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    FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau | PBS

  • Weekend Headlines

    7 Feb 2010 | 6:57 am
    Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided at the top of each item. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Please refer to the Media Guide to help put the story in perspective. Iran makes new uranium enrichment challenge BBC | Feb. 7, 2010 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked the country's nuclear chief to begin enriching uranium to 20%. The move comes amid a worsening stand-off over a Western offer for Iran to…

  • Mousavi and Martyrdom

    5 Feb 2010 | 2:38 pm
    How the regime calculates the personal challenge. [ opinion ] Columbia University professor Hamid Dabashi considers Iran's Green Movement a civil rights struggle. Others contend that there is a revolution under way aimed at radically altering the country's political landscape. The latter opinion largely rests on the many parallels between today's protest movement and that of the Iranian Revolution that swept away the monarchy more than thirty years ago. Eight months after presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and large segments of society decried the June 12th…

  • Selected Headlines

    5 Feb 2010 | 1:33 am
    Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided at the top of each item. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Please refer to the Media Guide to help put the story in perspective. Iran suggests 'impossible' deal over nuclear fuel in surprise move Times Online | Feb. 6, 2010 Iran has drawn up tough conditions on its proposed deal to ship out stocks of nuclear fuel, condemning the agreement to failure, The Times has learned.

  • Selected Headlines

    4 Feb 2010 | 12:53 pm
    Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided at the top of each item. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Please refer to the Media Guide to help put the story in perspective. Madhi: arrest warrants against reformists issued before elections. BBC Monitoring | Feb. 4, 2010 On February 4, the pro-government Al-Jarida newspaper carried the following interview with Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Madhi, also known in Iran…

  • The Ten Days That Changed Iran

    3 Feb 2010 | 6:33 am
    February 11 marks the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which toppled the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, put an end to monarchy in Iran, and led to the theocracy that maintains control to this day. The Revolution was part of the century-old struggle of the Iranian people to establish a democratic political system and the rule of law. In previous articles, I have described different aspects of that struggle's history (See Ashura, 16 Azar, and U.S. hostage crisis). In the present article, I focus on the last ten days of the Iranian monarchy. The ten-day period that began on…
 
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  • Melody Moezzi: Iran's Impending Avalanche

    Melody Moezzi
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:58 am
    With just over a week left in the current Persian calendar month of Bahman, three significant anniversaries promise to provide the Iranian pro-democracy movement with a massive shot of adrenalin. Thursday marks Revolution Day, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution; the commemoration of the martyrdom of the revered Shi'a saint Imam Hassan falls two days later, and two days after that marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of yet another honored Shi'a saint, Imam Reza. Normally, the Iranian government would encourage people to celebrate and lament in the streets on these days. Not so…

  • Setareh Sabety: Monster's Last Bout

    Setareh Sabety
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:38 am
    With the Feb.11th anniversary of the 1979 Revolution looming the Islamic Republic, faced with unprecedented scale of opposition, seems like a bleeding monster leading many to think it is facing certain demise. I wrote the poem below on the occasion of 22bahman/11th Feb. demonstrations against the regime. Blood dripping from Gaping mouth: Wounded monster Musters one last bout. Slippery fingers, crooked hands Grasp brittle branches Of a dead tree's Timorous stance. Flared nostrils Inhale augur of demise; Exhale vain fury At fictional crimes. Reddened eyes Bulge at the sight Of timid victims'…

  • Jose Antonio Vargas: Internet Freedom, Hillary Clinton and Being the Web's First Global Diplomat (VIDEO)

    Jose Antonio Vargas
    21 Jan 2010 | 6:52 am
    Internet freedom. When it comes to education and how students learn in the 21st century, when it comes to developing businesses and encouraging entrepreneurship in a flattening digital marketplace, when it comes to forming social connections regardless of geographic, linguistic and cultural borders -- when it comes to promoting democracy and protecting the rights of individuals around the world -- no two words, no other phrase, holds more value. It may sound trite but it's true -- just ask students and activists in Iran and China. With the Internet comes freedom. With freedom comes the…

