So called “think-tank Green Movement exile” old fashion

January 11th, 2010, 5:48 pm

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اتاق فکر؟
By. Mehdi Jalali
اگر بیانیه پنج نفره قابل فهم بود، این که خود را اتاق فکر جنبش سبز معرفی کنی کمی عجولانه و ناساز است. آدم را یاد هخا می اندازد. تازه این افراد از هوشمندان نسل
قبل هستند. فکر می کنم هرچه جلو می رویم شکاف نسلی میان ما بیشتر می شود. این دوستان هنوز از شیوه های رهبری ریش سفیدانه و اعلامیه صادر کردن های سی سال استفاده می کنند. اگر به موسوی نگاه می کنید او اول حامیانش را گرد آورد و بعد با بیانیه های متعدد ارتباطش را با مخاطبانش حفظ کرد. پس منظور اصلی بیانیه ارتباط بود نه تبیین خط مشی کلی برای جنبش. موسوی هیچ گاه چنین ادعایی نکرد.
رهبری جنبش را آنانی بی ادعا و قدم به قدم جلو می برند که ابتکار دارند و پیشنهاد می کنند مردان روسری سر کنند و مردم حمایت می کنند، نه آنانی که اعلامیه صادر می کنند و منتظر می نشینند که حامیان درخانه شان را بزنند و تقریبا هیچ کس هم حمایت نمی کند.

اتاق فکر به ریش سفیدی و وجاهت و تدین نیست به تخصص است. گاهی واقعا تراژیک است که ما محصولات سالها نهادسازی و تولید دانش در غرب را سریعا تبدیل به کاریکاتور می کنیم. اتاق فکر نیاز به متخصص در رشته مدیریت بحران، امنیت شهری، امنیت بین المللی، ارتباطات و غیره دارد. باخبرم که عده ای جوان متخصص بدون ادعا قدمهای درخوری برای چنین اتاقهای فکری برداشته اند. سبزاندیش یکی از آنهاست
ایکاش این دوستان بنشینند و یکبار مثلا کمپین اوباما را مطالعه کنند و با دانش چگونگی ارسال پیام و چگونگی تجهیزکردن سطح عمومی جامعه آشنا شوند. رهبر مدرن دنبال مردم می افتد، اول حمایت جلب می کند و بعد پیام می دهد و مطالبات و خط مشی تبیین می کند. دعوایی که میان رقیبان در بین نسل خود راه انداخته اند به کنار، حیف است که این پنج نفر این گونه به اعتبارخود آسیب برسانند


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Video- precious documentary on Ashura December 27th Tehran

January 6th, 2010, 7:26 pm

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Velvet Revolution: The Prospects

December 22nd, 2009, 1:49 pm

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Velvet Revolution: The Prospects
By Timothy Garton Ash

In the autumn of 1989, the term “velvet revolution” was coined to describe a peaceful, theatrical, negotiated regime change in a small Central European state that no longer exists. So far as I have been able to establish, the phrase was first used by Western journalists and subsequently taken up by Václav Havel and other Czech and Slovak opposition leaders.[1] This seductive label was then applied retrospectively, by writers including myself, to the cumulatively epochal events that had unfolded in Poland, Hungary, and East Germany, as in “the velvet revolutions of 1989.”

Twenty years later, in the summer of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran staged a show trial of political leaders and thinkers it accused of fomenting enghelab -e makhmali—that is, precisely, velvet revolution. Across the intervening years, dramatic events in places including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, South Africa, Chile, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, and Burma were tagged with variants of adjective + revolution. Thus we have read about singing (Baltic states), peaceful, negotiated (South Africa, Chile), rose (Georgia), orange (Ukraine), color (widely used, post-orange), cedar (Lebanon), tulip (Kyrgyzstan), electoral (generic), saffron (Burma), and most recently, in Iran, green revolution. Often, as in the original Czechoslovak case, the catchy labeling has been popularized through the interplay of foreign journalists and political activists in the countries concerned. Read the rest of this entry »

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Iran going to Qom to say farewell to dissident Ayatollah Montazeri

December 20th, 2009, 10:28 pm

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by Shervin Nekuee

Tomorrow 21e of December is the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri the spiritual leader of Iran’s Green Movement and the most influential Shia cleric dissident of Iran. The leaders of the Iran opposition Green Movement, Mousavi and Karoubi have been announcing tomorrow as the national day of mourning. The last news that we receiving is that a huge group of people from Tehran and other cities intended to participate in his funeral in the city of Qom.

