By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS | Wed May 16, 2012 7:22pm EDT (Reuters) – Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential report on Iran sanctions-busting seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Iran, like Russia, is [...]
CNN – An Iranian rapper is facing death threats and has a $100,000 bounty on his head for a song that some say insults an Islamic Shiite imam. Shahin Najafi, who sings in Farsi and lives in Germany, told the German website Qantara that the song “Naghi” is not about a religious figure but about [...]
The New York Times (blog) View From Europe – By HARVEY MORRIS LONDON — To the untrained eye it could be an industrial boiler or a storage tank. But an unidentified official says the picture above shows an explosives chamber used by Iran to conduct nuclear weapons-related tests. It was published over the weekend by [...]
The Independent Robert Tait Iran spurned a previously undisclosed American offer from President George W Bush of talks aimed at reaching a “grand bargain” over long-standing differences between Washington and Tehran, a leading figure in the country’s theocratic regime has revealed. The proposal was made in 2004 – before the controversy over Tehran’s suspected nuclear [...]
Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 May 2012 13.29 EDT Ahmad Lofti Ashtiani depicted dressed as a footballer, with a congratulatory letter in one hand and his foot resting on the ball. Photograph: Mahmoud ShokrayeCartoonists have condemned the conviction of an Iranian colleague sentenced to 25 lashes for drawing a caricature of an MP that [...]
CNN – An Iranian rapper is facing death threats and has a $100,000 bounty on his head for a song that some say insults an Islamic Shiite imam. Shahin Najafi, who sings in Farsi and lives in Germany, told the German website Qantara that the song “Naghi” is not about a religious figure but about [...]
The Associated Press By ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist, state TV reported Tuesday. Majid Jamali Fashi, who had been accused of being an agent of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, was hanged in Tehran on [...]
Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 May 2012 13.29 EDT Ahmad Lofti Ashtiani depicted dressed as a footballer, with a congratulatory letter in one hand and his foot resting on the ball. Photograph: Mahmoud ShokrayeCartoonists have condemned the conviction of an Iranian colleague sentenced to 25 lashes for drawing a caricature of an MP that [...]
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS | Wed May 16, 2012 7:22pm EDT (Reuters) – Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential report on Iran sanctions-busting seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Iran, like Russia, is [...]
TEHRAN, May 15 (UPI) — Negotiations are under way to choose contractors for the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq, Iranian officials said. The managing director of Iran’s Gas Engineering and Development Co., Ali Reza Qaribi, said a 48-inch pipeline to Iraq would carry around 880 cubic feet of natural gas [...]
CAIRO: Egyptian police raided the Cairo office of Iranian television channel, Al-Alam, confiscating its equipment after it was found to be operating without license, a security source said on Monday. The raid was carried out on Sunday and the head of Al-Alam’s Cairo office, Ahmed Sioufi, was charged with working without an official permit, the [...]
On the second anniversary of the death of Farzad Kamangar, we remember him and those that stood with him; Shirin Alamhouli, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili, and Mehdi Eslamian What follows is a rough translation of a poem Farzad dictated while in prison. The audio of the poem can be viewed in the video below. Night, [...]
Washington Post By David Ignatius President Obama has signaled Iran that the United States would accept an Iranian civilian nuclear program if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei can back up his recent public claim that his nation “will never pursue nuclear weapons.” This verbal message was sent through Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who visited [...]
17th of March 2012 |Posted by activists for human rights and democracy in Iran | | Translation by Freedom Messenger Status report of the last two political prisoner by the group of “Human Rights and Democracy in Iran” This report is about the condition of a student with a history of arrests and and another political prisoner with the history of imprisonment since the 80ies. [...]
The Iranian judiciary has sentenced labour activist Reza Shahabi to six years in jail and a five-year ban from labour activism. Shahabi was arrested in June of 2010 and has been held in custody ever since. The committee for the defence of Reza Shahabi says the activist, who was an executive member of the Vahed [...]
by Laleh Irani on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 1:24pm · Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi was released today on $88,000 bail. Incarcerated human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi had been issued a 5-year prison sentence and exile to the city of Zabol. Today after enduring 8 months behind bars [...]
IranBriefing-Following news of the disappearance of journalist Massoud Lavasani last week, his father told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “Something terrible happened to my son, but he doesn’t want to say anything out of fear for his family’s security. I am really sorry to live in Iran under these circumstances. I have [...]
By Al Arabiya Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani, a Shi’ite cleric based in the holy Iranian city of Qom, has issued a death sentence against rap artist Shahin Najafi for apostasy, the Persian-language Al Arabiya website reported on Wednesday. The sentence was issued after Najafi released a controversial song called “Naqi.” The song sparked a furor among [...]
By Ashish Kumar Sen- The Washington Times Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will decide on removing an Iranian dissident group from the U.S. list of foreign terror groups only after all its members have left a camp north of Baghdad, a Justice Department lawyer told a federal court Tuesday. Robert Loeb, who is representing [...]
The Independent (Blog) By Mark Williams Another tragic political execution is regrettably imminent in Tehran, where the mullahs have already murdered 120,000 members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main opposition movement. This time the potential victim is 44-year-old Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, who has dual Canadian-Iranian nationality. Hamid returned to Iran [...]
The Associated Press By ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist, state TV reported Tuesday. Majid Jamali Fashi, who had been accused of being an agent of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, was hanged in Tehran on [...]
By Alex Johnston Epoch Times Staff Iran has stepped up efforts to harass journalists and media companies in the past several weeks, Reporters Without Borders says. Cartoonist Mahmud Shokraieh, who drew a caricature portraying a local member of parliament as a soccer player, was sentenced to 25 lashes. “The court ruled that Shokraieh had ‘insulted’ [...]
BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 9 (UPI) — Iranian lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who has defended political and human rights activists condemned to death, has himself been sentenced to nine years behind bars amid a crackdown on dissent that has resulted in a sharp increase in executions. “I’ve been convicted of acting against the national security, spreading [...]
Washingtontimes-Lawmakers have pressed a top State Department official on whether the Obama administration believes that a group of Iranian dissidents in an Iraqi camp has given up their weapons. Daniel Fried, special adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Camp Ashraf, where the dissidents are based, said the Defense Department had determined the [...]
The Associated Press By ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded in the messages are meanings that reach beyond Tehran’s talks with world powers. It points to the struggles within Iran’s ruling [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP)— In a bid to circumvent crippling international sanctions, Iran has been routinely switching off satellite tracking systems on its sea-bound oil tankers, The Washington Post reported. Citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the practice has been going on for more than a month. US officials and industry analysts describe it as a [...]
(MENAFN – Arab News) Al-Qaeda only operates in separatist regions or areas beset with tribal conflict; whilst it thrives wherever there is a sectarian atmosphere. The same applies to Iranian policy in our region, for Tehran is supporting the Baathist, secular and Alawite Assad, whilst at the same time supporting the extremist Sunni Al-Qaeda organization, [...]
The Associated Press By GEORGE JAHN VIENNA (AP) — A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there. Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such [...]