The Middle East Alliance - Post - MEA November Newsletter

Greetings!

Greetings from the Middle East Alliance!

We've had a lot of great updates to the site recently, and we are excited to share some of them with you here. This update features stories exclusively from Iran: memories, poems, and views from on the ground. We conclude with an a posted picture of an old Iranian passport.

As always, we would like to thank all the bloggers who have donated their time to this project - thank you for your work.

Best regards,

The MEA Team

Student Criticizes Khamenei at Official Gathering

From Iranian blogger HomyLafayette: A lone student at a gathering of the country's academic elite took the unprecedented step of criticizing Leader Ali Khamenei in his presence on Wednesday morning, according to the Office for the Preservation and Publication of the Works of Grand Ayatollah Khamenei and opposition news sites... read more.

Questions and Ramifications Over Neda's Shooting

From Iranian blogger UskowionIran: Frontline's latest documentary A Death in Tehran and its related web site revisit the tragic shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan, which took place during a protest last June following Iran's disputed presidential election. Readers are encouraged to view the documentary, made in association with Tehran Bureau...read more.

War leaves no consolation prize: Results of a poll conducted by NIAC

From an Iranian blogger at Iranian.com: A couple of weeks ago, I received the results of a poll conducted by NIAC asking what to advocate on behalf of the membership in the aftermath of recent upheavals in Iran. Almost five hundred NIAC members responded to the poll. Below are the reported results with some commentary by me...read more.

Brainwashing children: Basij Militia to be Established in 6,000 Elementary Schools

From Iranian blogger HomyLafayette: A senior Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) official has announced that the Basij militia will soon be established in Iranian elementary schools for the first time since the Islamic revolution... read more.

What Happened on the Night of June 12th?

From Iranian blogger Pedestrian: Thursday morning we had consecutive meetings with Mr. Mousavi. The main topic of discussion was the provisions for election day. Numerous reports had reached people in the campaign which made us really worried about the election process. Supervising the ballot boxes was of serious concern to us...read more.

What Could Come after the Last Supreme Leader?

From the Iranian NiacBlog: A recent article published on the Newsweek website discusses the widespread discontent amongst Iran's religious scholars with the position of Supreme Leader, and suggests that the position itself is in danger of being abolished after Ayatollah Khamenei's death...read more.

A Mirror Image

From Iranian blogger ThoughtThera: When one looks at the current state of Iranian protest movement, it seems as though as I mentioned in a previous post, that the movement seems to be without any general direction, or 'head'... read more.

Neda

A poem from Iranian blogger TheNewestDeal:
an unmarked grave,
for one we know,
her uncensored death,
has gone to show,
the price we pay........read more.

Maybe He's Watched too Much Captain Tsubasa

From Iranian blogger Pedestrian: The Soccer Players [footballistha] was a Japanese cartoon that aired in Iran during the 90s. It was very, very popular, especially the captain of the team, Captian Tsubasa.You may remember that back in June, in a televised debate between Mohsen Rezaie and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...read more.

Shah of Iran Criticizing Britain - YouTube Video

Iranian blogger Aryamehr11 posts a YouTube video of the last Shah of Iran in an interview with British media... click here to watch it.

Iran Drops 27 Places in the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index

From Iranian blogger TheNewestDeal:While Iran ranked 144 out of 180 countries surveyed in 2008 with a CPI score of 2.3, it dropped to 168 with a CPI score of 1.8 in 2009. Only Uzbekistan, Chad, Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Somalia ranked lower than the Islamic Republic... read more.

One Day...

Iranian blogger Hydraspeaks posts a photo of the cover of her pre-1979 Iranian Passpot... click here to see it.

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