“Mr Karroubi, a year has passed since the eventful month of Khordad 1388 (22 May-21 June 2009). Yet this month is considered to be a historic one in Iran: the epic election victory of Mohammad Khatami on 2 Khordad 1376 (23 May 1997), the brave resistance that led to the liberation of the southern city [...]

al Jazeera – Excerpt: However, Iran’s nuclear technology has advanced faster than expected and a 2007 report by the US government accountability office (GAO) found that “since 2003, the Iranian government has signed contracts reported at about $20bn with foreign firms to develop its energy resources. Further, sanctioned Iranian banks may fund their activities in [...]

The so-called “only democracy in the Middle East,” did not allow Professor Chomsky to enter the besieged Gaza Strip because accordingly, ”Israel does not like what you [Chomsky] say”. See the al Jazeera video here. Read about it here.

BBC – Excerpts: “Ten years on since the withdrawal, the UN together with the Lebanese army patrol the border area. But flapping in the breeze along the fence are yellow and green flags of Hezbollah. Waving next to them is the flag of the group’s biggest foreign backer – Iran. It is Hezbollah that has [...]

See the al Jazeera video here.

Newsweek – Excerpt: “Burqas in European headlines, bikinis in American ones: which one tells you more about the aspirations of Muslim women? One appears to be primitive and repressed, the other modern, cosmopolitan, and liberated. But the answer is not really so obvious at all. The real test of modernity, including our own, is tolerance. [...]

Tehran Bureau – Excerpt: “Ahmad Yazdanfar, senior aide and advisor to Mir Hossein Mousavi and head of the team of bodyguards that protects him, has been arrested by the Islamic Republic’s security forces. A former officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Yazdanfar has been Mousavi’s bodyguard since 1983, and protected him at the height [...]

In this video, we have Professor Finkelstein refusing to allow the memory of the Holocaust stifle legitimate criticism of Israeli policies vis-a-vis the indigenous Palestinian people.

Gary Sick: What to make of the new nuclear agreement by Turkey and Brazil with Iran? Perhaps the main point is to be reminded of the moral from the old folk tale: Be careful of what you wish for, since you just might get it. The United States took a rather righteous position that the [...]

AFP: “France decided Monday to send home an Iranian agent it had jailed for murdering the Shah’s last prime minister, two days after Tehran freed a young French academic accused of spying. Ali Vakili Rad was serving a life sentence for stabbing Shapour Bakhtiar to death at his home outside Paris in August 1991, but [...]

I don’t know much about Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Da Silva, but I like what he has to say regarding Iran. He seems both reasonable and fair. See the al Jazeera interview here.

There are some slogans with which I can identify and there are others that I think are either politically immature or underdeveloped, but one slogan from the recent protests at Shahid Beheshti University really fascinated me. The protesters declared: ما اهل کوفه نیستیم ، نیمه راه بایستیم The translation reads something like this: We are [...]

Here we have Lowkey and Finkelstein breaking it down behind the mic. For those of you who don’t know who Dr. Finkelstein is… he’s a leading academic critic of Israel.  His parents are Holocaust survivors and he has applied the lessons learned from their heroic struggles against fascism to his own battle to end the [...]