Ganji has been admitted to hospital after being on hunger strike for more than a month, his wife said on Monday.

Ahmadinejad, More than a Hardliner

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Iran may have picked a real killer as president!Austrian authorities have classified documents suggesting that Iran’s president-elect may have played a key role in the 1989 execution-style slayings of an Iranian Kurdish leader and two associates in Vienna, a newspaper reported Saturday.Austria’s Interior Ministry and the public prosecutor’s office are investigating alleged evidence pointing to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s possible involvement in the attack, the daily Der Standard reported.Officials were not immediately available to comment on the report Saturday.The allegations against Ahmadinejad come as some of the Americans who were taken captive in Iran in 1979 implicate the newly elected leader in the hostage crisis.

Iran's Ahmadinejad on Time

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VIDEO OF IRANIAN HOSTAGE TAKERS IN 1979, INCLUDING COMPARISONS OF HOSTAGE TAKER AND CURRENT PRESIDENT HERE(Jimmy Carter weighs in on the video)President Bush today demanded answers from IranWas Ahmadinejad (circled in purple) pictured on the November 10, 1980 cover of Time magazine?

Carnival of the Revolutions VII

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Andrew Young, the Russian expert at Siberian Light has this week’s edition of the Carnival of the Revolutions up on his site.

Iran Admits Misleading UN

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IRAN ADMITS IT MISLED THE UN ON NUCLEAR ACTIVITY, VIDEO HEREIranian presidential candidate Rafsanjani admits Iran misled UN,but won’t do it again!Youth supporters of Iranian Reformist Candidate Mostafa Moin attend a rally in Tehran.

Riots in Kurdish Iran Today!

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Hundreds riot in Kurdish Iran today:Hundreds of Iranian Kurds have clashed violently with police in the northwestern Iranian town of Mahabad, an historical centre of Kurdish nationalism, according to Iran’s State News Agency (IRNA).The rioting, which came just days before Iran is due to elect a new president, was sparked by news from across the border in Iraq that former rebel leader Massoud Barzani was sworn in as the first president of Iraqi Kurdistan.IRNA said a number of vehicles and shopfronts were damaged “when a group of excited people” — numbering around 300 — took to the streets of the town “on the pretext of joy because Massoud Barzani got elected”.”In response to a police request to disperse, the crowd burned tyres and inflicted damage to election campaign posters and threw stones and bricks at police,” IRNA said.IRNA said the unrest died down shortly before midnight, but said Mahabad’s main street was littered with stones, bricks, shattered mosaics and destroyed Iranian election campaign posters.Calling Sean Penn!

Rare Deadly Bombings Set Off in Iran

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RARE BOMBINGS IN AHWAZ IRAN, VIDEO HEREBombs go off in Ahwaz and Tehran days before the election…Government officials assess the bombing damage in southern Iran today.

Suicide Bomber Graduation

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Deadly Graduation for Iranian Suicide Bombers Well, it’s spring and students everywhere are attending their graduation ceremonies:More than 200 young men and women presented themselves Thursday as volunteers to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and against Israelis.The meeting was organized at Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has sought volunteers for attacks in Iraq and Israel since last year.It was the third such ceremony that the group has held, but there has been no independent confirmation any of its volunteers has carried out a bombing.If I read that their parents were there to take pictures, I will really get the creeps.

Students Protest in Iran

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The natives are restless in Iran this week.Hossein Derakhshan between sessions at BlogNashville Hossein Derakhshan, creator of Editor Myself Blog was an attendee at BlogNashville last weekend.

Global Voices

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I am sitting here in the “Global Voices” seminar at the BlagNashville consortium.

The Iranian Monafeqin

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Iran held a grand peace parade in the troubled city of Ahwaz in southern Iran on Friday.

Iranian Love Fest

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Iranian Peace Protesters So, I saw this week that after from 6 to 60 individuals were reportedly killed in protests and uprisings in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz last week, the government found the perfect solution to solve the situation.

