http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises Current Events in Iran Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:15:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/ganji-eulogizes-ayatollah-montazeri/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/ganji-eulogizes-ayatollah-montazeri/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:03:23 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1846 The Historians and the History-Making Ayatollah Montazeri Akbar Ganji gooya new He resisted and resisted and resisted until he became a model of Iranian people’s struggles. He showed that one could stand up to absolutist power. He showed that even if even if a  pragmatic personality attracts everyone to himself, one could still remain unimprisoned [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/ganji-eulogizes-ayatollah-montazeri/feed/ 3 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karoubi-second-letter-to-rafsanjani/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karoubi-second-letter-to-rafsanjani/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:02:13 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1809 Mehdi Karoubi’s Second Letter to Hashemi Rafsanjani: What Is Your Answer to People Who Are Questioning the Duties of the Assembly [of Experts] Presided over by You under Such Circumstances? Source: Islamic Republican News Agency (IRNA) http://www2.irna.ir/fa/news/view/menu-234/8807046059143439.htm Date: 5 Mehr 1388 (September 27, 2009) In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate Ayatollah Hashemi-Rafsanjani [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karoubi-second-letter-to-rafsanjani/feed/ 0 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/rafsanjani-return-to-fold/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/rafsanjani-return-to-fold/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:00:29 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1790 They want to bring the Judgments of the Imam’s Behavior Under Question [Hashemi-Rafsanjani:] Today, the Imam’s Household and the Imam himself, which are inseparable from the revolution, are under attack. People who had not been reconciled with the revolution and did not approve of the Imam’s way from the first have found an opportunity to [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/rafsanjani-return-to-fold/feed/ 1 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karoubi-to-the-tribunal/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karoubi-to-the-tribunal/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:18:25 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1649 Mehdi Karoubi’s Speech to the Nation of Iran: The True Judgment is among the People and Must Go to the People… http://tagheer.ir/fa/archives/1388,06,23/346 23 Shahrivar 1388/September 14, 2009 In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. To the Noble and History-Making Nation of Iran. As you know, Your Servant during the days following the elections [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karoubi-to-the-tribunal/feed/ 3 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karroubi-taraneh-mousavi/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karroubi-taraneh-mousavi/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:11:48 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1502 I provide a translation of that part of Karroubi’s press conference dealing with the Taraneh Mousavi affair. The version published by Tehran Bureau often has more the character of a paraphrase. More seriously, there are major lacunae in it which are not indicated by ellipses. I use the same source Tehran Bureau used. Click here [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karroubi-taraneh-mousavi/feed/ 7 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karroubi-letter-to-rafsanjani/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karroubi-letter-to-rafsanjani/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:38:26 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1446 What seems to have become the accepted translation of Hojjatoleslam Mehdi Karroubi’s letter to Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani can be traced to a translation published in khordaad88 and picked up (unsourced) in Enduring America. The sense of the original generally comes through, but it is often more in the nature of a paraphrase than a translation, [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/karroubi-letter-to-rafsanjani/feed/ 4 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/rafsanjanis-friday-prayer/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/rafsanjanis-friday-prayer/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:09:08 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=998 Ayatollah Rafsanjani, the Iranian clerical strongman, delivered Friday prayers as scheduled. There was a sense leading up to these prayers that everything was hanging on what he was going to say. Was he going to impose his solution on the crisis, effectively selling it out for his benefit? Was he going to stand against his [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/rafsanjanis-friday-prayer/feed/ 0 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/mohammad-javad-akbarin-article/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/mohammad-javad-akbarin-article/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:04:01 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=890 Translator’s Introduction: Mohammad Javad Akbarin is a journalist and the General Secretary of the Society of Seminary Students following the Imam’s Line. After completing his higher levels of clerical studies, he became a journalist in June 1997, working for Neshat and Asr-e Azadegan, two liberal journals. After these journals were closed down in 2000, he was [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/mohammad-javad-akbarin-article/feed/ 1 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/masud-pezeshkian/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/masud-pezeshkian/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:10:27 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=512 Tabriz Majlis member Mas`ud Pezeshkian courageously stood up in the Majlis and gave the reactionary majority a lesson in tolerance and humanism as exemplified in the person Imam Ali. Mr. Pezeshkian was himself a former basiji, but called on the assembled to treat all, friend and foe, with forbearance if they do wrong and to [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/masud-pezeshkian/feed/ 3 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/khatami-on-reconciliation/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/khatami-on-reconciliation/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:46:42 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=327 July 1, 2009 E`temad-e Melli‘s Political Group: Members of the [Majlis] National Security and Foreign Policy Commission went to visit the president of the reformist government  [Sayyed Mohammad Khatami] to say what they had to say and hear Sayyed Mohammad Khatami’s concerns. And so, while the president of the reformist government served as host to [...]

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