Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Leader’

Video : 7 Year Old Girl on Green Revolution

In Crime, History, Internet, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, citizenship, fame on 1 November 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Azadi, Election, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Human Rights, Iran, Iranian election, Persia, Salaam, Sea of Green, Supreme Leader, theocracy, Twitter, Video, Youtube with Comments

آزادی
“[the Supreme Leader] Who has selected the President and Parliament Members“

Speech by 7 year-old girl about #Iran & Greens [Twitter]

Video : Glenn Greenwald OWNS Arianna Huffington

In Afghanistan, Crime, Iran, Iraq, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, TV, Twitter on 5 October 2009 tagged Arianna Huffington, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Barack Hussein Obama, bomb bomb iran, Dylan Ratigan, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Glenn Greenwald, Holocaust, How Would A Partriot Act, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iraq, Israel, John McCain, Lebanon, Madeline Albright, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Morning Meeting, MSNBC, NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY, Nuclear Weapons, Qom, Russia, Sanctions, Secretary of State, Supreme Leader, Syria, The Great American Hypocrites, UN, United Nations, Video, Youtube with Comments

Arianna’s statements about Israel’s existential rights and the Iranian President’s statements referring to that don’t really adequately answer Greenwald’s statements or Dylan Ratigan’s question.
Her statements do very little to try and strike that balance that Ratigan refers to in his question, in fact, it is just more of the standard political rhetoric that the United [...]

Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr’s Examination of Iranian Democracy Before Ahmadinejad’s 2005 Campaign Proves Little Has Changed

In History, Iran, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, citizenship, religion on 22 September 2009 tagged #Iranelection, 2005, 2009, Ali Gheissari, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Democracy, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Green Revolution, Iranian election, Islamic Republic, Jacobin, jurisconsult, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Malaysia, Middle East Policy, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mohammad Khatami, Morocco, Mousavi, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics, protest, reform, Shirin Ebadi, Supreme Leader, theocracy, Ulama, Vali Nasr, vali-e faqih, velayat-e faqih with Comments

While waiting for the School of International Service’s graduate advisor I was reading over an article from the Summer 2004 issue of Middle East Policy about Iran’s democracy.
The Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr authored article was written after Mohammad Khatami’s Presidency failed to bring any real reform or change to Iran and a year [...]

Ahmadinejad Sworn In For Second Term Among Protest

In History, Internet, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, fame on 4 August 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Al Jazeera English, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Basij, Basiji, Democracy, Iran, Iranian election, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Parliament, protest, Reuters, Supreme Leader, Tehran with Comments

Despite heavy protests and a wide division among his people and the Iranian establishment, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been officially sworn in for his second term as the President of Iran.
It remains to be seen how Ahmadinejad will fair as President of Iran among such turmoil, as opposed to being voted in by default due to [...]

Khamenei Endorses Ahmadinejad as President, First Step in Swearing In

In History, Iran, News, Politics, citizenship on 3 August 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, CNN, Iranian election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Press TV, Supreme Leader with Comments

It seems that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is more concerned with having a President he can easily coerce than he is with the will of the people of Iran:
Iran‘s supreme leader endorsed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term in office on Monday, state-run Press TV reported.
Under Iran‘s constitution, the incoming president must receive the [...]