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Monthly Report: February 2007

CENSORSHIP Iranian internet service providers were ordered in December to reduce residential bandwidth to 128k, limiting transfer of videos or other large files or websites for the over 20 million internet user in the country.  More significantly, the new low speeds effectively ban voice-over-IP telephone communications, which ...
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Rule OF Law or Rule BY Law?

One hundred years ago Iran’s Constitutional Revolution aimed to place restraints on an arbitrary, corrupt, dynastic government by introducing elements of democratic rule to a people who for centuries had been deprived many basic freedoms.  This elite-driven movement, supported even by a segment of Shi’a religious leaders, created some much ...
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The Islamic Republic at a Crossroads

  Security Council sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program—the culmination of three years of diplomatic effort by the US and Europe—combined with recent elections that provided a clear rebuff to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have put the Islamic Republic at a crossroads. In a series of well-organized student protests against Ahmadinejad before elections for ...
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