Iranian pro-reform movement never managed to communicate directly with the outside world. Most of the content produced in Iran in English language was done by conservatives. Almost none of the
Morning all – or, if not all, Steven. I am one of Open Democracy's team of crack reporters (the one in the tent, by the way) heading for Gleneagles
Hello everyone,
Unless I'm looking at this wrong, it seems no-one else has yet found it in their hearts to try and bore you to death on this
These days the hard liners, who believe in more social limitation and stricter foreign policy, cannot hide their happiness for the election of the new president of their kind. Rumours
Listening to Ahmadinejad's speech last night, as well as his previous campaign speeches, I don't remember him ever advocating the development of nuclear weapons. In fact
Under a heavy cloud of accusations of vote rigging and while the international community tries to analyse the surprise election victory of Revolutionary Guards veteran Mahmood Ahmadi’nejad and its
Welcome to openDemocracy's G8 blog for news and views on the 2005 summit. As part of our debate on G8: power, protest, publicity, we host the voices of
When asked about Iran’s human rights record,
Mr. Ahmadinejad replied, "Liberty is the soul of the Islamic revolution."
He also indicated that he preferes to have relationship
The new Rafsanjani on the cover of Shargh daily
One of the most compelling pictures of this election was forgotten in the middle of the heated discussion in the last
At the dawn of Iran’s revolution Ayatollah Khomeini was heralded as the ‘leader of the world’s underprivileged’. In his first address to the Iranian nation in 1979 at
won't dare saying that the majority of Iranians do not demand socio-political freedoms, just because "Ahmadinejad won the elections":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
The results are in and apparently Ahmadinejad is Iran’s 6th president by wining 60% of the vote! Turnout was 47%, down from 63% in the first round.
However, the
