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/iran-journalist-time-magazine-imprisoned/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/iran-journalist-time-magazine-imprisoned/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:09:27 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1984 Reza Rafii-Forushan, an Iranian stringer for Time magazine, appeals his frame-up in the following open letter. The Persian original is published on RAHANA’s website. His Eminence Ayatollah Amoli Larijani While submitting my greetings, God is the Manifestation of truth, He loves truth and is disgusted with lies, for piety only takes form in truth and [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/iran-journalist-time-magazine-imprisoned/feed/ 3 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/massoud-ali-mohammadi/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/massoud-ali-mohammadi/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:13:00 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1853 Today, Massoud’s body was buried, but left a battlefield behind. The Hezbollahi brothers had mobilized from that morning and did not stop surrounding the body for an instant. Loudspeakers and electric generators and eulogizers and very high-power stereo systems and organized pickup trucks were all at their disposal. The family and its circle had practically [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/massoud-ali-mohammadi/feed/ 4 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/anti-bahai-pograms-then-and-now/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/anti-bahai-pograms-then-and-now/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:51:41 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1829 I read about the impending trial and all-too-likely execution of seven Bahais in Iran as I was reading about the outbreak of Babi/Bahai-killing in Iran a little over a century before. As I was wending my way through Mirza Yahya Dawlatabadi’s memoirs, Hayat-e Yahya, I came across a passage describing the mob violence let loose [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/anti-bahai-pograms-then-and-now/feed/ 5 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/mousavi-is-intent-on-overthrow/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/mousavi-is-intent-on-overthrow/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:22:15 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1815 Kawsari: Mir Hosein Mousavi Is Intent on Overthrow Source: IRNA http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=712931 Esmail Kawsari is once more beating the drums for the prosecution of Mir Hosein Mousavi. This insistence, added to Kawsari’s important public position (he is the Vice President of Parliament’s Commission for Foreign Affairs and National Security) might presage a new stage in the [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/mousavi-is-intent-on-overthrow/feed/ 1 http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/larijani-mousavi-rajavi-hasan-khomei/ http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/larijani-mousavi-rajavi-hasan-khomei/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:43:51 +0000 Q Line Orientalist http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/?p=1803 Javad Larijani’s Criticism of Hasan Khomeini; Mir Hosein Mousavi’s Tone Is Like Masoud Rajavi’s Source: Islamic Republican News Agency (IRNA) http://www2.irna.ir/fa/news/view/menu-234/8807046059143439.htm Date: 5 Mehr 1388 (September 27, 2009) Criticizing the measures of Mir Hosein Mousavi and Hasan Khomeini after the presidential elections, the Secretary of the Judiciary’s Human Rights Office emphasized, “Mousavi was guilty of [...]

]]> http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/larijani-mousavi-rajavi-hasan-khomei/feed/ 2 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/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/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/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 [...]

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