Original Photo: AP/Hossein Salehi Ara

Watch Iranian writer (and much more), Maziar Bahari, talk to 60 Minutes‘ Bob Simon about his imprisonment and recent release from Tehran’s uber-jail Evin, in an interview that aired on Sunday November 22nd.

We’re just grateful that Bahari was able to make it out alive, despite the torture and interrogation (Basiji/Sepahi style) he says he experienced while in detainment at Evin prison in Iran.

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After years of quietly and elusively adding his mark to LA’s concrete landscape, Iranian-born artist ABCNT started to gain rising recognition in the Iranian-American community with his iconic political posters of Neda, Taraneh and Mossadeq in the wake of this summer’s stolen elections in Iran.

Shot and directed by Nima Nabavi, this short video reveals some of the mechanics that drive this hidden artist to create.

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You must watch this video of one of the most clever protest platforms we’ve seen thus far, used to voice distaste against Ahmadinejad yesterday in New York.

The art installation consists of people dressed in all white clothing to double as a “human screen” while a compilation of videos and images from this summer’s protests in Iran are projected on them.

Sad but powerful.

Yesterday, AFP reported that Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel (and 44 other Nobel prize winners) showed support for Iranians and their efforts, telling them: “Do not lose hope.”

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Photo Credit: Farhad Rajabali/Gooya

By Persianesque.com reader 

My dear Iranian friend,
 
I hope you are safe as you read this [letter].  

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Translated by Soraya Cochran.

It’s Friday 29th of Khordaad 1388 (June 19, 2009), tomorrow is Saturday – tomorrow is a destiny-building day.

Tonight the sounds of Allah-o-Akbar (God is great) are being heard louder than the previous nights

Where is this?

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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians gather @ Azadi Square in Tehran -- Image via AFP

Finally reacting to the Iranian election aftermath, President Obama said, “obviously all of us have been watching the news from Iran and I want to start off by being very clear that it’s up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be… we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran – which sometimes the US can be a handy political football – having said all that, I’m deeply troubled by the violence that I’m seeing on television.“

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“The Iranian election was bald-faced election fraud perpetrated by a powerful intelligence unit known as the Pasdaran,” writes Dr. Reza Aslan for The Daily Beast.

During his appearance alongside Iranian-American author Afshin Molavi on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN Sunday June 14, 2009, Iranian-American scholar Dr. Reza Aslan said, “Iran, believe it or not feals threatened by the united states. Afterall we literally surround Iran with american troops. We have encircled them basically.”

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So much for banning online social-networking site: Facebook and  the video-sharing site; Youtube!

Check out a Mousavi campaign-video featuring Iranian stars supporting the Iranian Presidential candidate, whose campaign revolves around “ta’a-gheer” (change).

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