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EXCLUSIVE: Karoubi’s house attacked and defaced on Sunday, by agents of the Iranian regime

EXCLUSIVE: Karoubi’s house attacked and defaced on Sunday, by agents of the Iranian regime

ABOVE: The black spray paint reads: “Death to Karoubi, “Death to Khatami”. The yellow, red and blue sign reads: “Karoubi, congrats on your alliance with the BBC”

ABOVE: One of the regime’s typical teenage protesters-for-hire, holds a sign that reads: “Illiterate and uneducated Karoubi is a puppet of the Mossad” and in yellow underneath it is [...]

Iranian regime’s lobby in the U.S.

Iranian regime’s lobby in the U.S.

March 14, 2010
Below: Part one of a very important video series (in Persian with English subtitles), interviews with Hassan Dai, founder of Reports on Mullahs Lobby in the U.S. and co-founder of Progressive American-Iranian Committee, both excellent sites dedicated to exposing the lobbyists of the Iranian regime at work in Washington DC.
This is part [...]

Despite Administration’s Resort to Leader and Prayers; Majlis’ Negative Response to Ahmadinejad

Despite Administration’s Resort to Leader and Prayers; Majlis’ Negative Response to Ahmadinejad

By Ardalan Sayami
Source: Rooz Online
March 13, 2010
Yesterday ended with a Majlis no vote to the administration’s request to spend 40 billion Toman (40 million USD) of funds derived from the subsidy reform plan, but analysts noted last night that this was just perhaps the beginning of the story.  It all began [...]

News round-up & update on events inside Iran, March 13th & 14th

News round-up & update on events inside Iran, March 13th & 14th

Join Planet Iran’s Chaharshanbeh Souri live blogging of the next wave 0f protests in Iran: March 16th and 17th.

* * Asr’eh Iran website reports: On Saturday, March 13th an ad hoc meeting of the Iranian National and Foreign Affairs Security Commission took place in Tehran. The meeting was attended by some of the [...]

Statement by Iranian Women for International Women’s Day

Statement by Iranian Women for International Women’s Day

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Deutsche Übersetzung des Statements auf Julias Blog lesen
Official statement by a group of Iranian women’s rights activists who participated in a Green gathering commemorating March 8th.
Source: Persian2English
March 8, 2010
The Feminist School – On the afternoon of March 7, 2010, a ceremony celebrating International Women’s Day took place in Tehran. [...]

Rahnavard: ‘Victory is surely ours if we remain steadfast’

Rahnavard: ‘Victory is surely ours if we remain steadfast’

Source: The Green Voice of Freedom
March 12, 2010
Wife of the 2009 presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi has stated that if any act of aggression is carried out on 16 March celebrations, it will have come from the “authorities.”
In an interview conducted yesterday with the Kaleme website, Rahnavard said that thanks to the new [...]

Prosecutor general: IRGC clampdowns ‘unmatched and valuable’

Prosecutor general: IRGC clampdowns ‘unmatched and valuable’

Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF)
March 12, 2010
The prosecutor general of Iran has described the Revolutionary Guards’ suppression of the people following the 12 June presidential election as “unparalleled” and said “the performance of IRGC during recent events and the sedition that we were facing, was truly valuable, firm and [...]

Iran establishes trade center in Kabul

Iran establishes trade center in Kabul

Source: Khabar Online
March 12, 2010
Concurrent with a visit paid by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Kabul yesterday, the Iranian Trade Center was established in the capital of Afghanistan.
As reported by Khabar Online correspondent, founded by Iran’s private sector, the call for attracting Iranian companies to the 2000 square meter center [...]

120 Years of Struggle

120 Years of Struggle

By: Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi
Source: Alliance of Iranian Women
March 2010
In the late 1800’s Iranian women were the main force behind the constitutional movement and the subsequent revolution. The Qajar dynasty’s kings (1799 – 1925) sat idly by and allowed the intrusion of the British and Russian political and economic [...]

Military Commanders’ Plan for Universities; Commanders’ Concern: Not Enough Forces Beholden to Supreme Leader

Military Commanders’ Plan for Universities; Commanders’ Concern: Not Enough Forces Beholden to Supreme Leader

By Bahram Rafiee
Source: Rooz Online
March 10, 2010
Yahya Rahim-Safavi, the former commander of the Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and current advisor to ayatollah Khamenei said in remarks published yesterday that he is worried about the lack of enough forces beholden to the supreme leader in universities, adding, “The universities aren’t [...]

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