GhormehSabzi
| one year ago
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International Observatory of Human Rights: Iranian-British award-winning journalist Saeed Dehghan who writes for the Guardian describes the “unprecedented level of hopelessness” Iranians are enduring as the US re-imposes sanctions and food prices soar
A short bio on him:
http://www.saxton.com.au/nasir-sobhani/
Saleh Saeed Nasser has been patrolling Yemen’s coastline for 15 years. For most of his career, he’s seen migrants arrive on the pristine shores of Shabwa province from the Horn of Africa. But in recent years, as his country's three-year civil war has brought on terrorism and the world's worst humanitarian crisis, something counterintuitive has started happening: More migrants from ...
GhormehSabzi
| 2 years ago
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Vox: How the price of eggs sparked an uprising in Iran. Read more about the protests on Vox.com here: http://bit.ly/2m2r4k0. Since December 28th, Iran has undergone multiple days of populist protests. At least 20 deaths have occurred, as protestors clash with Iranian security forces, and hundreds of people have been arrested. The demonstrations began in Mashad, Iran's second largest cit, and ...
GhormehSabzi
| 2 years ago
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PBS NewsHour:
We learn more about the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran with Abbas Milani of Stanford University's Stanford Iranian Studies Program.
GhormehSabzi
| 3 years ago
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April 14, 2017–The candidacy in Iran’s upcoming presidential election of Ebrahim Raisi, who played a leading role in crimes against humanity during the 1980s, is a serious setback for a country striving to rejoin the international community.
Read more: https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2017/...
GhormehSabzi
| 3 years ago
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The Economist: This week in 1979 the world ’s first Islamic Revolution toppled the ruling dynasty of Shah Reza Pahlavi in Iran. The intertwining of religion and state has been tough for some Iranians, but they are increasingly using culture as a means to protest against the regime.
GhormehSabzi
| 3 years ago
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Al Jazeera interview IHR Spokesperson Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam about the Sunni Prisoners Executed on 2. August 2016 in Iran
"Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that". -Claude Lenzmann
It's a nine and a half hours of movie once you see, you'll never forget. I too had reservations for Lenzmann accusatory approach to the local peasants around the camp... but it doesn't change the facts he was presenting... Or maybe it was the only way we could see the ...
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