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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]
The Iranian Green Movement (Persian: جنبش سبز ایران) or Green Wave of Iran (Persian: موج سبز ایران), [1] also referred to as the Persian Awakening or Persian Spring by the western media, [2] refers to a political movement that arose after the June 12, 2009 Iranian presidential election and lasted until early 2010, [3] in which protesters demanded the removal of Mahmoud ...
Following the 2009 Iranian presidential election, protests against alleged electoral fraud and in support of opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi occurred in Tehran and other major cities in Iran and around the world starting after the disputed presidential election on 2009 June 12 [1] and continued even after the inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as President of Iran ...
Protesters in Tehran during the 2009 Iranian election protests, 16 June 2009. February 2 – Iran's first domestically constructed satellite, Omid, is launched. [1] March 7 – Morocco terminates diplomatic relations with Iran. [2] March 18 – Somali pirates hijack an Iranian fishing vessel in the Gulf of Aden. [3]
Protesters chanted,“Zan, zendegi, azadi,”or “Woman, life, freedom” — words that have become a rallying cry since the death in September of Mahsa Amini sparked an enduring protest ...
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 ...
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.
Amnesty International’s Iran unit called on the Iranian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release the student who was violently arrested on Saturday.