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“It would have been nice if the story was told correctly because basically, if the Canadians weren’t there to help, who knows what would have happened to those Americans.”
Erica Ritz The Blaze 1/5/2013 This Jan. 27, 1981 photo shows John Sheardown in Ottawa, Ontario. (Photo: AP) John Sheardown, a […] January 5th, 2013 | Tags: "Argo", 1979 Islamic Revolution, American Embassy, Ben Affleck, Iranian hostage crisis, John Vernon Sheardown, obituary, Tehran | Category: Canada, Iran, Islam, terrorism | Comments are closed
Rob Gillies Associated Press via The Washington Times 9/7/2012 Canada’s Conservative government said Friday it is shutting its embassy in Tehran and severing diplomatic relations with Iran, which Canada says is providing military assistance to Syria. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said that the Canadian embassy in Tehran will close immediately and Iranian diplomats in […] September 7th, 2012 | Tags: embassy, Haqqani Network (HQN), John Baird, Ken Taylor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Tehran | Category: Canada, Human Rights, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, terrorism, United Nations | Comments are closed
Jim Hoft GatewayPundit 1/11/2012 The car belonging to Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan is lifted at a blast site outside a university in northern Tehran January 11, 2012. Ahmadi-Roshan was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Wednesday, and a city official blamed Israel for the attack, […] January 11th, 2012 | Tags: Allameh Tabatai University, car bomb, Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Tehran | Category: Iran, Israel, Science/Research/Technology, United States, Video | Comments are closed
In Year’s Biggest Rally, Iranians Seek Spiritual Head’s Ouster Farnaz Fassihi The Wall Street Journal 2/15/2011 Iranian police used tear gas and electric prods to crack down on the country’s biggest antigovernment protests in at least a year, as demonstrators buoyed by activism across the Middle East returned to the country’s streets by the tens […] February 15th, 2011 | Tags: 'green movement', Basiji militia, Isfahan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mashad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tabriz, Tehran | Category: Iran, Islam | Comments are closed
11 February 2011 Protesters in Tehran, 1979 On this day in 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran to a greeting by several million Iranians after the Shah of Iran left for exile in mid-January 1979. Via Wikipedia: The revolution was populist, nationalist and later Shi’a Islamic. It was in part a conservative […] February 11th, 2011 | Tags: Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian hostage crisis, Islamic socialists, President Jimmy Carter, President Ronald Reagan, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shi'a, Tehran, theocracy, Zbigniew Brzezinski | Category: History, Iran, Islam, Marxism, Middle East, Socialism, United States | Comments are closed
Barcepundit (English Edition) 2/11/2010 BIG TURMOIL in Iran today as the regime marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. There’s clashes reported throughout Tehran and other parts of the country. Karoubi and Khatami were allegedly attacked by security forces, though everything is very difficult to confirm as there’s a virtual blackout, with news media […] February 11th, 2010 | Tags: freedom, Tehran | Category: Censorship, Iran, nuclear weapons, Video | Comments are closed
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