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	<title>Iran News Digest &#187; Green Movement</title>
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		<title>A Critical Moment for Mousavi</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/a-critical-moment-for-mousavi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/a-critical-moment-for-mousavi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mousavi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;With his Nowruz message, the former prime minister sought to prove that he finally has a grip on the situation &#8212; that by spreading the word to the middle and working classes, the movement will return to its rightful path, revitalize its image as a civil, nonviolent campaign, and eventually revive the constitutional right to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Mojtaba Vahedi on why President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad May Not Finish his term in office</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/12/qa-mojtaba-vahedi-on-why-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-may-not-finish-his-term-in-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/12/qa-mojtaba-vahedi-on-why-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-may-not-finish-his-term-in-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mojtaba Vahedi is a senior advisor to opposition cleric Mehdi Karroubi. Vahedi recently came to study in the United States and spoke to insideIRAN.org from Washington.

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		<title>Khatami: People Dont Accept Dictatorship Anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/khatami-people-dont-accept-dictatorship-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/khatami-people-dont-accept-dictatorship-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khatami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reformists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  When will the reformists recognize that their future is outside of this system not within it?  The hardliners will NEVER allow them the space necessary to function.  The sooner they realize this reality and the sooner they stop deluding themselves about the possibility of reforming this system, the better off the Iranian people [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>842</slash:comments>
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		<title>A good day shall come [Song, Persian]</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/a-good-day-shall-come-song-persian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/a-good-day-shall-come-song-persian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Songs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The English translation of the lyrics to “Ye Rooze Khoob Miad”:
Verse 1:
A good day will come when we do not kill each other / We won’t look at each other badly /
We will all be friends and walk with our arms on each others shoulders / Just like our childhood in grade school /
None of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>896</slash:comments>
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		<title>Challenging Iran, With YouTube Views</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/challenging-iran-with-youtube-views/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/challenging-iran-with-youtube-views/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sazegara]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MOHSEN SAZEGARA recognizes that nonviolent protest is a tough sell for most Iranians, given that bloodshed is a part of both their long history and their faith.
But Mr. Sazegara ticks off a couple points in its favor. First, the Islamic Republic has disenchanted a wide section of the population. Second, he believes that Iranians harbor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why not in Iran?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/08/why-not-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/08/why-not-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karroubi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mousavi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
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Free Iran:  Based on the quotes below from the Economist, does this mean that the Green movement is now being held back by Mousavi &#38; even Karroubi &#8211; people who want to work within the confides of the Islamic&#8217;s republic&#8217;s repressive, bankrupt and failed constitution &#8211; and people who believe that Khomeini was somehow a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>610</slash:comments>
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		<title>Performance of Undersok sjalv</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/04/performance-of-undersok-sjalv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/04/performance-of-undersok-sjalv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selected Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>

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Free Iran:  Fantastic Music!  Creative way to expose the regime&#8217;s brutality.  Please do the same in NYC &#38; DC subways.
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		<title>Dr. Hossein Ziai Says Iran May See Another Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/31/dr-hossein-ziai-says-iran-may-see-another-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/31/dr-hossein-ziai-says-iran-may-see-another-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=20936</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Hossein Ziai is the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar chair at UCLA where he is also a tenured full professor of Islamic and Iranian studies and the director of Iranian studies. He received his bachelor&#8217;s degree in mathematics and physics in 1967 from Yale University, and his doctorate in Islamic philosophy from Harvard University in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Opposition Lacks Resolve to Oust Regime, Says Ex-President</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/31/iran-opposition-lacks-resolve-to-oust-regime-says-ex-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/31/iran-opposition-lacks-resolve-to-oust-regime-says-ex-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karroubi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mousavi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=20885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ladane Nasseri
March 31 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Iran’s opposition movement lacks the resolve and mass support needed to overthrow the country’s clerical regime, said Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, the Islamic republic’s first president.
In 1979, when Bani-Sadr helped lead the revolution that overthrew the Shah, “the young generation was determined to get rid of the monarchy,” the former president [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>672</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Greening of IRI Haft Sin in Oslo, Norway</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/23/the-greening-of-iri-haft-sin-in-oslo-norway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/23/the-greening-of-iri-haft-sin-in-oslo-norway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Protest]]></category>

