U.S. seeks one-on-one talks with Iran Oct 2, 2009
Nevertheless, the talks here could be the most substantial and in-depth conversation between the United States and Iran since relations were severed after the Iranian revolution 30 years ago. The chief U.S. negotiator, Undersecretary of State William Burns, is a career diplomat who joined in similar major-power talks last July in the final months of the Bush administration, but was barely permitted to speak under rules set by the White House. (San Francisco Chronicle)
West preps for Iran talks, sanctions Oct 1, 2009
The U.S. and Iran have not had formal diplomatic relations since the 1980 Iranian revolution. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley played down the significance of the U.S. move, saying Mottaki visited a Pakistani government office that represents Iranian interests in Washington and had no meetings with U.S. officials. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Nazi Hospital Drama 'The Desperate,' in Sept. 28-30 World Premiere in L.A., Confronts Ahmadinejad's Questioning of the Holocaust Sep 26, 2009
An emigre to the U.S. after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Sepehr went to film school at the Swedish Film Institute and began his career in the arts at the Stockholm State Theatre as an assistant to internationally renown film director Ingmar Bergman. He cut his teeth as a director on Iranian stage plays, documentaries ("Czar," "History of the Jewish People") and features ("Long Road to Paradise," "My Son and I"). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
At long last, meet my precious Tiam Sep 6, 2009
Syrus Kheirollahpoor was left to bring up his two daughters and son after his wife Farideh, a nurse, was killed by a stray bullet as she sat in an ambulance on the second last day of fighting after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. His son says he has a newfound appreciation of how tough it was for his father and how much men depend on their wives. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Bahai: Helping the hidden victims of persecution in Iran (25) Sep 4, 2009
But after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, things began to change. Bahais were barred from attending universities, and Enayat Ziaie s parents, brother and sister-in-law all lost their teaching jobs. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Belgian 'arms dealer' held in US Sep 3, 2009
The parts could have been used as replacements in the aging military jets sold to Iran by the US before the 1979 Iranian revolution. A co-defendant in the case, Iranian Dara Fotouhi, 54, remains on the run, US officials said. (BBC News -- Europe)
Iranian Nuclear Threat Targets U.S., Israel Aug 31, 2009
This revolt of Tehran may well become another Iranian revolution. Now its success is conditioned by how far the United States and the international community go in assisting this democratic movement. (Newsmax)
Oil Creates Slippery Out for Lockerbie Bomber Aug 29, 2009
Con Coughlin, executive foreign editor of the London Daily Telegraph (and author of the recently published "Khomeini's Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam"), is the British journalist who pulled all the tangled strands of what led to the controversial release of Megrahi, whose Scottish doctors certified he was suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer and only had about three months to live. He was flown to Libya, where he was greeted like the national hero he had... (Newsmax)
Schwarzenegger drops in on Twitter Aug 27, 2009
Schwarzenegger voiced certainty that the pair weren't thinking about a role in an Iranian revolution when they created the microblogging service. "It was low on the list," Williams quipped as Stone emphatically shook his head to indicate "No.". (Yahoo! Asia News)
Neda in Black-and-White Aug 21, 2009
Marjane Satrapis graphic novel memoir, released in the United States in 2003was a clear-eyed, sensitive portrayal of the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war, seen through the eyes of a young girl. Now Satrapis to tell the story of the recent disputed elections in Iranending with the death of. (Slate)
Thirty year gap Aug 20, 2009
After the Iranian revolution in 1979, many of the secular rights that women had being afforded under the Shah were abolished or rolled back. An order was passed that laws that were in contravention of religious (or sharia) rules had to be revoked. (BBC News -- Africa)
Statehood gallery Aug 20, 2009
The American Embassy in Tehran had been seized the month before by Islamist students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution. Fifty-three Americans were held hostage for 444 days. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Presidents Awarded the Nobel Peace ... Aug 19, 2009
In 1979, the Iranian Revolution drove the Shah from power and eventually held 58 American embassy workers hostage. Muslim extremists gained control of the government and the balance of power was altered in the region. (Suite101.com)
