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According to Ibrahim Moussawi, associate professor of Lebanese University and head of Hizbullah's media relations, the incident damaged "public relations" of the Iranian Green Movement with Iranian citizenry more than all events as the acts of the protesters on that day including "applauding, whistling, and engaging in other cheerful displays ...
Protesters in Tehran, June 13, 2009. Anonymous sources said that the police stormed the headquarters of the Islamic Iran Participation Front and arrested a number of people. [4] [5] Two hundred people protested outside Iran's embassy in London. [6] Protests led by Iranian-Americans were also held outside the Iranian representative office in New ...
Although the 2009 Iranian presidential election was widely disputed, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a traditional congratulatory message [212] to Ahmadinejad upon his inauguration. He kept silent over the request of Shirin Ebadi to visit [213] Iran after the crackdown on peaceful post-election protests by the Iranian police. [214]
Iranian authorities have detained a young woman who was seen walking around a university in Tehran in her underwear, according to video shared on social media and state news agencies, in what ...
The Ashura protests were a series of protests which occurred on 27 December 2009 in Iran against the outcome of the June 2009 Iranian presidential election, which demonstrators claim was rigged. The demonstrations were part of the 2009 Iranian election protests and were the largest since June. In December 2009, the protests saw an escalation in ...
Protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the country's morality police have stretched into a third week, even after authorities disrupted the internet, deployed riot ...
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, [1] [2] with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast, [3] and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast.
STORY: On a video released on Tuesday (November 15), the crowd can be heard chanting: "I am a free woman. You are the pervert. You are the whore," on a train platform.A separate video released on ...