I originally wrote this piece for Tehran Bureau which published it on March 4, 2011. 44.5% to 55% of Iran's urban population lives under the poverty line, according to a new report entitle...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2011/03/half-iranian-urban-population-under.html
The opposition has called for rallies to protest the incarceration of leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi on the 10th of Esfand (March 1). I will not be providing a live blog, but I wi...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2011/03/10-esfand-scrapbook.html
At least one protester was killed during nationwide demonstrations on February 20 in Iran, according to opposition sources. Hamed Nour-Mohammadi, a second-year molecular biology student at Shi...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2011/02/reports-cite-at-least-one-dead.html
Pro-regime Twitter accounts have intensified their activity on February 20 (Esfand 1 in Iranian calendar), a day of protests called by the opposition. The following screen capture shows some of t...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2011/02/pro-regime-twitter-accounts-try-to.html
Following the announcement by the Islamic Republic's security forces that a cyber-police squad had been formed, it was interesting to note the recent creation of a dozen pro-regime Twitter accoun...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2011/02/regime-becomes-more-tech-savvy-sort-of.html
Yesterday I wrote an article describing the Iranian regime's desperate claims that Saneh Jaleh, a protester who was killed by security forces during demonstrations on February 14, was actually ...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2011/02/brick-in-wall-saneh-jaleh-story.html
'Saneh Jaleh-Green martyr' I originally wrote this piece for Tehran Bureau which posted it on February 15. A day after a university student was shot to death during anti-regime protests in Te...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2011/02/bodysnatchers-iran-regime-exploits.html
The opposition has announced its intention to demonstrate on 14 February 2011 (25 Bahman in the Iranian calendar). I'll be regularly updating this scrapbook to provide an overview of events and t...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2011/02/25-bahman-scapbook.html
I originally wrote this article for Tehran Bureau . Two suicide bombers killed at least 30 people and injured 55 in a mourning procession in Chabahar on Wednesday morning, according to news r...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/12/bomb-kills-at-least-40-in-port-city.html
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unceremoniously replaced Manouchehr Mottaki, the longtime foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, with the head of the country's Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, ...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/12/atom-chief-becomes-acting-foreign.html
UPDATED 3:30 PM GMT, 8 DECEMBER 2010. I have started compiling video, photos, and information concerning protests on Student Day, 7 December 2010, at 3:15 PM GMT. My aim is to give a raw idea o...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/12/student-day-scrapbook-7-december-2010.html
Students at Tehran University's Technical College defied a security clampdown to stage a protest on their campus on the eve of Student Day, according to videos posted on YouTube by Unity4Iran . ...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/12/protests-on-eve-of-student-day.html
I originally wrote this article for Tehran Bureau . This is part 2 of a series of two articles, which explore whether Ahmadinejad is a religious fanatic or a populist. Or perhaps a mixture of bot...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/12/messianic-or-messy-antics-politics-of.html
Paul Jay, senior editor at the The Real News Network, sat with Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell, to discuss references to Iran in the cables divulged b...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/12/real-arab-support-for-iran-war-or.html
Covered body of Majid Shahriari next to his car An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and another was slightly injured in separate bomb attacks as they drove to work in Tehran early Monday morn...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/12/tehran-bomb-blasts-target-nuclear.html
I originally wrote this article for Tehran Bureau . Khamenei's trip to Ghom which is used as a reference point in a timeline, actually took place in mid-October and not 'three weeks ago.' Thi...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/11/messianic-or-messy-antics-politics-of.html
I originally wrote this article for Tehran Bureau, which published it on November 23, 2010. Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani's recent election as chairman of the majority faction has highlighted t...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/11/larijani-landslide-questioned-by-his.html
Two gunmen at the right of the image Footage recently posted on the Internet shows last week's gunfight in front of a police station in Sanandaj, Iran, on Thursday, October 7, 2010. The deadly...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/10/sanandaj-iran-video-of-deadly-gunfight.html
Official pointing to explosion At least eleven people were killed in a bomb blast during a military parade in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, on Wednesday morning, 22 September 2010, according...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/09/breaking-news-bomb-kills-10-during.html
A battle between five unidentified gunmen and the regime's security forces in the streets of Saghez, Kurdistan province on September 20, 2010, left a 4-year-old boy and a member of the security d...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/09/security-officer-and-4-year-old-killed.html
Mohammad Ali Ramin A senior official in the Ahmadinejad cabinet strongly denounced what he described as the 'undesirable situation of the press' in the Islamic Republic during a controversial spe...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/07/up-to-600-national-publications.html
The Italian city of Genoa renamed one of its squares 'Rotonda Donne di Teheran' (Women of Tehran Square) in the Fiumara commercial district as part of its Human Rights Week on July 21, 2010. V...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/07/genoa-names-square-in-honor-of-iranian.html
A conservative news site published a photo report showing that the strike in Tehran's Bazaar continued on Thursday, July 15, 2010. The web site, Alef , is run by Ahmad Tavakoli, Majlis represen...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/07/pro-regime-anti-ahmadinejad-site.html
Shahram Amiri, the Iranian researcher who disappeared in June of last year and is now en route to Tehran, gave an interview to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) while still in Wa...
http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/2010/07/shahram-amiris-first-interview-on.html