Iranian Group Asks US To Take Control Of Iraq Camp Aug 12, 2009
The group took part in the 1979 Iranian Revolution that brought a clerical regime to power, but its blend of Marxism and secular Islamism eventually pitted it against the mullahs. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. (CBS News -- World)
Iran Resumes Mass Trial of Activists, Protesters Aug 9, 2009
TV images and pictures on state media showed rows of defendants in gray prison uniforms and others seated in a large, wood-paneled room decorated with pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, the late Iranian revolutionary patriarch who came to power with the overthrow of the pro-Western Shah in 1979, and his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... Smaller-scale mass trials were held after the 1979 Iranian Revolution but usually in secret. (Fox News)
(Slideshow) After life of persecution, Plano Bahais lead nationwide call for change Aug 9, 2009
But prejudice against Bahais was present long before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, when Bahai persecutions jumped ... When the Iranian Revolution began, Payam Maveddat was going to one of the top high schools in Iran. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Iran caught in a 10-year cycle Aug 7, 2009
Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, major changes have emerged every 10 years in Iran. In 1979, the Iranian people, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, forced out the shah as the country shifted from a monarchy to a theocratic republic. (Asia Times Online)
As a CIA spy, I saw in Iran what the West cannot ignore Aug 6, 2009
Almost every administration after the 1979 Iranian Revolution has tried in vain to create better relations through back channels. Yet those efforts haven't stopped Iran's rulers from arming terrorists, taking hostages, and suppressing their own people. (Christian Science Monitor)
Did Filing Error Free L.A. Murder Suspect? Aug 5, 2009
USA people watch Iranian revolution and say " IRANIAN communism police beat people!!!". But look inside of your country, USA, it is worse than any other countries often. (CBS News)
People Profile--Hackemack: NASA medic, musician played ‘first space polka’ Aug 4, 2009
In a final burst of enjoying life as a world traveler, Gene and other Americans had been rescued from the Iranian revolution (where U.S. citizens were no longer welcome) in a U.S. Air Force C-141 that barely stopped on the Tehran airport runway to pick up its passengers and immediately return into by now Iran s unfriendly skies. From that point, Gene took the option of being dropped off in Greece and took more than a month making his way back to the states with at least weeklong adventures... (Brenham Banner, TX)
Detained hikers stir memories of Iran hostage crisis Aug 4, 2009
Additionally, in the case of Iran, the detention of three Americans risks ratcheting up tensions by rekindling memories of the hostages taken at the US embassy in Tehran during the Iranian revolution 30 years ago. Indeed, Iranian officials can be expected to weigh what image they want to convey both at home and abroad as they ponder how to deal with the three Americans, experts on Iran say. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Unshreddable Aug 1, 2009
During the 1979 Iranian Revolution, students and militants who took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran turned to local carpet weavers to reassemble classified CIA documents they found that had been shredded. These pages were later published in a set of about 60 volumes called. (Slate)
Scenarios of the Past and Future for Iran: U.S. Options Jul 31, 2009
According to IPC President and former member of the National Security Council Staff at the White House, Professor Raymond Tanter, "The main similarity between the 1979 Iranian Revolution and events of 2009 is that the people wanted and want regime change, respectively, not just an alteration in policies or personnel. The principal difference: In 1978, the Street brought down the Shah from within with some inadvertent political support from the United States; in 2009, it is less the Street and... (PR Newswire)
Iran will rise above the ashes Jul 30, 2009
Khatami s address marked a stunning departure from the anti-Americanism that had fueled the Iranian revolution. A scholar of The Enlightenment, he praised Alexis de Tocqueville s Democracy in America, which reflects the virtuous and human side of this American civilization. (Boston Globe)
More articles by Paul Sheehan Jul 29, 2009
"We have to confront the Iranian revolution immediately," he told me, writes Paul Sheehan. Monday November 17, 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Phoenix rally backs protesters in Iran Jul 26, 2009
Sepi Bakhtiari and her family left Iran for Europe following the Iranian Revolution. They moved to the U.S. in 1984. (AZCentral -- News)
