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What if the Green Revolution fails?
By
Aziz Poonawalla
A remarkable thing happened yesterday at President Obama’s afternoon press conference – he took a question from an Iranian, relayed via Nico Pitney at the Huffington Post. Pitney solicited questions via the Iranian Farsi-language social networking site Balatarin and invited the community to vote on which one to ask Obama, and the question that received…
The Next Iran
By
Aziz Poonawalla
The fact that Iran could “promote” its own democracy should be enough of a refutation in and of itself to the neoconservative agenda. — LOG true indeed, even if the Green Revolution falters. In the end, the seeds of the regimes destruction are being sown. The best they can do is put it off for…
ya Neda! ya Hussein! Tehran is Karbala, now
By
Aziz Poonawalla
The Supreme Leader of Iran, last week: The race has endedwhoever has voted for these candidates will receive divine reward.they all belong to the statethey have gotten closer to god by voting, they havethere were 40 million votes for the revolution,not just 24 million for the winnerThe people have trustTheir votes will not go in…
live transcript and word cloud of Khamanei’s friday khutbah (sermon)
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Aziz Poonawalla
An enteprising Iranian blogger offers a translation in real time – partly his own and partly from the government-controlled channel Press TV – of Ayatollah Khamanei’s friday sermon. The transcript is repeated below with a word cloud I generated from Wordle. (I did remove some, ahem, colorful asides he inserted …) Remember god, Iran has…
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