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Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk’s World: You won't find any lessons in unity in the Dead Sea Scrolls

I looked at the texts in Toronto – a tale that was bound to pose a series of questions

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Robert Fisk’s World: Tanks roll and guns fall silent, but the clichés go on for ever

Saturday, 4 July 2009

Catholics are always ‘devout’, Protestants in Northern Ireland inevitably ‘staunch’

Robert Fisk's World: The jury is out on the Iranian model of religion and politics

Saturday, 27 June 2009

So what of the famous revolution? Was it a return to the basic values of Shia Islam?

Robert Fisk: Symbols are not enough to win this battle

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

It is indeed an 'intifada' that has broken out in Iran, however hopeless its aims

What we are now seeing is a regime which is far more worried than the Supreme Leader suggested when he threatened the opposition so baldly on Friday

The battle for the Islamic Republic

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Robert Fisk: Iran's Supreme Leader and its officially elected president are terrified of counter-revolution.

Robert Fisk: Khamenei is fighting for his own position as well as Ahmadinejad's

Saturday, 20 June 2009

Is he worried about another clergyman who would like to be Supreme Leader?

Robert Fisk’s World: In Tehran, fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows

Saturday, 20 June 2009

It’s said that the cruel ‘Iranian’ cops aren’t Iranian at all. They’re Hizbollah militia

Mirhossein Mousavi, centre, waves to supporters at a demonstration in
Tehran yesterday

Dead of Iran are mourned - but the fight goes on

Friday, 19 June 2009

Robert Fisk: Despite the intimidation, the appetite to over- throw Ahmadinejad remains strong.

Images posted on Twitter apparently showing supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi who had been shot

Secret letter 'proves Mousavi won poll'

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Robert Fisk: Photocopies handed out to opposition supporters wearing black for 15 Iranians killed since election.

Supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi protest on the streets of Tehran
yesterday

Fear has gone in Iran

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Robert Fisk: Defying the ban on foreign reporters, The Independent's correspondent witnesses an extraordinary stand-off in Tehran

A demonstrator  who was shot during a protest demonstration in the streets of the capital Tehran today

Iran's historic day of destiny

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Robert Fisk witnesses the courage of one million protesters who ignored threats, guns and bloodshed to demand freedom.

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