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Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:31 PM
Subject: RFE/RL Iran Report - 2/3/2011
From: <listmanager@list.rferl.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:31 PM
Subject: RFE/RL Iran Report - 2/3/2011
 RFE/RL Iran Report 2/3/2011 7:28:56 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Iran. For more stories on Iran, please visit and bookmark our Iran page . |
 Jailed Iranian Blogger Denied Leave For Surgery A jailed Iranian blogger is reported to have been denied leave to undergo kidney surgery. More  Prominent Iranian Lawyer Jailed A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer who represented political activists is reported to have been jailed for 18 months and banned from practicing law for 10 years. More  Commentary: The Ghosts Of Tehran As the world watches events in Egypt unfold, the spectacle of demonstrators massed on Cairo's Tahrir Square (Liberation Square) is awakening memories of an equally epochal moment in the Middle East 32 years ago. Back then the country at stake was Iran. More A human rights activist and Baha'i follower who was barred from studying at a university has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. More  Iranian Opposition Emboldened By Egypt Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Musavi and Mehdi Karrubi have called on officials to allow the opposition movement to hold street protests, saying that even in Egypt people are able to demonstrate. More  Shah Bio Feels Newly Relevant If you've just read "The Shah," Abbas Milani's new biography of the hapless Iranian monarch, the flood of revolutionary images pouring out of Tunisia and Egypt will seem strangely resonant. In some ways we saw it all before in 1979, when the collapse of the shah's regime transformed the Middle East in ways we have yet to fully comprehend. More Male and female students will be separated at a Tehran university in the upcoming academic year in the latest instance of gender segregation in higher education. Allameh Tabatabai University President Seyed Sadredin Shariati said the plan would be implemented first in general courses with a large number of students. More  What's Inspiring The Arab Revolt? It is next to impossible to predict the course of mass activism and protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere in the Arab world. But there are reasons to think that the fall of authoritarian regimes by mainly young and frustrated protesters will not necessarily lead to a catastrophic outcome. More  How Are The Protests In Egypt, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution Being Viewed In Iran? Iranian state media has been portraying the recent upheaval in Arab countries as a struggle against Western puppets in the region, while claiming that citizens who have taken to the streets in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere are taking inspiration from Iran's Islamic Revolution. More  No Mourning For Hanged Iran Activist The widow of an Iranian activist hanged this week for ties with a banned opposition group says the family has been warned not to hold a mourning ceremony for him. Jafar Kazemi and Mohammad Ali Hajaghai were executed on January 24 for ties with the exiled People's Mujahedin of Iran (also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, MKO). More  Dervishes' Lawyers Jailed In Iran Three Iranian lawyers who recently defended Sufi dervishes have been sentenced to jail in a case an international rights group says highlights mounting pressure on human rights lawyers. More |
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