I noticed her quote in The Washington Post this morning, but now the Nobel laureate and human rights activist has her own op-ed up at The Huffington Post. Her prescriptions for ending the crisis:
1. The unconditional release of every individual arrested and imprisoned for having objected
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) on Fox News this morning, explaining why the House needs to pass his Iranian solidarity resolution:
The President has the right to draw the line where he chooses to draw it but I am someone who believes that when Ronald Reagan went to the Brandenburg Gate,
Laura Rozen — writing on her personal blog — publishes a surprising email she got from Iran. Who’s the foreign agent now?
“The Arab, Israeli, Palestinian analogies and rumors are common. On the Saturday after the election, I was in Vanak Sqaure when riot police showed up on motor
The Huffington Post’s unstoppable Nico Pitney culls together some of the tweets that @PersianKiwi sent out on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s address to today’s huge demonstration in Tehran. Not really sure why Nico doesn’t Cite @PersianKiwi specifically, but whatever. Here’s what a liveblogged Moussavi reads like:
· I have
@PersianKiwi, the world’s most vital journalist — Mike Crowley should stop hating – tweets about today’s big Tehran demonstration:
Everybody is peaceful and quiet – everybody is wearing black – the number of people is unbelievable – SEA OF GREEN
S/he says s/he’s going to report back More…
At the bottom of Glenn Kessler’s piece in The Washington Post on President Obama’s Iran strategy is this telling quote:
Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, said she has no complaints about Obama’s rhetoric. “What happens in Iran regards the
A great point from Matthew Yglesias:
[S]trategic nonviolence is a vital tactic. If you were to try to fight the security forces—shoot some policemen, say—you’d encourage a more serious crackdown. It’s through nonviolent resistance that you heighten the psychological contradictions, and encourage the regime and its enforcers to blink.
Dana Goldstein has two new pieces/posts out looking at the uprising in Iran from a feminist perspective and about what the opposition might mean for women’s rights.
[T]he fact is that women have very little power under Iranian law. They cannot run for president. If they ask for
That’s according to his spokesman Matt Lloyd. No names yet, but they’re coming as the resolution gathers steam.
Fun as it is to laugh at Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), let me return to some of the previous post‘s source material, but in a different context. Look at how today’s Iranian-regime tactic is to brand the opposition as American stooges. A prosecutor in Isfahan says it’s More…
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