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Not a Revolution - Yet
Published July 6, 2009, 12:54 am, Middle East Online
Just before midnight on a Friday evening a week before Iran's much-disputed June 12 election, the initial tremors of the earthquake that has shaken the country to its core were palpable deep in south Tehran, a gritty, working-class section of the city with a reputation for being a stronghold of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says Robert Dreyfuss .
How Could Iran's Hard-Liners Choose The Next Supreme Leader?
Published July 4, 2009, 9:27 am, Payvand Iran News
For the last 20 years, the supreme leader has been Ali Khamenei, a man who has never enjoyed that unquestioned status. Khamenei's problems stem from the fact that he was an unlikely choice from the beginning. He did not have the religious preeminence that underpinned Khomeini's central concept for an Islamic state: that it be led by the country's most learned Islamic jurist. -Mazyar Mokti, ...
The new stone age in Delhi
Published July 3, 2009, 11:41 am, Business Standard India
New government buildings in the capital borrow from the past. It was Nature who set the pattern, equipping the neighbourhood of this capital with a supply of red Agra and Dholpur sandstone.
Sam Sedaei: The Iranian Revolution Didn't Die with Michael Jackson
Published July 2, 2009, 8:07 am, The Huffington Post
Just because the Western media stopped covering the events in Iran with the rigor that it was and it should, it doesn't mean the movement has ended.
Many Religious Figures Critical Of Iran Election Results: Cleric
Published July 2, 2009, 7:43 am, Payvand Iran News
In Iran, Ayatollah Jalaledin Taheri, the former Friday Prayers leader in the city of Isfahan, recently described the reelection of Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad as "illegitimate" and "tyrannical." In recent days, a number of other Iranian clerics have stepped up to criticize the official election result and the ensuing crackdown on peaceful protesters.
Crackdown In Iran Spawns Creative Forms Of Dissent
Published July 2, 2009, 7:42 am, Payvand Iran News
It's been more than a week since protesters last took to the streets of Tehran in their tens of thousands. Protesters are finding other ways to air their views, even amid a clampdown on the media. They include turning on car headlights or honking horns. Or releasing homemade green balloons from rooftops. And there are new underground newspapers being passed among protesters and cropping up on ...
Artists remember late sculptor Ali-Akbar Sanati in Tehran
Published July 2, 2009, 12:15 am, mehrnews.com
TEHRAN, July 1 (MNA) -- The 4th session on art research was dedicated to late sculptor Ali-Akbar Sanati in which a group of visual artists gathered in the Barg Gallery on Tuesday.
Stephen Zunes: Iran's Do-It-Yourself Revolution
Published July 1, 2009, 4:37 pm, The Huffington Post
The future of Iran belongs in the hands of the Iranians. The best thing the United States can do to support a more open and pluralistic society in that country is to stay out of the way.
'Hacktivists' target Iran's leadership online
Published July 1, 2009, 1:53 am, The Washington Times
A sharp clampdown by Iranian authorities may have quelled street protests, but the fight goes on in cyberspace. Groups of "hacktivists"- Web hackers demanding Internet freedom - say they are targeting Web pages of Iran's leadership in response to the regime's muzzling of blogs, news outlets and other sites. It's not clear how much the wired warriors have disrupted official Iranian sites. Recent ...
The paper clip, 1 July
Published July 1, 2009, 1:44 am, European Voice
The ruling by the German constitutional court that the EU's Treaty of Lisbon is acceptable under Germany's constitution is noted by a range of papers. There are also a number of commentaries.
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