By Masih Alinejad for Planet Iran
March 9, 2010
In his recent press conference, Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once again looked straight into the eyes of journalists and denied reality. As Mir-Hossein Mousavi would put it, “Ahmadinejad can look right into the cameras and tell big lies without batting an eyelash.”
During a press conference with the international [...]
By Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui
Source: Khaleej Times
8 March 2010
Today is International Women’s Day: a day to celebrate the achievements in the promotion of women’s rights globally and to commit to advance them further. This is a day when at Amnesty International we seek to reinforce our work with local and international partners to end violence against [...]
Source: The Green Voice of Freedom
March 10, 2010
Iranian authorities are now holding at least 52 journalists in prison, a third of all those in jail around the world, according to the latest monthly survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
“Iran is entering a state of permanent media repression, a situation that is not only appalling [...]
By William Katz
Source: Hudson New York
March 9, 2010
Unless conditions change drastically, Iran will have the atomic bomb. Maybe sooner, maybe later, but the Iranians will have it.
It doesn’t matter, say some analysts. Iran can be deterred, as was the Soviet Union. Some say it might even be easier to deter Iran as the Soviets had [...]
By Anna Zamejc
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 9, 2010
When 13 years ago the late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev received Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Baku, it was considered a bold and politically risky decision. No red carpets were rolled out, and the meeting was purposely kept low-key.
Today, however, no such precautions are [...]
By Michael Ledeen
Source: Pajamas Media
March 7, 2010
The failed Israeli ex-PM, Ehud Barak, gives us the benefit of his deep thinking about Iran. It’s an Einsteinian metaphor about relative rates of the passage of time:
The clock for the Iranian regime’s downfall is ticking, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a lecture at the Washington Institute for [...]
Actress Golshifteh Farahani, exiled in Paris, reveals the pressures on Iran’s artistic community after anti-government film-maker is arrested.
By Lizzy Davies, Paris
Source: Guardian/The Observer
March 7, 2010
Actress Golfshifteh Farahani said she was forced to leave Tehran after starring in Body of Lies Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features
Golshifteh Farahani knows how dangerous it is now to be [...]
By Benjamin Joffe-Walt
Source: The Media Line
March 7, 2010
International Women’s Rights Day campaign launched two months after beatings of the ‘Mourning Mothers’
Iranian women’s activists have launched a campaign for gender equality to mark International Women’s Rights Day.
The campaign, Call for Solidarity: Freedom and Gender Equality in Iran, targets gender-based discrimination against women and what campaigners describe [...]
Source: Khabar Online
March 7, 2010
An interview with Shahrbanou Amani, the speaker of House of Iran’s Political Parties and former lawmaker
Shahrbanou Amani believes Iranian reformists haven’t decided organizationally to remain silent. She says in the current political climate of the country when the voice of truth is made quiet, even some fair Principlists have separated their [...]
By David Ignatius
Source: The Daily Star
Saturday, March 06, 2010
The cynical (and usually correct) critique of economic sanctions was summed up this way by a retired US diplomat named Douglas Paal: “Sanctions always accomplish their principal objective, which is to make those who impose them feel good.”
The Obama administration is now struggling to craft a new [...]
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