WongMixxMySpaceNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSurphaceSphinnSpurlS LiveYahoo!Email This to a Friend Link HTML: Permalink: If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed or Email Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »By Gareth Porter Source: Asia Times August 31, 2010 WASHINGTON – United States President Barack Obama’s refusal in a White House [...]
Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)/Calgary Herald August 30, 2010 A lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and complicity in her husband’s murder on Saturday urged the international community to keep pushing Tehran for clemency. “The people who are going to review the case know they are under international scrutiny [...]
By Ambassador Marc Ginsberg Source: The Huffington Post August 30, 2010 On Tuesday evening, President Obama will address the nation to mark the end of America’s official combat role in Iraq. He will speak from the Oval Office as Vice President Biden — hurriedly dispatched to Baghdad yet again — is warning squabbling Iraqi politicians [...]
By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Source: Science Magazine August 26, 2010 The Iranian Ministry of Science has fired the founder-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) in Zanjan and replaced him with a nuclear scientist known to have links with the pro-government Basij militia. The militia, widely seen as Iran’s moral police, has [...]
We’re still standing & we will be there on Quds Day A video call to protests on Quds day. The text and voice-over in the video say: “Greetings to all those who fight for freedom. If I rise up, you also rise up, we will all rise up. Quds Day will bring about another legend. [...]
Ahmadinejad threatens the whole wide world – Cartoon by Nikahang Kosar * * Monday, August 30th live news feed from Saham News reports: More than fifty plain clothes agents as well as members of the Basij militia have swarmed to and surrounded Mahdi Karroubi’s residence in Tehran. The agents who are armed, have covered [...]
August 29, 2010 Europe-based Persian student activists are coming together for a conference in Germany in October of 2010. The three-day “Call for Dialogue” will be held at Berlin Free University on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of October 2010. The conference organizers have announced that “the current political situation of Iran causes its nationals [...]
Source: Radio Zamaneh August 29, 2010 The International Federation of Human Rights (FDHI) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) issued a statement to condemn the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and the alleged secret mass execution of prisoners in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison. The two rights organizations urge the Islamic [...]
Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA) August 29, 2010 Sara Sabaghiyan, one of Ronaghi’s attorneys, told the RAHANA reporter that “they have said that the Cyber Unit of the Revolutionary Guard has prevented the release of Ronaghi; they informed us orally and we are unaware of what is in his case files.” Sabaghiyan further [...]
By Peter Allen Source: Daily Mail 29th August 2010 Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been branded a ‘prostitute’ by Iran after she publicly attacked the country for threatening to stone a woman to death. France’s First Lady is part of a campaign to save the life of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two. She is accused [...]