Iranian protests are rooted in tumultuous past Jul 26, 2009
Watching the post-election rallies in Iran develop into violent protests, I was taken back 31 years to the student uprising in 1978 at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution. The presence of Iranians in great numbers on the streets protesting in unison with their fists raised brought back a great deal of mixed emotional memories of sadness, fear, anger and shattered hopes. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Iranian Activists Search for Ways to Access the Web Jul 25, 2009
Every evening since the election, Iranians climb to their rooftops and scream "Allahu akbar," "God is great" a protest tactic used during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. FOX NEWS VIDEOS. (Fox News)
Prayers and politics in Iran Jul 22, 2009
What transpired after the prayer was a clear indication that despite the apparent success of the crackdown by the Sepah (the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps) and the security apparatus, the rage of young protesters is far from over ... What we are witnessing is not a frustrated East European-style 'color revolution'; nor is presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi's movement an uprising of liberal, Westernized sympathizers against the principles of the Iranian Revolution - although there... (Asia Times Online)
Country profile: Iran Jul 14, 2009
The Iranian revolution put an end to the rule of the Shah, who had alienated powerful religious and political forces with a program of modernization and Westernization. Persia, as Iran was known before 1935, was one of the greatest empires of the ancient world, and the country has long maintained a distinct cultural identity within the Islamic world by retaining its own language and adhering to the Shia interpretation of Islam. (BBC News -- Africa)
Pandora's Box- The seeds of change Jul 10, 2009
The Iranian revolution in 1979 unseated the authority of the Shah in Iran, a monarchy mostly supported by the US and Britain, and replaced it with a fundamentalist-theocratic republic. To me, this immediately rings of tyranny and illegitimacy from the start. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
A leaner, meaner Iranian regime Jul 10, 2009
The Iranian revolution of 1979 triumphed on the back of unprecedented street protests and widespread popular legitimacy ... A seasoned populist and an instinctive street fighter, Ahmadinejad is certainly the most remarkable product of the Iranian revolution. (Asia Times Online)
Rally for Iran: With the people - Speakers say democracy revolution far older than recent vote - more than a century Jul 8, 2009
People forget, for example, that the Iranian Revolution lasted for more than a year before the shah finally fled the country, said Brian Lofink, coordinator of Central and Southwest Asia programs at UM.. Helia Jazayeri, a third-year law student at the University of Montana, was born in Iran. (Missoulian, MT)
Indonesia Elections: A Win For Democracy Jul 8, 2009
Even though many leaders of Indonesian Islamic political parties first gained inspiration from the Iranian revolution in 1979, Indonesia today is hardly in danger of hardening into a theocracy willing to gun down unarmed protesters. True, shari'a-based initiatives have proliferated on the local level and more Indonesian women wear the veil today than three decades ago. (Time.com)
Clinton calls for stricter Iran sanctions Jul 8, 2009
"We call on the world to respect Iran because there are attempts to undermine the strength of the Iranian revolution," Chavez said in his weekly radio and television address last month after the election. Iran dominated talks between Obama and Russian leaders Tuesday, with White House officials noting Moscow now seemed more receptive to US arguments. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Iran Reformists Demand Crackdown Halt Jul 8, 2009
The Iranian Revolution replaced the hereditary rule of kings with the class-rule of mystics. Mysticism (like the CBS blog) does not permit the use of reason, and the Iranian regime is t 00004000 herefore evil. (CBS News -- World)
Popular Tehran Bureau site covers Iran from Mass. Jul 7, 2009
Her family fled during the Iranian Revolution in 1984 when she was in high school, and they settled in San Diego. She has worked as a reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune, for PBS' "Frontline" as an associated producer and in the United Arab Emirates as a reporter. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Book Reviews Jul 5, 2009
This book traces the trajectory of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 from its roots in anti-nationalism and back. The revolution followed a familiar path: after starting with an appeal for social justice, in the end it returned to justifying the might of the state. (Asia Times Online)
Middle East Jul 5, 2009
