tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78123005757554233462012-02-17T08:14:05.644ZIt is all about Liberty and Freedon in IranJalal4Libertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12893405518829606286noreply@blogger.comBlogger1151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812300575755423346.post-5884584988298699592011-11-07T21:50:00.001Z2011-11-07T21:51:28.188Z

William Hague A British technology firm with links to William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, has sold a product to Iran which could be used to track down protesters. By Holly Watt, Claire Newell and Helia Ebrahimi The Telegraph - 07 November, 2011 - Creativity Software sold the product to the regime despite concerns that it has been used to round up activists communicating with their mobile

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Friends are branded as enemies while real enemies are appeased As two current high-profile cases demonstrate, the U.S. government's practice of listing "foreign terrorist organizations" (FTOs) has become an increasingly dangerous and hollow political exercise rather than a sober assessment of the real threats to America. Last month, Afghanistan's ruthless Haqqani Network reportedly staged a

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By LOUIS J. FREEHWashington AS the United States tries to halt Iran’s nuclear program and prepares to withdraw troops from Iraq, American voters should ask why the Obama administration has bent to the will of Tehran’s mullahs and their Iraqi allies on a key issue: the fate of 3,400 unarmed members of the exiled Iranian opposition group, Mujahedeen Khalq, who are living in Camp Ashraf,

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Protest Against This Tyrant! September 22, 2011New York What:Protest against the arrival of Iranian dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the United Nations. Please join your voices with the Iranian people in saying "NO" to Ahmadinejad.To view his background: (Click Here) Where: United Nations BuildingDag Hammarskjold PlazaNew York, NY 10017 When:Thursday, September 22, 201110:00am - 2:00pm Why: (If

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(AP) – 16 minutes ago WASHINGTON — An Iranian opposition group has won a round in its long legal fight to get the State Department to stop classifying it as a terrorist organization. A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the State Department to reconsider its decision to keep the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. The designation

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EDITORIAL: THE WASHINGTON TIMES A year ago, The Washington Times helped bring the world's attention to the plight of Farzad Kamangar, a Kurdish school- teacher wrongly accused of being a terrorist by the Islamic regime in Tehran. He spent almost four years of physical and mental torture in Iran's prison system. Mr. Kamangar's suffering ceased Sunday at the end of a hangman's noose. He was 34

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May 4 (Reuters) - U.S. pressure has prompted a growing number of oil firms, trading houses and other international companies to halt business with Iran this year. While the United States pushes for tougher U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, the U.S. Congress is trying to hammer out a final bill which would punish foreign companies that export gasoline and other petroleum products

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Document - Iran: Imminent risk of execution in Iran UA: 102/10 Index: MDE 13/047/2010 Iran Date: 30 April 2010 URGENT ACTION IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION IN IRAN An Iranian man, Ja’far Kazemi, is at imminent risk of execution for his alleged participation in anti-government demonstrations and for his alleged contact with banned opposition group the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI)

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Your U.N. at Work!Last week Iran won a seat at the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, the mission of which is to "set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide." Call it another example of your U.N. at work. We're told Iran's victory was due to a dearth of competition for the spot. Heaven forfend the commission should

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By SAM DAGHER BAGHDAD — The torture of Iraqi detainees at a secret prison in Baghdad was far more systematic and brutal than initially reported, Human Rights Watch reported on Tuesday. The existence of the prison, which housed mostly Sunni Arab prisoners, has created a political furor in Iraq, prompted government denials and fanned sectarian tensions. “Abu Ghraib was a picnic” compared with

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By: Ali Safavi Aside from the clearly false allegations against the MEK, which have been addressed in previous posts, some of the MEK's activities inside Iran prior to 2001 have been cited by the US Department of State and others as providing ostensible justification for the terrorist label against the organization. The MEK's activities have been painted with an unjustified brush of terrorism,

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Forces under the office of Prime Minister Maliki held hundreds of Sunni men at the facility. The U.S. fears that the news will stoke instability. By Ned Parker Los Angeles Times - Reporting from Baghdad - Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, where many were routinely tortured until the

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The Washington Post - DEFENSE SECRETARY Robert M. Gates was the focus of one of those curious Washington kerfuffles over the weekend in which a senior official makes headlines by saying what everyone knows to be true. According to the New York Times, Mr. Gates dispatched a secret memo to the White House in January pointing out that the Obama administration does not have a well-prepared

