by Sam Razi | Mar 19, 2010 | Featured, General, Human Rights
(The New York Times) | March 19, 2010 In recent weeks, the Iranian authorities have released dozens of high-profile opposition figures who were arrested after the disputed presidential elections in June, rights advocates said on Friday. The prisoners were required to...
by Sam Razi | Mar 19, 2010 | From the Web, General
(France 24) | March 19, 2010 AFP – EU nations are determined to take action to end Iran’s “unacceptable” jamming of satellite broadcasting and Internet censorship, according to a text agreed by European ambassadors in Brussels. “The EU...
by Sam Razi | Mar 19, 2010 | Featured, General, Must Read
Iran Opposition Leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, have both put out messages to the Iranian people for Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Here are the videos. Khordaad88 has provided English translations of the original speech (see below the...
by Sam Razi | Mar 17, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General
(CNN) | March 17, 2010 Reza Sayah Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Iranians marked a holiday that leads up to the Persian new year under the watchful eyes of police Tuesday night after the Islamic republic’s supreme leader tried to discourage the celebrations....
by Sam Razi | Mar 17, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live, Must Read
This post contains video from Iran allegedly taken during the Nowruz Festival of Fire called Chahar Shanbe Soori. These videos are uploaded to the Internet after being filmed by people in the streets, most often with cell-phone video recorders. While I believe they...
