Category Archives: Iran: music, culture, social issues

IRAN: Go on the streets and keep fighting for “your” freedom and dignity!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

No green, no blue, no red, no black…………but all colors: get together and focus on one thing: your freedom!………….Keep Zabane Atesh all the time with you when you’re on the streets!!! Take your tar, dombak, guitar, sax – anything that can make the sound of freedom – with you. No gun can kill you when you’re flying on and with the sound of freedom. Ostad Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, please join the people on the streets and be the power of music!

Hamid Dabashi: Iran is ground zero of a civil rights movement that will shake Mideast. The Green Movement a gathering storm, helped by cyberspace!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Hamid Dabashi portrait

Hamid Dabashi: a professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University, writes frequently on politics and world affairs. This time in CNN Opinion.

This article is very well formulated. He writes: Obama must stick to his vow to “bear witness” to crackdown in Iran,  U.S. civil rights icons, Muslim leaders; human rights groups should go to Iran.

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