Nahid Siamdoust, TIME magazine correspondent in Tehran, reports on the latest in her country. Britain’s Channel 4 has exclusive pictures:
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Just some friendly Zionist help
Is Israel involved in the Twitter campaign to cover the turmoil in Iran?
All we know is that the noise is growing
The latest on the crisis in Iran. Violence, state brutality, Twitter and resistance.
Watch the rage rise
The New York Times has a good feature on the political realities in Iran; President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a powerful and shrewd man: Whether his 63 percent victory is truly the will of the people or the result of fraud, it demonstrated that Mr. Ahmadinejad is the shrewd and ruthless front man for a clerical,…
Good Zionists are really hard to find
Any Jewish leaders want to condemn the rantings of confirmed Zionist Frank Gaffney, here writing last week in the Washington Times about Obama’s Cairo speech? No, didn’t think so, far better to keep crazy Israel lovers on our side: The man now happy to have his Islamic-rooted middle name featured prominently has engaged in the…
We should support the real democrats
The situation in Iran remains dire, unstable and dangerous. Israel is pleased, of course. Some of the most interesting analysis is on The Washington Note. Here, here and here. Something serious is brewing: Last night in London after appearing on Keith Olbermann’s show, I got an email from a well-connected Iranian who knows many of…
It’s democracy, but not as we know it
Robert Fisk, writing in Iran before the contested election result, on the contradictory nature of life in Tehran.
The Iranian crisis
An Iranian revolution, of sorts, that challenges the clerical rule of the mullahs. It’s the kind of attitudes I saw and heard during my time in the country in 2007. One can only hold back greater freedom for so long before a people will explode: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about…
How to kill Persians with a smile
Deakin University’s Scott Burchill documents freaks of nature: Pomeranians are small, extroverted dogs with origins traceable to Egypt, who can develop the habit of barking excessively if their behaviour is rewarded (i.e. allowed to beg for food). Bombiranians are a small group of extroverted neo-cons, primarily Zionist and traceable to Israel and the US, who…
The West should stay hopeful
Robert Fisk on the weird world of Iranian politics: It is certainly odd that Ahmadinejad denies Hitler’s greatest crime and then accuses his opponents of being Hitler. If Hitler didn’t kill the Jews of Europe, which crimes, one wonders, was Iran’s weird President thinking of?