More Violence and Death in Southern Iran

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**Thursday PM Update to this post** The Iran Focus website is now reporting that at least 62 have been killed and over 1,000 arrested in the southern Iranian province of Khuzestan…At least 62 people have been killed and over 1,000 arrested in the week-long clashes between people and security forces in Iran’s southern Khuzestan province, according to the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran.Fierce fighting has brought the province to a complete stand-still since Friday, when State Security Forces (SSF) opened fire on a 3,000-strong anti-government demonstration in the city of Ahwaz.The residents who were mainly ethnic Arabs were complaining of government plans to redefine the ethnic make-up of the province.Wednesday PM Original Posting:Scores of protesters are feared dead in revolts against the Iranian government in Ahwaz.

Arm and a Leg

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Iran is punishing a young thief this week by cutting off his arm and leg.

Iranian Political Prisoner Faces Execution

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Hajjat Zamani, a political prisoner in Iran, is one day closer to his execution:Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against a longtime political prisoner in Iran, making his execution imminent.Hojjat Zamani, 29 years old, has been imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran since the year 2000 for being a member of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI).

1000 Protest Government in Iran

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Is this another demcracy protest in Iran?More than 1,000 residents of an Iranian village in the suburbs of the city of Shiraz yesterday took part in anti-government demonstrations, setting fires to tyres and blockading roads in the area.Residents in Darivan put rocks in the main route 35 kilometres from Shiraz to the town of Kharameh, blocking all traffic for more than five hours.Protests erupted after authorities refused to cancel their plan to construct a cemetery on farmers’ lands.Despite the presence of security forces at the scene, protesters chanted a number of anti-government slogans.

30 Irani Rebels Arrested in Iraq

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30 Irani Nationals were arrested in Iraq recently according to Iran Focus:More than 30 armed agents dispatched from Iran were arrested in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala, according to sources close to the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin.

Thoughts on the Pope

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It is intersting how these comments may say more about the ones who are making them than the Pope they are talking about:Iran’s powerful former president Hashemi Rafsanjani – “They (the Vatican) should shout at America loudly.

Deadly Week in Mullahcracy

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Deady Soccer Game in Iran Iran Va Jahan has the story of a Iranian Democracy Protest/Soccer Match that got deadly last Friday:Six Iranian students were killed Friday 25 March 2005 and more than 40 others wounded, some of them critically at the end of a decisive soccer match between Iran and Japan, making it the worst after-soccer incidents in Iran.

Egypt Developed WMD for Iraq

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Here is a highly controversial assertion from Arutz Sheva news that Egypt was helping Iraq develop chemical weapons:Egypt secretly helped former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his chemical weapons program, according to a CIA report.The report, authored by the CIA’s Iraq Survey Group, says that Egypt sent specialists to Iraq in the 1980s to help him manufacture poison gas.

Getting Out the Youth Vote

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“The Enemies Have Plotted Against Iran’s Youth” The “Supreme Leader” (No, not D.

A Few Lean Years

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The Supreme Iranian Ruling Mullah (or, if you prefer, “Moo-lah”) Khamenei gave a pep talk of sorts to the Iranian engineers and researchers to get the country back on the right track…

Smash Mouth

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A Tehran Friday Sermon from the Religion of Peace: Iranians Will Punch Americans in the Mouth So Hard All Their Devouring Teeth Will Fall Out Ayatollah Mohammad Ememi-Kashani: If you [Americans] behave with disrespect – even just a little bit – [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.

Message in a Bottle

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Iranian Photograher Shadi Yousefian depicts Dual Identity of Young Iranians The Guardian and Chrenkoff have an article of hopeful news from Iran: …With an estimated 75,000 blogs, Farsi is now the fourth most popular language for keeping online journals.

Too Large, Too Small, Just Right

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A User Friendly Guide to Stoning Front Page magazine has a gruesome discussion this morning about the stoning practice of women in Iran: Conservative estimates by Iranian opposition movements and various human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, put the number of women stoned to death in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in the neighborhood of fifty.