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The Iranian Elections
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Reza Soltani | 07.31.2009
The mother of Neda Agha Soltan, the 27-year-old Iranian protester whose death on 20 June was captured on mobile phone video, has spoken at length to the BBC World Service. The following is a transcript of the interview with Hajar Rostami Motlagh. How did you first hear about your daughter's death? She left the house mid-afternoon. I couldn't join her but I said I'd keep in touch with her. I managed to get through to her twice. I asked her what was going on. She said the streets are full of people… I asked her to come back home. I told her I was worried about her being out in the crowd. She said fine, I will head back home soon. Then I called her again and this time she said she was stuck with her friends in this area where soldiers had fired tear gas…She said her eyes were stinging.
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Reese Erlich | 07.01.2009
[Photo description] Nicole Sadighi, an Iranian living in London, England, holds her dog Mishka as she rallies beneath a large pre-revolution Iranian flag during a protest against the election results in Iran. "So if the CIA was manipulating the demonstrators, it was doing a piss poor job." When I returned from covering the Iranian elections recently, I was surprised to find my email box filled with progressive authors, academics and bloggers bending themselves into knots about the current crisis in Iran. They cite the long history of US interference in Iran and conclude that the current unrest there must be sponsored or manipulated by the Empire. That comes as quite a shock to those risking their lives daily on the streets of major Iranian cities fighting for political, social and economic justice. Some of these authors have even cited my book, "The Iran Agenda," as a source to prove US meddling. Whoa there, pardner. Now we're getting personal.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal | 06.30.2009
The U.S. Congress, which just a few generations ago, supported the brutal, savage reign of repression over Iran under the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi), and also supported his nuclear ambitions, could care less about the Iranian people. This is politics -- pure and simple -- and about using these protests as pretexts for other, more nefarious goals. If I learned one thing from the recent rebellions in Iran, it is this: the Iranian people have a lot of heart. These are folks you would want with you when times get tough. Strong folks, to be sure, particularly the women. They have endured beatings from the Ayatollah’s paramilitary motorcycle gang, the Basij. And some took bullets for the cause for which they were fighting. The graphic videotaped killing of a young woman, 26-year old Neda Soltan, by sniper fire became a painful symbol of the struggle for democracy in that country.
ALSO WRITTEN BY DAVID LOVE: To The Fathers Who Lost Their Child II Will Obama Save the Mideast from Itself? Several sites concerned with current situation Daily Kos has a post that has lots of YouTubes and is being updated. Al Jazeera front page. The great strategic importance of Iran for US imperialism gives me a different opinion on the recent elections in Iran from the US mainstream media or indeed from most of the leftist media. |
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