Posted in 18 Tir, Activism and opposition movements, Amir Kabir University, Basijis, ISA, Islamic Revolution, Political prisoners, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism, Tahkim Vahdat on Jul 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
The July 9, 1999 Tehran student rebellion was the single most important movement against the Islamic Republic government. The student movement had steadily got more and more furious against the useless Islamic government who had failed to bring about any changes, even under the name of Khatami’s ‘reformist government’.The students were ready to rebel against […]
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The ISA student activist body at Tehran Allameh Tabatabaei University reports that the university has now gone as far as creating their own fake ISA body and has started to use the ISA logo with it!
University has reportedly put up huge banners around the university, honouring the “martyrs” of the Islamic Republic, using the […]
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This time it is not Hollywood who is threatening the Iranian interest in the film business.
It is the Islamic Republic embassy in Thailand:
The Bangkok International Film Festival has dropped the Cannes prize-winning animated movie “Persepolis,” which had been skedded as the new-look fest’s opening movie. Tuesday move followed a request from the Iranian Embassy in […]
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Section209 blog reports that:
There were people from the television here near the Amir-Abbad petrol station recording a programme. They interviewed this nice clean shaved guy who was about 50 years old. After the interview was finished, the guy who was interviewed got in to the car with the TV crew and they drove away!!
As they […]
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Riots have broken out hours after the government introduced a new system to put a limit on how much petrol drivers can buy.
Although Iran has the world’s second largest reserves of conventional crude oil, it imports 40% of it’s petrol due to lack of investment in to the refinery industry.
More pictures here.
Update: It looks like […]
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Yesterday the four members who are left from the Central Committee for the AmirKabir Polytechnic University ISA activist body were doing a sit in protest for their imprisoned classmates at the university when Rouzbahani, the head of the cultural affairs, came up to them and threatened them by saying that “Your efforts are against the […]
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So I finally found the time to sit and write about meeting Fakhravar when he was here for a week or two in London, where he spent his time wisely meeting with number of ex-pats, students, policy makers, human rights organisations, etc.
Siavash has always been a controversial figure. Since his escape from Iran and arrival […]
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Former reformist President Khatami has caused great outrage in Iran between the Mullah community since a video footage of him showing him shaking hands with some woman in Italy was uploaded on to the video sharing site youtube. Physical contact with a women who is not related to a man is prohibited under Islamic Republic’s […]
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Ayatollah Boroujerdi (son of the prominent Shia cleric Seyyed Mohammad Ali Kazemeini Boroujerdi) has been sentenced to death together with 17 of his followers.
The secular ideology of this Shia cleric is that the Hidden Imam is the only one who has the legitimate competence to rule and pass judgment based on Islam, not the […]
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Hamed Beheshti, an Iranian blogger in Beirut claims that when he was at a dinner with Dr. Hossein Rahal, the spokesman for Hezbullah, the Iranian guests there told Rahal about the popularity Hezbollah has gained since the last summer’s war with Israel, mainly between some Iranian youth who apparently wear t-shirts with pictures of Hassan […]
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