Opposition clashes with government at Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s funeral
The BBC is reporting that clashes have taken place between members of the opposition and the government in wake of the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who passed away on Sunday, khoda biamorz. “Tens of thousands” reportedly joined the procession through the streets of Qom as the leading dissident cleric was finally laid to […]
The real story on the Iran “democracy fund”
The BBC has taken a fresh look at a story the Boston Globe first ran a couple weeks ago about the demise of the Iran “Democracy Fund,” a program started under the Bush administration to support regime change in Iran. The story provoked an outcry. Individuals such as Senator Joseph Lieberman and the neoconservative activist […]