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Women shout their dissent from a Tehran rooftop on 24 June, following Iran's disputed presidential election. The result had been a victory for President [...]

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And when the government executed two demonstrators in January, Jannati declared that the executions should continue until all opposition to the election [...]

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Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters, supported President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after his disputed election victory in June 2009 and [...]

10 Jun 2010 Iran's opposition leaders Thursday called off a weekend demonstration, stunning supporters who had been plastering walls with graffiti and [...]

11 Jun 2010 Three days before the anniversary of Iran's controversial election, the United Nations Security Council imposed its fourth round of [...]

15 Jun 2009 The re-election of Iran's hard-line president amid charges of ballot fraud has put the Obama administration in a tougher spot as it tries to [...]

15 Jun 2009 International reaction to President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's reelection has been cautious so far, and opposition activists inside Iran have [...]

12 Jun 2010 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's opposition leader pledged on Saturday to continue the struggle against the government, even though the mass [...]

Protests following the 2009 Iranian presidential election against the disputed victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and in support of opposition [...]

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0730 GMT: Nine months after Iran's Presidential election, media attention --- including that of Iranian outlets --- will be focused on a vote next door, as Iraqis go to the polls. We'll be starting our Iran morning in a reflective mood, [...]

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Keshavarz applies her analysis to the tension in Iran today, 15 months after the election: "The leak of the tape, whether by the IRGC [Islamic Revolution Guards Corps] intelligence [bureau] or unhappy elements among them, makes another [...]

Citizen journalism and social networking site Twitter shows historic significance in delivering news, photographs, and video of developing revolt against Islamic regime. [...]

Iran elects on national level a head of government (the president), a legislature (the Majlis), and an "Assembly of Experts" (which elects the head of state, the Supreme Leader). [...]

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A few weeks ago the Iranian parliament passed a new election law on simultaneous presidential and local elections. This new law has two obvious outcomes. The first outcome of the new law is postponement of the expected local elections [...]

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That might be news to many Iranians, who in the aftermath of Iran's mid-2009 election coined a slogan that they were willing to die only for Iran, no longer for Lebanon or Gaza. “The constituency listening to those types of [axis of [...]

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This morning, I drafted this contribution to a new project for the anniversary of Iran's election. (More details soon, I hope.) I decided to post this after reading a series of high-profile analysis in Foreign Policy magazine which try [...]

Opposition supporters demonstrate at Tehran University in December 2009. October 18, 2010 By Golnaz Esfandiari Former university professor Saba Vasefi and student activist Salman Sima are casualties of the Iranian state’s campaign to purge universities of dissenting voices. In the aftermath of the c [...]

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Chavez has publicly backed Iran's right to a nuclear program and backed the Iranian leader's deeply criticized re-election in June, which spurred mass protests in the Islamic Republic. Chavez clinches energy, nuclear deals on Russia [...]

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Fourteen political prisoners in Tehran's Evin prison have issued a statement calling for the creation of an independent body to probe the violent unrest that followed last year's Iranian presidential election, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. [...]

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Erdogan also publicly congratulated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his victory in the 2009 election, widely condemned elsewhere as grossly rigged. Turkish diplomats say that they use tough language in private — but autocratic [...]

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Bonus read: Behind the Lines on Iran in Afghanistan and Pakistan (FP). Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission is expected to release preliminary [...]

The Iranian election scenario as described by the Western media seems painfully similar to the one run on the Zimbabwean elections of last year (2008). The US-favored 'opposition' candidate, with the polls barely up and running [...]

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Does Iran's wacky putative leaders think their clubbing, gassing, tasering, shooting, torturing, imprisoning, and killing protesters is demonstrating mercy (see Amnesty International's Post-election Iran violations some of the worst in [...]

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0900GMT: Senior reformist politician Mostafa Tajzadeh has been called back to Evin Prison after filing a lawsuit against several commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps for their interference in Iranian elections. [...]

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(10) This method has been used to study Russian elections,(11) an Iranian election,(12) elections in Mexico,(12) and other elections. In Mebane (2010), a covariate (the proportion of invalid ballots) was crucial in diagnosing an [...]