Category: Reports on Iran and Democracy

Iran Reports – July 7, 2009

Iran Reformists Demand Crackdown Halt
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/07/world/main5139056.shtml

(Iran) France demands release of student Clotilde Reiss by Tehran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6656429.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5770099/Nicolas-Sarkozy-demands-release-of-French-teacher-in-Iran.html

Iran security agents in spotlight for plainclothed brutality
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/08/plainclothed-brutality/?feat=home_cube_position2

(Iran) Video report: “10 years old boy shot by Iranian regime”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YAeZgJanjo

(Iran) Ahmadinejad says Iran election was world’s “freest”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090707/wl_nm/us_iran_opposition_4
— Ahmadinejad heralds ‘new era’ for Iran
— “In first national speech since Khameini declared results, Iranian president insists election ‘clean'”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443745925&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Iran) Ahmadinejad vows changes to team
— “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to make changes to his team and ‘respect’ young people when his new government takes office after his disputed re-election”
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25750242-23109,00.html

Iran Reports – July 6, 2009

Iranian dissenters embark on campaign of covert civil disobedience
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6653179.ece

(Iran) Mousavi Promises To Continue Protests
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070602962.html?hpid=moreheadlines

(Iran) Aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls Mousavi a U.S. Agent
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530024,00.html?test=latestnews

Iran clerics declare election invalid and condemn crackdown
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6644817.ece

(Iran) Report: Iran to prosecute satellite TV contributors
— “In another move to crack down on information flowing out of Iran, the Islamic Republic’s judicial chief has ordered
the prosecution of individuals ‘who cooperate with satellite television programming providers,’ a reformist newspaper reported Sunday”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.communication.crackdown/index.html

(Iran) France’s Nicholas Sarkozy condemns Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5759522/Nicholas-Sarkozy-condemns-Iran.html

Iranian lawyer ‘to meet’ detained embassy official
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5741111/Iranian-lawyer-to-meet-detained-British-Embassy-official.html

Iran backing down over arrests as reporter freed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5752775/Iran-backing-down-over-arrests-as-reporter-freed.html

Iran frees Washington Times reporter amid fresh vote claims
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Middle-East/Iran-frees-Washington-Times-reporter-amid-fresh-vote-claims/articleshow/4741369.cms

Iran Reports – July 2, 2009

(Iran) AP: “Iran’s reformists call Islamic regime illegitimate”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_625

Iran arrests 7 allegedly tied to exiles in France
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31711133/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

(Iran) Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran
— “Human rights worker says fear ‘has permeated society’ in Iran”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/02/iran.information/index.html

Iran says arrested Newsweek journalist has ‘confessed’ — Maziar Bahari
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/July/middleeast_July44.xml&section=middleeast
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/iran.newsweek/index.html?section=cnn_latest
— NEWSWEEK issues Statement on Maziar Bahari and calls for his immediate release
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204899
http://www.newsweek.com/id/203036?tid=relatedcl

Iran Reports – July 1, 2009

Iran election: faces of the dead and detained
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jun/29/iran-election-dead-detained

Iran militia wants probe of opposition leader
http://www.ktnv.com/global/story.asp?s=10623958
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3491729668

(Iran) Mir-Hossein Mousavi calls Iran election illegitimate in renewed defiance of ayatollah
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5711930/Mir-Hossein-Mousavi-calls-Iran-election-illegitimate-in-renewed-defiance-of-ayatollah.html

(Iran) Opposition leaders court arrest by defying Ahmadinejad
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6618756.ece

Iran reform leader calls election illegitimate
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_615
— Reformists question legitimacy of Iran’s government
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/iran.election/index.html

Iranian Government Says Neda Soltan’s Murder Was ‘Staged’
— “according to Iran’s Press TV, police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqadam declared Wednesday that the shooting was a ‘prearranged scenario’ — a ‘premeditated act of murder’ that could not have been committed by Iranian police.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529780,00.html

‘This Iranian Form of Theocracy Has Failed’ — Iranian theologian and philosopher Mohsen Kadivar
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,633517,00.html

Iranian Majlis Member Ghodratollah Alikhani in Majlis: The People’s Trust in This Country’s Regime and Leaders Has Been Fractured
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD242709

(Iran) UK: More Tehran embassy staff freed
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25721523-23109,00.html

‘EU might pull ambassadors from Iran’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443695255&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iran Reports – June 30, 2009

(Iran) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns of revenge on pro-democracy states
— “Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned the regime would seek revenge against states it has accused of fanning pro-democracy demonstrations in the wake of its disputed election”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5698913/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-warns-of-revenge-on-pro-democracy-states.html

Iran declares election fight over, vote valid
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7962962
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_607

Iran election: Mir-Hossein Mousavi tells supporters to keep protesting
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5696692/Iran-election-Mir-Hossein-Mousavi-tells-supporters-to-keep-protesting.html

Amir Taheri writes “The fight for Iran’s future is far from over”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6605062.ece

“Out of sight, Iran remains on the brink”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3725291/out-of-sight-iran-remains-on-the-brink.thtml

“U.S. dollars could kill Iran’s protest movement”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/30/dabashi.us.iran/index.html

MEMRI: “Iranian Parliament Speaker Hadad Adel: BBC Teeming with Bahais; Stands for ‘Bahai Broadcasting Company'”
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD242609

MEMRI: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Criticizes U.S. President Obama for Interfering in Iran’s Elections
Dispute: ‘He Has Removed His Mask'”
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD242509

Iran Reports – June 29, 2009

Iran says partial recount shows election valid
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_593

Iran recount seen as bid to placate opposition
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_591

Iran releases five British embassy workers after diplomatic protest by Miliband
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6600119.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5681889/Iran-says-some-arrested-British-embassy-employees-released.html

(Iran) Hillary Clinton and Gordon Brown condemned Iran’s detention of embassy workers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5688972/Hillary-Clinton-and-Gordon-Brown-condemned-Irans-detention-of-embassy-workers.html

MEMRI Iranian Media Blog
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=Announcement9909

Iran: Ahmadinejad orders probe into student’s death
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3483154540

Iran Reports – June 28, 2009

(Iran) New clashes in Iran as standoff worsens with West
— “Witnesses said riot police used tear gas and clubs to break up a crowd of up to 3,000 protesters who had gathered near north Tehran’s Ghoba Mosque”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election

Iran’s mass arrests: Broadest since 1979 Islamic revolution
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0628/p06s01-wome.html

Iran arrests British embassy staff
— “Eight British embassy employees in Tehran have been arrested in a sharp escalation of the diplomatic row between Iran and the UK”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5672787/Iran-arrests-British-embassy-staff.html
— British fury as Iran arrests nine embassy workers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6597815.ece

Iran allows demonstration despite weekend clampdown
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.demonstration/index.html

(Iran) Report: Hospitalized Iranians seized
— “Iranians wounded during protests are being seized at hospitals by members of an Islamic militia, an
Amnesty International official told CNN.”
— “‘The Basijis are waiting for them,’ said Banafsheh Akhlaghi”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/27/iran.protests/index.html

(Iran) Tehran protest diary, week two: an angry Muslim mother reports from within Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5662061/Tehran-protest-diary-week-two-an-angry-Muslim-mother-reports-from-within-Iran.html

Iran opposition rejects partial recount
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25704323-23109,00.html

(Iran) Khamenei blasts West for ‘idiotic remarks’: TV
http://geo.tv/6-28-2009/45027.htm

Iran’s Press TV disputes story of Neda’s death
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.neda.dispute/index.html