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Posts Tagged ‘Iran elections’

A new Iran is born amid cries of “We want freedom”

By Guest Post • Jul 3rd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY Mozhgan Savabieasfahani

In a wounded and burning Middle East, aching under U.S. and Israeli military boots, with constantly expanding invasions by Israel (Lebanon 2006; Gaza 2009), with close to 2 million dead Iraqis just next door, with millions more Iraqis wounded, made homeless, and poisoned by uranium (some of whom end up in Iran [...]

Sentimental moments at the ballot box: Thomas Friedman warms his heart in Brummana, Lebanon

By Guest Post • Jun 21st, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Religion, Resistance

WRITTEN BY BELEN FERNANDEZ
In a June 16 Op-Ed column in the New York Times entitled “The Virtual Mosque,” Thomas Friedman declares that events in Iran have raised “three intriguing questions” for him:
“Is Facebook to Iran’s Moderate Revolution what the mosque was to Iran’s Islamic Revolution? Is Twitter to Iranian moderates what muezzins were to Iranian [...]