Archives for: August 2009
08/31/09
Khavaran 21st anniversary
Subject: Letter from political prisoner in the 80's massacre!
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In the hope that someday the murderous head of the Islamic Republic regime will be prosecuted and in the memory of all… more »
08/28/09
Says country's supreme leader has 'trampled' people's rights
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri said the ruling system showed its true nature with the violent crackdown against the hundreds of thousands who protested President Mahmoud Ahmadi… more »
08/26/09
yes BRIAN i enjoyed your book. and my daughter is reading it in
Seattle. i have been away from Iran for 3/4 century. so anything
reminding me of old country is welcome/ in the old days people used to
live in ZIRZAMIN IN THE DAYTIME AND IN THE POSH… more »
08/25/09
TEHRAN, Aug. 17 (Mehr News Agency) -- The late pioneer of Iranian modern art Behjat Sadr was commemorated by a group of colleagues at the Iranian Artists Forum here on Sunday. Behjat Sadr died of a heart attack last week aged 85 on an island in the south… more »
08/24/09
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/aug/1216.html
http://www.heydarian.us/ more »
… By STEVEN R. HURST and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press
...The new group and new directives to rely soley on the Army Field Manual when interrogating prisoners is an attempt by the administration to separate itself from allegation that the… more »
Wall Street Journal Aug 24, 2009
Ali Motahari
By FARNAZ FASSIHI
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is facing criticism of his cabinet nominees both at home and abroad, as the political turmoil in the country deepens less than a month into his s… more »
08/23/09
http://www.sign4change.info/spip.php?article=4560 more »
08/22/09
Times on Line August 22, 2009
...Reza’s ordeal was far from over. He was taken with about 130 other prisoners to the city’s Revolutionary Court, where they were herded into a yard. The judge told them that he would hang those who had violently resis… more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ocKlSQWCh8
families of political prisoners ending fast on first day of Ramadan in front of Evin prison Aug 22, 2009 more »
at www.Iranianmovies.com
I love this website!!! I finally found a DVD of "Lovers'Wind" by Albert Lamorisse on this site which I had been looking for for many years!!! It's great!
4 excellent hard to find films by Khosrow Sinai
Lost Requim abou… more »
As US-run studies have shown, US-Iran conflicts could be mitigated, probably ended, if the US and Iran were functioning democratic societies, in which popular opinion played a significant role in policy. By very large majorities, the people of both coun… more »
First Iranian National Flag from Sassanid King black smith turned hero Kaveh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derafsh_Kaviani more »
08/21/09
Rare Gold Qajar 5000 Dinar Coin
Gold 1 Toman Qajar coin
Silver 5000 Dinar Qajar coin
I am sending this out as this effects our heritage and perceptions of
it.
Many of you are not aware that I am involved in the precious metals and
numismatics… more »
While Esha may be free, there are still countless other prisoners of conscience suffering in prison cells in Iran and we hope and continue our efforts so they can join Esha in freedom...
read more:
http://for-esha.blogspot.com/ more »
http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=643821
comment:
I hope to live to see the day that Evin Prison is torn down and every one of the judges, administrators, prison guards,baliffs, police, Basiji and RCG associated with the sentencing, arrest an… more »
http://www.sociarts.com/sepidehdesign more »
Come join us as we boycott Mansour’s concert at Club Nokia. Every single Iranian should know by now that Nokia is Iran’s cell phone supplier and that Nokia is accused of having tracking devices on its cell phones. The tracking device on Nokia cell phones… more »
08/18/09
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“This is a shameless attempt to use Iran’s tragic history of foreign intervention to instill fear in the Iranian public for political ends,” said Dokhi Fassihian, a NIAC board member. “What we have witnessed in the past two months is not a foreign… more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im2BGPeIYII&feature=related more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyfjZiSMrts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBm5tuBkzKc more »
08/17/09
Will Iran's 'Kennedys' Challenge Ahmadinejad?
By Robin Wright, Time Magazine
..."Larijani has been a very ineffective speaker," says Iran scholar Shaul Bakhash. "[Parliament] has been a virtual no-show on all issues during his leadership ... And his… more »
08/16/09
By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=15030303&ch=4226714&src=news
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In apparent attempt to fend off criticism and move ahead with his second term, Ahmadinejad n… more »
08/14/09
Taraneh Moussavi "imaginary" gang rape victim...these hardline clerics want to shoot the messenger Karroubi...sweep it all under the Persian carpet...revise history with threats and lies...
rasool
http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content… more »
08/13/09
by Stephen Kinzer, Posted May 5, 2009
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0902d.asp
“Yes, my sin, my greater sin…, and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran’s oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by t… more »
by John Len, BBC News, Tehran correspondant
...It is clear the Basij have been preparing to deal with this sort of internal unrest for many years, quite different from their role as frontline soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war...