یکشنبه ۲۹ آذر ۱۳۸۸
آیت الله العظمی منتظری در گذشت
ایران به سوی قم سرریز شد

آیت الله العظمی منتظری،مرجع عالیقدر شیعیان اسلام ،دیشب آن گونه که فرزندش احمد منتظری خبرداده،در خواب در گذشت. احمد منتظری، همچنین خبر داده است که از اولین ساعات صبح امروز روحانیون بلندپایه قم در بیت آیت الله منتظری حضور یافته اند.همزمان گروه های مختلف مردمی از سراسر کشور راهی قم شده و دانشگاه های کشور نیز،خبر از تعطیلی سراسری داده اند.

براساس اطلاعات رسیده،مقامات حکومتی بعد از انتشار این خبر،با تشکیل ستاد بحران، خواستار دفن فوری پیکر آیت العظمی منتظری شده اند اما براساس اعلامیه دفتر آیت الله منتظری، پیکر این مرجع شیعه، فردا،دوشنبه در ساعت ده صبح از مقابل منزل وی تشییع و در حرم حضرت معصومه دفن خواهد شد.گفتنی ست هفتمین روز درگذشت آیت الله العظمی منتظری مصادف با روز عاشوراست. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri senior Shia religious figure passed away

December 20th, 2009, 11:54 am

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Dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri one of the most senior Shia religious figure passed away last night in the city of Qom. He was the most prominent religious figure in Iran who openly and frequently has been criticizing the tyrannical nature Islamic Republic. Iran’s Green Movement of post election has found in him the needed spiritual father and moral leader. In a frequent amount of statements he has been announcing his support for protesters and condemning the state violance against them.

آیت الله منتظری درگذشت

آیت الله حسینعلی منتظری از مراجع تقلید شیعیان شنبه شب، در هشتاد و هفت سالگی در شهر قم درگذشت.

آقای منتظری از مهم ترین روحانیون منتقد دولت ایران به شمار می رفت که در حوادث پس از انتخابات ریاست جمهوری اخیر به صراحت موضعگیری کرد و از رفتار حکومت در قبال معترضان انتقاد کرد. Read the rest of this entry »

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Video- Ervand Abarahamian History Professor at Baruch College on nature of Iran’s Green Movement

December 16th, 2009, 12:51 am

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Hamid Dabshi interviews Ervand Abarahamian History Professor at Baruch College on nature of Iran’s Green Movement.

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Video Clip- Iran’s Green Movement ready for Muharram

December 16th, 2009, 12:19 am

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by Shervin Nekuee

Iran’s Green Movement is getting ready for Muharram, the holiest Islamic month for Shia Muslims who are the majority of Iranian population. The month Muharram will start this Friday the 18th of December. The Day of Ashura (عاشوراء (ʻĀshūrā’, Ashura, Ashoura, and other spellings) is on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Remembrance of Muharram. It is commemorated by the Shia Muslims as a day of mourning for the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Karbala on 10 Muharram in the year 61 AH (October 10, 680 AD[1]).
From the old days the Remembrance of Muharram symbolize the ethical superiority of the braves and justice seeking heroes in confrontation with mighty and powerful tyrannical rules. It is a call for stand up and fight against unjust. During the 1978-1979 revolution the Remembrance of Muharram turned to the hugest street protest against Shah and his regime. Thirty years later and three days ahead from Muharram of 2009, the overwhelming amount of posters and video clips by Green Movements approve that peoples protests will turn this year’s Imam Husayn Remembrance to a street protest against the political tyranny again.

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Massive student protests not only Tehran, protests in Shiraz; Tabriz;Mashhad; Isfahan; Kerman

December 7th, 2009, 2:23 pm

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by Shervin Nekuee

Several civil journalists reporting from major cities in Iran about massive student protests and clashes with the polici; paramilitary (Basij) and anti-riot forces . Next to the protests and clashes in Tehran, news about student demonstrations and confrontations with paramilitaries in cities of Shiraz; Tabriz; Isfahan; Mashhad; Kerman has been confirmed.

Bellow the latest video on demonstration in Mashhad.

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Student protests in Teheran and Isfehan started

December 7th, 2009, 12:42 pm

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by Shervin Nekuee
December 7th

According to several civil journalist sources the announced nation wide students protest has been already started in cities of Tehran and Isfehan. In Tehran at Vali Asr Sq. and in Isfehan at streets around the University, hundreds of Students shouting “down with dictator” and ” down with Khamenei”. More protesters are expected later in the afternoon when the official gathering at universities all around the country should take place.

جوانان با شعار مرگ بر خامنه ای در میدان ولی عصر اعتراضات خود را شروع کردند
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Karoubi gives his first interview since elections to Dutch TV’s Nova

November 27th, 2009, 1:32 pm

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Karroubi discusses the possibility of arrest, his shock at the violence against demonstrators, the attacks against him, and the reasons for the protests. (In Persian and Dutch, with Dutch subtitles.)

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