This was the end of one of Ruhollha's children.

Dilemma of the Islamic Republic

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Najibeh Salehzadeh explained

Several Iranian bloggers published parts of his speech and shared their opinions on this exceptional event in the Islamic Republic.

... the status quo, continuing the present situation and making Iran a second Pakistan, or renewing the Islamic Republic.

Abdollah Shabazi an Islamist historian says that owners of the revolution , according to the definition of the Islamic Republic leadership, face a dilemma between either

Khamenei was forced to use his authority to support the president, and has since repeatedly condemned the Green Movement that opposed Ahmadinejad s re election.

Argentina s Iranian Tango

Nikahang, a leading Iranian online cartoonist and blogger, says

Once more Islamic Republic Intelliegence failed in its calculation, and Students for Freedom and Equality organized the Student Day in different universities all over country.

In fact, because he has pushed harder than his predecessors, his star is falling faster. Moreover, the controversial presidential election of June 2009, and the political crisis that ensued, irreparably damaged Ahmadinejad s democratic legitimacy.

In Azadi Barbari blog, we read that leftist students call all the international organisations and campaigns to join them on 28th December to protest against the Islamic Republic and raise their voice to free the students in Iran.

Islamic Republic of Iran draft resolution

So, now that the threat posed by the Green Movement has diminished at least in Khamenei s eyes the time has come to call Ahmadinejad to account. Both men are hard at work preparing for the March 2012 parliamentary election, as well as the 2013 presidential election, and Khamenei has taken off the gloves.

Khoramshahr was a symbol of resistance during the Iran Iraq war for many Iranians.

A member of Iran's Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, Abbas Palizdar, created a scandal this month by accusing several top clerics and influential members of the Islamic Republic of corruption in a speech a Booali University in Hamadan.

Peaceful resolution of the Iranian question would help the US to complete its shift toward Asia.

Here is a video film on Neda and the Iranian protest movement (Warning some images are very graphic)

Iran's Third Channel (the one broadcast the controversial series) played Bakhtiari music several times today.

Sultanate of Oman. Republic of the Gambia.

The Islamic New Year begins with the first day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar.

What we call today Islamic Law, and especially Islamic culture and there are many Islamic cultures actually the one in Saudi Arabia is much different from where I come from in Istanbul or Turkey.

About a year and a half ago, the Iranian government demanded that bloggers should register and provide their names and addresses on a site called Samandehi.

The challenge posed by Ahmadinejad is such a predictable part of Iranian politics that it has come to be known as the president s symptom. It emerges from a president s confidence that, as a popularly elected leader, he should not be constrained by the Supreme Leader s oversight.

Iranian FarsNews , a conservative and semi official site, has criticized Islamist bloggers for their silence on humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip.

Andrew Wilder, for example, born on the Pakistan Iranian border, served his whole life in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

At Arab American joint blog KABOBfest, Kalash discusses the role the US plays in Iranian elections and sentiments on the street

From Egypt, Wael Nawara at Weekite comments on US President Barack Obama's reaction to the Iranian elections saying We have to admit that his comment is balanced and contains huge respect for the Iranian people and their aspiring experience.

So I have been walking and traveling, by horses, by yak, by truck, by hitchhiking, from Iran's border to the bottom, to the edge of the Wakhan Corridor.

He was arrested after Iran's intelligence tracked his mobile phone location through a Nokia Siemens surveillance tool sold to Iran's state controlled telecommunication providers.

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Office of the President of the Republic

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Dominican Republic

Centrist Democratic International

Movimiento Cubano por la Paz y la Soberanía de los Pueblos

Ireland

But he was also considerably more conservative, considerably more anti foreign, considerably more Islamist than we'd like to acknowledge.

So what might look like a problem within Islamic faith might turn out to be a tradition that Muslims have subscribed to.

The 2012 version of the Syrian Cup is the 42nd edition to be played.

Some women may wear it in submission to their husbands, but many women wear it as a sign of faith in and respect for the Islamic code.

All of this was commissioned by the extreme Islamic policies, presenting Serbs as criminals, killers, murderers and rapists, and Muslims as the only victims.

The End of Republican Obstruction

Welcome to the republic.

Race and Republicanism