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Women In Iran’s Reformist Movement

June 28, 2009 in Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khamenei, CFR, Council on Foreign Relations, Democracy, Elections, Iran, Isobel Coleman, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Neda, Neda Agha Soltan, Reform, Women | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

Students in Tehran, 2006

Students in Tehran, 2006

Women have been on the front lines of the reform movement in Iran.  Read the CFR’s Isobel Coleman’s take on Iran’s not-so-silent activists  here

Iran Unspools

June 28, 2009 in Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khamenei, Democracy, Elections, Iran, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, protests | Tags: , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

Iranians have bravely turned out in the streets to question the crowning of President Ahmadinejad.  What was first a protest over votes has turned into a violent confrontation over the future of the Republic. Read an overview here.