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Opinion: While World Looks Away, Iran Cracks Down

By Barbara SlavinMar 1st 2011 – 5:00AM
AP

AP

While the world focuses its attention on the unrest in Libya, and on other Middle Eastern countries trying to throw off tyrannical leaders, Iran is seizing the opportunity to increase repression of its political dissidents. On Monday, Iranian opposition websites confirmed that security forces have arrested two 2009...

Opinion: Iran's Green Movement Needs Cyberspace Support

By Barbara SlavinJun 10th 2010 – 5:03AM
Behrouz Mehri, AFP / Getty Images

Behrouz Mehri, AFP / Getty Images

(June 10) -- On Saturday, demonstrations will take place in more than two dozen cities across the world to mark the anniversary of Iran's disputed presidential election. Tehran, however, is likely to be relatively quiet. In the year since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a fraud-tainted victory over Mir Hossein Moussavi, the...

Background on green movement

Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy.

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