Irfan Yusuf: Repressive Islamic rule loses its lustre in Iran NZ Herald Page 1 of 2 4:00AM Thursday Jun 11, 2009 | By Irfan Yusuf | Most Iranians are under 30 and ready for change. Photo / AP | It's not often the leader of the free world publicly acknowledges his country sabotaged the democracy of another country. | Yet this is exactly what United States President Barac...
Christina Patterson: The true religion of Iran is not Islam The Independent | If you want to make a woman feel like a slut, just give her a headscarf. Hair which hitherto caused anxiety only for its recalcitrant frizziness, or greasiness, or stubborn, rogue curls is instantly transformed from neutral, necessary framing of too-tired, too-wrinkled or too-blotchy face into gli...
Iran's reformists call Islamic regime illegitimate Tulsa World EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official st...
Iran's reformists call Islamic regime illegitimate The Miami Herald | EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official ...
Iran marks 30 years of Islamic revolution Middle East Online TEHRAN - Tens of thousands of Iranians chanting anti-US slogans took to streets of Tehran on Tuesday for a mass rally marking 30 years since the Islamic revolution toppled the US-b...
Iran Protests Spotlight Nonviolent Action in Muslim Societies The Progressive | Regardless of how things ultimately pan out in Iran, the protests against the election results in that country provide us yet another example of the use of nonviolent civil disobedience in the Islamic world. | Indeed, defeated presidential candidat...
Tehran: a coup by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? The Examiner Comment RSS Email Print | Insert photo caption or credit here | The historical scenario playing out in Iran these days is looking more and more like 1795 France. If you remember, I cited the “whiff of grapeshot” that suppressed...
Saddam Hussein faked WMDs to fool Iran The Australian | EIGHTEEN months before he was hanged, Saddam Hussein told the FBI he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, reports said yesterday. | According to declassified accounts of the FBI interviews released yesterday, the former Iraqi president said he felt so vulnerable to th...
Women of Iran (Part 2) The Examiner Comment RSS Email Print | (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) | Currently Iranian men have sole right to divorce and to child custody. One man's testimony equals that of two women in court. Men can ban their wives from working outside the home. A man’s is worth twice as much as a woman in cases involving murder or bodily injury. A ...
