The Iranian presidential elections in 2009 remain a landmark event, with an unprecedented uprising shaking the theocracy in Tehran to its core and capturing the world’s attention for weeks. Few can forget the haunting images of Neda Agha Soltan in her last moments in the streets of Tehran. Now four years later, the legacy of that uprising is felt t ... Continue reading »
With ten days to go before Iran’s presidential election, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, and US neoconservatives are on opposite sides of the regime-change question, as one might expect.
Here’s the reality of Iran’s presidential vote: there isn’t going to be any regime change, despite Khamenei’s fears and the hopes of right-wi ... Continue reading »
Stop Fundamentalism – The Iranian clerical regime has executed 45 people during the past 5 days in Iranian cities of Karaj, Shiraz, Arak, Zahedan and Kermanshah, says a statement released today by the Iranian opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. NCRI says the executions aimed at suppressing possible public disturbances in the ne ... Continue reading »
The report which never was! When the Mojahedin Khalq used a deliberately leaked copy of a document produced by the US Library of Congress to further demonise its critics, the head of the Library, David Osborne said it "is not and will not be posted to any Library of Congress site". However my brother Ebrahim spotted a gaffe: the report suggests tha ... Continue reading »
Camp Liberty residents demand to return to Camp Ashraf fearing further attacks Stop Fundamentalism - Iranian and Iraqi governments were directly involved in the February 9 shelling of Camp Liberty, killing six Iranian refugees and wounding about one hundred, said a statement by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the Iranian opposition ... Continue reading »
Recently I heard news about Iran's space program sending a monkey into space. There was all sorts of confusion about which monkey was actually sent...dark haired one, light haired one, real one, false one ...you know ...there was some uncertainty. After thinking long and hard about it, it occured to me that the Monkey the IRI would have like to h ... Continue reading »
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