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, or Sepah, has benefited greatly from the tenure of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad - spreading its influence throughout the region and locking down the lucrative import and oil sectors ... The crushing defeat of Mir Hossein Mousavi could mean the end of the tumultuous career of "The Shark", a nickname Rafsanjani acquired as a political predator in the early years of the Iranian Revolution ... COMMENT It has been 30 years since the Iranian revolution ended... (Asia Times Online)
CULTURES NEWS Jul 5, 2009
David Burnett's historic pictures of the Iranian revolution look startlingly similar to images of Tehran protests today. But, the photojournalist makes clear, looks aren't everything. (National Geographic)
Russia flits from Tehran to Washington Jul 3, 2009
Construction of the plant - two 1,300-megawatt pressurized water reactors - started in 1975 by Germany's KWU. The completion date was planned for 1982, but in 1979 work was suspended following the Iranian revolution. In 1995, Russian state-run company Atomstroiexport began building the first reactor, with startup scheduled for this year. (Asia Times Online)
Iran's Cycles of Violence and the Iranian Opposition Jul 2, 2009
In 1979, a cycle of violence beginning in 1978 culminated in regime change in the form of the Iranian Revolution of February 1979 ... Later, from my academic posts at The University of Michigan and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, I followed an Iranian cycle of demonstrations, riots, and state-sponsored repression in 1978, which culminated in the February 1979 Iranian Revolution. (Human Events Online)
4th arrives amid shift in driving habits Jul 2, 2009
That's a bigger decline than the drop of just above 3% during the 1979-80 Iranian revolution that triggered a spike in gasoline prices in the USA.. The 4% drop is the equivalent of taking between 8 million and 10 million drivers off the road. (USA Today -- Autos)
Turmoil in Iran stifling Obama's outreach Jul 1, 2009
Supreme leader endorsed 's win over Mousavi, while other key figures in the Iranian revolution, including cleric , questioned whether the election was legitimate ... A month later, on Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage. (USA Today)
Iran Arrests British Embassy Staff Members Jun 29, 2009
Dear Rocket Scientist,30 years ago was an Iranian revolution to overthrow the Shah, who WE installed after WE designed a COUP to overthrow that government. Why, not so they could eat freedom fries, but to get THE OIL. Like I said, Dems, call your reps,tell them to take the gloves off. (CBS News)
Iran 'must free UK embassy staff' Jun 29, 2009
However the Guardian Council has already defended President Ahmadinejad's re-election, saying on Friday that the presidential poll was the "healthiest" since the Iranian revolution in 1979. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Africa)
Verdict expected on Iran election Jun 28, 2009
On Friday it said the presidential election was the "healthiest" held since the Iranian revolution in 1979. Some 17 people are thought to have died in street protests in the past two weeks, and Tehran has imposed severe restrictions on journalists, blogs and other media. (BBC News)
Inheriting trouble Jun 28, 2009
America's troubles with Iran date to the Eisenhower years but the flash point came in the Carter years, when the president was befuddled by the Iranian Revolution, prompting the seizing of American diplomats and embassy personnel who were held hostage, along with the entire administration, for 444 days. That was 30 years ago. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Iran: Desperately Seeking Yeltsin Jun 28, 2009
Right now the Iranian revolution has no leader ... This second Iranian revolution is on the defensive, even in retreat. (Townhall.com)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Jun 27, 2009
The death of Neda Agha Soltan, the 27-year-old student who was brutally murdered as she made her way to a music lesson in Tehran, could become the iconic moment that forever changes the course of the Iranian revolution. Michael Jackson's career has been blighted by periods of illness. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
Iranian cleric: No mercy to protesters Jun 27, 2009
The nighttime chanting is emblematic of the protests 30 years ago during the Iranian revolution, which toppled the monarchy of the shah. "While most of the world's attention is focused on the beatings in the streets of during the day, the Basiji are carrying out brutal raids on people's apartments during the night," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch. (CNN -- International)
IRAN PICTURES: 1978-79 Revolution Echoes Protests Today Jun 27, 2009
having at the time of this photograph been in for less than 48 hours, uncapped his lens and captured some of the most striking pictures from the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, which would depose Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi--images eerily similar to photos coming out of Iran 40 years later. The revolution ultimately put into power the very Islamic republic that is now fending off its own street protests--sparked by a questionable election and stoked now, as before, by killings adopted by the... (National Geographic)
