The world has walked out on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after his hate-filled, anti-Semitic speech to the UN. In an exclusive interview, Newsweek grills the embattled leader over his continued Holocaust denial and nuclear ambitions.
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How the Falun Gong powered Iran’s protests
When it comes to subverting government internet censorship, few are more experienced than China’s Falun Gong. So when Iranians started using the net to organise protests, the Falun Gong thought they’d lend a hand…
Meet Ahmadinejad’s Cabinet nominees
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has identified six of the ministers he intends to nominate for his new cabinet — naming three women in the mix in an apparent move to improve his embattled image.
The revolution will not be tweeted
During post-election activity, we saw 220,000 tweets an hour about Iran, 3000 Iranian YouTube videos, 2 million blog posts, and Mir-Hussein Mousavi’s 100,000 friends on Facebook… but no revolution. Are we tweeting while Tehran burns? asks Jonathan V. Last.
Trials in Tehran: West blamed for unrest
The trial of three Westerners in Tehran has become an attack against Western imperialism. “You are no longer a superpower. We are.” said a sign in front of the British embassy.
US backflip as “elected leader” Ahmadinjed is sworn in
As Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in for his second term as President, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is in damage control after describing him as the “elected leader” of Iran. “He’s been inaugurated. That’s a fact. Whether any election was fair…”
Hillary’s secret conference on Iran
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently held a secure video conference to discuss Iran with 20 State Department officials from around the world. Foreign Policy dishes the inside dirt.
Newsweek fight on for journo’s freedom in Iran
Newsweek continues to pile the pressure on Iran to free journalist Maziar Bahari, who has been detained there since the post-election riots in June, using petitions, editorial and even taking out full-page ads in The NYTimes and WSJ calling for his release.
Inside Iran’s show trials
Iran’s mass trials of 100 post-election protesters are “transparently ludicrous”, says Pejman Yousefzadeh — but this is not a regime concerned with legitimacy.
Iran: ready, willing and able to build a nuke
Iran now has the technology and know-how to create — and detonate — a nuclear warhead, according to The Times. Intelligence sources say the country could produce their own bomb is as little as a year.
Iran’s “show trial” divides a nation
100 Iranian activists have appeared in court, accused of inciting violence in the wake of June’s presidential election. Opposition spokespeople have derided the events as merely a “show trial”, but hardliners are pushing for even more arrests
Iran’s “mass show trial” begins
100 Iranian activists have appeared in court over accused of inciting violence in the wake of June’s presidential election, in what opposition spokespeople are deriding as merely a “show trial”.
Calling Tehran: Protestors await call to take to the streets again
As reports surface of Mousavi’s renewed calls to protest, Sophie Black touched base with the anonymous Iranian refugee who speaks to his brother in Tehran on a regular basis.
Mousavi piles the pressure on Ahmadinejad
Mir Hossein Mousavi is stepping up the verbal attacks on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the embattled Iranian president continues to butt heads with colleagues and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the Iranian opposition leader “smells blood”.
Visualising millions of Iran tweets
At its peak, a search for “Iran” on Twitter was generaing over 100,000 tweets per day. Here’s what that looks like, in graph form. The results are quite engaging.
Iran’s religious cleansing
Political dissidents aren’t the only people facing brutal treatment in Iran: the country’s non-Muslim minorities are regularly persecuted by both state and society. So why doesn’t the West take notice?
Why we should learn to stop worrying and love Iran’s bombs
The attention being paid to Iran’s nuclear program is way out of proportion, says Joe Klein: recent intelligence says they don’t have one, and even if they did, a regional arms race would be more likely than a nuclear war.
Iranian Basij militia member tells of violence, rape and executions
An anonymous member of Iran’s Basij militia has told the Jerusalem Post of his role in suppressing protesters during the recent post-election riots, as well as acts of physical and sexual violence conducted by the paramilitary group.
Ahmadinejad: Iran’s own Berlusconi
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not the hero of the Islamist poor, but a kind of Iranian Berlusconi whose mixture of clownish posturing and ruthless power politics is causing unease even among the ayatollahs, says Slavoj Žižek.
Iranians boycott Nokia for ‘collaboration’
Sales of Nokia handsets have plummeted in Iran as consumers boycott the company for selling surveillance equipment to the regime.
Newsweek defend imprisoned journalist
Newsweek’s Iranian correspondent Maziar Bahari has been imprisoned in Iran since 21 June, without formal charges or access to a lawyer. The news-magazine call on the Iranian government for justice.
Exiled Iranian cartoonist Nik Kowsar is nuts
Iranian-born political cartoonist Nik Kowsar has been jailed and sent death threats for his refusal to cease publishing his cartoon criticisms of the Iranian leadership. “As a cartoonist in Iran, you should be nuts,” he tells the Washington Post,/em>. “I was nuts.”
Guy Rundle: Friday drive-bys: breaching Godwin’s law
Rundle talks Blair and Bolt breaking Godwin’s law, coverage of the Xinjiang riots and Annabel Crabb beating out Jacko.
Iran protests, then and now
Ahmad Batebi, an icon of Iranian student protests that took place 10 years ago speaks to The Daily Beast about the latest wave of uprising and dissent in the country — and why he believes it is unstoppable.
Iran protestor deaths covered up
A doctor working in Tehran writes in the Guardian that the death toll from the post-election protests is far higher than the official figure of 20, and that medical staff are being pressured to cover up the real figures.
