
On November 4, 1979, Muslim student revolutionaries in the Islamic Republic of Iran took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and with it claimed 52 American citizens as hostages in what became a 444-day ordeal that would go on to grip America and the world.
by Adelle Nazarian4 Nov 2015, 7:17 PM PST0

What began as a silent online protest has sprawled into a raging movement with Iranian women removing their hijabs and posting pictures of their pretty, uncovered hair to flow freely through the wind, a crime that is forbidden and punishable by arrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
by Adelle Nazarian20 Aug 2015, 9:30 PM PST0

Vocativ makes the interesting, and chilling, point that Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini—the Ayatollah, the guy Mickey Mouse was flipping off in all those seventies T-shirts—is doing very well on social media for a guy who died when computers were still bigger than dishwashers.
by John Hayward5 Jun 2015, 9:35 PM PST0