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By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER The New York Times, WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to government officials familiar with the document. Several officials said

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES - A counterrevolution in Iran may be the last, best chance for peace in the region, but it can only happen with American help. J. Michael Waller of the Institute of World Politics argues that the best way for the United States to promote change in Iran is not via sanctions or military action but by helping the Iranian people overthrow the Islamic regime. After the proper

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Millions in counterfeit U.S. currency has flooded into Iraq since December, and U.S. and Iraqi officials are trying to determine how much of the counterfeiting is criminal and how much is an Iranian attempt to influence Iraqi politics. NASIRIYAH, Iraq — While some bills were crudely made and easily detected, U.S. military officials said, much of the money seized has been sophisticated fake

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Solana, Straw, Fischer, and de Villepin have a lot to answer for since their policy bought Tehran crucial time. By ALEJO VIDAL-QUADRAS Wall Street Journal Europe - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boasted last week that the regime would install 60,000 new, "third-generation" centrifuges to enrich uranium. As world leaders met in Washington this week to discuss how to prevent nuclear

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By Luke Pachymuthu and Seng Li Peng DUBAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - State-run Chinaoil has sold two gasoline cargoes for April delivery to Iran, industry sources said on Wednesday, stepping into a void left by fuel suppliers halting shipments under threat of U.S. sanctions. Beijing, which has close economic ties with Tehran, has resisted sanctions proposed by Western powers on Iran's energy sector

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 By Daniel Dombey and Tobias Buck Financial Times, London- The world clustered around Barack Obama yesterday - with one very notable exception. Leaders of some 40 countries, from Argentina and Armenia to China and India, gathered in Washington to attend the nuclear security summit convoked by the US president. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, stayed away. Israeli diplomats attribute

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By HAMZA HENDAWI (Associate Press) AP - CAIRO — The surprisingly strong election showing by a secular, nationalist coalition in Iraq has provided a sudden opening for the mostly Sunni Arab world to curtail Iranian influence in Iraq, something that has been a source of serious alarm for the United States and its Arab allies since 2003. The banner headline in Asharq al-Awsat, an influential

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The Sunday Times Miles Amoore in Kabul THE Taliban fighters scurried up the craggy mountainside. As they neared the top, their 30-strong platoon split into three sections and they launched a ferocious assault on an enemy fort, opening fire from numerous positions. The bullets they sprayed at the fort’s mud-coloured walls were blank, however. They merely pretended to fire their rocket-propelled

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The Hoffington Post - March 15- On the eve of Chaharchanbeh Souri (Festival of Fire), on the last Tuesday of the Iranian year, which is another occasion for the Iranian people to vent their anger at the regime and express the yearning for change, a review of what happened on the anniversary of the anti-Monarchic revolution on February 11 might offer some insights as to what to expect next as far

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BRUSSELS, March 11, 2010 (AFP) - The point-man for European Parliament relations with Iraq accused on Thursday top Iraqi electoral commission figures of rigging the election at Iran's behest. "I understand that very high officials from the Iraqi Electoral Commission have been caught cheating by entering false data on the election computer," said British conservative MEP Struan Stevenson in a

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The Mullahs regime fearing another mass anti-regime uprising during the annual Fire Festival celebration (Chaharshanbeh Souri, March 16), has given special guidelines to its repressive forces to stop students’ participation in the festivity. Some of their actions reported: - Summoning parents of students to schools to put pressure on them to prevent their children from going out on the day of

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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release 6 March 2010 IRAQI ELECTIONS UPDATE No. 1 Escalating allegations of fraud A senior member of the European Parliament has claimed that he has received a flood of allegations of fraud in the run-up to tomorrow’s election in Iraq. Struan Stevenson MEP, President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq says that after he published a

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By Roger Gale, MP LONDON, March 2 (UPI) -- The United States is pursuing a "pressure track" to halt Iran's nuclear program given its continued rejection of a U.N. proposal on its disputed uranium enrichment activities, top U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said last week. A new report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran may be working to develop a nuclear-armed missile and has begun enriching

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President of National Council of Resistance of Iran Maryam Rajavi attends a meeting of MEP from different political groups on 23 February, 2010 at the European Parliament. The Iranian opposition leader urges the EU to impose sanctions against Iran's Revolutionary Guards and place them on a European list of banned terrorist organizations. ---------------------------------------------------------

