Alireza Beheshti released
Top Mousavi advisor Alireza Beheshti was released from prison on Saturday. Beheshti is the son of martyred Ayatollah Beheshti and Mousavi’s representative in the special committee investigating the abuse of prisoners. Morteza Alviri, Karoubi’s representative in the special committee who was also arrested earlier is still in prison. Here is more from PressTV: A top […]
L.A. Times: Mass Trial Backfiring
The L.A. Times examines the significance of Iran’s mass trials: Not only have they [the trails] failed to silence the opposition or quell protests, including one that erupted outside the court building as the proceedings were underway Saturday, analysts said, but they appear to be badly damaging the international credibility of the Iranian judiciary and […]
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 […]