Author: |Posted: 4:07 pm on 17/07/09
Category: World News Blog
Iran’s opposition supporters have a way of turning things upside-down and back-to-front in the Islamic Republic.
Many of them are secular, yet they go onto their balconies every night to shout “Allah Akbar,” putting the Basij militia, the vanguard of the Islamic Revolution, into the invidious position of telling people to stop praising God.
That’s why, after all these years of telling everyone it’s their duty to turn up for Friday prayers, it would have been hard for the authorities in Iran to tell people NOT to show up. read more
Author: |Posted: 11:07 am on 17/06/09
Category: World News Blog
So did they rig it and if so, how?
So far the evidence seems circumstantial and no-one I’ve spoken to has managed to provide hard proof.
Author: |Posted: 11:33 am on 16/06/09
Category: World News Blog
Every now and again you get a day in journalism which you will never forget. Monday was one of those. We set off in the morning not knowing what the day would bring. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition candidate, had said he and other reformists would attend a mass rally but the Interior Ministry had banned it.
We went to see Mehdi Karroubi, another defeated candidate, more liberal than Mr Mousavi. I was amazed that we managed to get the interview because he had not spoken since the election, but when I asked his campaign aide, he simply said yes, and gave us the address.
