Archivo etiqueta «Irán»
By Joshua Prager, who is writing a book about his recovery from quadriplegia and will be a 2011 Nieman Fellow at Harvard (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 08/02/10):
On June 20, a young Iranian woman was shot dead at one of the mass protests that followed the contested re- election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Millions of people around the world watched video of Neda Agha-Soltan hemorrhaging on Tehran’s Karegar Street, and hers became the tragic, beautiful and galvanizing face of the reform movement in Iran.
Witnesses implicated a member of the Basij, the governmental militia, in Agha-Soltan’s death. But an Iranian ambassador… Seguir leyendo
By Amir Taheri, the author of The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution (THE TIMES, 08/02/10):
An east-west street of more than 30 miles divides Tehran, Iran’s megapolis of a capital, into two halves: a modern north and a traditional south. Thirty years ago the thoroughfare was named after Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavis, the last dynasty of monarchs in Iran. Today it is called Enghelab (Revolution) Street after the turmoil that led to the creation of the first theocracy in the country’s history.
In one of those ironies of which Iranian history is full, on February… Seguir leyendo
Par Frank Nouma, correspondant à Bruxelles du Jérusalem Post (LE MONDE, 05/02/10):
Pour Téhéran, l’Europe est certes un géant économique dont les mollahs attendent qu’elle compense, du point de vue commercial et industriel, l’absence des Etats-Unis en fournissant à l’Iran les devises et les technologies dont il a besoin, mais aussi un “nain politique” dont l’avis, en conséquence compte peu.
Car Téhéran sait pertinemment bien que l’Europe est divisée, que sa politique étrangère est au mieux balbutiante et qu’aucune force militaire ne lui permet d’intervenir, seule et de façon crédible (à condition qu’elle le juge un jour nécéssaire, ce qui… Seguir leyendo
By Nir Boms, vice president of the Center for Freedom in the Middle East and a co-founder of CyberDissident.org and Shayan Arya, an Iranian activist and a member of the Constitutionalist Party of Iran (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 29/01/10):
Andre Maurois once said, “If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.” So seems to be the case with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Last week, the friends and families of Hane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal – three University of California… Seguir leyendo
Par Jean-Pierre Brard, député de la Seine-Saint-Denis et maire honoraire de Montreuil (LE MONDE, 13/01/10):
Le soulèvement du peuple iranien contre le régime tyrannique des mollahs a été une fois de plus, le dimanche 27 décembre, réprimé dans le sang. Les nombreux tués ou blessés lors des manifestations viennent allonger la longue et sinistre liste des patriotes iraniens qui sacrifient leur vie pour la liberté de leur peuple. Le peuple iranien ne réclame que l’installation de la démocratie. Ce soulèvement qui a commencé en juin 2009 a un objectif clair : la chute du dictateur Khamenei et de sa marionnette… Seguir leyendo
Por Timothy Garton Ash, catedrático de Estudios Europeos. Ocupa la cátedra Isaiah Berlin en St. Antony’s College, Oxford, y es profesor titular de la Hoover Institution, Stanford. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS,12/01/10):
Mientras Occidente celebraba sus fiestas, los iraníes han vuelto a arriesgar la vida para protestar contra un régimen cada vez más desesperado y opresor. Estados Unidos y Europa deben pensar con urgencia si nuestra estrategia para Irán sigue siendo la acertada.
Siete meses después de unas elecciones amañadas, la lucha política en el interior de Irán no sólo continúa sino que se ha agudizado. El… Seguir leyendo
By Cherie Blair, a barrister at Matrix Chambers in London. She is married to Tony Blair, the envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, and former prime minister. She chairs the Cherie Blair foundation, working to strengthen the capacity of women entrepreneurs in countries where they lack equal opportunities (THE GUARDIAN, 12/01/10):
As the Iranian government struggles to contain growing demands for freedom and democracy from its courageous people, it is flailing around trying to deflect blame for the protests. Foreign media and other countries, including Britain, have been accused of encouraging unrest. But the regime is also worryingly… Seguir leyendo
Par Fariba Adelkhah, directrice de recherche à Sciences Po-CERI, et Jean-François Bayart, directeur de recherche au CNRS, Sciences Po-CERI (LE MONDE, 07/01/10):
Depuis la proclamation de la réélection de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad à la présidence de la République islamique, dès le premier tour du scrutin, la contestation s’est emparée de la rue iranienne et ne semble pas devoir se démentir en dépit de la dureté de la répression. Quelle est la teneur, quels sont les objectifs de ce “mouvement vert” – la couleur que le sort avait donnée à la candidature de Mir Hossein Moussavi et qui est devenue le signe… Seguir leyendo
By Flynt Leverett, who directs the New America Foundation’s Iran Initiative and is a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University and Hillary Mann Leverett, who heads a political risk consultancy. They publish the Web site The Race for Iran (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 06/01/10):
The Islamic Republic of Iran is not about to implode. Nevertheless, the misguided idea that it may do so is becoming enshrined as conventional wisdom in Washington.