  • Ali Fatemi: Iran's Awakening

    Ali Fatemi
    19 Jan 2010 | 8:58 am
    Events of the last few months in Iran indicate that her dark days are numbered. On December 24th, on the occasion of Ashura, the most holy day of Islam's Shiite branch, hundreds of thousands of Iranians poured onto the streets of major Iranian cities. Crowds angry at the regime buttressed the ranks of mourners commemorating the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson. Seeking the safety, and the sanctity, of the occasion, they had come out to vent against the tyranny of a morally corrupt regime bent on its own survival at all costs. However, the regime was prepared to squelch the protesters, and…

  • Opposition Slogans Written On Iranian Bills As Protest

    The Huffington Post News Team
    13 Jan 2010 | 2:21 am
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Facing hard-line forces on the streets, Iran's anti-government demonstrators have taken their protests to a new venue: writing "Death to the Dictator" and other opposition slogans on bank notes, while officials scramble to yank the bills from circulation. There's no way to calculate how much Iranian currency has been scribbled on or stamped with dissident messages in recent months in response to efforts to halt public demonstrations or choke off the Internet and cell phone messaging. Read more: Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Opposition, Iran Election,…
 
 
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    The Majlis: Iranian Elections (2009)

  • Juan Cole throws cold water on Iran nuke threat; police chief warns protesters

    Evan Hill
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:38 pm
    Over at Informed Comment, Juan Cole wants everyone to breathe deeply and think about whether Iran's latest nuclear announcement is really that threatening. Cole called "bizarre" remarks made on Sunday by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who equated Iran and North Korea as both being "nuclear-armed" and "a real or a potential threat": The US intelligence establishment continues to doubt that Iran has or wants a nuclear weapons program. Tehran does have a nuclear enrichment program, which is permitted by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran allows United Nations inspections of it…

  • Popularity contest: Do Iranians support reformists?

    Gregg Carlstrom
    3 Feb 2010 | 7:39 pm
    How do Iranians actually feel about their government, the June 12 election, and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?We've lamented the lack of good polling data more than once on this blog. So I was intrigued by an event at the New America Foundation this afternoon, which presented a dozen pre- and post-election polls of Iranians -- most conducted by the University of Tehran. The polls aren't new (the most recent one was conducted in September), but it was the first time the data were collected in one place. And the findings, on the surface, don't seem encouraging for the reform movement in Iran. A…

  • Iran: Nine people to be executed "soon"

    Gregg Carlstrom
    2 Feb 2010 | 8:16 am
    The Iranian judiciary plans to execute another nine prisoners -- convicted of "waging war against God" -- in the coming days.Iranian state media say the group belongs to "anti-revolutionary groups." The regime executed two people last month -- Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani -- and recently started trials for another 16, five of whom could face the death penalty. As we said over the weekend, the hastily-ordered executions are obviously intended to frighten demonstrators ahead of planned protests on Feb. 11, the anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic.Opposition…

  • Mousavi, Karroubi call for Feb. 11 protests

    Gregg Carlstrom
    30 Jan 2010 | 6:13 pm
    30 years ago, give or take two months, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his allies were marking the first anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic. (They did this, in part, by declaring the term "democratic" verboten, a "Western style," and by banning opposition groups and purging universities. It was a real party.)Three decades later? The Revolutionary Guard is threatening violence against an opposition movement that has managed to defy the regime for nearly a year. The ostensible leaders of the movement, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, have called for a day of protest on…

  • Iran hangs two, ostensibly for post-election protests

    Evan Hill
    28 Jan 2010 | 11:42 pm
    Two men whom Iranian authorities accused of belonging to opposition groups were hanged at dawn on Thursday, allegedly for participating in recent anti-government protests. The two were accused of being mohareb, or enemies of God, and with trying to overthrow the Iranian government. They were identified as Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour. Rahmanipour's lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the AFP that she had only met her client once, for a few minutes, and was denied the chance to participate in any of his court hearings. Sotoudeh said Rahmanipour had nothing to do with the…
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    Los Angeles Times

  • Pakistani Taliban confirm leader's death

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Hakimullah Mahsud was injured in a missile strike by a U.S. drone last month. He is the group's second leader killed in six months. The Pakistani Taliban confirmed Tuesday that their leader, Hakimullah Mahsud, died from injuries suffered in a U.S. drone missile strike last month, an attack that forces the insurgency to find a new leader for the second time in six months.

