Posts Tagged ‘Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh’

HBO’s Neda Agha-Soltan Documentary

In Crime, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, citizenship, fame, fashion on 16 June 2010 tagged #Iranelection, Ali Ansari, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Azar Nafisi, Green Revolution, HBO, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Tehran with View Comments

“The God I worship is a compassionate and loving God” – Neda Agha Soltan “The whole idea with this [Iranian] regime is that because they confiscated religion and turned it into an ideology, they deprived it of everything that makes religion humane…so this government in fact destroyed the religion by claiming it and confiscating it” [...]

Mousavi and Malalai Joya (?!) Make Time 100

In Afghanistan, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, War, fame on 29 April 2010 tagged #Iranelection, 2003 loya jirga, Banksy, Conan O‘Brien, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Green Revolution, Iranian election, Kathryn Bigelow, loya jirga, Malalai Joya, Marc Jacobs, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, NATO, Shoreh Aghdashloo, Time 100, Time Magazine with View Comments

Time magazine’s list of “100 people who most affect our world,” this year includes notable entries like Banksy, Marc Jacobs, Kathryn Bigelow, Conan O‘Brien and General Stanley McChrystal, but the two most notable entries are Iranian Revolutionary hero and former Presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh and former Afghan Parliamentarian Malalai Joya. Mousavi: The inevitable inclusion [...]

Karroubi Gives Ahmadinejad Less Than 4 Years

In Crime, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics on 25 January 2010 tagged #Iranelection, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Green Revolution, Iran, Iranian election, Karroubi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi with View Comments

Rumors spread today that former Iranian Presidential candidate and opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, announced his recognition of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s highly contested presidency. However, Karoubi’s camp claims his words were misconstrued by the state run FARS News Agency. According to Karoubi’s camp, the opposition leader said that despite a questionable election the Iranian government has an [...]

The Green Revolution is About More Than Twitter

In Crime, History, Internet, Iran, Islam, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Twitter, citizenship, fame on 7 December 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Al Gore, allah hu akbar, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Democracy, Gaza, George W. Bush, Green Revolution, Imperialism, International Reporting, Iran, Iranian election, Israel, Kai Hafez, Karl Von Clausewitz, Lebanon, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Palestine, Robin Brown, Spinning the War, Tehran, The Myth of Globalization, Twitter, war on terror, Zionism with View Comments

In ‘Spinning the War: Political Communications, Information Operations and Public Diplomacy in the War on Terrorism’, Robin Brown refers to a quote from Karl Von Clausewitz that perfectly embodies both the Brown and Kai Hafez (“International Reporting”) pieces on global media “War is nothing more than the continuation of politics“. As both pieces prove, much [...]

Video : U2 Goes Green for Iran During Live Webcast of Los Angeles Concert

In Art, Crime, History, Internet, Iran, Music, News, Opinion, Politics, citizenship, fame on 26 October 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Ahmadinejad, Bono, Green Revolution, Iranian election, Los Angeles, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Radio Tehran, Sea of Green, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Sea of Green, U2, Video, Youtube with View Comments

“All who love freedom, and all who don‘t, we‘re speaking to you. Can you hear us?”