by Sadra | Dec 28, 2009 | Blog
The police opened fire on protesters, killing at least 10 people, including a nephew of the opposition leader, as demonstrators flooded the streets. The protests, during the holiday commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, Shiite Islam’s holiest martyr, were the...
by Sadra | Dec 28, 2009 | Blog
Andrew Sullivan examines this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou8AicDaZb8 where at the 3 minute mark you see what is thought to be a Basij take off his gear/helmet to join a cheering crowd. There seems to be a group of Basij that in witnessing the alleged defect...
by Sadra | Dec 28, 2009 | Blog
During today’s protests in Iran, as always, Twitter saw a surge of tweets from protests in Iran giving updates on the latest developments and using Twitter for coordination purposes. However, this time around, people in China quickly joined Iranians in spreading the...
by Sadra | Dec 28, 2009 | Blog
Robin Wright, a journalist who knows about Iran and its revolution from her experience working there, has written an article calling the opposition movement in Iran “the most vibrant and imaginative civil disobedience campaign in the world. ” In her...
by Sadra | Dec 28, 2009 | Blog
Rumors flew around yesterday, many of which have been confirmed: shots were fired into crowds and an untold number were wounded and killed. Mir Hossein Mousavi’s nephew was shot in what seems to have been a targeted assassination, human rights defenders and...
