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Pollitt: Women's Rights and the Mullahs
Znet Article, June, 26 2009
Katha Pollitt
Pollitt's ZSpace page
The massive participation by women in Iran's street demonstrations is surprising only if you accept the mullahs' view of women as weak and passive vessels.
Bloice: Illusion, Reality & Courage in Iran
Znet Article, June, 26 2009
Carl Bloice
Bloice's ZSpace page
In the movie "The Year of Living Dangerously" the little guy Billy Kwan, brilliantly played by Linda Lee, gives a news reporter Guy Hamilton, played by Mel Gibson, a talk about Indonesian puppets - the kind on sticks, which you can now sometime fi...
Khanlarzadeh: How can we help Iranians?
Znet Article, June, 25 2009
Mina Khanlarzadeh
Khanlarzadeh's ZSpace page
The English-language media is full of articles that claim Iranian post-election demonstrations are either a class war or an uprising of rich Iranians against the authority. None of these articles support their offered claim with any strong argumen...
Dabashi: Iran’s Democratic Upsurge
Znet Article, June, 24 2009
Hamid Dabashi
Dabashi's ZSpace page
Regardless of their integrity, Iran's elections -- and even their aftermath -- are the fundamental democratic and collective expression US hawks and Zionists fear most, writes Hamid Dabashi
Miles: Long on rhetoric, short on memory
Znet Article, June, 24 2009
Jim Miles
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Having watched the situation in Iran now for several years through to the current protests by the dissident citizens of the country unsatisfied with the election results, I remain as perplexed as ever. Not the perplexity of not understanding what...
Ali: Momentum for change in Iran
Znet Article, June, 23 2009
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
After last weekend's depressing events - at least 10 deaths, by official count, on Saturday, followed by nary a whimper of public protest on Sunday - it appeared that the repressive apparatus of the Islamic Republic of Iran had succeeded once more...
Dreyfuss: The Next Explosion in Iran
Znet Article, June, 21 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss's ZSpace page
Evidence of election fraud
Dreyfuss: The Ayatollah Throws Down the Gauntlet
Znet Article, June, 20 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss's ZSpace page
Speaking to a government-organized throng bused in from around Tehran and as far away as Qom, Iran's religious capital, and other cities -- a crowd, no doubt, vastly inflated by dutiful members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the fasc...
Iran bw: Any Suppression Or Threat Of Civil Liberty Condemned
Znet Article, June, 20 2009
Iranian bus workers (vahed syndicate) Iran bw
Iran bw's ZSpace page
In line with the recognition of the labour rights, we request that June 26 Action Day -- Justice for Iranian workers -- to include the human rights of all Iranians who have been deprived of their rights.
Zunes: The Iranian Uprising is Home Grown, and Must Stay That Way
Znet Article, June, 19 2009
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an...
Baroud: Ahmadinejad Re-elected: Israel and Obama’s Iran Puzzle
Znet Article, June, 19 2009
Ramzy Baroud
Baroud's ZSpace page
The election victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to complicate US President Barack Obama’s new approach to his country’s conflict with Iran. The reason behind the foreseen obstacle is neither the US nor Iran’s refusal ...
Kurzman: Ignore All the Iran Experts
Znet Article, June, 18 2009
Charles Kurzman
Kurzman's ZSpace page
Predictions about Iran are a dime a dozen these days. And that's exactly what they're worth.
Farbod: Iran between Militarism and Democracy
Znet Article, June, 18 2009
Faramarz Farbod
Farbod's ZSpace page
In the past, to better understand politics in Iran one needed to pay critical attention to its chosen name since the 1979 revolution: The Islamic Republic of Iran.
Cpd: Crisis in Iran
Znet Article, June, 17 2009
Campaign for peace and democracy -- Cpd
Cpd's ZSpace page
A statement on the Iranian election aftermath
Fisk: Iran's Day of Destiny
Znet Article, June, 17 2009
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Fisk witnesses the courage of one million protesters who ignored threats, guns and bloodshed to demand freedom in Iran
Engelhardt: The Ir-Af-Pak War
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
Obama lets loose the predators
Zirin: Iran: It Aint a Soccer Riot
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has compared the protests following his country's recent sham election to the common scuffles that take place after a soccer game...
Chaleshtoori: Protests in Iran
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
Shadi Chaleshtoori
Chaleshtoori's ZSpace page
Not Just About Stolen Votes
Cole: Stealing the Iranian Election
Znet Article, June, 15 2009
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen...
Dreyfuss: Iran's Ex-Foreign Minister Yazdi: It's a Coup
Znet Article, June, 15 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss's ZSpace page
It's Saturday afternoon in Tehran, and the streets are generally quiet. But the aftermath of Iran's rigged election, in which radical-right President Ahmadinejad and his paramilitary backers were kept in office, has left Iran's capital steeped in ...
