IRAN RISES

Call for Hunger strike To Support Iranian Hunger Strikers

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:37:19 +0000

Dear Freedom Loving People! The oppressive Islamic Republic regime has turned Iran into a large prison for people by denying them their basic human rights such as freedom of expression and association. Within this general prison are specific locations such as the notorious Evin prison that the regime locks up political activists that mostly have [...]

Iranian Journalist for Time Magazine in Prison

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:09:27 +0000

Reza Rafii-Forushan, an Iranian stringer for Time magazine, appeals his frame-up in the following open letter. The Persian original is published on RAHANA’s website. His Eminence Ayatollah Amoli Larijani While submitting my greetings, God is the Manifestation of truth, He loves truth and is disgusted with lies, for piety only takes form in truth and [...]

Senior Fellow at WINEP Praises the Late Ayatollah Fadlallah of Lebanon

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:33:55 +0000

Mehdi Khalaji, a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a hawkish pro-Israel think-tank, wrote the following memoir of his relationship with the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. The article largely stands on its own, and is valuable reading on its right. It is particularly poignant given that CNN’s senior [...]

Amnesty International Falls for the Taraneh Mousavi Hoax

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:51:18 +0000

AI’s First Report on the Hoax On December 2009, I read on an Amnesty International website that this organization was taking up the Taraneh Mousavi hoax. This alarmed me, since it was playing with AI’s reputation and that of the broader struggle for human rights in Iran. I wrote a message to AI expressing my [...]

Bare Naked Liars

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:43:19 +0000

I thought my viewers might find the following interesting. An Islamophobic site titled Bare Naked Islam carried the following photo: Now, any fool would suspect that this picture had been photoshopped. I mean, really, if Code Pink had called for the murder of American troops, wouldn’t they have brought public catastrophe on their heads? After [...]

Iranian Cyber Army

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:12:26 +0000

Translator’s Introduction: What follows is an article I was asked to translate. Midway through the translation, it occurred to me that it was marred by unsubstantiated statements and exaggerations. Thursday, 29 Bahman 1388 [February 18, 2010] Report on the Operation of the Cyber Army in Hacking Websites by Farvartish Rezvaniyeh Source: http://www.kaleme.com/1388/11/29/klm-11615 During the past [...]

Speech by Engineer Mir Hosein Mousavi on the Eve of the 22 Bahman Demonstrations

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:28:45 +0000

According to Kalame, Engineer Mir Hosein Mousavi, the Prime Minister beloved of Imam Khomeini (May God be pleased with him!) continued his speech as follows: We salute the dear students and the youth for the Ten Days of the Dawn [the days leading up to 22 Bahman]. These ten days are a commemoration of a [...]

Statement by Mehdi Karroubi on the threshold of 22 Bahman

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:00:58 +0000

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate Great and proud nation of Iran: Now that we are on the threshold of 22 Bahman and the anniversary of the victory of the glorious Islamic Revolution led by the Imam, I consider it necessary, while commemorating this day and paying my respects to the martyrs [...]

The Stolen Coffin by Ahmad Shirzad

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:13:00 +0000

Today, Massoud’s body was buried, but left a battlefield behind. The Hezbollahi brothers had mobilized from that morning and did not stop surrounding the body for an instant. Loudspeakers and electric generators and eulogizers and very high-power stereo systems and organized pickup trucks were all at their disposal. The family and its circle had practically [...]

Akbar Ganji Eulogizes Ayatollah Montazeri

Evan@qlineorientalist.com (Evan Siegel) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:03:23 +0000

The Historians and the History-Making Ayatollah Montazeri Akbar Ganji gooya new He resisted and resisted and resisted until he became a model of Iranian people’s struggles. He showed that one could stand up to absolutist power. He showed that even if even if a pragmatic personality attracts everyone to himself, one could still remain unimprisoned [...]