Dominion Post, June 17
Azizullah Samandari ( عزیزالله سمندری ), a 40 year-old Baha’i IT specialist who is serving a 5-year prison sentence in Raja’i Shahr prison, has been selected for the New Zealand Parliament’s “Supreme Commitment Award.” Mr. Samandari took part in the 2010 Global Enterprise Experience (GEE), which is supported by Victoria ... Continue reading »
Excerpted from “Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America”
One key factor that has altered campaign coverage comes from the corporate right in the form of “conservative” media. If there has been a vacuum created by the downsizing of newsrooms, conservative media have filled it with an insistent partisanship uns ... Continue reading »
One of the most confusing things for the lib-left about the heroic Edward Snowden is that he supported Ron Paul in the last election year and appears to come out of the libertarian right. Paul, a former Texas congressman who ran for president, and his son Kentucky Senator Rand Paul are of course both Republicans. And both have praised Snowden for a ... Continue reading »
Iran’s presidential election is offering a flicker of hope to activists hoping to revive women’s rights after they deteriorated during the eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency.
The ailing economy, hit hard by international sanctions against Iran’s vital oil income which has sparked high inflation, has grabbed the spotlight in the sho ... Continue reading »
همان گونه که ذکر شد، دانشجویان ایرانی در سال های اخیر به دلایل و شکل های مختلف از حق بدیهی تحصیل در دانشگاه های ایران محروم شده اند. در پیوست ۵ این گزارش به ۷۶۸ مورد احکام محرومیت دانشجویان از تحصیل و ۲۵۰ مورد اخراج دانشجویان و اساتید از دانشگاه های ایران با شرح جزئیات این موارد از فروردین ۱۳۸۴ تا اسفند ماه ۱۳۹۱ اشاره شده است. علاوه بر این نزدیک به ... Continue reading »
In June 2009, millions of protesting Iranians went out on the streets to demand a secular democracy, raising the hopes of the world for them. Their cries were ‘Where is my vote?’, ‘Death to the Islamic Republic’ and ‘Obama, are you with us or against us’. Iran Election Protests June 2009 Iran Protester Calling For Democracy 2009 85 percent ... Continue reading »
June 10, 2013, Washington, D.C. – Last month, the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) sent a letter to President Barack Obama endorsing recommendations put forth in a report, Time to Move from Tactics to Strategy on Iran, issued on April 4th, 2013, by the Atlantic Council. In particular, PAAIA urged the president to implement recom ... Continue reading »
“I crossed the border illegally with the smugglers. It took us about eight days going from a north western city near the Iranian border to get to Ankara. We crossed rivers, went through snow, ice, over mountains. And the smugglers were so violent.”
Human rights activist Kouhyar Goodarzi, recalled for euronews his long journey into exile from Iran ... Continue reading »
With the release of a new State Department report on religious freedom around the world, the U.S. government revealed the shocking fact that 116 members of the Baha’i faith are unjustly imprisoned in Iran solely for their beliefs. Among them, sadly, are seven prominent Baha’i leaders unfairly incarcerated since 2008.
Prior to their arrest, the t ... Continue reading »
I must say that I do dream alot and in my dreams I vision about a perfect Iran. An Iran/Persia that will one day be a model country for others to copy. An Iran which practices its own culture, customs and values, those things that made us achieve goals that most nations could not and will not ever dream of achieving. Without the degeneration of isl ... Continue reading »
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