"These Basijis ar… more »
08/10/09
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 34 mins ago
TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fired at least four senior Intelligence Mi… more »
IAC
Iranian Lives and American Spare Parts: An Open Letter to President Obama from Hooshang Amirahmadi
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President Barack H. Obama
The White House
Washington, D.C.… more »
08/09/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fueI7bXzOo more »
By MWC NEWS
Averting catastrophe—not only the spread of weapons but their lethal use—will require major shifts in attitude and policy in every one of the nuclear weapon states, declared and undeclared. But such change is undoubtedly most needed, a… more »
08/08/09
TEHRAN, Aug. 8 (Mehr News Agency)
Names of rogue cops should be announced: – MP Mohammad Karamirad believes that the names of those police officers who had violated law in their treatment of prisoners detained after the election be annou… more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pooCcHn1lAo&NR=1--
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the regime is committing this kind of brutality against all humanity not just Iranians, it is a crime against all mankind and that they do it in the name of religion makes it all the m… more »
08/08/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy0IHx6nJyY
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At first I thought the persecution of Baha'is after the 1979 revolution was to remove them from top positions in the infrastructure and to take their wealth like the Nazis did to the Jews in Ger… more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIkLdJXo0ck&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpayvand%2Ecom%2Fnews%2F&feature=player_embedded more »
by
John Lyons, The Australian, August 6, 2009
Assembly of Experts in former Senate Building
...It now seems only dramatic change will satisfy the masses. The best chance for the least violent outcome is that the government agrees to concession… more »
08/07/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZoJQ9v0m78
it is interesting to realize that weaponless martial art techniques were developed in places like Okinawa when the Japanese overlords did not allow commoners to have weapons...which just goes to show you that… more »
Well let's see, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon sends a congratulation, China and Russia and France and Switzerland and Italy all continue to do business with these murderers and thugs and Obama won't officially refuse to recognize Ahmadinejad as the pr… more »
By SABINA AMIDI, SPECIAL TO THE JERUSALEM POST
In Tabriz, Iran's fourth-largest city, the bodies of five lawyers were returned to their families earlier this week, the sources said. The five had been representing some of the hundreds of I… more »
08/04/09
As Ahmadinejad Is Sworn In for 2nd Term, Deep Fissures Are Laid Bare - The inauguration ceremony itself exposed deep rifts in Iran’s ruling elite. Many seats were empty, with most of Parliament’s reform faction boycotting the event, according to Parlamaa… more »
Monday, 03 August 2009
Standing on two feet doesn’t make a person human, only standing on principles does. It is for this reason that I am saluting Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany: A German woman who has bravely divorced herself and her natio… more »
08/03/09
Along with Bakhtiar and his friends, Boroumand played an active role in the creation and development of NAMIR. He was not deterred by the danger inherent in such an endeavor. On April 18, 1991, Boroumand was stabbed to death in the lobby of his Paris apa… more »
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Subject: PEOPLE4IRAN EVENT: TUES, AUG 4TH, 6-9PM, LENOX & PTREE, Atlanta, Ga.
http://twitter.com/people4iran
We wish to ask the international community, governments, forward thinking people and progressiv… more »
by Ayman El-Amir of Al-Ahram Weekly,Cairo
...With the US military presence in Iraq being scaled back or redeployed, the only purpose of Western military expansion in the Gulf region is to hem in Iran. This overkill capacity is likely to prove a danger… more »
By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: August 2, 2009
New York Times
Aug 2
The Obama administration is talking with allies and Congress about the possibility of imposing an extreme economic sanction against Iran if it fails to respond to President O… more »
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer – 7 mins ago
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term as president Monday in a ceremony that sought to portray u… more »
before
after
By FARNAZ FASSIHI
Wall Street Journal
The mass trial of Iran's top reformist leaders over the weekend on charges that include conspiring to overthrow the regime signals that a process is under way to eventually outlaw the reform… more »
08/02/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz6jRmtWYVQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftwubs.com%2Firanelection&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11jdR-XQ23k more »
Deadly Silence
By: Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 31, 2009
Budapest, 1956.
Prague, 1968.
Gdansk, 1981.
Tianenmen Square, 1989.
Tehran, 2009.
Each of these surprise flashpoints in history’s long march against tota… more »
The Iranian authorities opened an extraordinary mass trial against more than 100 opposition figures on Saturday, accusing them of conspiring with foreign powers to stage a revolution through terrorism, subversion, and a media campaign to discredit last m… more »
08/01/09
For the first time since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, dozens of high-ranking officials -- including former vice presidents, ministers, and lawmakers -- are on trial in the Islamic state.
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again the whole world will witness how the regime m… more »
Saeid Abbasi
Abolfazl Abdollahi
Morad Aghasi (?)
Neda Agha Soltan
Younes Aghayan
Hossein Akbari
Vahed Akbari
Hossein Akhtar Nejad (?)
Hossein Akhtar Zand (2 various or the same person..? probably Akhtar Nejad is an error and it is the same Akhtar… more »
We want to put a face to each of those hundreds - possibly thousands - killed or arrested since the Iranian election. See how to help below
Datablog:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jun/29/
Last week, families who had missing r… more »
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