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Is a new Iranian revolution brewing?
If this turns out to be a serious challenge to the very legitimacy of the Islamic Republic's system of government, we should not be surprised to see the Iranian precedent spilling over into other, Arab, parts of the Middle East,...
Category: Articles / TextsIran prepared to track dissent on social networks - with Siemens technology
Iran had acquired what is known as a "monitoring center" from Nokia-Siemens-Network. The computer servers and software in the monitoring center allow Iran's telephone company to monitor a vast array of wireless traffic including... >>
Category: Articles / TextsProtests aren't enough to topple the Islamic Republic
Khamenei can weather the public's disdain so long as the Revolutionary Guard serves as his Praetorian Guard. Guardsmen are not stationed in their home cities so that they do not hesitate to fire on crowds that might include...
Category: Articles / TextsIran, Revealed
When unstable, ambitious and ideologically extreme tyrannies get the bomb, the menace can extend worldwide. In that sense, Mr. Khamenei has done us all a favor by revealing what kind of government Iran will have as long as he's...
Category: Articles / TextsCaroline Glick: Israel's rare opportunity
Israel would be doing the right thing morally and so would earn the respect of millions of people throughout the world who are dismayed at their own governments' silence in the face of the brave Iranian protesters risking their...
Category: Articles / TextsFeminist Students in Iran: "Please, do not leave us alone!"
As we write to you our hand trembles. We are afraid as we have never been before. However, there is a glimmer of hope for change and pride in our people who are generating the change. Iran will never revert to what it was before.
Category: Articles / TextsIran's women march against discrimination
The young Iranian woman pondered the possibility that the rest of her life might be different from her mother's. She could see glimmers of a future free from discrimination -- and all the symbols of it, including the...
Category: Articles / TextsDon't meddle, but help create a template for Iranians to act
While workers go without wages for months on end, the Iranian leadership invests billions in nuclear and ballistic missile programs or exporting the revolution. The development of independent trade unions in Iran is a trend Obama...
Category: Articles / TextsWhat Iran has been doing while you were watching the protests
This crisis provides an opportunity to demonstrate to the regime that it will face multilateral penalties for flouting international norms, a lesson clearly transferrable to the nuclear question.
Category: Articles / TextsThe Protests – A Civil Revolution?
According to reports, in the past few days the protestors have been distributing a seven-article manifesto. A national common denominator emerged - namely rage over the election fraud - which spans all sectors of Iranian civil...
Category: Articles / TextsDeath of the Islamic Republic in 5 Acts
In the coming days we will probably see the Final Act: a systematic purge of anyone who opposes Iran's new Caesar. Ahmadenejad has promised as much, and he is bound to deliver.
Category: Articles / TextsIran’s Hidden Revolution
The real revolution has gone unnoticed: the guard has effected a silent coup d’état. In the most dramatic turnabout since the 1979 revolution, Iran has evolved from theocratic state to military dictatorship.
Category: Articles / Texts'Hamas helping Iran crush dissent'
Text + Video: Palestinian Hamas members are helping the Iranian authorities crush street protests. The Palestinian Islamist movement receives arms and funding from Iran, and its members have often received training there.
Category: Articles / TextsU.N. Atomic Energy Chief Says Iran Wants Bomb Technology
Nuclear weapons technology, he said, was “the road to get that recognition, to get that power and prestige. It is also an insurance policy against what they have heard in the past about regime change.”
Category: Articles / TextsVideo: Open Letter to the World
Iranian Artists in Exile: Friends, we ask you not to let 70 million people in Iran be taken hostage. Any government that accepts Mahmood Ahmadinejad as the new president of Iran has betrayed the Iranian people, endangered world...
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