New Iranian Green Path of Hope Movement
Following a path to regain their Islamic Rights
Along the horizontal green path on Iranian Flag!
THE GREEN STRIP IS A MUSLIM SYMBOL OF ISLAM!
August 18, 2009
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The flag of Iran consists of three equal sized horizontal stripes – the top stripe is green; the middle one is white; and the bottom stripe is red.
On the edges of the white stripe there are stylized writings.
In the middle of the white stripe and at the flag’s center is the country’s coat of arms consisting of four crescents and a sword.
Iranian Flag Meaning
The green stripe symbolizes Islam and the white represents purity and peace. The red stripe symbolizes blood and valor. The writing is Allah-o Akbar (God is Great) which is written 22 times in stylized Kufi script – this represents February 11, 1979, which was the day of the Iranian Revolution. The coat of arms symbolizes strength and fortitude and the growth of the Muslim faith. The stylized emblem as a whole reads Allah or God.
Iranian Flag History
The Iranian flag was adopted on July 29, 1980. The colors of the Iranian flag are traditional and probably date from at least the 18th century.
A plain horizontal striped tricolor flag of green, white and pink had been in use in Iran since 1905. The pink stripe was officially changed to red in 1933. Iran was a monarchy for nearly 400 years until a republic was declared in 1979, after Muslim clerics and students overthrew the last Shah.
Interesting Iranian Flag Facts:
The Iranian flag’s centerpiece formerly consisted of a lion with a sword standing before a rising sun, with a crown above. But all traditional flags and banners were abolished after the abdication of the shah in 1979.
The new emblem was designed by Hamid Nadimi, and was officially approved by Ayatollah Khomeini on May 9, 1980.
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nLine (UK)
TIMESONLINE
August 17, 2009
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi forms resistance party
Martin Fletcher
Iran’s opposition leader has launched a new grassroots political movement
in an apparent attempt to rally resistance to the regime and fend off pressure for his own arrest.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister defeated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June presidential election, said that the movement would be called the Green Path of Hope and unite the many disparate groups fighting for democracy and restoration of the rule of law.
He gave few details but said: “The colour green is the symbol of this movement.
Its slogan demands the impeccable implementation of the Constitution, and numerous self-motivated independent societies form the body of this movement . . . The Green Path of Hope is aimed at regaining the rights people have been denied.”
By calling it a movement, not a political party, he sidestepped the need for government permission. His defiant announcement came amid increasing calls for his arrest from the regime’s hardline supporters, and as Mr Ahmadinejad announced that his new Cabinet would include at le
ast three women.
“Mousavi had to do something to show he’s still alive and kicking, with many people still behind him,” an analyst in Tehran told The Times.
The regime put 28 more opposition activists on trial yesterday, bringing the total over the past three weeks to around 140. Two of the defendants, probably speaking under duress, told the Revolutionary Court that they were encouraged to protest by opposition leaders and that those leaders should be the ones on trial. “Mr Mousavi, do you know there are seats here for you and your friends who were the cause of this plot?” said one.
Mr Ahmadinejad must nominate all his new Cabinet ministers this week, and yesterday’s announcements suggest that he plans to fill it with arch loyalists. He named two women — Fatemeh Ajorlou and Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi — as his Social Welfare and Health ministers, replacing two men who opposed his nomination of his son’s father-in-law as his deputy.
Ms Ajorlou, 43, and Ms Dastjerdi, 50, will be the first female ministers in the 30-year history of the Islamic Republic, but both are staunch conservatives who have opposed greater social freedoms for women. He also named Heydar Moslehi, a hardline cleric with links to the Basiji volunteer militia, as his Intelligence Minister.
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Course of Mousavi’s Green Path of Hope is unclear
Iran’s opposition leader says he wants the new political movement to be a rallying point but doesn’t spell out a strategy.
By Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim
August 16, 2009
Reporting from Tehran and Beirut
A defiant Mir-Hossein Mousavi declared the creation of a grass-roots political movement Saturday, but the Iranian opposition leader failed to spell out a strategy that could invigorate a protest movement that has stalled.
Mousavi, whose loss in the disputed June election to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad set off the largest challenge to the country’s rulers since the Islamic Revolution 30 years ago, said he wanted
the Green Path of Hope to be a rallying point for the opposition.
“Numerous volunteer and independent social networks throughout the society form the body of this movement,” Mousavi told a group of doctors, according to the semiofficial Iranian Labor News Agency.
“The Green Path of Hope is in fact aimed at regaining people’s denied rights.”
Although the move was an attempt to cement the political movement built on his presidential campaign and the outrage that followed the election, Mousavi’s announcement lacked a political agenda.
One analyst said the Green Path could help Mousavi fend off calls for his arrest by hard-liners close to Ahmadinejad and continue his political activities without getting the ministry approval necessary to create a party.
“Forming a political front gives him a shield to survive and defy the arrest,” said Ahmad Bakhshayesh, a political analyst in Tehran. “If he manages to form a loosely organized front, he can defy the government and recruit like-minded people and . . . put pressure on the government.”
But Mohammad Marandi, a political scientist in Tehran, predicted that the front was doomed to fail because the opposition camp isn’t unified. “Their common enemy is Ahmadinejad, and now they sound united because of their common enemy,” he said. “But culturally, economically and politically, the reformists have clashing opinions.”
The absence of major street protests since Ahmadinejad’s inauguration has dispirited some of the movement’s adherents. Calls by some activists to conduct protests at bazaars and Friday prayers last week went unheeded.
But some close to the opposition say the movement is simply settling into a second stage that could last much longer than the initial zeal whipped up on the streets.
Iran’s “green movement” is expanding from the big cities to the smaller towns and making connections abroad while sharpening goals and ideas, said Mohsen Makhmalbaf, an Iranian filmmaker who serves as a spokesman for the Mousavi camp. “It’s not that people pour into the street and the system changes,” he said in an interview from Paris, where he is based. “People pour into the streets, then they create a crisis, and then the system changes.”
Hours after Mousavi’s announcement, the Revolutionary Court, controlled by hard-liners close to Ahmadinejad, announced a third session today of a mass trial against defendants accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the election, state news reports said.
International human rights monitors, foreign leaders and domestic critics have derided the televised proceedings as little more than Stalinist “show trials” that fail to measure up to Iranian legal standards and damage the reputation of Iran’s political and legal system.
The court also announced that seven alleged leaders of the country’s Bahai community will stand trial on charges of spying for Israel, desecrating Islam and spreading propaganda against the system, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
Shiite Muslim clerics consider the Bahai religion, born in 19th century Persia, heretical.
Despite concerns about Iran’s justice system, there are few signs that the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has any plans to adjust the country’s course.
He officially named hard-liner Sadegh Larijani, a member of the powerful and conservative Guardian Council and the brother of the speaker of parliament, to a five-year term as head of the judiciary. Last week, the council elected hard-liner Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a staunch supporter of Ahmadinejad, as its chairman for the next year.
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