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/shakuri-hoax/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/shakuri-hoax/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:05:58 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=2091 The American government alleged that one Gholam Shakuri was a high-ranking officer in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and a co-conspirator in a fantastic plot to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. (For a good summary of this affair, see Gareth Porter’s excellent reporting.) On October 17, Mehr News Agency [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/shakuri-hoax/feed/ 0 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/tawana-mousavi-affair/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/tawana-mousavi-affair/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:38:15 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=2008 1 Mousavi Case' >On May 19, 2010, Omid Habibinia, a self-described media analyst who played a key role in publicizing the Taraneh Mousavi story, denounced it for the hoax that it is. My first introduction to this event was a comment posted by one Mina dated June 14, 2010 on my article decrying Amnesty International’s embrace of the [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/tawana-mousavi-affair/feed/ 5 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/ai-taraneh-mousavi/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/ai-taraneh-mousavi/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:51:18 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1928 AI’s First Report on the Hoax On December 2009, I read on an Amnesty International website that this organization was taking up the Taraneh Mousavi hoax. This alarmed me, since it was playing with AI’s reputation and that of the broader struggle for human rights in Iran.  I wrote a message to AI expressing my [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/ai-taraneh-mousavi/feed/ 7 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/wpo_survey/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/wpo_survey/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:17:14 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1755 The World Public Opinion, an established polling organization, “a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland” came out with a randomly selected poll of slightly over 1000 Iranians. The WPO’s summary of the results are published on its website, including a link to PDF files with the survey’s [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/wpo_survey/feed/ 1 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/the-tribunal-vs-mehdi-karoubi/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/the-tribunal-vs-mehdi-karoubi/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:48:19 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1592 The following is a translation of the text of a tribunal consisting of First Aide to the President of the Judiciary [Sayyed] Ebrahim Raiisi, Attorney General Gholam-Hosein Mohseni-Ejei, President of the Presidential Body of the Judiciary Ali Khalaf. It is part of a campaign by the Coup Regime of attacking the opposition and discrediting it. [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/the-tribunal-vs-mehdi-karoubi/feed/ 7 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/saideh2/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/saideh2/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:19:39 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1554 The search for the real Saideh Puraqayi begins with the Democratic Party of Iran. According to the Wikipedia article on it, it was founded in 2004 by a group of student and political activists. Its general secretary was Abbas Khorsandi, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in September 2007 and its spokesman was [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/saideh2/feed/ 6 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/saideh1/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/saideh1/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:07:02 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1529 The story of Saideh Puraqayi has appeared on otherwise credible websites allied with the Green Movement (the democratic-Islamic opposition in Iran). We will exam this story as it appeared in these websites in this posting. Then we will show how this story is clearly another hoax. In our next post, we will show the real [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/saideh1/feed/ 5 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/taraneh-mousavis-fortieth/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/taraneh-mousavis-fortieth/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:35:18 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1514 Hosein Taeb’s Bouquet to the Waters The Persians have an expression for it: Throwing a bouquet on the water. It means trying to do someone a favor, but making such a mess in the process that it completely backfires. The folk-etymology of this expression illustrates this well: A man wants to give a bouquet of [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/taraneh-mousavis-fortieth/feed/ 6 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/hosein-taeb/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/hosein-taeb/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:30:05 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1460 The Iran Student Correspondents Association, a pro-government website, on 23/04/1387 [July 14, 2008] published a statement by the Revolutionary Guards’ public relations committee, who had just become the Commander in Chief of the Basij. He had been born in 1342 (1963/4). After his middle education, he became a seminary student. After studying in Tehran, Mashhad, [...]

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