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Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri
Read about the death of the leading reformist Iranian cleric here
Watch Karoubi’s rare interview with the BBC here.
Abtahi before and during his trial
The prosecution and show trials of those against the stolen election continues. Above is Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the former Vice-President and reformist blogger as he appeared before and during his trial. He is now blogging from prison and writes there was no significant election fraud. He certainly looks like a man who has been broken. As Grouch Marx once said, “Are you going to believe me or your own lying eyes?”
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
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.
Network 20/20 member George Billard’s video (one of a series) on preventing nuclear terrorism. Based upon Graham Allison’s Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. Watch the whole series here.
Obama reaches out to Iranians on the occasion of Nowruz, the New Year.
Forget Iran, Iraq, and North Korea—Bush’s “Axis of Evil.” As economic calamity meets political and social turmoil, the world’s worst problems may come from countries like Somalia, Russia, and Mexico. And they’re just the beginning.
Read the rest of Niall Fergusons analysis here.
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