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Hard Liners Slam Rafsanjani
Today’s news is that Iran’s hard liners are not happy. AP reports that Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi accused former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani of encouraging further […]
Eyewitness Account of Friday’s Events in Tehran
From a friend of a friend in Tehran: The past couple of days everyone I met debated back and forth whether to attend Friday Prayer’s […]
Rafsanjani’s Steps to Resolve Iran’s Crisis
What was Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani trying to say in his Friday prayers sermon? (The text is below). The reform movement and its allies among pragmatic […]
Rafsanjani’s Friday Prayers Sermon
The USG Open Source Center translates the second, political, portion of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s Friday prayers sermon. Iran: Rafsanjani Calls For Release of Detainees; Hopes […]
Video of Protests
Tehran Bureau has a collection of this and other amateur video from Friday in Iran. Posted at Youtube 7/17: The URL of Nico Pitney’s live […]
Aljazeera Video Report on Friday’s Events in Iran
Aljazeera English now has a video report on Rafsanjani’s sermon and the Friday protests: Ghanbar Naderi points out that Rafsanjani has a long history of […]
Rafsanjani Sermon Summarized
The USG Open Source Center summarizes Rafsanjani’s sermon on Friday. Full translation to follow. FYI — Iran’s Rafsanjani Gives Tehran Friday SermonsCorrected version; providing updated […]
Eyewitness in Tehran
Made my way down the west side of Laleh Park, large crowed was gathered around a radio listening to Rafi [Rafsanjani] give the sermons, moved […]
Tamaddon Condemns Attack on Karroubi
AFP has more on the beating and cursing by hard liners or the Basij militia of Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist cleric and two-time presidential candidate, […]