by Sam Razi | Jul 4, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Must Read, Politics
Enduring America | July 3, 2010 By Mr. Verde Weeks into the Parliament v. President v. Rafsanjani crisis over control of Islamic Azad University, there is no resolution. There have been efforts to play down the immediate conflict, for example, with the denial of Yasr...
by Sam Razi | Jul 4, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read, Politics
Tehran Bureau | June 29, 2010 by Muhammad Sahimi in Los Angeles Struggle for power builds between clerics, Revolutionary Guards. [ analysis ] An important question that those who follow Iran’s political developments keep asking is, Who is the ultimate power in...
by Sam Razi | Jun 20, 2010 | Featured, General, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics
A year ago today, the bare brutality of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards Iranians was clearly displayed before the world. Through the use of cell-phone cameras, brave Iranians captured the malignancy of their government, and through the use of the Internet and...
by Sam Razi | Jun 20, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics
Note from the editor of Iran News Now: While normally when we post selected headlines from the web, we post an excerpt of the article followed a link to the original, considering the magnitude and importance of the information in this article (namely, a list of...
by Sam Razi | Jun 20, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
Chris de Burgh | June 20, 2010 From Chris de Burgh’s Official Site: “On June 20th 2009, during a demonstration in Tehran against what many felt was a fraudulent election result, a young woman called Neda Agha-Soltan was targeted and shot to death by a...
by Sam Razi | Jun 20, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics
Enduring America | June 20, 2010 by Scott Lucas Our thanks to an EA reader for translation of extracts of Mehdi Karroubi’s latest statement, published in Saham News: The extent of the [jurisdiction and power of the] jurisprudential leadership (Velayat-e-faqih) has...