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By David Ignatius The Washington Post - Iran is conducting what U.S. officials say is a broad covert-action campaign to influence Iraq's elections next month, pumping money and other assistance to its allies. The best way to counter this assault, American officials have decided, is by exposing it publicly. The most direct criticism of Iran's meddling has come from Gen. Ray Odierno, the

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By: Ali Safavi It was a cold autumn day in 1978 in Los Angeles when I saw on the evening news that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had gone to the Paris suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau from exile in Iraq. To a young student activist in the anti-shah movement, it seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime. Having studied theories of social change as a sociology student at UCLA, I really wanted to be

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By: Roger Gale The Huffington Post - Ever since the 2002 revelations by an Iranian opposition group detailing Tehran's clandestine nuclear program, Iran has been the foreign policy nightmare which has baffled United States Presidents and Secretaries of State. Sidelined by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran's nuclear defiance was ignored at times as other crises in the region took precedence.

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By TARSEM KING LONDON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Ever since Iran's revolution which saw the Shah ousted on Feb. 11, 1979, its anniversary has been celebrated by the Iranian regime by way of a show of force. However, this year promises to be a totally different affair. Only last year Western media was provided direct access to the events of Feb. 11, 2009, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a

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(AP) – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's insurance regulator plans to take steps Wednesday to pressure insurance companies into ending any financial relationship they have with Iran. A state law that took effect last year outlaws direct investments in Iran by California-based companies. An insurance department review released in December found no such investments by any insurance company doing

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Summary: 8 February 2010, Brussels - Joint Statement by the European Union and the United States calling on the Iranian government to fulfil its human rights obligations The European Union and the United States condemn the continuing human rights violations in Iran since the June 12 election. The large scale detentions and mass trials, the threatened execution of protestors, the intimidation of

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By Lord David Alton The Hill - As US President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union Address to lash out at Iran over its continuing nuclear defiance, it was clear that 2010 will see a new approach in dealing with Tehran. How things have changed since, one year ago in January 2009, in his first sit-down interview, President Obama symbolically used an exchange on Al- Arabiya TV to offer

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How long will it take for the lesson to stick? By BRET STEPHENS The Wall Street Journal -  'We have been trying to negotiate [with the Iranians] for five, six years. We've tried everything. We have met every Iranian. We have tried to open every possible channel. We've had new ideas and the result is this: nothing." Thus did a senior Western diplomat recently describe to me his country's

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Tony Blair 'lied' to his Cabinet and misled Parliament over the war in Iraq, Clare Short, the former international development secretary has said. By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent The Telegraph - UK -Giving evidence before the Chilcot Committee into the war, she repeatedly accused the former prime minister of personally “misleading” and “conning” her, and of being “deceitful” with

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Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last year. Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were hanged on Thursday after being convicted in unfair trials of “enmity against God” and being members of Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran (API), a banned group which advocates the restoration of an Iranian

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Iran delivered a chilling message of intent to the country's dissident movement today when it hanged two men accused of being Mohareb (enemies of God) by participating in protests following last year's disputed presidential election and sentenced to death nine more. The predawn executions of Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammed Reza Alizamani were the first since tens of thousands of ordinary

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Iran has vowed to step up its efforts in digital censorship, claiming that the era of "mercy" is over. Based on an article by AUSTIN HEAP in San Francisco In a statement released by the Iranian Labour News Agency, national police Chief Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam stated, "These people should know where they are sending the SMS and email as these systems are under control. They should not think

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By Jubin Afshar OpEd News - An Iranian group tagged as a foreign terrorist organization since 1997 has challenged the Secretary of State's designation of the group in court. According to legal experts the group may have a real chance, as the circumstances since the original designation have substantially changed. The case was heard by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday,

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BY PETER FRASER The latest round of talks by major world powers to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons last week finished without agreement on any new sanctions; more consultations were agreed instead. But Tehran is pushing forward with its nuclear program. France's ambassador to the United Nations, Christophe Bigot, rightly said 2010 is going to be ``an Iranian year,'' adding, ``We have

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By Leila Fadel and Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Foreign Service BAGHDAD -- By barring hundreds of candidates from an upcoming parliamentary election, a controversial commission whose members have close ties to Iran is threatening to disenfranchise members of Iraq's Sunni minority and weaken its fledgling democracy. The commission, led by Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi politician who supplied

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The Foreign Office stays silent as Iranian protestors risk their lives By David Amess, Member of the British Parliament The Scotsman - For more than a decade, European leaders took what they perceived to be the easy and least costly option of appeasement in confronting the threats posed by the despots in Tehran.  The result is the fires that burn intensely across the Middle East for which the

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By Rebecca Lowe FAMILIES from Enfield are among the crowds protesting against the Iranian regime outside Downing Street this afternoon. Around a dozen residents have joined the demonstration, which aims to convince the Government to take stronger action against Iran. Hundreds of people have been arrested in the country since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial re-election in June.