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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Exiles</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/22/irans-exiles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/22/irans-exiles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=20416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Here’s something I know. Iran is full of people like Negar. She’s 32, a movie editor. She hates the regime. She doesn’t want her country to be attacked, a return to the wailing sirens of the Iran-Iraq war of her youth (in which Israel supported Iran.)
Negar contacted me the other day from a town in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ:  Iran Opposition Leader Lashes Out at Regime</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/19/wsj-iran-opposition-leader-lashes-out-at-regime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/19/wsj-iran-opposition-leader-lashes-out-at-regime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=20165</guid>
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Free Iran:  The Green leaders need to be much tougher on the economic issues.  This is not enough.  They need to say something like this: &#8220;Unemployment, inflation, poverty, and class differences are the direct result of this government&#8217;s corruption, incompetence and foreign policy adventurism.&#8221;  Keep it simple and brief.  It worked for Reagan, Clinton, Putin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3/18 Must Read &#8211; It&#8217;s the Economy, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/18/must-read-its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/18/must-read-its-the-economy-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karroubi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=20108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s the Economy, Stupid
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FT:  Iran&#8217;s regime contains but fails to eliminate the opposition NAJMEH BOZORGMEHRIN writes:
Iran&#8217;s regime seems to have learnt how to curb street protests. By carrying out death sentences upon some opposition supporters and enforcing draconian security measures before any expected rally, the authorities have prevented their critics from taking to the streets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victory is inevitable</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/16/victory-is-inevitable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/16/victory-is-inevitable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaharshanbeh soori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=19976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  Maybe not today.  Maybe not tomorrow.  But the Iranian people&#8217;s victory is inevitable.  They will do away with this failed, miserable regime.  They will gain their freedom, and respect for their human rights.  The following are some posters and  music videos &#8211; songs of hope, resistance and victory.  Long live the brave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song: &#8220;Toranj&#8221; by Mohsen Namjoo Set to Green Movements 10 Month Struggle</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/16/song-toranj-by-mohsen-namjoo-set-to-green-movements-10-month-struggle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/16/song-toranj-by-mohsen-namjoo-set-to-green-movements-10-month-struggle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
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		<title>Zahra Rahnavard’s Interview with Kaleme</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/12/zahra-rahnavard%e2%80%99s-interview-with-kaleme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/12/zahra-rahnavard%e2%80%99s-interview-with-kaleme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rahnavard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Kaleme
Date:  Thursday, March 11,  2010
Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, painter, sculptor and a professor at the University of Tehran, begins her talk by wishing the release of all political prisoners, especially the woman. She says: “I hope that all female prisoners will be released before the new year. Everybody, from women’s rights activists to journalists to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaclav Havel Urges Iran Student Leaders Not to Lose Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/11/vaclav-havel-urges-iran-student-leaders-not-to-lose-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/11/vaclav-havel-urges-iran-student-leaders-not-to-lose-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Vaclav Havel
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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel has praised the two Iranian activists who were awarded the Homo Homini prize presented annually by the Czech NGO People in Need &#8220;in recognition of a dedication to the promotion of human rights, democracy, and nonviolent solutions to political conflicts&#8221; and called on them not to lose hope.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mousavi FB 3/7</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/07/mousavi-fb-37/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/07/mousavi-fb-37/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mehdi Karroubi, in a meeting with a group of political prisoner during Shah’s time and before the revolution talked about the day’s events. Karroubi in this meeting said: “previously in a message I warned that in the current situation the meaning of “Moharabeh” (enemy of God) has been changed and demanded from the judi&#8230;ciary authorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves”</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/05/%e2%80%9cthe-fault-dear-brutus-is-not-in-our-stars-but-in-ourselves%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/05/%e2%80%9cthe-fault-dear-brutus-is-not-in-our-stars-but-in-ourselves%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  Trying to persuade Brutus to join him in order to stop Julius Caesar from becoming a dictator of Rome, Cassius said to Brutus:  “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” (William Shakespeare)   Truer words have never been spoken.  No matter where we live and irrespective of our socioeconomic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different Shades of Green</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/05/different-shades-of-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over the future direction of the Green Movement has taken on new urgency since the events in Tehran on February 11, the 31st anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. The saturation of Tehran with tens of thousands of security forces and intelligence agents prevented supporters of the Movement, who according to many sources were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mousavi FB 3/4</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/04/mousavi-fb-34/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grand Ayatollah Saanei: Those protesting to the government not only are not enemies of God but it was their religious duty to self-defend.  After the release of a denial from the office of Grand Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi regarding the so-called Fatwa that was said by the court to have been issued by him and was used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hard and the Soft</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/the-hard-and-the-soft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IND:  A great essay by David Brooks. He says:
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The United States, a nation of 300 million, won nine gold medals this year in the Winter Olympics. Norway, a nation of 4.7 million, also won nine. This was no anomaly. Over the years, Norwegians have won more gold medals in Winter Games, and more Winter Olympics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Regime’s Will &amp; Means to Use Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/the-regime%e2%80%99s-will-means-to-use-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/the-regime%e2%80%99s-will-means-to-use-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[History has shown that in general dictatorships that have the will and means to use violence survive.  Precariously, the regime in Tehran has both.  The obvious question then becomes will the non-violent nature of the Green movement undermine the regime’s will and/or means to use violence?
Let&#8217;s first review a few famous non-violent resistance success stories.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Schizophrenic Green Opposition</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/irans-schizophrenic-green-opposition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/02/irans-schizophrenic-green-opposition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One possibility is that the movement is in the throes of a schizophrenic identity crisis. Generally speaking, it swings between two tendencies, from reformist agendas toward revolutionary ones, and back again. As long as this tension is not resolved in the direction of revolution, the movement could weaken drastically. Many rank-and-file Greens, being content with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you risk your life to fight for what you believed in?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/01/would-you-risk-your-life-to-fight-for-what-you-believed-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IND:  At IranNewsDigest, we mostly post articles from the world&#8217;s leading publications or interesting Iranian blogs but we are making an exception here.  The following is a paper written by  a fourth grader.  She was chosen to read her essay at the National Cathedral.  Her mothers says:  &#8220;You would be surprised how many children and [...]]]></description>
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