Blog posts tagged "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad"

July 24, 2010 12:08 pm 1 Comment

Does counter-insurgency work? The British in southern Afghanistan have four more years to prove it one way or another. Lindsey Hilsum writes from Afghanistan.

February 8, 2010 1:32 pm 5 Comments

The Iranian regime's biggest worry is its own divisions and weaknesses in the face of continued unrest by the opposition, blogs Lindsey Hilsum.

February 4, 2010 9:11 pm 1 Comment

Channel 4 News's foreign correspondent Jonathan Miller investigates claims that an Iranian-British woman is facing charges for a capital offence in Iran.

February 2, 2010 11:33 am 5 Comments

There are two Iran clocks - a democracy clock and a nuclear clock. But which is ticking faster? Lindsey Hilsum blogs for Channel 4 News.

October 1, 2009 11:53 am 3 Comments

“Iran has begun negotiations with the six major world powers in Geneva on a wide realm of global issues…. The Geneva meeting is based on Iran’s package of proposals released earlier this month.”

September 24, 2009 11:35 am 1 Comment

It’s not surprising security is tight at the UN during the general assembly. We all expect to have to stand in long queues to pass through metal detectors at any gathering where Barack Obama is present, especially when he is joined by Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Muammar Gaddafi and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. No wonder there are [...]

September 19, 2009 11:13 am 1 Comment

The Iranian government would have us believe that the opposition is dying, suppressed out of all existence. Since mid July it’s been pretty much impossible for large crowds to gather – every time they do, basiij militia come out to beat people up or arrest them. The opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi said he had evidence [...]

August 5, 2009 12:38 pm 2 Comments

At some parties the buzz is all about who’s there. The big issue at President Ahmadinejad’s inauguration was who wasn’t there. There was a distinct lack of former presidents – no Khatami, no Rafsanjani. He wasn’t doing well on former parliamentary speakers either. No member of the late Imam Khomeni’s family.

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 13, 2009 7:32 pm 7 Comments

  I feel as if I went to bed in one country and woke up in another.   Yesterday, I saw thousands of Iranians laughing and happy as they queued in the sunshine to vote. Today, thuggish looking secret policemen with walkie-talkies stood on every street corner, while riot police with truncheons roared around the [...]