Iran News Digest

Marketing the Iranian regime’s hostage taking

Aug 31st, 2011

NIAC’s reaction to two American hikers sentence in Tehran, suggests that it acts like a PR firm for the Iranian regime, formulating and marketing the Mullahs’ hostage taking in a way that the public opinion and US politicians respond positively to their blackmail.



Quds day in Berlin

Aug 31st, 2011

In Berlin, every year Islamic fundamentalists, mostly connected to the Iranian regime’s embassy and Hezbollah, organize a rally to show their support of Tehran and hatred of Israel. Ironically, this year again, the non-Iranian descents, mostly Arabs and Turks who take part in this event outnumbered Iranians overwhelmingly.



Damascus butcher or Washington’s designated reformist

Aug 1st, 2011

In February 2011, the French magazine “Vogue” ran an apologetic report on Assad’s wife and her husband titled: “A rose of desert”. A month later on March 27, in the midst of Syrian protests and its brutal repression by the regime, Hillary Clinton said on the CBS program “Face the Nation” that “members of the U.S. Congress from both parties believe Assad is “a reformer.”



I Love you; Iran

Aug 1st, 2011



Enjoying Mullahs’ Fiesta

Aug 1st, 2011

Far from helping the Iranian economy, the Turquoise asset is invested in real estate and Tehran stock exchange, entirely speculative and fully controlled by regime’s factions with no connection to the country’s economic reality.



Kucinich’s penchant for dictators

Jul 13th, 2011

As the Syrian regime continues its brutal repression of the popular uprising, Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Congressman has travelled to Syria, met with Assad and expressed some degree of sympathy for the his regime.



Hikers’ families turn to the U.N., finally

Jul 6th, 2011

Kayvan Kaboli, 7.2.2011 After two years of sorrow and worrisome, families of Josh Fattai and Shane Bauer appealed to Ban Ki-Moon for help. CNN reported the families of hikers detained in Iran with charge of espionage met the U.N. Secretary-General and asked him to intervene just a month away to a trial which was postponed last […]



The green disillusion

Jul 6th, 2011

The Iranian regime’s coming parliamentary elections are nourishing factional animosities inside the regime and causing divide between the so-called leaders of the green movement and what remains of its popular base.



EIHBank, Iran Business Mafia

May 26th, 2011



Eye on Iran: Watchdog Finds Evidence That Iran Worked on Nuclear Triggers

May 26th, 2011

The I.A.E.A.’s last report, issued in February, listed seven outstanding questions about work Iran apparently conducted on warhead design.