By Nima Elbagir
Source: Channel 4
March 18, 2010
Channel 4 News can reveal the Taliban insurgency against British and American forces is being supported by Iranian weapons smuggled over the border including mines, mortars and plastic explosives.
The exclusive images and documents show, for the first time, the full extent of Iranian support for the [...]
By: Samnak Aghaei
Source: Rooz Online
March 16, 2010
Mohammad Hosseini, Ahmadinejad cabinet’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance, defended his press undersecretary’s massive crackdown on independent and critical publications for the second time in a week two days ago. Noting the reasons behind banning independent and reformist publications, he claimed, “The ministry of [...]
Above: Photo of Parvin Fahimi, Sohrab Eraabi’s mother.
March 17th, 2010
Tomorrow, Thursday, March 18th, 2010 the families of all the martyrs have called on all Iranians to join them on the last Thursday of the year at Tehran’s Behesht’eh Zahra cemetery to remember them on the year they lovingly gave their lives for their country.
The [...]
* * As Norooz approaches the price of food sky rockets in Iran, to the point where many of the normal food stuffs is unaffordable even to the middle classes in Iran, let alone the millions of the poor who cannot afford much to set their NoRooz Haft-Seen table or prepare the traditional NoRooz dinner.
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March 14, 2010
Below: A very important video series (in Persian with English subtitles), interviews with Hassan Dai, founder of Reports on Mullahs Lobby in the U.S. and co-founder of Progressive American-Iranian Committee, both excellent sites dedicated to exposing the lobbyists of the Iranian regime at work in Washington DC.
Planet Iran will continue to bring [...]
Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF)
March 12, 2010
Wife of the 2009 presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi has stated that if any act of aggression is carried out on 16 March celebrations, it will have come from the “authorities.”
In an interview conducted yesterday with the Kaleme website, Rahnavard said that thanks to the [...]
A compilation of information about all the events commemorating March 8th, International Womens Day
* * Below: A video by the Iranian Feminist School.
Voice over spoken over the Iranian Suffrage Anthem:
Clara Zetkin: We announce that on March 8th we the women will go with flowers in hand to my sisters at Hotel Evin (a derogatory [...]
January 17, 2010
Source: Persian2English
Iran News Agency: Suppressive government agents prevented ‘Mourning Mothers’ from gathering in Laleh Park [this past Saturday January 17, 2010]. The mothers of the martyrs of the freedom-seeking movement come together every Saturday. This week however, they were prevented from gathering due to the heavy presence of police force. Five police vans were parked near the main [...]
January 17, 2010
Source: Persian2English
Shirin has joined Zeinab and other victims on death row. The number of Kurdish prisoners sentenced to death is now 18. Our efforts to organize something with the Women’s Organisation in Europe is ongoing. Please help us and give us all the contacts you might have or find.
January 15, 2010
Source: Persian2English
Following the vast uproar during Ashura, a wave of terror was brought about by reports from government sources announcing 300 arrests while independent sources announced over 1500 arrests.
There are disturbing reports from Eshrat Abad Prison (which some believe is a new place of torture to take the place of Kahrizak) of inhumane treatment of female [...]
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