by Sam Razi | Feb 27, 2011 | Exclusive, Featured, Must Read, Opinion, Politics
By Kambize Rostami Today, on February 26, 2011, CNN’s Don Lemon interviewed, Reza Aslan, author and commentator and self-professed expert on the Middle East. While Mr. Aslan’s answers seemed in line with the daily news coming out from the region, he did...
by Sam Razi | Feb 26, 2011 | Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live, Must Read, Opinion, Politics
10:00AM GMT – February 27 We have started a running live-blog tracking the arrests Iran’s Green opposition leaders here. 7:50AM GMT Till now, the regime has not dared arrest the main opposition figures and leaders of the Green Movement. With confirmation...
by Sam Razi | Feb 26, 2011 | Exclusive, Featured, Must Read, Opinion, Politics, World
Over the past several days in Iran, the regime has consolidated steps it has been taking for months now towards putting Iranian opposition figures, Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, and Mehdi Karroubi, under a type of permanent house arrest–a method...
by Sam Razi | Feb 21, 2011 | Exclusive, Featured, General, Live, Must Read, Opinion, Politics, World
This is a live-blog report of events in Iran on February 21, 2011. The majority of the reports in this blog are sourced via social media. With regards to the videos and images in this live-blog, we are not affiliated with the people or groups that produced them and...
by Sam Razi | Feb 15, 2011 | Arts and Culture, Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live, Must Read, Opinion, Politics, World
7:45AM GMT We had intended for our last update for the day to be the previous one, but felt that this interview of a protester, Sara, by Anderson Cooper is a must-see. She typifies the ordinary Iranians that have decided that they have to stand up for their rights....
by Sam Razi | Feb 7, 2011 | Exclusive, Featured, General, Opinion, Politics
The Facebook page that supports Mir Hossein Mousavi has posted a call for public-demonstrations “on Monday, Feb 14, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. (local time) from Imam Hossein Square to Azadi Square (Tehran) to show solidarity with the popular movements in the region and...