Newsweek: Why Arab rulers see threats in Iran protests Jun 26, 2009
The new Iranian revolution, if by some chance it wins out, could change all that. "I hate to say it," says a political activist in Jordan who asked not to be named specifically saying this, "but the Persians are always out in front of the Arabs, whether they are making Islamic revolution or this passive resistance." Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Bahrain, and even the Palestinian struggle with Israel by what U.S. President Barack Obama called "" on civil and human rights. (MSNBC -- International)
Coughlin: Is Iran's ruthless crackdown working? Jun 25, 2009
Editor's note: Con Coughlin, executive foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph in London, is the author of "Khomeini's Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam." ... To this end he formed the Revolutionary Guards, the storm troopers of the Iranian revolution, whose primary function was to protect the Islamic regime. (CNN -- US)
Martin: U.S. should leave Iran alone Jun 25, 2009
He says that coup helped lead to Iranian revolution and years of conflict ... The Iranian revolution of that era is what led to today's theocratic rule in Iran, where the clerics hold sway over every facet of the country. (CNN -- US)
Iran's streets are lost, but hope returns Jun 25, 2009
Tehran and Paris puts it, "People in the West don't seem to understand that the political struggle in Iran is not about liberals versus conservatives, but conservatives against a fascist tendency uniting some sectors of the clergy, and this state within the state which are the Pasdaran [IRGC - Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps]. Both the nuclear program and the missiles are under the control of the Pasdaran. And who are they? They are former fighters in the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1908s], the... (Asia Times Online)
Why Iran's Changed Forever Jun 25, 2009
The Israeli triumph in the 1967 Six Day War, the Iranian revolution of 1979, the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, and the birth of Iraqi democracy two years later buried secular pan-Arab dictatorship, politically inflamed the Islamic identity, and set the stage for the growth of representative government in a more religious Middle East. The Iranian presidential election of June 12 may soon rank with these history-making events. (CBS News)
Political Fallout From Sanford's Affair Jun 25, 2009
Wars, economic crises, major reform of health care and fiscal policy, Jon and Kate, the Iranian revolution: our collective bandwidth may be at capacity. 6. (CBS News)
YouTube Aiding Iranian Revolution | How Important Online Video Is To Future Of Iran Jun 23, 2009
Posted in: , , , , , , by Dave Parrack on June 22, 2009. You surely cannot have missed what is currently happening in Iran. (Multichannel News)
Somalia: Taliban Now Coming to a Guerilla War Theatre Near You Jun 23, 2009
For America's cold warriors, Sunni Muslims were ideal allies in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution. Ahmed Rashid's 2001 book, The Taliban, meticulously details how the jihad continued following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and parallel developments responsible for the Mujahideen's "Afghan Arab" friends morphing into Al Qaeda. (allAfrica.com)
Click to read:Iran Clerics Rule Out Election Annulment Jun 23, 2009
Obviously the new Iranian revolution will just have to get more intense. Add a comment. (CBS News)
Regime Collapse? Jun 23, 2009
As I recall even at the hard time after Iranian revolution and even under heavy security system, still the people of our area did not give up their ordinary freedom. When the people of the rest of Iran did not dare to listen to the music and even have video type at home, in our cities people have had man and women mix dancing on the streets. (The American Conservative)
Iran reveals splits on U.S. role Jun 23, 2009
The adviser said that "there is something particularly authentic about those who are carrying out these demonstrations," citing the fact that some are carrying symbols of the 1979 Iranian revolution as they march for new elections, including photos of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "The more you keep this in Iranian terms, the better the chances of change," the adviser said. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
Evolution of a new Iranian revolution Jun 23, 2009
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Neda: the face of a new Iranian revolution Jun 23, 2009
Search post-gazette NOW. Associated Press Undated image from a video being widely circulated on the Internet showing a badly injured girl identified as Neda. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
