The Ranting Persian

Rafsanjani will in a few hours lead the Friday prayers at Tehran. As both the reformists and hardliners will show up for the event in numbers.

It’s hard to give a number but I’d say between 5000-10000 Iranians gathered in front of the building of the provincial government here in Toronto at Queen’s Park. A huge turnout and lots of good speakers but unfortunately the old left and Shah-lovers had to ruin most of it, especially the old left (middle-aged Communists [...]

How the crisis in Iran has affected me and changed my daily routine + Neda, the young woman who died defending her rights and demanding her voice to be heard.

To vote is to be and feel responsible. That is why those who voted in the Iranian Presidential Election of 2009 did the right thing, even despite the fact that the elections were a fraud.

The Iranian Presidential Election on June 12th, 2009, appears to have been rigged in favor of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Millions of Iranians have marched throughout different cities in Iran demanding their voices to be heard and their votes to be fairly counted. Thanks to information technology and the social media revolution, the crisis has gathered much attention around the world and thousands of bloggers, twitterers, and regular folks everywhere are standing in solidarity with the protesters in Iran.