Tehran

The National Iranian American Council publishes.” this email, describing it as authored by an “ordinary Tehrani.”
Dear friend, if you have any contacts within the American Administration, please send them this message on behalf of us, ordinary Iranians in Iran (whose interests and concerns are very different from those of the exiled Iranians in the United [...]

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking at Tehran University for Friday prayers, says the elections are fair and the protests have gone far enough. According to this translation, there’s the predictable stuff about “Zionist, American [and] British” interloping, and he called President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the “legal president” who is “trusted by people. ” And [...]

@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 when the march ends. Please. Please. Listen to their demo.