PBS’s Tehran Bureau interviews the son of Green leader Mehdi Kerroubi:
10:00 am EST: Tehran Bureau interview with Hossein Karroubi, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi’s son.
How is your father Haj Agha Mehdi Karroubi?
We’re treating him for burns to his face and eyes. He’s having trouble
In a long-telegraphed speech billed as giving the west a bloody nose, Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday claimed to have enriched some of Iran’s stockpile of uranium to 20 percent potency. (That level is nowhere close to the potency required to make a nuclear weapon — it’s More…
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The United States and the European Union condemn the continuing human rights violations in Iran since the June 12 election. The large scale detentions and mass trials, the threatened execution of protestors, the intimidation of family members of those detained and the continuing denial to its citizens of
Since the June 12 presidential election in Tehran unleashed a long-simmering explosion of popular discontent, the collection of organic protests known as the Green Movement has upended Iranian politics. Western governments, however, have expressed only minimal solidarity with the Green Movement, opting to focus on resolving longstanding concerns about Iran’s More…
Speaking of the Green Movement, the Iranian regime directed a new spate of violence against the Greens during street demonstrations yesterday commemorating the Shiite holiday of Ashura, which remembers the climactic battle between the martyred saint Hussein and his persecutor Yazid. Protesters, amazingly, chanted “Death to Khamenei,” the supreme More…
As the Obama administration and its allies prepare new economic sanctions for Iran, the Iranian dissidents of the Green Movement and their supporters abroad are expressing concern over what the sanctions will mean for a nascent More…
As a member of the two Senate committees on energy and the environment issues, and the chairman of the new Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is in a strong position to weigh in on the country’s green future. At a breakfast this morning with More…
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