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Tag: Islamic Republic

Elections in Iran

Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —

Posted on Jun 16, 2013 READ MORE

Flickr / theseanster93

Iran to Execute Kurdish Activist for ‘Enmity With God’

A Kurdish man suspected of being a member of a socialist opposition party is awaiting imminent execution in Iran.

Posted on May 1, 2011 READ MORE | 5 COMMENTS

Writer and religious scholar Reza Aslan joins Jon Stewart to discuss what he sees as a major shift in Iran: What once was a battle over fraudulent election results has become a revolution over the future of the Islamic Republic. Check out the interview on Wednesday night’s “Daily Show.”

Posted on Jun 25, 2009 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

AP photo / Hasan Sarbakhshian

Iranian Newspaper Blasts Ahmadinejad

In what may be a sign of turning tides within Iran, a powerful paper in Tehran, The Islamic Republic, published an editorial Wednesday slamming President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s treatment of his political opponents—an auspicious critique, considering the paper’s close ties with Ayatollah Khamenei.