Word: protestantness
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...Neda's the only metamorphosis to emerge from Iran. Tehran's nights have been echoing with the protest chant "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is great, God is great). The Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi remarked that those words would once have struck fear into the hearts of most Americans. That they are now a global inspiration is a revolution all by itself...
...airline's near-sparkling safety record is of little comfort to France's enraged Comoran community of 250,000. Following the crash, their protests of what they call Yemenia's reckless practices disrupted the airline's flights from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport and forced it to discontinue its flights from Marseille. "This accident was inevitable, because these planes don't respect international standards," says Farid Soilihi, president of the Marseille-based SOS Voyages To Comoros association, which was formed in 2008 to protest Yemenia's service. "Yemenia's quasi-monopoly [allows it] to treat us like we're animals...
...undeniable" and that in some cases Iranian reporters "make mistakes, become emotional and greedy and fall into the trap of foreigners." The news report fails to mention that Bahari is actually in detention. So far, he has not been charged with any crime. (Watch TIME's video "An Iranian Protest March in Paris...
...accused prominent American and European media by name for "being at the service of instigators with their soft politics." Chastising the London Guardian newspaper for its reporting on Neda Agha Soltan - the 27-year-old woman whose death on video has made her an icon of Iran's protest movement - it says the paper failed to mention "evidence" by the Intelligence Ministry "which points to some foreign government's planning of this scenario." Ayatullah Ahmad Khatami, a conservative leader of Tehran's Friday Prayers, accused the protesters themselves of killing Neda: "Any intelligent person seeing the film gets...
...talks, but their proposed incentives for Iran to stop its nuclear activities have so far been spurned by Iranian negotiators. If the E.U. hardens its stance, however, it may extinguish any lingering chance of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear ambitions. (Watch TIME's video: "An Iranian Protest March in Paris...