Los Angeles (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In our post-election blues, many pundits have started a post-mortem exploration of what went wrong with the […]
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OSC: Shariatmadari: Try Mousavi and Karroubi
The USG Open Source Center translates a hard line editorial by an adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling for opposition leaders Mir Hosain Mousavi […]
Mediterranean Piracy on the Fourth
US hostages held in foreign country on Fourth of July, including a former Congresswoman, after having been captured in a naked act of piracy in […]
Remembering Iran’s Protests on the 4th of July
Remembering the protests in Iran in pictures and film on the occasion of the America Declaration of Independence: Aljazeera English on “Mousavi and the Masses”, […]
Mousavi Said Calling for General Strike; Hard Liners Call for his Arrest
In what may be a major development, it is being alleged that Iranian opposition leader Mir Hosain Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard are calling […]
Saddam, the FBI and Cliocide in Iraq
Joyce Battle (with help from Brendan McQuade) has posted twenty interviews of Saddam Hussein by the FBI to the National Security Archives at George Washington […]
Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf of Big Oil
Dick Cheney reacted to the cessation of unilateral US patrols of major cities in Iraq, saying that he had concerns that the “insurgents” might launch […]
US Forces Launch Helmand Campaign; Pakistani Public turns Against Taliban but Still Rejects US Intervention
Some 4,000 US military personnel and 650 Afghan troops are launching an assault on Taliban positions in Helmand Province, with an aim to ‘take, clear […]
Iran: Mousavi Remains Defiant; Journalists Held
Reuters reports that Iranian opposition leader Mir Hosain Mousavi is continuing to assert that the newly formed second-term government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is illegitimate. […]
Coda: Final Dispatch from Tehran
This message was received by email from Tehran three hours ago. I have anonymized it and made a couple of orthographical corrections and am passing […]