Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iran’s new rebellion

by Peyman Jafari, Jul 2009Iranians have taken to the streets as the divisions in the ruling class have sharpened into open conflict, writes Peyman Jafari.The fallout from the presidential election on 12 June precipitated the biggest political crisis in Iran since the...

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Mass protests against election result in Iran

Wed, 17/06/2009 Iran is gripped by a political crisis, reports Simon Hardy. Claims of rigged elections have spiralled into a mass popular movement on the streets, but is Mousavi the way forward? Thirty years after the Iranian revolution, which saw the creation of the...

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