“Basiji! How much money do you get to wield that baton?”
This video from today’s protests in Iran (the exact location is unconfirmed), posted on Facebook, shows hundreds of protesters chanting, ” Basiji! How much money do you get to wield that baton?” A young participant who witnessed and participated in the protests today at Tehran University and Amir Kabir University noted the increase use of […]
Iran’s Mass Trial Resumes
The LA Times has the latest on Iran’s mass trial: Twitter, Facebook and Google’s newly introduced Persian-to-English translation software were part of a vast foreign conspiracy against Iran, said a prosecutor today at the second session of an extraordinary trial against alleged ringleaders of weeks of unrest unfolding in Iran. Government critics and international observers […]