Children of Paradise (75 page)

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The Franklin Book Programs
:
Datus C. Smith, Jr., “Franklin Book Program,”
Encyclopædia Iranica
, vol. 10, fasc. 2, 187–90 (Dec. 15, 2002; last updated Jan. 31, 2012). Accessed online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/franklin-book-program. See also Louise S. Robbins, “Publishing American Values: The Franklin Book Programs as Cold War Cultural Diplomacy,
Library Trends
55, no. 3 (Winter 2007), 638–50.

“The paintings in front of you”
:
Quoted in Robert Tait, “Dead Woman Painting,”
Guardian
, Oct. 25, 2006, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/25/worlddispatch.arts.

The last words anyone heard her speak
:
Claire Soares, “Delara Darabi, ‘Oh Mother, I Can See the Noose,’”
Independent
, May 4, 2009, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/delara-darabi-oh-mother-i-can-see-the-noose-1678543.html.

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“The destiny of each generation”
:
Ruhollah Khomeini, “Address at Bihisht-i Zahra,” in Ruhollah Khomeini,
Islam and Revolution I: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (1941–1980)
, trans. and ed. Hamid Algar (Berkeley, CA: Mizan Press, 1981), 255.

“these are real people”
:
Scott Peterson,
Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran— A Journey Behind the Headlines
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 476.

A video of his address
:
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/06/leaked-video-accuses-2009-election-fraud.html#; video (in Persian): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=870388962988721&set=vb.153044948056463&type=2&theater.

Ethnic minorities and rural voters
:
Ali Ansari, ed., “Preliminary Analysis of the Voting Figures in Iran’s 2009 Election,” Chatham House and Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St. Andrews, June 21, 2009, 11.

the numbers suggested the presence
:
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, “Violent Aftermath: The 2009 Election and Suppression of Dissent in Iran,” Feb. 2010, 10, http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/publications/reports/3161-violent-aftermath-the-2009-election-and-suppression-of-dissent-in-iran.html.

A researcher in a village near Shiraz
:
Eric Hooglund, “Iran’s Rural Vote and Election Fraud,” Tehran Bureau,
Frontline
, PBS.org, June 17, 2009, posted June 21, 2010, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/06/irans-rural-vote-and-election-fraud.html.

Similar allegations were reported
:
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, “Violent Aftermath,” 10.

foreign statisticians
:
See Thomas Lotze, http://thomaslotze.com/iran/.

“I personally strongly protest”
:
Reuters, “Angry Mousavi Says Iran Vote Result a Fix,” June 13, 2009, http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE55C1K020090613.

The president held a victory rally
:
CNN, “Ahmadinejad Says Remarks Taken out of Context,” June 18, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.ahmadinejad.comments/index.html?iref=24hours.

“this is the voice of dirt and dust”
:
Robert Tait, “The Dust Revolution—How Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Jibe Backfired,”
Guardian
, June 18, 2009, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/18/iran-election-protests-mahmoud-ahmadinejad.

Another conservative parliamentarian
:
Ibid.

Khamenei spoke at length . . . “chaos to follow”
:
Juan Cole, “Supreme Leader Khameini’s Friday Address on the Presidential Election,”
Informed Comment
, June 19, 2009, http://www.juancole.com/2009/06/supreme-leader-khameneis-friday-address.html.

He responded to Khamenei’s speech with a statement
:
Mousavi’s speech can be found translated at http://iranfacts.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-translation-of-mousavis-latest.html.

But in the final video of her . . . “This is a crime against humanity”
:
Borzou Daragahi, “From the Archives: Family, Friends Mourn ‘Neda,’ Iranian Woman Who Died on Video,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 23, 2009, www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-neda23-2009jun23-story.html#page=1.

Then he was imprisoned and apparently coerced
:
“Key Witness Disputes Hejazi Account of Neda Death,” Press TV, July 29, 2009, http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/101954.html.

“Had those responsible for the murders”
:
Mir Hossein Mousavi, “Public Response to the Election Fraud and Protests,” June 21, 2009, http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/pres/2009/candidates/mousavi/21-june-2009/.

“I am not ready to stop standing”
:
Ibid.

by one account beating several prisoners
:
http://loln.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/first-hand-testimonials-of-a-21-year-old-iranian-protester-who-was-arrested-on-18-tir-protests-in-tehran-and-taken-to-kahrizak-camp/.

