Posted on 23 November 2009.
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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Posted on 16 November 2009.
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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Posted on 17 August 2009.
Photo: Oliver Laban-Mattei for AFP/Getty
BY MAHBOD SERAJI
As the 40th day of Neda’s death was commemorated in Iran a few days ago, and [I learned] that a staggering number of 4,000 people were detained in protests that followed June’s disputed presidential election, I was reminded of my years there as a high school student just before the Islamic Revolution subdued the country and cast it into a nightmare from which it is still trying to awaken 30 years later.
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Posted on 30 July 2009.
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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Posted on 30 July 2009.
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Posted on 30 July 2009.
One of the first chants heard in the video above is: “Iraani mimirad, mellat nemipazirad!” (An Iranian dies, the public does not accept!)
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Posted on 29 July 2009.
Original Photo via: DailyMail
As international support for the people of Iran continues to increase every minute on an array of platforms – online, fashion runways, music concerts, and world rallies – one of the world’s biggest soccer stars Francesco Totti joins the pack.
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Posted on 19 June 2009.
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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