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IRAN: Ahmadinejad Victory Sparks Protests and Claims of Fraud
SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 13 (IPS) - Just a few months after a right-wing government gained...
Iran on the move
OpenDemocracy.org-Iran has experienced of one of the most exciting presidential elections...
IRAN: Reformist Candidates Complain of Too Many Ballots
SAN FRANCISCO, U.S., Jun 9 (IPS) - Fears that the state apparatus controlled by Iranian...
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A coup Manual: What We should Know About Iran’s Election?
HuffPo- The foreign media and western states are confused and puzzled as to how to...
What Should President Obama Tell the Muslim World in Cairo?
President Obama’s decision to give a speech in Egypt on June 4th, one of the most...
Foreign Policy 101: What President Obama Could Learn…
For President Obama, who already has shown his desire to talk to Iranian leaders,...
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Q&A: Notes From Iran’s Underground Music Scene
BERKELEY, California, Jun 4 (IPS) - As Iran’s conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fights for his political future against two reformist challengers in the June elections, Arash Sobhani, a lead figure in the country’s underground music scene, says it’s a very tough time to be an artist in Iran. “At the beginning of his [Ahmadinejad’s]... [Read more of this review]
IREX VP: “Our Program Was Completely Consistent With Iran’s National Interest”
Huffington Post- “IREX never imagined that anyone could construe our program in Iran to be inconsistent with any interest of the Iranian government,” said Paige Alexander Vice President of the U.S.-based non-profit regarding the arrest and imprisonment of the organization’s employee, Silva Haratonian, last year in Iran. Silva Harotonian,... [Read more of this review]
Q&A: Islamophobia Alive and Well in the U.S.
BERKELEY, California, Apr 24 (IPS) - In an Apr. 6 address to the Turkish Parliament on the final day of his European trip, President Barack Obama praised Muslim Americans for “enriching the United States”. However, according to Dr. Munir Jiwa, director of the Centre for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union of the University... [Read more of this review]
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