http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111801997.html By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 18, 2009; 12:33 PM TEHRAN — Iran’s national police chief, contradicting earlier accounts, asserted that a military doctor who reportedly testified about the abuse of detained protesters committed suicide last week, state-run news media reported Wednesday. Police commander Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam indicated that the doctor, Ramin […]

Brown Lloyd James handled the international launch of Al Jazeera English…Brown Lloyd James, a public relations firm with offices in London and New York, has opened an office in Tripoli. It is reported to have placed articles by Colonel Gadaffi in American newspapers.” So they have the best of the best when it comes to representing these sorts of clients.

I got your message. I’m happy to hear that we nailed down NED and hope to get the other 70K so that we can run this for a while.You have my firm commitment, of course. The first couple of months (until I can go for the trip to Iran) is going to be hectic for me. We are going to launch our webzine in April and I can’t just drop Noosheen’s project now and for a while.

Alavi has both sent money to the government of Iran and also spread it inside the U.S. Tax records of the Alavi Foundation show it has served as a provider of student loans and grants to universities as well as an investor in properties linked to a number of mosques and Islamic centers.

Recent events serve as further proof that the Iranian government continues to engage in obfuscation and delaying tactics as it pursues a nuclear weapons capability in defiance of the United Nations, the IAEA and the community of nations.

Updated: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Photographer: WashingtonTV Executions 10:55GMT—5:55AM/EST Washington, 11 November (WashingtonTV)—A Kurdish activist was hanged on Wednesday morning in a prison in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj, a day after rights groups called for his death sentence to be revoked. Ehsan Fattahian, 27, was arrested last year for his alleged role in […]

Updated: Monday, November 09, 2009 16:40GMT—11:40AM/EST Washington, 9 November (WashingtonTV)—Iranian lawyer, journalist and women’s rights defender, Shadi Sadr, was awarded a Dutch human rights prize on Monday, for her efforts to promote human rights in the Islamic Republic. Sadr received the Human Rights Defenders Tulip from Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen at a ceremony in […]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL537586720091106 LONDON (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic’s scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition. The newspaper, citing what it describes as “previously unpublished documentation” from an International Atomic Energy Agency compiled dossier, said Iranian scientists […]

Regime-sympathizers like the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) came to Capitol Hill urging members of Congress to cut off U.S. funding for democracy programs in Iran. Democracy funding “taints” Iranian dissidents, they claimed, and only invites harsher crackdowns on the Iranian people.
Anha Eshte-bah Kardand. They were wrong.
As Americans, how can we justify this apparent retreat from human rights? Are discredited arguments by regime sympathizers like NIAC swaying policy decisions by our State Department – even after June 12th?

Nov. 3, 2009 Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that a nuclear bomb in the hands of Iran “is not acceptable.” In a speech to US Congress marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Merkel said that allowing Iran to have nuclear weapons, especially with […]