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UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
It would seem that the man for whom we tinted our Twitter feeds green is coming out against the proposed nuclear deal with Iran. The saga of the potential Iranian low-enriched uranium export deal continues. The New York Times reports that Iran is preparing a counter-offer, which may or may not include sending partial shipments of its low-enriched-uranium outside the country for further processing....
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Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... holidays has become the choice method of protest for supporters of opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi, who lost a highly contentious election to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier this year. Moussavi’s supporters last appeared in September on Quds Day, an Iranian anti-Israel holiday. The government muffled Monday’s protest more quickly, leading to a number of injuries...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
By ROGER COHEN NYT Ever since June 15 in Tehran I’ve been asking the most alluring and treacherous of historical questions: “What if?” What if the vast protesting crowd of perhaps three million people had turned from Azadi (Freedom) Square toward the presidential complex? What if Mir Hussein Moussavi, the opposition leader, had stood before the throng and said, “Here...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Ever since June 15 in Tehran I’ve been asking the most alluring and treacherous of historical questions: “What if?” Earl Wilson/The New York TimesRoger Cohen What if the vast protesting crowd of perhaps three million people had turned from Azadi (Freedom) Square toward the presidential complex? What if Mir Hussein Moussavi, the opposition leader, had stood before the throng and said,...
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KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... His response: bring it on. Once a second-tier opposition figure operating in the shadow of Mir Hussein Moussavi, his fellow challenger in Iran’s discredited presidential election in June, Mr. Karroubi has emerged in recent months as the last and most defiant opponent of the country’s leadership. The authorities have dismissed as fabrications his accusations of official...
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... His response: bring it on. Once a second-tier opposition figure operating in the shadow of Mir Hussein Moussavi , his fellow challenger in Iran ’s discredited presidential election in June, Mr. Karroubi has emerged in recent months as the last and most defiant opponent of the country’s leadership. The authorities have dismissed as fabrications his accusations of official...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... His response: bring it on. Once a second-tier opposition figure operating in the shadow of Mir Hussein Moussavi , his fellow challenger in Iran ’s discredited presidential election in June, Mr. Karroubi has emerged in recent months as the last and most defiant opponent of the country’s leadership. The authorities have dismissed as fabrications his accusations of official...
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War in Context (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... response: bring it on.Once a second-tier opposition figure operating in the shadow of Mir Hussein Moussavi, his fellow challenger in Iran’s discredited presidential election in June, Mr. Karroubi has emerged in recent months as the last and most defiant opponent of the country’s leadership.The authorities have dismissed as fabrications his accusations of official corruption, voting...
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The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... on June 12, when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won an election that his reformist opponents, Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, declared to have been rigged, setting in motion a large, peaceful protest movement. While it had the support of two former presidents, Mohammad Khatami and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the movement was put down with immense brutality, although it remains,...
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War in Context (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... a few pieces of clothing and his laptop computer, taking pictures of the reformist candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi during the presidential campaign. He did not know that his backpack and his cameras would soon become his only possessions, or that he would be forced to crawl out of the country hiding in a herd of sheep.Mr. Maleki, 29, is one of dozens of reporters, photographers and...