For President Obama, this misconception provides a bit of cover; it helps obscure his failure to follow up on his campaign promises about engaging Iran with any… Seguir leyendo
By Liam Fox, Shadow Defence Secretary (THE TIMES, 01/01/10):
The release of Peter Moore, held hostage for 946 days, demands that we renew our focus on Iran’s role in sponsoring international terrorism. Even if Mr Moore was not actually incarcerated within the borders of Iran, as some have alleged, the regime in Tehran backs the League of the Righteous, the extremist Shia group that is believed to have seized the British IT consultant.
His release comes at a moment when the Iranian regime’s behaviour is more dangerous than ever. Its violent suppression of protests on the streets of Iran has… Seguir leyendo
By Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs (THE WASHINGTON POST, 31/12/09):
The mayhem that has swept over Iran in the past few days is once more calling into question the Islamic Republic’s longevity. Recent events are eerily reminiscent of the revolution that displaced the monarchy in 1979: A fragmented, illegitimate state led by cruel yet indecisive men is suddenly confronting an opposition movement that it cannot fully apprehend. It is premature to proclaim the immediate demise… Seguir leyendo
Par Michel Taubmann, journaliste, auteur avec Ramin Parham de Histoire secrète de la révolution iranienne (LE MONDE, 29/12/09):
C’était il y a trente et un ans… en 1978. Cette année-là, le mois de mouharram, ce mois de deuil – durant lequel s’était déroulé le martyre de l’imam Hussein à la bataille de Karbala, en 680 -, avait commencé le 1er décembre. Il avait vu une accélération de l’irrésistible mouvement venu des tréfonds de la société iranienne et qui en quelques semaines allait balayer la plus vieille monarchie du monde, fondée par Cyrus 2 500 ans auparavant.
Le 11 décembre 1978,… Seguir leyendo
Por Abdulreza Tajik, periodista iraní. Traducción: Rima Sheermohammadi (EL PERIÓDICO, 26/12/09):
En una época en la que se atenta contra los derechos de los ciudadanos en el nombre del islam, una persona que ha fomentado el conocimiento de esta religión desde la erudición, el ayatolá Hossein Alí Montazeri, lleva hoy el nombre de Luchador por los Derechos Humanos. A pesar de que el fundamentalismo islámico conlleva la pérdida de derechos ciudadanos, un entendimiento profundo obtenido de las fuentes de la erudición y el pragmatismo defiende «el derecho y la dignidad de las personas». La última iniciativa de quien toda su… Seguir leyendo
By Alan J. Kuperman, the director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24/12/09):
President Obama should not lament but sigh in relief that Iran has rejected his nuclear deal, which was ill conceived from the start. Under the deal, which was formally offered through the United Nations, Iran was to surrender some 2,600 pounds of lightly enriched uranium (some three-quarters of its known stockpile) to Russia, and the next year get back a supply of uranium fuel sufficient to run its Tehran research reactor for three decades. The proposal… Seguir leyendo
By Nader Mousavizadeh, a special assistant to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan 1997-2003 and a consulting senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (THE TIMES, 22/12/09):
The Islamic republic of Iran’s year of living dangerously is finding an apt end in the extraordinary scenes unfolding after the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. The senior cleric’s funeral has turned into a huge demonstration against the Government, with tens of thousands of protesters descending on the holy city of Qom.
The YouTube clip of the murder of the young protester Neda Agha-Soltan in the summer’s demonstrations against the… Seguir leyendo