Yesterday, State Department Spokesperson P.J. Crowley made a few comments about Iran in his daily press briefing. The Assistant Secretary confirmed that, as LobeLog reported yesterday, State has commenced tweeting in Farsi.
Full Iran-related sections of both his prepared statement and the Q & A are below, but a few things are worth pulling [...]
The Iranian opposition movement, having gone underground since the 2009 crackdown, appears to be trying to leverage the successes (thus far) of the Egyptian protest movement into a breath of fresh air for their own aspirations.
The Iranian authorities are not happy. They’re dismissing the protesters as “rioters” before they’ve even had a chance [...]
The following is a set of edited notes from a conversation between myself and IPS’s correspondent in Egypt, Emad Mekay, who was filing dispatches for LobeLog until the Internet went down. He was on the streets of downtown Cairo today until just after the curfew, when he returned home and we chatted by phone.
Slow-building [...]
A few points from events on the ground in Cairo as protests continue here:
1 – Some government media figures appear to be joining ranks with the protestors. Mahmoud Saad, a talk show host in the Egyptian state-run TV, has announced that he will no longer appear on TV starting tonight after he came under [...]
En Español
The Latest
From IPS News
- Beware Carbon Myopia at COP28: Why Climate and Nature Action Must Now Come Together in the Race for a Liveable Planet
- Art and Climate Change
- Big Cons: How Consultancy Firms Undermine Governments
- Emerging Climate Finance Infrastructure to Match Africa’s Green Bankable Solutions
- Electrifying Cooking: Decarbonizing Africa’s Electricity Grid Towards Net Zero
- Role of Women Irreplaceable in Management of Natural Resources
- A “Little India” in Little Armenia
- NCDs Are Killing the Caribbean – PODCAST
- The Climate Crisis is an Education Crisis
- ‘War on Drugs’ Failed and Policies Need Major Overhaul – Report
- Online fundraising for IPS Inter Press Service at Razoo