  • In Haiti, a rum everyone can agree on

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Rhum Barbancourt is a national tradition, surviving the tumult of the last century and a half. Whether it is weddings or holidays, or raising voodoo spirits, no other will do. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrived here in 1934 to mark the end of America's occupation of Haiti, he insisted on toasting the hand-over with local Barbancourt rum. Two decades later, the visiting Vice President Nixon personally mixed a Barbancourt rum collins for Haiti's president (who was, ahem, a whiskey drinker).

  • Marines focus on civilian safety in Afghanistan

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Preparing for battle in a Taliban stronghold, the Marines are warning civilians to flee the area, and they plan restraint in their use of artillery and air power. Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan -- Heading into battle to seize a Taliban stronghold, U.S. Marines are keenly aware of one factor that could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: Afghan civilian casualties.

  • China says it shut down online academy for hackers

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Black Hawk Safety Net was shut down in November and its founders later arrested, state media report. The school took tuition from tens of thousands who wanted to learn 'successful attack tools.' The pitch was tantalizing: Just a little training and you too could hack websites, earning thrills, power and, in many cases, money.

  • For Japan's cellphone novelists, proof of success is in the print

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    One teenager who wrote a three-volume novel on her phone has gone on to sell more than 110,000 paperback copies, grossing more than $611,000 in sales. She likes Care Bears, doesn't wear makeup yet, and took her nom de plume from a character in the Disney classic "Bambi."
 
 
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  • Wonk Room » What Eric Cantor's Op-Ed On Iran Can Teach Us About ...

    Igor
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:19 am
    Eric Cantor (R-VA) cautioned President Obama against negotiating with Iran. “The unfortunate reality for President Obama is that there is absolutely no evidence that Iran is willing to reach any agreement acceptable on U.S. terms,” ...

  • More Posturing Or Actual Threat? Iran Warns It Will Deliver A ...

    Tyler Durden
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:45 am
    This year's anniversary is expected to become a flashpoint between security forces and supporters of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who charge that the June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was ...

  • “Dispute over Iran's nuclear activities might result in a military ...

    unknown
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:21 am
    The dispute over Iran's nuclear activities, which Western countries fear are aimed at creating weapons, might result in a military conflict, Russia's security chief Nikolay Patrushev said on Tuesday.

  • JURIST - Paper Chase: EU, US condemn Iran human rights violations

    Ximena Marinero
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:28 am
    We call on the Government of Iran to live up to its international human rights obligations, to end its abuses against its own people, to hold accountable those who have committed the abuses and to release those who are exercising their ...

  • Iran - Blog - The Arabist

    Issandr El Amrani
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:31 am
    POMED's account of a recent Congressional hearing on what policy to pursue towards Iran, and most notably whether and how to support its opposition movement, made for some interesting reading. Several of those testifying — former Bush ...
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    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • "Generation Zero"

    Andrew Sullivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am
    The maker of the movie emails to say that the Dish's link gave a false impression of the film. Since I haven't seen it myself, I'll try and see a screening when one comes up in DC and report back. But the Daily Beast's Jon Avlon liked it:There have been highlights to balance out the lowlights at the Tea Party Convention. For all the Obama Derangement Syndrome evidenced, the spark of the movement was a demand to return to fiscal responsibility. These roots were well represented by a special screening of a new documentary about the roots of the fiscal crisis and the reckoning…