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People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran should be cleared THE WASHINGTON TIMES - Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit hears the case of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran v. United States Department of State. The State Department says the PMOI is a terrorist organization. The PMOI says the United States is falling for Iranian propaganda. The group renounced violence in

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Cross-Party MPs and Peers joined large numbers of supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) on Thursday at a rally opposite Downing Street in solidarity with nationwide anti-government protests in Iran and urged the UK government to sever ties with the mullahs' regime. Participants included Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, Chair of the British Committee for Iran Freedom; Mr

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By WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: January 5, 2010 The New York Times - Last September, when Iran’s uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country. In doing so,

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During popular uprisings last week in the holy month of Ashura in Iran people took to streets in form of peaceful rallies and demonstrations to express their desire for change. All reports, photographs, and video clips transmitted clearly shows we are at a point of no return for change. People are determined to continue at whatever the cost for FREEDOM. In return, desperate mullahs have

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Maggie O'Kane, editorial director Guardian Films, Mona Mahmood, and Guy Grandjean The journey to find the truth behind the kidnapping of the five British men kidnapped in Iraq in May 2007 has been a long one. We at Guardian Films set out to find out why they had become the forgotten hostages. Was it because they were security men and a computer programmer working for private military companies

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Iranians take to the streets in thousands to demand democracy, while Britain continues to obstruct it, says Christopher Booker By Christopher Booker The Sunday Telegraph - A major political mystery of the past decade has been why our Government has been so anxious to appease one of the nastiest and most vicious regimes in the world. In recent days, hundreds of thousands of Iranians have

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Leading Article The principal foreign policy challenge of 2010 will be to deal with an Iranian regime that destabilises its neighbours and suppresses its dissidents Iran, said President Obama this week, has used an iron fist of brutality in suppressing domestic dissent. That fist has long extended across the border into Iraq. It may have done so with the kidnapping of Peter Moore, the

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Peers and MPs from across the political spectrum have declared their solidarity with "the brave millions of Iranians" demanding regime change. They did so in a statement issued by the cross-party British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom. The committee also accused the British Government of a "shameful" policy of appeasement towards the mullahs and called for an end to trade and

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  In the past few days there we have received numerous reports from Iran saying despite attempts by the security forces to disperse people, the protesters eventually took over a large section of central Tehran, leaving the police watching from the sidelines. There are similar reports from across the country from our families and friends. Jon Leyne, BBC News Tehran correspondent wrote “The

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Rally and Press conference in London to prevent another attack on Ashraf - December 15 at 11:30 am - Whitehall opposite Downing Street On Tuesday, 15 December 2009, simultaneous with a threat by Iraq to forcibly displace Iranian Resistance members from Camp Ashraf, MPs, legal experts and human rights activists will hold a press conference opposite Downing Street in London to press for urgent

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Urgent Appeal The Iraqi authorities must not forcibly relocate about 3,400 members of an Iranian opposition group from a settlement north of Baghdad where they have lived since the mid-1980's, Amnesty International said on Friday. Sources have told Amnesty International that residents of Camp Ashraf, which is 60km north of Baghdad, have been given a deadline of 15 December 2009 to leave or

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By ROBERT F. WORTH The New York Times — Iran’s broadest and most violent protest in months spilled over into a second day on Tuesday, as bloody clashes broke out on university campuses between students chanting antigovernment slogans and the police and Basij militia members. As the scale of Monday’s demonstrations became clearer, Tehran’s police chief announced that 204 people had been

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London rally in solidarity with Iranian student, on 7 December, 11:00 am in Whitehall, opposite #10 Downing Street Iranian pro-democracy movement activists inside and outside Iran are calling on people around the world to hold rallies in support of the Iranian dissidents on December 7. In recent days, in a in a pre-emptive crackdown, Islamic Republic has been arresting and prosecuting students

