Articles tagged with: Islamic Republic of Iran
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his faction are preparing for their biggest political fight ever. This time, Ahmadinejad will not face off against the Green reformist opposition movement, but will be squarely confronting Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The stakes are high, and each side promises to fight to the bitter end.
The crux of the conflict is the insistence of Ahmadinejad’s faction that someone from their bloc be allowed to run as a candidate in the presidential e...
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Saturday, 2 Mar, 2013
A few days after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi called for demonstration in support of Tunisian and Egyptian people, urging the Iranian people to take to the streets on February 14, 2011.
The street protests, staged in several cities in Iran, were violently suppressed by the Iranian government. Three people were reportedly killed and hundreds of others wounded. Members of Parliament chanted slogans demanding execut...
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I arrived at the hotel at 4:30 p.m. I left my baggage in the room, picked up the map and went out. I had read on the plane that there was a demonstration in Tahrir Square organiz...
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Tuesday, 3 Jul, 2012
On Monday, Iranian parliamentarians told Reuters that the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee had begun to draft a law calling for the regime to “stop oil tankers ...
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Tuesday, 3 Apr, 2012
The current form of religious leadership over the Shi’ite community, marjayia, was founded in the 1830s when Mohammed Hassan Najafi became the first transnational Shi’ite rel...
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