There is a standard, typical formula in the confessions made by intellectuals and dissidents freed from prison in the Islamic Republic of Iran. What Ramin Jahanbegloo said in the first
As the first international Wikimania conference is held this week in Frankfurt, pioneer Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan who will blog for openDemocracy from the event tests the wikis democratic
The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reflects a fractured society, finds blogger Hossein Derakhshan on his return to Tehran; but also one where reformists have a future if they can speak
You might say the most remarkable thing about the Iranian presidential election due on 17 June 2005 is how unremarkable it is. Iranians have grown so disillusioned and bored with
Iranians have never watched their government officials as closely as they did during Decembers UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva.
Thanks to the internet, this