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British MPs AND Peers from across the political spectrum have welcomed a Spanish court's decision to investigate claims Iraqi troops killed refugees at Camp Ashraf By Sarah Cosgrove Hendon Times - London - MPs and Peers from all parties have welcomed the decision by the Spanish central court to investigate a raid on July 28 and 29 by Iraq's armed forces on the Iranian refugee camp 60 miles

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The Washington Post -By Michael Gerson - With a decision on Afghanistan, we will now see whether a reluctant president can persuade a reluctant Congress and inspire a reluctant nation to accept additional wartime sacrifice. But the administration must feel relieved. The mere act of choosing releases accumulated tension like shooting a bow, wherever the arrow lands. That relief, however, will

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MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has asked Iraq if it is investigating a melee in which Iraqi security forces are accused of killing 11 members of an Iranian exile group — a first step toward a possible probe by the judge himself. Judge Fernando Andreu is acting under Spain's universal justice doctrine, which allows grave crimes alleged to have been committed in other countries to be prosecuted

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Iran's Parliament passed a law on Sunday earmarking $20 million to support militant groups opposing the West (CBS/AP)  - The legislation is widely seen as a response to Western criticism of Iran's violent crackdown against protesters following the disputed June presidential election. Lawmakers started debating the outline of the bill in August when Iran's hardline leaders were fending off

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Free Iran - The IAEA's Board of Governors resolution, that has censured the illegal nuclear activities of the regime after a four year pause, was approved by all permanent members of the UN Security Council - the Unite States, Britain, France, China and Russia - as well as Germany. Only Venezuela, Malaysia and Cuba rejected the resolution. This is while the mullahs' regime was trying hard over

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Free Iran - Iran has "illegally" frozen bank accounts belonging to Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi and confiscated her medal, in a bid to step up pressure on the rights advocate and critic of the Islamic regime, her colleagues said on Friday. Norway said on Thursday that Iran had confiscated Ebadi's Nobel medal and diploma awarded to her in 2003 from a bank box and that it had summoned Iran's envoy

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged. The 192-nation assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights, approved the nonbinding resolution 74-48, with 59 abstentions. The Iran resolution "expresses

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Third Committee of the UN General Assembly condemns serious violation of human rights in Iran, growing number of executions and suppression of demonstrators Iranian opposition welcomes adoption of 56th resolution by various UN bodies condemning violations of human rights in Iran, calls on world community to reject mullahs’ regime Free Iran - The Third Committee of the United Nations General

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By Mark Williams MP Thousands of young Iranians last week defied state warnings and took to the streets demanding regime change.  At the same time, Western leaders turned a blind eye yet again to the failure by Iran to accept a UN-brokered deal to send its enriched uranium abroad for processing to defuse international concern over its nuclear weapons projects. The most daring chants by the

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Mr Ahmedinejad must not be allowed to swap empty pledges on uranium for western silence over his repressive habits Guardian.co.uk - LAST WEEK saw the 30th anniversary of the seizure by revolutionary students of the US embassy in Tehran. The commemoration is traditionally an excuse for official demonstrations under "Death to America" banners. This year the mood has been different. There have

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Guardian Exclusive: Watchdog fears Tehran has key component to put bombs in missiles Julian Borger, diplomatic editor The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially

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Clash with police are reported as the crowd is constantly being swelled by peaceful people arriving on foot and by bus Free Iran - Iranian security forces have clashed with opposition protesters in the capital Tehran on the 30th anniversary of the storming of the US embassy. Witnesses said security forces used batons to try to disperse demonstrators holding anti-government marches in a central

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Students at Tehran’s Khaje Nasir Toosi University protested against a visit to the university by Saffar Harandi, deputy commander of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, on Sunday. Free-Iran- Monday, 02 November 2009 - Students prevented him from speaking at the podium by chanting “Our shame, our shame is our Culture Minister,” “Death to dictator,” “Mercenary get lost,” “Guns,

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27 October 2009 The Iranian authorities must release a 76-year-old scholar held incommunicado for 41 days, for his peaceful criticism of the Iranian presidential election, said Amnesty International. The organization also expressed grave concern for the health of Dr Mohammad Maleki, and said it fears that his life is in danger as he is suffering from serious illnesses. Mohammad Maleki, a

