Blog posts tagged "Iranian elections"

June 12, 2010 4:19 pm 1 Comment

One year on from the Iranian election protests, the streets of Tehran are quiet apart from the basij, but that doesn't mean nothing has changed.

December 16, 2009 6:51 pm 76 Comments

Lindsey Hilsum blogs about her interview with an Iranian militiaman of the infamous Basij.

October 21, 2009 6:53 pm 1 Comment

Lindsey Hilsum celebrates the release from prison in Iran of journalist Maziar Bahari, who worked for Channel 4 News in Tehran during the Iranian elections and who was arrested on 21 June.

July 30, 2009 8:33 pm No Comments

Neda Agha Soltan, who was shot on July 20th during street protests in Tehran, has become a symbol of protest. Today thousands went to the cemetery where she’s buried south of Tehran to mourn 40 days after her death and remember others killed during these last six weeks of protest.

2:51 pm 2 Comments

For weeks we’ve been trying to find people who have fled Iran after being arrested or injured in the demonstrations. It’s been difficult – not because such people do not exist, but because they’re all so scared. Those who have come to Europe know that if they speak out, their relatives back home are likely [...]

July 17, 2009 4:07 pm 2 Comments

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 [...]

June 17, 2009 11:07 am 9 Comments

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.

June 15, 2009 10:59 am 13 Comments

TEHRAN, IRAN – Whenever the riot police charge, waving their batons, with their shields to the fore, people run down the streets to escape. The black-clad riot squad move in phalanxes on motor-bikes, riding up on the pavements, swiping at passers-by. You don’t have to be a protestor to get hit.

June 12, 2009 2:24 pm 3 Comments

ESFAHAN, IRAN – Some snapshots from the Mousavi rally (the video report is here).

June 11, 2009 7:04 pm 4 Comments

ESFAHAN, IRAN – A video dispatch from this historic city, on one of the most passionately fought election campaigns I have ever seen anywhere: (Read more from Esfahan here.)