According to this report, after the fast and turned out treatment of their cases and the confirmation of the branch 11 of the Supreme Court and getting permission from the judiciary chief and the order of the Leadership (Khamenei) to enforce the death sentence as soon as possible, these two prisoners were hanged yesterday morning. Then the genera ... Continue reading »
Rafsanjani and Mashaei barred from Iran presidency poll Two prominent figures in Iran have been barred from standing as candidates in next month's presidential election.
Ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a close ally of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had been excluded by the Guardian Council, state TV rep ... Continue reading »
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's election overseers said Monday they will bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month's presidential election, a reference to a former leader seen as a threat to hard-liners.
Ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's entry in the race scrambled the equations because of his popularity, reputation and p ... Continue reading »
With the clarification of the names of the presidential contenders in Iran, the focus now has shifted to their possible policies. A key question for Iran analysts is what direction will Iran’s nuclear program - which has emerged as the most complex issue in Iran’s foreign policy since the end of the war with Iraq in the 1980s – take with each of th ... Continue reading »
The leaked video shows a huge, powerfully armed convoy headed from Lebanon to Al Quysar with Obama's blessing, assuming you see cries of "Please stop!" as tantamount to endorsement. Arab government and those of France and England need to watch this video and then tell the craven Obama and his clueless secretary of state to get lost. https://ww ... Continue reading »
IHR strongly condemns the execution of Koroush Ahmadi and Mohamad Heydari and holds Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader responsible for these executions. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR urged the international community to condemn executions in Iran. Amiry -Moghaddam said: "Today’s executions are a part of the Iranian regime’s ... Continue reading »
It is a generally assumed that the Shah’s downfall led to the severing of ties between Israel and Iran, which up until that point resembled a love story. However, both Iran’s intellectual elite and the rest of the nation drastically changed their views of the Jewish State after 1967. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his wife, Queen Far ... Continue reading »
On the last available day, ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani arrived at the ministry of the interior to register himself as a presidential candidate. Rafsanjani was the Islamic republic’s fourth president, from 1989 to 1997, and is now once again standing as a ‘reformist’. In reality he is the candidate of capitalism and probably still one of the riches ... Continue reading »
Once again it begins. The great farce and grand illusion that is the Iranian Presidential election. If you read the Iranian Constitution it's painfully obvious. But my astute colleagues, even ones more astute than me, people with PhDs even, seem to be blissfully ignorant as to how the system and laws work, choosing instead to be gullibly swept ... Continue reading »
Iran and Hezbollah won't stop their efforts to keep Assad afloat unless they face the sort of consequences the USA faced in Vietnam. A Vietnam-style quagmire might well be in the interests of an Iranian people long since fed up with an incompetent, corrupt and brutal regime ruled by religious fanatics in their own interests. In this case most of ... Continue reading »
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