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By Shahriar Kia The recent uprising of the Iranian people following sham elections in Iran, the formidable confrontation between the Iranian people and its Resistance on the one hand and the Iranian regime on the other, as well as the recent attacks against the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran aimed at destroying their camp in northern Iraq and extraditing its residents to Iran highlighted three

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Amnesty International USA Press Release Amnesty International Challenges Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Freedom of Expression Iranian Authorities Must Guarantee Fair Trials for Prisoners in Detention, Organization Says Contact: AIUSA media office, 202-544-0200 x302 (Washington) -- Amnesty International calls on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to immediately retract a statement he made on Wednesday

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UN News Centre - The top United Nations envoy to Iraq has expressed his concerns over the humanitarian situation in a camp north of Baghdad, housing thousands of Iranian dissidents. Some 3,400 members of the People’s Mojahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mujahedin-e Khalq, live in Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala province. During talks with diplomats the Iraqi capital, Ad Melkert,

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Rally in London 4 November 2009 Please join us in front of the 10 Downing Street – London for a rally in support of the people in Iran. Students, workers, teachers, women’s rights groups and millions more are planning to take to the streets in Iran to demand change. Despite the Government’s threats to crack down on those who come out that day, brave men and women are determined to show their

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Press Releases Baghdad-26 October 2009: During his recent meeting with representatives of the diplomatic community in Baghdad, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General-for Iraq (SRSG) Ad Melkert expressed continued concern over the humanitarian situation at Camp Ashraf. He confirmed UNAMI's commitment for the duration of this critical period to monitor the situation

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By Jamshid Karegarfar ASHRAF, Iraq. How long can one live without food and water? It's a question that I never considered until it became more than an answer on a TV quiz program. It was a very personal matter of life and death. Two-and-a-half months ago, I was living the day-to-day peaceful life of a resident of Camp Ashraf in Iraq. It's a place you probably never heard of. It's about 60

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By Mostafa Sanaie Ashraf, Iraq On October 7, as the sun came up and I sat in my little prison cell in a suburb of Baghdad, I realized this could be the last sunrise I would see. I always loved the sun. It is particularly gorgeous this time of year in Baghdad. But I was too frail to stand up to see it. I could have asked for help as I was surrounded by 35 friends. But none of them was in a

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The European Parliament adopted an urgent resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran on Thursday in Strasbourg. The MEPs called for the release of prisoners arrested in the demonstrations that followed the June 2009 sham elections, the abolition of the death penalty and respect for press freedom. Number of MEPs recalled the late July attack by Iraqi forces on members of the Iranian

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Iran in a new round of talks on its nuclear program in Vienna, spinning the merry go round where the US and other powers were hoping to nail down a deal. Some diplomats had been hoping for a breakthrough, with a deal sealed to send a large portion of Iran's nuclear fuel abroad for further processing. Instead, Iran appeared to shift the playing field again. The Ahmadinejad’s delegation objected

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Hundreds of people take to the streets of Berlin on August 4 to protest against the re-election of Ahmadinedschad Iran's government is notorious for cracking down on political opposition in its own country. New media reports suggest that Iran has extended these operations and is now also going after dissidents who live abroad. Germany's ARD public television broadcast a Panorama documentary on

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  Millions of the regime's political opponents would back sanctions that helped remove the ruling clique. By John P. Hannah If current negotiations falter, international efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear program may escalate to the imposition of "crippling sanctions" or even the use of military force. A crucial question that policymakers must consider is whether such punitive measures would

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The current Iranian regime has long been one of the worst perpetrators of human rights abuse in the world, using the death penalty as a means of suppressing dissent amongst the Iranian population. In 2008 alone, according to Amnesty International the Iranian regime executed at least 346 people, although due to the difficulty in obtaining information within Iran it is believed that this figure

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Allan Gerson Death no longer stalks the White House gates. The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans (as part of a vigil of hundreds of concerned people) came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return - most in emaciated condition - to their enclave at Camp Ashraf, 60 miles north of Baghdad. For more

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Yahoo provided to the Iranian suppressive authorities the names and emails of some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users According to a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity (Farsi) blog, sources indicate the information comes from a group of resisters who have infiltrated the administration and are leaking out important information. These sources say that Yahoo representatives met with Iranian

