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Archive for the ‘Iran’ Category
July 4th, 2009
Category: Iran
The key association of Islamic scholars in Qom calls the election result bogus.
July 3rd, 2009
The Iranian regime embraces “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
July 1st, 2009
Category: Iran
A senior Iranian cleric says that the antics of Khomene’i and Ahmadi-nejad are driving young Iranians away from prayer services. Inshallah!
June 26th, 2009
Category: Iran
A reader with a very Yiddishe name and a very goyische kopf rebukes me for being enthusiastic about the prospect of Moussavi forcing Ahmadi-nejad from power. “One anti-semite replacing another,” he huffs.
Well, yes. I also recall rooting for Lech Wałęsa against Gen. Jaruzelski: or rather, for the Solidarność movement and its allies [...]
June 25th, 2009
Category: Iran
“The cement that bonds the rule of tyrants is the blood of citizens.”
[Ricordi, B20]
That was written five hundred years ago. Some things don’t change.
June 24th, 2009
Category: Iran
From a colleague’s student: compelling eyewitness account of life and terror in Tehran.
June 23rd, 2009
Category: Iran
Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment says that Obama’s conciliatory approach removed the pressure Iranian political actors felt to sustain national unity in the face of foreign attack.
June 23rd, 2009
Category: Iran
No, he’s not one of us. But one of us wouldn’t be a player in Iranian politics. Moussavi represents a funamental challenge to the current tyranny. If he wins, he wins with the support of all those marchers-in-the street, who on average are much more anti-clerical than he is. Conditions in Iran, and Iran’s relations with the world, will be better if Moussavi and Rafsanjani pull off their coup than if Khamene’i and Ahmad-nejad manage to cling to power.
June 22nd, 2009
Category: Iran
I’d be a little more cheered by Mark’s report of potential news from Iran if the leading vessel for reform were not Hashemi Rafsanjani.
