This week’s Washington Times column: Last Tuesday as I was driving home from a screening of “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” a profoundly moving and eerily timely drama that comes out Friday, I found myself stuck in a bizarre late-night
Embedded video from CNN Video CNN: Amid the hundreds of images and videos of Saturday’s brutal crackdown on protesters in Iran that flooded the Internet, it was the graphic video showing the death of a young woman that touched a
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Washington Post: U.S. officials say Obama is intent on calibrating his comments to the mood of the hour. They say he is seeking to avoid having the demonstrators
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Washington Post: Mir Hossein Mousavi, who charges that he was cheated of victory in the June 12 presidential election, told supporters in southwestern Tehran that he was “ready
Because televised news has been rendered obsolete by technology (who needs Christine Amanpour when every citizen has an HD camera, YouTube, and Twitter?), I turned to the Internet to keep up with the events transpiring in Iran. I logged into
The crime is complete. Judgment has been passed. The killing stones are in hand. As per the harsh stoning penal code of Iran’s Islamist thugocracy (for however long that lasts) where the crime took place, my stones are not so
After Friday’s Iranian Presidential election, Mohammad Asgari allegedly released results showing that the Iranian government used new software to rig the results in favor of Ahmadinejad. After a mysterious car accident, Mr. Asgari is now dead. Mohammad Asgari worked for
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy The New York Times: In his first public response to days of protests, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sternly warned opponents Friday to stay off the streets
At the risk of earning my place in The Masters of the Obvious Hall of Fame… I gotta say it. They’re not ‘freedom fighters’, they’re not ‘brave Jihad warriors’, they’re not ‘overseas contingency operators’…they’re terrorists. And they’re evil. True, they
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy AP: Facing a world of diplomatic woes from Iran to North Korea, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the opportunity to get some heavyweight advice at a
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy The New York Times: As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social
Fox News: Iranian Twitterers, many writing in English, are posting photos of huge demonstrations and bloodied protesters, detailing crackdowns on students at Tehran University and giving out proxy Web addresses that let users bypass the Islamic Republic’s censors.
Embedded video from CNN Video AP: More than 100,000 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied an Interior Ministry ban Monday and streamed into central Tehran to cheer their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since elections that he alleges
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy UPI: Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Monday ordered an investigation into fraud allegations surrounding the country’s troubled election, state-run media report. Khamenei also urged Mir Hossein Mousavi to pursue
Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com The New York Times: The Iranian authorities detained more than 100 prominent opposition members, and on Sunday unrest continued for a second day across Iran in the wake of the country’s disputed
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Daily Mail: Riot police beat protesters with truncheons as violence flared yesterday following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide re-election — amid allegations of widespread ballot-rigging. Tehran saw the
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Reuters: State media declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of Iran’s election but challenger Mirhossein Mousavi alleged irregularities and claimed victory for himself.
You know, people, I really wish I knew what the story was regarding President Obama’s puzzling diplomatic approach to Islamist Iran. Inquiring Minds Want To Know. This ain’t no movie, and I really don’t like the storyline to date. Haven’t
President Obama has left the United States for a foreign trip that includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France and Germany. Unfortunately, a stop in Israel is not included. Why? With increasing rhetoric, Mr. Obama and his administration seem to be leaving
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Dear Big Hollywood readers, it gives me great satisfaction to report to you that BH has been out on point not only on compelling film industry issues, which will never be covered in promo rags like Variety and the Hollywood
Washington Post: President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy – provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful. In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans
The blocking of the popular social networking site Facebook in Iran has prompted critics of the president to condemn it on Sunday as an apparent attempt to muzzle the opposition ahead of next month’s election.
