To supplement reporting by our colleagues Robert Worth and Nazila Fathi on protests and clashes in Iran on Sunday, The Lede is following news of the events published online. Readers... Full Article at The New York Times
A group of Iranians that includes writers, artists, journalists, humanitarians, and political and social activists living in exile request that the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Peace... Full Article at UK Indymedia Newswire
Fars News Agency One of the photographs of Iranian student leader Majid Tavakoli dressed as a woman published by Iran’s official media outlets this week. Two days after student protests... Full Article at The New York Times
Status Update15: Rumors of Zahra Rahnavard attending protests in Tehran - can't be confirmed Status Update14: No major reformist leader was present during the protests. Full Article at Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish
Ashura is a very symbolic day in our culture and it revives the notion that the innocent were killed by a villain
The clock began to tick for Ayatollah Khameni’s fall from today. Killing people on Ashura shows how far Mr. Khamenei is willing to go to suppress the protests. People are comparing him more with Yazid because they consider him responsible for the order to use violence against people.
Today showed how they do not believe in all the religious slogans they have propagated in the past 30 years to rule.
Iranian police opened fire on protesters in Tehran on Sunday, killing at least four people, including a nephew of the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi, as vast crowds of demonstrators flooded the streets of cities across Iran and fiercely fought security forces, according to witnesses and oppositi...