Showing posts with label Tehran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tehran. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Is Obama surrending America's leadership of the free world?



The Iranian people are fighting to create change they can believe in while the Obama team is sending a signal that says "No, you can't." Full story by James S Robbins

In our Water Cooler blog, read about signs that an opposition group is crystallizing within the Iranian religious leadership.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quest For Freedom: Twitter Major Tool



Tehran's authoritarian leaders clearly were caught off-guard. They had managed to take down the telephone system opposition supporters used for texting but for some reason were slow to eliminate other social media. As open defiance of the election results broke out, citizen journalists used new media to spread the word. And the whole Web was watching. Full Story by James S Robbins Washington Times

And at our Watercooler blog, breaking news about the arrest of 16 Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers for pro-dissident sympathies:
Washington Times Water Cooler Blog