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By Egeny Morozov, Special to CNN December 29, 2009 Source: CNN Opinion MUST SEE VIDEO Editor’s note: Evgeny Morozov is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine, where he writes a blog called Net.Effect. He is also Yahoo fellow at Georgetown University. His book about the Internet and democracy will be published by PublicAffairs Books [...]
Increasingly fierce repression in Iran suggests that the regime has begun to fear for its future December 29, 2009 Source: The Economist print edition WHAT more can Iran’s ruthless rulers do to squash their opponents? Since nationwide protests broke out last June over the disputed results of presidential elections, the official winner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has [...]
By Martin Fletcher December 30, 2009 Source: Times Online Iran’s panicking regime is once again seeking to suppress the Green Movement by decapitating it. Just as it did after June’s hotly-disputed presidential election, it is arresting high-profile reformists, academics and journalists who support the opposition. It hesitates to detain Mir Hossein Mousavi lest millions of [...]
By Martin Fletcher December 30, 2009 Source: Times Online Iran arrested the sister of the Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi as the embattled regime stepped up efforts to suppress a resurgent opposition yesterday. Two days after police used lethal force to contain massive nationwide demonstrations, Tehran also lashed out at foreign critics. The Foreign Ministry [...]
What began as anger over a stolen election has grown into a revolt against Iran’s system of Islamic government By Con Coughlin December 29, 2009 Source: The Wall Street Journal Six months after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hotly disputed election victory, the Green protest movement led by Mir Hossein Mousavi, the defeated candidate for the presidency, [...]
Diplomat’s secret mission to Bahamas to prevent former ally settling in UK By Owen Bowcott December 30, 2009 Source: Guardian The deposed Shah of Iran a reluctant exile on the Caribbean casino resort of Paradise Island turned into such an international pariah that an ambassador was dispatched incognito to dissuade him from seeking asylum in [...]
Khamenei is losing the support of the clergy and military. By Afshin Ellian December 29, 2009 Source: The Wall Street Journal/Opinion Europe Six months ago, Iranians went to the streets, chanting “Where is my vote?” This is how the Green Revolution started. The protesters now no longer merely seek democratic elections but want regime change. [...]
December 30, 2009 Source: The Straits Times Singapore/Agence France Presse (AFP) PARIS – FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday condemned what he called the ‘bloody crackdown’ on opposition demonstrators in Iran and called for the release of those arrested by the security forces. France urged ‘a halt to the violence, the freeing of all imprisoned [...]
In today’s French press review, we talk about anti-government protests in Iran. French media report that political opponents “refuse to back down”. By Aurore Cloe DuPuis December 29, 2009 Source: France 24/In the Papers video reportage Iran has made the front page of most French newspapers this morning, including the Christian newspaper La Croix and [...]
