It's the year 2005 (1384 in the Iranian calendar). Welcome to the only English-language site for news and views about the Iranian election co-authored by Iranians and non-Iranians.
I agree with what is done in former government while I also disagree so let me tell you what you already know! This is what I could gather from Ghalibaf&
These days in Tehran, walls are adopting new coverings and "banners of different sizes":http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/election84/ are gesticulating for attention, praising different candidates
Throughout the last week, Iranian media have been reporting about Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's "odd" campaign style. What I find interesting, and I have never seen
Looks are playing a big role in this years election and it's something easily missed by the foreign journalists who are not familiar with the culture.
For example,
BBC World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds has a useful summary of the opening positions on Africa and climate change for Tony Blair's upcoming meeting with George W Bush
At the start of the debate, openDemocracy asked Bill McKibben to write on art, imagination and climate change. In his piece, co-published with our partner Grist.org, McKibben asked asked:
What would the U.S. look like after climate change? Today Tom Englehart publishes a meditation on this by Chip Ward. See Helter skelter in the lower 48.
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For World Environment Day, which this year focusses on cities, BBC online carries readers' images of climate change here.
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Fred Pearce has a first rate piece on the real options under international negotiation. He outlines two main schools of thought:
1. "Equal rights for all"
The formula:
Iran's upcoming presidential election has divided the reformists into two sides: one group believes they should ban the election, another believes in voting to Moeen, the candidate for
Also today on openDemocracy, Nick Robins of Henderson Global Investors asks whether the old financial drivers of fear and greed can be moulded so that they work with the grain