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'Embarrassing' Incident in Gulf of Suez US troops boarded a German-owned freighter in early October and found eight containers full of ammunition, allegedly headed to Syria from Iran. The shipment is in violation of a UN weapons embargo and has become a source of chagrin in Berlin. An "embarrassing affair," is how one German diplomat described it. The official could also have added:

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Geneva, 12 October 2009. The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) welcomes the release of the 36 Camp Ashraf residents, who were arrested and allegedly tortured and ill-treated during their detention following the raid by the Iraqi security forces on the Camp on 28 July 2009. However, OMCT repeats its call upon the United States (US) authorities and the United Nations (UN) to take effective

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By Gary Morsch AS US officials grapple with Iran’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons, they also need to address its human rights abuses against its own people as well as the regime’s meddling in Iraqi affairs. Soldiers don’t concern themselves with politics; we leave that to the politicians. There are times, though, when a soldier makes an exception. Like all American troops who have been

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“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” Free At last, after 72 days, the 36 Ashraf residents, who had been abducted, were released and safely returned to Camp Ashraf. Many of the hostages, who were on a hunger strike, are seriously ill but in a very high spirit. They were immediately taken to Ashraf medical center for treatment. Mrs. Rajavi, Iranian

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United Nations human rights officials today welcomed the Iraqi Government’s decision to release 36 members of an Iranian dissident group who had been detained since July when security personnel used force to take control of the camp where they had been staying. Rupert Colville, a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told journalists in Geneva that

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By Sebastian Usher BBC News Supporters of the residents of a camp for Iranian dissidents in Iraq say they will continue their international protests demanding the US and the UN give them protection. On Wednesday, dozens of supporters around the world ended a 72-day hunger strike after one of their main demands was met - the release of 36 Camp Ashraf inmates detained by the Iraqi authorities

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A GROUP of ailing hunger strikers ended their 72-day fast today after achieving a "huge victory for humanity". A dozen fasters from across Barnet have refused food for more than ten weeks in an attempt to convince international forces to help 36 fellow Iranians taken hostage from an Iraqi refugee camp in July. Today the refugees were safely returned to Camp Ashraf from a military base in

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Further information on UA: 212/09 Index: MDE 14/032/2009 Iraq Date: 06 October 2009 URGENT ACTION Detainees held incommunicado risk torture Thirty-six Iranian men who were arrested from Camp Ashraf in July, have been transferred from a police station to a military airbase in Baghdad. Fears for their safety remain as they are now detained incommunicado and are at risk of

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Three Court orders ignored! Today, the higher court in Iraq ordered the release of the 36 Ashraf residents in detention.  This is the third order following previous verdicts on 17th of September, and 23rd of August, finding them NOT GUILTY. Archbishop of Canterbury, Amnesty International, Members of Parliament, dignitaries and human rights organisations from across the world all have called

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI index: MDE 14/031/2009 29 September 2009 Iraq: Amnesty International urges the immediate release of 36 Iranian detainees A group of 36 Camp Ashraf residents continue to be held at a police station in the town of al-Khalis, in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, since they were arrested by Iraqi security forces on 28-29 July 2009. The 36 men are in

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 The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom PRESS RELEASE Forty seven cross-party MPs and Peers jointly wrote to the Iraqi Prime Minister on Tuesday demanding Iraq releases 36 Iranian refugees whose release order was signed by an Iraqi judge on Monday after two months in detention and on hunger strike. The 36 Iranian refugees, who are residents of Camp Ashraf with “protected

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NCRI - Revelation of two secret nuclear sites east of Tehran by the Iranian Resistance on Thursday and concealment of nuclear facilities near the city of Qom by the Iranian regime which were exposed by leaders of the United States, France and Britain on Friday heightened the need to impose immediate comprehensive sanctions against the regime. Any delay would pave the way for the regime to

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BBC News A Labour peer has accused Foreign Secretary David Miliband of maintaining "a shameful silence" on attacks on Iranian dissidents at a camp in Iraq. British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom chairman Lord Corbett hit out in a strongly-worded open letter. More than 3,000 people live in the Camp Ashraf, and supporters say several died in a raid by Iraqi security forces. The

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By Joshua Schneyer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ali Jahanshahi, a young, tech-savvy British-Iranian, quit his job selling computers to come to New York with the ambitious goal of ousting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. More than just protesting Ahmadinejad's presence at the U.N. General Assembly this week, Jahanshahi said he came to trade know-how with other young Iranians who are using

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