Shabnam von Hein More female journalists are behind bars in Iran than ever before. Among them are Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, both of whom have been accused of “conspiring against national security.” For a long time, Niloofar Hamedi was a sports reporter. She loves soccer, her colleagues write on social media, posting photos of… Read More Iran launches smear campaign against jailed journalists
Rachel Cooke In this cultural moment, The CaseAgainst the Sexual Revolution could hardly be more radical. It is an act of insurrection, its seditiousness born not only of the pieties it is determined to explode, but of the fact that it is also diligently researched and written in plain English. Did Perry, I wonder, struggle to find a home… Read More The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry review – a potent, plain-speaking womanifesto
Sima Ayan November 15 24 of Aban 1401, all video clips of today begin with the date The strikes begin in earnestShops in many neighborhoods, many shopping centers shut downMost significantly the great bazaar of TehranInternet is not down yet so we watch shuttered shops all over the countryDay time things are pretty normal in… Read More Hopes, dreams and fears in text messages from Tehran
Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as two months of anti-regime demonstrations show no let up. The house in the city of Khomein in the western Markazi province was shown ablaze late on Thursday with crowds of jubilant protesters marching past, according to images… Read More Iranian protesters set fire to Ayatollah Khomeini’s ancestral home
Iranian security forces have shot dead at least two protesters, as demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death swelled on the anniversary of a bloody 2019 crackdown. The protesters were responding to a call to commemorate those slain in the 2019 crackdown, giving new momentum to the demonstrations sparked by the death of 22-year-old Amini in mid-September this… Read More Iranian security forces shoot and kill demonstrators, as mass protests by workers, students and young people continue
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have escalated their assault against widespread dissent and protests through dubious national security charges against detained activists and grossly unfair trials, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 31, 2022, the head of Tehran Province’s judiciary said that it had issued around 1,000 indictments against those arrested related to protests. On October… Read More Iran: Thousands of Detained Protesters and Activists in Peril (HRW)
JUAN COLE NB: Just what I wrote about here, this kind of moronic statement is calculated to assist the theocracy. DS Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At a campaign event in California late on Thursday, President Joe Biden said, “Don’t worry, we’re going to free Iran, they’re going to free themselves pretty soon.” Biden’s pledge drew… Read More Backlash in Iran against President Biden’s vow to “Free” the Country
Setareh Vaziri I am a free woman. It’s a luxury not afforded to the women of my motherland, Iran. As an Australian with Kurdish Iranian heritage, the past six weeks have been a whirlwind of emotion. A cocktail of fear, grief, guilt, pride and hope. Fear for the safety of millions of Iranians living under an… Read More The women of Iran are spearheading a revolution
First posted January 02, 2015 Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson February 2004 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. From September 1978 to February 1979, in the course of a massive urban revolution with millions of participants, the Iranian people toppled the regime of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1941-1979), which had pursued a highly… Read More Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
NB: Iran’s theocracy is an incarnation of evil, a brutal cruel and Satanic force. Lovers of liberty the world over need to expose and resist this force that claims to rule in the name of Allah. DS Patrick Wintour, In a sign of the justice being handed out, Mohammad Ghobadlo, a protester who was arrested… Read More Iran’s justice: a young man sentenced to death for protesting. No lawyers, one hearing. Ayatollah’s tyranny in action
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