  • The Palin Emails II

    Andrew Sullivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:27 am
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here are three more emails from March 21 - 23, 2008, which I reproduce because of the Dish's long commitment to providing as much information about the strange stories Sarah Palin has told about her fifth pregnancy and because governor Palin has welcomed such scrutiny, declaring that her life is an open book. They come from this 3,000 email archive from the State of Alaska, requested by MSNBC. A little over a month after Trig was born, the state sent Governor Palin an email asking for his birth certificate. It's…

  • A Mother With A Special Needs Child

    Andrew Sullivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:59 am
    A reader writes: I am the mother of a 16 year-old girl with severe intellectual disabilities.  I am disturbed by Mrs Palin's insincere comments when she speaks out for individuals with developmental delays. I watched The Colbert Report last night, and I have never been more proud to call myself a fan of Stephen Colbert.  But also, as a mother I wonder what is in Trig's future. If his Down Syndrome does not severely effect his ability and he is able to read, he will read his mother's autobiography and learn that she questioned if she could love him.  He will read…

  • More Empty Threats

    Andrew Sullivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:20 am
    Reza Aslan sums up the pro-Green reaction to Ahmadi's "alarming" nuclear rhetoric from Sunday: These announcements are a joke; they cannot be taken seriously. Not only has Iran thus far barely managed to enrich uranium to 5 percent, it can hardly keep its one enrichment plant in Natanz—which took many years to build—up and running full time. The idea that Iran could build 10 more plants in a year while also figuring out how to enrich uranium to 20 percent is laughable. Ahmadinejad’s announcement is nothing more than a feeble attempt at nuclear brinksmanship, as the French…

  • Running Scared

    Andrew Sullivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:56 am
    Reihan checks in with the latest McCain campaign:McCain has scrambled to crush the [J.D. Hayworth] insurgency, raising money and rallying the troops with a robocall from newly minted Republican folk hero Scott Brown. He's even scheduled campaign appearances in March with his former running mate Sarah Palin, the woman some believe made his slim chance at winning the White House even slimmer. Hayworth's flacks are crying foul, telling anyone who'll listen that McCain is being too tough on a man who until recently made his living as a minor-league radio shock jock. Polls aside,…
 
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    Iran News Now

  • Court Rebukes Dutch Policy on Iranian Scientists

    Dave Siavashi
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:09 pm
    A court in The Hague has dealt a blow to the Dutch government's controversial attempts to keep sensitive nuclear technology out of the hands of Iran. Its policy to ban Iranian-born students and scientists from certain master's degrees and from nuclear research facilities in the Netherlands is overly broad and a violation of an international civil rights treaty, the court ruled today.

  • Iran’s Secret Obsession: Getting ‘Lost’ in Tehran

    Dave Siavashi
    4 Feb 2010 | 9:54 pm
    Time | February 4, 2010 Shervin Malekzadeh Back before protests erupted last June, if you were to see a crowd gathered on the streets in Tehran, odds were that people were buying up the latest U.S. hit movie or television show from a black-market vendor. Customers flip through piles of plastic sleeves, looking for an unseen classic [...]

  • Harsh Words on Both Sides Make Bloody Showdown Likely February 11

    Dave Siavashi
    4 Feb 2010 | 8:17 pm
    By calling into question the success and sanctity of the Iranian Revolution, Moussavi is questioning the legitimacy of the government as a whole, not merely the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Moussavi continued by drawing parallels between the struggles against injustice in 1979 and the current goals of the Green Movement, a comparison that carries heavy implications regarding the current government.

  • Selected Headlines – February 2, 2010

    Dave Siavashi
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:56 pm
    Khordaad 88, February 2 Mir Hossein Mousavi ’s Interview with Kaleme Kaleme reports that in this interview which took place close to February 11th [22 of Bahman], the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Mousavi stated that the main reason for the collapse of the dictatorial and unpopular regime of the Shah was its illegitimacy [in the [...]

