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/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 [...]

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]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/saideh1/feed/ 5 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, [...]

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