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12th of June will mark the first anniversary of the rigged Iranian election. Some activists in Iran have made a beautiful English song entitles Going Green. I haven’t had a good chance to update here regularly but I have to share this with you and will try to keep here updated with the news during [...]

A video shot by a security personnel (or basiji member) has been released after 8 months showing security forces crackdown on the University of Tehran campus (15th of June 2009, 3 days after the disputed election). The video shows how violent the security forces attack, beat up and arrest the students. In almost all the [...]

Maziar Bahari’s letter to Khamenei (NYT):
Your government issued me a press card. But I was coerced to make a false televised confession admitting that I was acting as an agent of evil Western media. I was forced to say the media are trying to overthrow the Islamic government. I was beaten and threatened with [...]

Yesterday’s demonstrations showed the world that the Green movement is alive and despite all the suppression, imprisonments and killings that the regime did to people they’re still out there fighting the dictatorship. Instead of writing too much I share some links where you can read and see more about these demonstrations:
- CNN’s report showing [...]

Fareed Zakaria compares Iran’s show trials to Stalin’s similar trials:

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With riot police out in force on the streets of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the oath of office Wednesday and began a second term as Iran’s president.
Meanwhile more and more arrests and “confessions” are on the way as yesterday, Mir Hamid Hassanzadeh, who now is an advisor to the general manager of ISNA, was involved [...]

I just read (in Persian) a beautiful description of what happened yesterday in Tehran’s cemetery to the people that were planning to go to Neda’s grave. The description is so poetic and beautiful that I decided to translate it to English to share with you. (read the original text in Persian here)

It is hot. I [...]

Bella Ciao, dedicated to the martyrs of Green movement of Iran, Video with Persian and English translation and pictures of Iranian Green movement.

*Today has been 40 days since Neda was killed, Marking this day memorial was planned on the side of her burial. They didn’t let Mousavi and Karrubi to enter the cemetery and clashed with people using tear gas and baton.
*Watch this video on YouTube where Fareed Zakaria has an interview with a Prof. from Iran [...]