Category: Reports on Iran and Democracy

– reports of protests at UN or Union Square Park 3 PM, Statue of Liberty 3:30 PM
— reports of planned protest at United Nations (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza,47th street and 1st avenue, NYC )
— reports of planned protest at the Statue of Liberty, Saturday, June 27th, 3:30-4 pm, Battery Park
— report on Statue of Liberty protest  from Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi
— background on Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

(Iran) U.S. Officials: Iran Opposition Leader’s Web Site Shut Down, Supporters ‘Tortured’ Into Confessions
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529267,00.html?test=latestnews

Iran’s security council tells Moussavi to back off
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/26/iran.election.moussavi/index.html

CNN: Iran Election Fallout
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/iran.elections/

Iran bans Mousavi ally from leaving the country
— “Abolfazl Fateh, head of Mousavi’s media office”
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLR12028420090627

Amnesty: Iran journalists should be freed
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/27/Amnesty-Iran-journalists-should-be-freed/UPI-97011246107981/

(Iran) What will become of Iran’s “stiletto revolution” now?
— “In a country where the repression of women’s rights is the norm, and where Muslim extremists brutally
enforce the state’s requirement that women dress modestly at all times, the contribution of Iran’s women
to the anti-government protests has been pivotal to maintaining the reform movement’s momentum in the
face of the Islamic regime’s increasingly viscous response”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5651664/What-will-become-of-Irans-stiletto-revolution-now.html

Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks President Barack Obama for “interfering” in election
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5663401/Irans-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-attacks-President-Barack-Obama-for-interfering-in-election.html

CNN: “‘Punished mercilessly’ — Is this Islam?”
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/27/punished-mercilessly-is-this-islam/

Iranian cleric says “rioters” should be executed
— Ahmad Khatami: “without showing any mercy”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090626/wl_nm/us_iran_election
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6583797.ece

Iranian cleric: harsh punishment for riot leaders — Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami
— “A leading cleric demanded in a nationally broadcast sermon Friday that leaders of the unrest be punished ‘strongly and with cruelty.'”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7935256
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election
— Iran: Cleric calls for ‘savage’ punishment for protesters
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3472488496

(Iran) Mousavi backs away from Iran street protests
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31564910/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Iran election: Tehran backs Hizbollah operations around world
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5651837/Iran-election-Tehran-backs-Hizbollah-operations-around-world.html
— Hizbullah accuses West of fomenting turmoil in Iran
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=185052

(Iran) NYC: Planned Iranian Democracy Protests in NYC on Saturday June 27
https://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/nyc-protests-june-27/

(Iran) Europe: Iranians mobilizing
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/06/europe-iranians-mobilizing.html

(Iran) Sweden: Protesters break into Iranian embassy in Sweden
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWEDEN_IRAN_EMBASSY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-06-26-12-07-35

Iran election: G8 foreign ministers condemn violence
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5648281/Iran-election-G8-foreign-ministers-condemn-violence.html
— G8 considers condemning Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5645932/G8-considers-condemning-Iran.html

Iranian Electoral watchdog says disputed vote Iran’s ‘cleanest’
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/June/middleeast_June880.xml&section=middleeast

(Iran) Communist China wants Ahmadinejad election recognized
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/23/china-wants-ahmadinejad-election-recognized/?feat=article_top10_read

Iranian protesters avoid censorship with Navy technology
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/26/protesters-use-navy-technology-to-avoid-censorship/?feat=home_headlines

Iranian envoy: CIA involved in Neda’s shooting?
— Iranian Ambassador to Mexico Mohammad Hassan Ghadir blames CIA
— “Media aren’t reporting on pro-Ahmadinejad demonstrations, he says”
— “CIA spokesman says idea is ‘wrong, absurd and offensive'”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/25/iran.ambassador/index.html

(Iran) Arab Activists Watch Iran And Wonder: ‘Why Not Us?’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504415.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

(Iran) Where is Soroush? – by Gary Johnson
http://unitedagainstislamicsupremacism.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/where-is-soroush/
— Wikipedia states: Souroush seeks a “religious democracy”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdolkarim_Soroush#Religious_democracy

(Iran) Riot police crush protests in Tehran amid allegations of brutality
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6571608.ece

Iran protesters alter tactics to avoid death
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/opposition-alters-tactics-to-avoid-protest-deaths/

Iran: Mousavi warns of more protests
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3468546581

Iran reform leader says he won’t end his challenge
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_502
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7924049
— Iran opposition delays rally after crackdown
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/25/iran.election/index.html

Iranian says militiaman killed protester
https://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/militiaman-killed-neda/
— “Doctor claims he was at Neda’s side, says she died ‘fighting for basic rights'”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31551388/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
— Doctor tells how Neda Soltan was shot dead by Ahmadinejad’s basij
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6579626.ece
— Doctor who tended Neda Soltan breaks his silence
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6579675.ece

(Iran) Under the Islamic umbrella: Hardliners and reformers both want to keep Iran a theocracy – By Sanam Vakil
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/06/25/2009-06-25_under_the_islamic_umbrella_irans_hardliners_and_protesters_agree_on_more_than_yo.html

Iran’s women protesters: headscarves and rocks
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=103481

(Iran) Two weeks after: Iran rallies fade, elite split
http://www.globalpost.com/breaking-news/general/thousands-mousavi-supporters-march-tehran-0

(Iran) Eight Iran militiamen killed in vote unrest
http://geo.tv/6-25-2009/44852.htm

Iranian Filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf: Ahmadinejad Has Soiled the Streets of Iran with Blood
and Wants to Lead the Region to War
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD241509

(Iran) Televised Iranian confessions decried
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/25/Televised-Iranian-confessions-decried/UPI-61171245969244/

Iran expected to dominate G8 meeting in Italy
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_ITALY_G8?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-06-25-17-11-31

(Iran) Money floods out of Iran as election crisis continues
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5639393/Money-floods-out-of-Iran-as-election-crisis-continues.html

(Iran/U.S.) Ahmadinejad warns Obama not to comment on Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5639668/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-warns-Barack-Obama-that-support-for-protesters-could-end-rapprochement.html

(Iran) “Two women who witnessed the protests and violence in post-election Iran are in the U.S.”
— CNN Video
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/06/24/rowlands.us.iran.arrivals.cnn

(Iran) Statement From Iranian Women’s Rights Activists
http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2009/06/23/statement-from-iranian-womens-rights-activists/

Iran Opposition Leader’s Wife: Let Protesters Go
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528823,00.html

Iran arrests foreign nationals in connection with protests
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.election/index.html

CNN Roland Martin “Commentary: U.S. should leave Iran alone”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/martin.obama.iran/index.html