For scholarship, the recipient is Mr. Saeed Tasbihsazan. In the Merit category, the Awards go to Dr. Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh and Dr. Kaveh Farrokh
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Things will never be the same around here again!
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AHMADINEJAD
Does it really matter who gets “elected” in June? I think not.
When it comes to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, there is no grey: you either like him or you don’t. His supporters point to his strong and often very vocal anti-West, anti-Israel stance, while his opponents complain about all the negative press he has created for Iran in the West as well as his policies that have nearly destroyed Iran’s economy. Well, are you ready for four more years of Ahmadinejad? You might as well be, since indications are that in a two-man race this June he will be “elected” to run the country for another four years. The first reason he will be elected is history. In the 30 years since the inception of the Islamic Republic of Iran, there have been five presidents prior to Ahmadinejad
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NUCLEAR
U.S. has been largely alone in ramping up enforcement activities against Iran
by Michael Jacobson
Several factors are most likely behind the increase in the number and scale of the law enforcement investigations targeting Iran's illicit activities. The first is undoubtedly related to the growing prioritization of Iran by all arms of the U.S. government. As the Bush administration highlighted the growing threat posed by Iran, all of the relevant government agencies -- including law enforcement entities -- began exploring what they could bring to this effort. A second factor was the appointment of a national export control coordinator at the Justice Department in October 2007. The coordinator, career prosecutor Steven Pelak, has helped raise the profile of export control cases among prosecutors throughout the United States
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Iranians in the Diaspora, particularly the Iranian-Americans NGOs, should lobby western and US governments and politicians to pressure the Islamic regime to respect human rights
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