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The opposition had scheduled the protests for July 30 to mark the 40-day anniversary - a religiously significant day in the Islamic mourning cycle - of the death of 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan, whose last moments were captured on video and circulated around the world. The regime has been...
Ninety-two years after the Russian Revolution and 20 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe's last Soviet-style government is finally on its way out. In Moldova this week, four months after popular upheaval, the Communist Party accepted defeat in a national election. Four pro...
Because the opposition was denied a permit to gather at the sprawling Grand Mossala complex to commemorate those killed in the post-election crisis, the crowds will likely spread to nearby alleyways and narrow streets, the type of urbanscape where Basij often corner protesters (there are no sweeping boulevards nearby...
Among a dozen likely protesters interviewed in Tehran, most of whom were recent university students, the picture that emerged was one of intense dissatisfaction with the theocratic regime, a system forcing its strict religious codes on a progressively more secular youth population. But many of them do not desire regime...
The opposition scheduled protests on July 30 to mark the 40-day anniversary - a religiously significant date in the Islamic mourning cycle - of the death of 26-year-old Agha-Soltan, whose last moments were captured on video, which circulated around the world. The regime has been deeply concerned about...