“They were zombies”
:
Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostagim, “Imprisoned Iranian Protesters Share a Bond Forged in Hell,”
Los Angeles Times
, Feb. 14, 2010, http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/14/world/la-fg-iran-prison14-2010feb14.

They had to log the physical condition . . . proper funerals
:
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, “Violent Aftermath,” section 3.1, Kahrizak Detention Center.

a visitor to another patient . . . told a reporter
:
Borzou Daragahi, “Iran Roiled by Prison Abuse Claims,”
Los Angeles Times
, Aug. 12, 2009, http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/12/world/fg-iran-abuse12.

“bashed in”
:
Ibid.

In a July 29 open letter to Rafsanjani
:
Stories quoting Karroubi’s letter can be found at http://www.rferl.org/content/Two_Months_Later_Truth_About_Irans_Postelection_Crackdown_Still_Unknown/1796492.html; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/middleeast/13iran.html?_r=0. A full translation of the letter, which uses slightly different wording for the same quoted portions, can be found at http://khordaad88.com/?p=75.

“He was brought to me after being physically and severely tortured”
:
Physicians for Human Rights, “Rights Groups Call for Independent Autopsy of Iranian Doctor Who Treated Tortured Prisoners,” Nov. 25, 2009,
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/blog/iranian-doctor-autopsy.html
.

they told the
Los Angeles Times
:
Ramin Mostaghim and Borzou Daragahi, “Was Kahrizak Prison Doctor a Victim or Villain?,”
Los Angeles Times
, Feb. 14, 2010, http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/14/world/la-fgw-iran-prison-doctor14-2010feb14.

“lack of space, weakness of health services”
:
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, “Violent Aftermath,” citing Complete Text of the Special Report of the Majlis, Jan. 10, 2009.

“did not attempt to break the law”
:
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, “Violent Aftermath,” 54.

“nobody in their right mind” . . . “receiving orders”
:
Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, “Iran’s Senior Ayatollah Slams Election, Confirming Split,”
McClatchyDC
, June 16, 2009, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24542242.html.

In a fatwa of July 11, 2009 . . . “the world’s wise observers”
:
Ahmad Sadri and Mahmoud Sadri, “Delegitimizing the Islamic Republic of Iran with a
Fatwa
: The Significance of Ayatollah Montazeri’s Post-Election Legal Ruling of July 2009,” in
The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future
, ed. Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2011), 165.

“Montazeri, you are finally free”
:
Richard Spencer, “Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Death Sparks Protests,”
Telegraph
, Dec. 20, 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6851224/Grand-Ayatollah-Montazeri-death-sparks-protests.html.

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an explosive five-part series
:
Payam Fazlinejad, “Mohammad Khatami’s Mission for a Velvet Coup d’État.” English translation available at docstoc.com.

Habermas did, in fact, travel to Iran in 2002
:
Christiane Hoffmann, “The Unrest Is Growing: Habermas in Iran; Interview with Jürgen Habermas on His Visit to Iran,”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, June 18, 2002, English translation available at www.pubtheo.com/page.asp?pid=1073.

Hajjarian’s forced confession . . . ran to six pages
:
Quotations are from Charles Kurzman, “Reading Weber in Tehran,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, Nov. 1, 2009, http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Science-on-Trial-in-/48949/.

The indictment by the office of the prosecutor
:
The full text of the indictment in English is available via Evan Siegel at www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/the-indictment/#Indictmentt6.

The language of the second indictment
:
Text of the indictment in English can be found at http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/human-rights-documents/indictments/3342-second-indictment.html.

“We demand the Islamic Republic”
:
Mir Hossein Mousavi, “Violence Is Not the Solution,” Sept. 28, 2009, http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/pres/2009/candidates/mousavi/28-september-2009/.

“It’s okay, let them take Isfahan”
:
“Mousavi’s Meeting with Reformist Parliament Opposition Delegates,” http://www.parlemannews.ir/?n=9919; “Reformist Delegates of the Opposition in Parliament Meet Mousavi,” http://khordaad88.com/?p=1519.

“Never do anything that you can’t explain to the people”
:
From the Mousavi Facebook page, “Mir Hossein Mousavi in His First Video Interview After the Election: Explaining the National Unity Plan,” Oct. 19, 2009, http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=160862192605&ref=mf.