Tag: Iran
Music fails to chime with Islamic values, says Iran’s supreme leader
Saeed Kamali Dehghan August 5, 2010.
Print: The Guardian, UK
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims the promotion and teaching of the artform is not compatible with country’s sacred regime.
How Does Stoning Work in Iran?
By Christopher Beam August 3, 2010.
Print: Slate
Under Islamic laws, this is how execution by stoning is carried out in Iran.
Toll Rises From Twin Suicide Bombing at Iranian Mosque
By WILLIAM YONG and ALAN COWELL July 16, 2010.
Print: New York Times
Two bombers, one in women’s clothing, attacked outside a mosque in southeastern Iran, killing at least 26 people.
Purge of Iranian Universities Is Feared
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN September 1, 2009.
Print: New York Times
There are signs of a crackdown in Iran’s academia on un-Islamic ideas.
EU resolve hardens as British workers face Iran show trial
Younes Khani July 3, 2009.
Print: The Times
Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran face the prospect of a show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic. Tensions between the Iranian theocracy and the EU rose as a hardline Ayatollah accused Britain of attempting to undermine the regime and EU officials expressed concern that confessions may have been extracted by torture, leaving the door open for a wholesale withdrawal of EU diplomats from the country.
For Radical Islam, the End Begins
by Joshua Muravchik June 28, 2009.
Print: The Washington Post
Much as the hammers that leveled the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of the Cold War, so might the protests rocking Iran signal the death of radical Islam and the challenges it poses to the West. Just as with the evangelicals and the Republican Party, the integration of politics and religious dogma cannot hold.
Iran’s debate over theocracy: Why the turbans are at odds
June 24, 2009.
Print: Economist
A debate rages about the nature of clerical rule
