More than 120 international academics and human rights activists have signed a statement protesting the banning of Zanan Magazine—meaning “women’s magazine”—by the Iranian government this month, after 16 years in print. Iranian authorities have canceled the licenses of many publications… Read moreIran: protest banning of women’s magazine
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rakhmon in the Tajik capital Dushanbe Feb. 13, where the leaders of the two Persian-speaking countries issued a joint statement saying they stand for a world without nuclear arms and support… Read moreIran to join Central Asia nuclear-free zone?
From Amnesty International, Jan. 15: Iran: Death by stoning, a grotesque and unacceptable penalty As nine women and two men in Iran wait to be stoned to death, Amnesty International today called on the Iranian authorities to abolish death by… Read moreAmnesty International protests stoning in Iran
Iran is contesting Washington’s version of the Jan. 5 incident in the Strait of Hormuz. From the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 11: Iran releases its own tape on Hormuz ship incident BEIRUT — Iran released a videotape Thursday to support… Read moreStrait of Hormuz new Gulf of Tonkin?
From the Polytechnic Free Campaign, support group for dissident students at Amir Kabir University of Technology (formerly Tehran Polytechnic), Dec. 6: On Tuesday the 4th of December, security police and masked intelligence agents arrested 28 students during a demonstration against… Read moreIran: dissident students arrested
The Iranian town of Boroujerd, Luristan province, is tense and divided following the Nov. 10 destruction of a hosseinieh or monastery belonging to the Gonabadi Sufi order by the police and Basij paramilitary forces. According to Mohsen Yahyavi, the conservative… Read moreIran: paramilitaries destroy Sufi monastery after clash
Iran’s hardline daily newspaper Jamhouri Eslami made a rare attack on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for making espionage accusations against a former nuclear negotiator, Hossein Mousavian, and saying that influential politicians were using their power to have him cleared. Mousavian was… Read moreIran: Ahmadinejad dissed, Revolutionary Guards threaten “tsunami”
A statement by the Organization for Women’s Liberation—Iran, Nov 8: We condemn the war against people in Iran! The risk of a military attack against people in Iran is imminent. The US administration is adamant about an attack against Iran…. Read moreIranian dissidents oppose US aggression —again
An open letter to the world human rights community and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from PetitionOnline: Delaram Ali is a woman’s activist who has been given a custodial sentence for 28 months with 10 lashes for taking part in a… Read moreFree women activists in Iran
An appellate court in Tehran confirmed a five-year sentence against imprisoned union leader Mansur Osanlu Oct. 30. The court also upheld a two-year prison sentence against another senior member of Osanlu’s union, Ebrahim Madadi, for acting against Iran’s national security…. Read moreIran: prison for transit union leaders
Despite the ignorant blather of his brainless liberal apologists that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “not a ‘Holocaust denier’” but merely calls for more research into whether it happened (gee, thanks for raising this subtle distinction), BBC Monitoring notes an… Read moreMahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ann Coulter united in Jew-hatred
A very important story by Kimia Sanati from InterPress Service, Oct. 3: Islamist, Socialist Revolutions Don’t Mix An attempt to rope in the son and daughter of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara to forge a parallel between Iran’s Islamist… Read moreChe Guevara family protests Islamist exploitation of legacy
