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
A Sept. 29 AP story given prominent placement in the New York Times, “Nervous Gulf Hears Calmer Tones on Iran,” notes that CentCom chief Adm. William Fallon, on a tour of the Persian Gulf states, is reassuring regional leaders that… Read morePost-neocon Iran strategy: back to containment
Some rare good news is reported from Iran, where a reform of the country's drug laws may save the lives of thousands now on death row. Some 5,000 people are currently awaiting execution for drug offenses in the Islamic Republic, and all of them could now have their sentences reviewed. News accounts of the reform did not note that it is the fruit of protests within Iran, as well as pressure from international human rights groups. It won little coverage in the West, but following a wave of executions, some 1,800 prisoners at Qezel Hessar Prison outside Tehran went on hunger strike. Some courageous prisoners' families organized to support them, calling for reduced sentences for drug crimes—even holding vigils outside the Parliament building. (Image: Middle East Eye)
A commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards died after an ambush on Sept. 20 by Ahwazi militants. Mehdi Bayat was killed near the Revolutionary Guards base in Hamidiyah, near Ahwaz City in western Khuzestan province, where Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority have… Read moreIran: Revolutionary Guard commander assassinated
Not for the first time. From AFP, Sept. 24: UNITED NATIONS — Iranian pro-democracy activists strongly oppose any military attack on their country but want the world to condemn Tehran’s human rights violations, Iranian dissident journalist Akbar Ganji said in… Read moreIranian dissidents oppose US aggression
From Amnesty International, Aug. 23: Iran: Authorities thwart campaign for gender equality Women’s rights activists in Iran face imprisonment. Activists campaigning for gender equality in Iran are unable to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and association, as shown… Read moreAI protests arrests of women activists in Iran
Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Gulerhas announced his government will invest $3.5 billion in Iran’s South Pars gas field starting from 2008, a week after signing a deal to use Iran as a transit route for gas from Turkmenistan to European… Read moreTurkey signs pipeline deal with Iran
