Hier spricht der freie Iran

by Abbas Djavadi on 23/06/2009

  Von Hans-jörg Schmidt

(Die Welt, 23. Juni 2009)

 Aus einem streng bewachten Gebäude in Prag werden Nachrichten in die Heimat gesendet: Ein Besuch in der iranischen Redaktion von Radio Liberty

Der Musikcomputer spielt einen persischen Popsong, dann zieht die Technikerin den Regler für das Jingle des Senders auf, mit dem zugleich die Nachrichten angekündigt werden. Es ist Mittag im Prager Stadtteil Strasnice, im wohl sichersten Gebäude Europas, dem Radiosender Free Europe/Liberty, konkret im Studio von Radio Farda, dem Programm für den Iran. Es gibt nur eine wirkliche Top-Story: Das geistliche Oberhaupt Ayatollah Ali Chamenei spricht in der Universität von Teheran. Weltweit ist seine Rede mit Spannung erwartet worden. Millionen Iraner gehen seit Tagen auf die Straßen, um gegen die dubiose Wiederwahl von Präsident Mahmud Ahmadineschad zu demonstrieren. Wie wird sich der starke Mann des Iran dazu stellen?

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Iran: Evolutionary Change

by Abbas Djavadi22.06.2009

National Review Online, Sunday, June 21, 2009
The Iranian Revolt [Rich Lowry]
John O’Sullivan wrote me this note today.
Dear Rich,
Thanks for your note. I am happy to give you my judgment on the Iranian revolt. In brief, it’s one of the most important movements of our time. It radically undermines both the realist argument that Muslims are [...]

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Ely’s Tehran Diary: Dogs of War

by Abbas Djavadi21.06.2009

(THIS IS ANOTHER PIECE OF A “TEHRAN DIARY” BY ELHAM AHMADI. SHE CONTRIBUTED THIS TO RFE/RL’S RADIO FARDA.)
Saturday, June 20, 2009
“Bia pishe baba” (”Come to Daddy’s arms”). There was a beautiful field of green. My father was waiting for me at the top of the hill and I was running into his arms. The sun [...]

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Iran’s Khamenei On Crash Course

by Abbas Djavadi19.06.2009

For the past couple of months, we thought some kind of spring was coming to our beloved Iran. We deserved it, we thought, finally, after so many years of un-freedom, state-ideological one-way-turbo-course, and international isolation and humiliation. But after the much expected speech yesterday by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, it seems we are not in [...]

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Ely’s Diary: An Extraordinary Day In The Life Of A Tehrani

by Abbas Djavadi18.06.2009

By Elham Ahmadi, Tehran
I woke up with a splitting headache this morning as the sounds of honking cars, loud explosions, and screams and chants of last night were still echoing in my head.
After sipping a dark coffee I headed toward the newspaper where I work.
To my surprise, the editor asked all ladies to leave the [...]

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Another Report from Tehran

by Abbas Djavadi17.06.2009

Today, under slate skies and despite official warnings that the permit to march had been denied, against rumors that orders had been given to shoot to kill, they came. They came by the tens if not hundreds of thousands, marching east to west along the many kilometers of Enqelab Street to Azadi, or Freedom Square. [...]

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Observations: June 15 in Tehran

by Abbas Djavadi16.06.2009

A.A. reports his own observations on the course of events of 15th June 2009 in Tehran.
I left my home in Tajrish along with my family at 3 p.m. We went down Valiast Street which is the main northern-southern avenue in Tehran and entered the Evin Exp’way which leads to Enghelab Street. We knew that people [...]

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From Tehran: Iranian Students

by Abbas Djavadi15.06.2009

(From A Friend — Written before the mass protest demonstration in Tehran on Monday, 15 June)
I talked to a few students in Tehran (Monday morning Tehran time). They confirmed that the attack on their dormitory was brutal, destructive, and the authorities may have taken as many as 100 students with them. In Tehran, one faculty [...]

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From A Friend in Tehran

by Abbas Djavadi15.06.2009

Over the past two evenings, the air in Tehran has been filled with loud cries of “Allah-u Akbar” following a request to this end by Moussavi’s supporters.
Tonight, the chanting started at around 9 pm local time, and has been escalating since. People in all parts of town are reporting the same phenomenon in their neighbourhoods. [...]

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An Electoral Coup in Iran

by Abbas Djavadi13.06.2009

It was a night of fundamental change of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was, however, not the change the overwhelming majority of the electorate indicated to be producing with their real votes yesterday, but a change in the ruling establishment of the country, an almost complete control by Revolutionary Guards, intelligence services, and the [...]

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Iran Has Already Changed

by Abbas Djavadi12.06.2009

Voting started a few hours ago in Iran to answer one question: if President Ahmadinejad should be removed from office. Turnout is reportedly very high. There may be a relatively considerable election fraud. Still, the anti-Ahmadinejad candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is expected to win — maybe today, maybe in the run-off next Friday.
But even before [...]

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Even Iran Can Change

by Abbas Djavadi10.06.2009

Iran is always good for big surprises. Over the last four years, the international community has come to love to hate Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad (sort of like former U.S. President George W. Bush).
But now it seems there’s a real chance of Ahmadinejad becoming the first Iranian leader since the Islamic revolution 30 years ago [...]

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A Friend’s Note: Mesbah Yazdi’s Decree to Rig Votes

by Abbas Djavadi09.06.2009

Following the discovery of a “Fatwa” (”religious decree”) issued by ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi which sanctions cheating in Friday’s presidential election and was published in an open letter written by a group of Ministry of Interior employees, the heads of the Election Supervision Committees established by reformist candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi sent a [...]

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هویت طلبی و حقی اجتماعی با یک “اما”ی بزرگ

by Abbas Djavadi27.05.2009

در این چند سال گذشته تعبیر جدید و خوش آهنگی رایج شده: هویت طلبی. هویت طلب به کسانی گفته میشود که خواهان احقاق حقوق گروه اجتماعی و یا  قومی خود هستند. ممکن است شما از یک گروه دینی-مذهبی مانند مسیحیان، بهائیان و یا اهل تسنن باشید و بخواهید حقوقی که شما بعنوان شهروندان ایران دارید و [...]

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کسی به ترکهای آذربایجان توهین نکرده – آب را گل آلود نکنید

by Abbas Djavadi22.05.2009

یک هفته پیش یکی از دوستان آذزی اهل باکو با حالتی هیجان زده تلفن کرد که “خبر داری؟ خاتمی به آذربایجانیان ایران توهین کرده. مردم عصبانیند و ممکن است وضع ناآرام شود.” چندان جدی نگرفتم اما ویدئوئی را که میگفت در یوتیوب تماشا کردم.
 در یک مجلسی خصوصی آقای خاتمی نشسته با چند معمم دیگر. محیطی [...]

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Ahmadinejad For Four More Years?

by Abbas Djavadi27.04.2009

The uncertainty over whether or not conservative forces in Iran will throw their support behind incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s bid for a second presidential term is dissipating. On April 25, a coalition of 14 conservative and clerical parties and groups announced that they will indeed support Ahmadinejad’s candidacy in the June 12 presidential election.
Coalition secretary [...]

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Ahmadinejad — An Embarrassment for Iran

by Abbas Djavadi20.04.2009

In a first reaction to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the UN conference in Geneva, Ahmad Moussavi from Iran wrote on Radio Farda’s Facebook page: “I am ashamed as an Iranian. And I don’t know what else to say.”
At the anti-racism conference on Monday, Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being “racist.” “Using the Jewish suffering and [...]

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