Tag Archives : Iran post election violence

The Iranian authorities have said that, more than 100 individuals have been detained in connection to the protests and demonstrations that were carried out on November 4th, a day that is marked as the the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy. In the year 1979,a group of Islamist students and radical fighters stormed and seized the U.S Embassy [...]

The repercussions of the Iranian election violence are still taking their toll on the Iranian people, as has been evident with the story of Iranian journalist Ehsan Maleki. Mr. Maleki, 29 years old, profession [photographer had been following the liberal presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi’s election campaign and the violence that broke [...]

After Iranian authorities shut down Kahrizak detention center, that was created as a makeshift prison for the detainees of the Iranian post election violence. However, even with the intervention of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to close down the facility, there has been an incredible unrest and outrage amid the citizens Iran, ever since [...]

The post Presidential election protest and the public unrest in Iran just doesn’t seem to die down, infact, it has been flaring out of control, even with strict and many a times, violent reprisals from the authorities. Today, the Iranian authorities announced that, they have shut down a makeshift detention facility, that was created to keep the [...]

In a strong and deliberate warning to the opposition parties in Iran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a stern warning, instructing all the opposition leaders not to disturb public peace. The statement is believed to have come in the wake of a referendum called for by the opposition parties, who have been protesting against the botched Presidential [...]

Since the disputed Iranian presidential elections that were held on June 12th 2009, Iranian authorities have declared that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still the president of the Republic of Iran and the elections have been fair in every nature. Since the election results and the post election violence, Ahmadinejad has been extremely vocal in his [...]

Twitter started as a social networking website designed for the sole purpose of constant communication between the users. Who knew that, one day Twitter would become the voice of a nation, reaching out to the world, desperate for freedom and right to free existence. With the post election violence in Iran, the authorities immediately established a blackout [...]