  • Selected Headlines – January 22, 2010

    Dave Siavashi
    21 Jan 2010 | 10:27 pm
    Channel 4 News (UK), January 22 Neda’s death ‘ignited an awakening’ in Iran Neda Agha Soltan’s fiance, Caspian Makan: “The 23 January is Neda’s precious birthday. Neda will be 27 on that day. I felt that this should be marked in the world. “I’ve asked the people of Iran, wherever they may be, in whichever corner of the [...]
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    Informed Comment

  • Salehi: Iran would back Down if West supplies LEU; Khamenei vows self-defense against 'US-backed saboteurs'

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:14 pm
    The USG Open Source Center translated remarks of Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, regarding Sunday's announcement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran would seek to enrich uranium to the 19.75% necessary to produce medical isotopes. Salehi represented the announcement as a way for Iran to put pressure on the West to provide the low enriched uranium for its medical reactor on Iran's terms.' Tehran Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 2 in Persian at 1920 GMT: . . . "Mr President [Ahmadinejad] made the comment in a subtle way. If you paid…

  • More Nuclear Scaremongering about Iran from Clinton; Neocons Quake at Ahmadinejad threat to make . . . gasp . . . Medical Isotopes

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:39 pm
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engaged in some fearmongering on Iran on Sunday on Candy Crowley's CNN magazine show, State of the Union. Here is how the exchange went:'CROWLEY: If you were to say to the American people, this country is the most dangerous to Americans and to the U.S., where is that country?CLINTON: You know, Candy, in terms of a country, obviously a nuclear-armed country like North Korea or Iran pose both a real or a potential threat.CROWLEY: And you're convinced Iran has nuclear...CLINTON: No, no, but we believe that their behavior certainly is evidence of their…

  • Saying 'Constitution' while meaning 'Lawlessness': Palin attacks Obama

    6 Feb 2010 | 11:36 pm
    Sarah Palin's turn before the teabaggers was an exercise in emptying the US Constitution of meaning while seeming to exalt it.She praised US military personnel for defending the constitution.But she complained that constitutional protections were offered to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the underpants bomber. She said it is 'our' constitution, reducing it from a universal document (the Declaration of Independence says 'all men' are endowed with inalienable rights) to a tribal one.She said Abdulmutallab could otherwise have been questioned. But why should he have answered, rights or no? Holder's…

  • Thousands Flee Marja Area as NATO Prepares Campaign; Anti-American Rally in Kapisa

    6 Feb 2010 | 9:39 pm
    Agence France Presse reports that thousands of Afghans are fleeing an anticipated NATO/Afghan (mainly British) campaign against the Taliban stronghold of Marja, a city of 80,000, south of the capital of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province. Marja is in the midst of a major poppy-growing region and so a center of narco-terrorism (the poppies are used to make heroin, and it is estimated that 40% of the drug trade goes to insurgents fighting the Karzai government). The 5,000-man strike force will be British troops in the majority, and the rest will be Afghan or American. Although the campaign is…

  • Undoing Lex Luthor

    6 Feb 2010 | 10:54 am
    The red increase in job loss is the climax of Republican White House control. The blue decrease in job loss is Obama and the Democrats. Sort of like when Superman flies around the world counter-clockwise to undo Lex Luthor's fiendish destruction.h/t TPM docs.End/ (Not Continued)
 
 
 
 
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    The Lede

  • Another Not So Great Moment in Chicago Politics

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am
    A candidate's expression of tearful regret while surrounded by supportive family members followed a familiar script but, the time and place chosen for the announcement, a bar during the Super Bowl, did not.

  • Race to Avoid a 'Death by Red Tape' in Haiti

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pm
    An informal media campaign tries to save a young Haitian girl from "death by red tape."

  • Video of the Shackleton Whisky Cache

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:26 pm
    Video from Antarctica on the team that dug up five crates of whisky and brandy left beneath a hut there in 1909 by the explorer Ernest Shackleton.

  • Ukraine's Voters Speak, in Two Voices

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:57 pm
    A presidential election in Ukraine shows a deep divide between the country's red and blue regions.

  • An 'Israeli Remix' of a Palestinian Scarf

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:41 am
    A Jewish D.J. in Brooklyn finds himself defending his right to market what he calls an "Israeli remix of the keffiyeh," a symbol of Palestinian identity.
 
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