Harry's Place (Free subscription) | yesterday
... central role in the insurrections of Iran’s modern history. On Tuesday, the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi — who was prevented from attending Monday’s demonstrations — had a tense standoff with angry security men who had surrounded his office, according to opposition Web sites. As Mr. Moussavi was leaving his office in a car, dozens of men on motorbikes, some wearing...
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....
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
One of the reasons that the Ahmadinejad - Khameni regime has not purged its enemies in Iran over the last six months is that Ayatollah Khameni fears the man pictured in the top left of this post: Mir Hossein Mousavi. Mousavi is a consummate insider in Iran, and is no less ruthless than Ahamdinejad and Khameni.While a purge to uproot supporters of Mir Hussein Moussavi, Ahmadinejad’s...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... 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 I stand with you and here I will fall'” What, in short, if Azadi had been Prague’s Wenceslas Square of 20 years ago and Moussavi had been Vaclav Havel'This absolutely pathetic...
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... 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 I stand with you and here I will fall'” What, in short, if Azadi had been Prague’s Wenceslas Square of 20 years ago and Moussavi had been Vaclav Havel? This absolutely pathetic piece, which has...
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...
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...
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,...
