Tag: movement

Iranian Women’s Movement Strangled by Restrictions

  The women of Iran are forbidden to stand in the upcoming presidential election on June 14, and are being strangled by ever-increasing restrictions. What has happened to the courageous Iranian women’s movement of dissent that gave inspiration to the protests of the Arab Spring uprisings? A member of the Guardian Council, who vets election […]

Longtime Iranian political activist, Dr. Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi Died

  Veteran Iranian political activist Dr. Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi (24 June 1917 – 31 March 2013), who co-founded the Freedom Movement, a nationalist-religious organization, has died at the age of 96 in Tehran on Sunday 11 Farvardin 1392 (31 March 2013)He was born into a clerical family in Qazvin on 24 June 1917. […]

Spontaneous Movement of Gonabadi Dervishes: If Imprisoned Dervishes May not Be Released, Other Dervishes Would Go to Jail

          Gonabadi Dervishes call attention to imprisoned Dervishes and in order to show solidarity with them, have stated that if their demands are not considered, then they would be willing to go to prison to support jailed Dervish lawyers.

Ardeshir Amir Arjomand: The green movement welcomes a detente consistent with Iran’s national interests

      According to Ardeshir Amir Arjomand, senior adviser to Mir Hossein Mousavi and the spokesperson for the Coordination Council for the Green Path of Hope, if the authorities of the ruling government of Iran would be courageous, in lieu of than putting their trust in foreign states and entering into negotiations with them, […]

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