He’s been charged for holding a placard during a demonstration at Amir Kabir Polytechnic where he is a student and Ahmadinejad was giving a speech.

The Obama administration should continue to endorse and rally international support for Iranians’ human rights. And if the government continues to stonewall on its nuclear program, intensified sanctions targeting the country’s military and rulers will exacerbate its economic woes.

Please participate in a symbolic hunger strike to support the people of Iran.

The unnamed people who captured on video and made public the shooting death of an Iranian protester have been chosen as winners of a George Polk Award

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100210/iran-suspends-googles-email-service.htmIran’s telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google’s email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service. Iran’s telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google’s email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service. (Reuters Photo) Google didn’t have an immediate comment about […]

The situation of human rights in Iran will be reviewed at the 7th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC), between February 15-17, 2010.

The Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would let President Barack Obama impose sanctions on Iran’s gasoline suppliers and penalize some of Tehran’s elites, a move aimed at pressuring Tehran to give up its nuclear program.

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing President Obama to move forward with new sanctions against Iran, now that his “end of 2009” deadline for meaningful response from Tehran — which the administration insists was not a deadline — has long past.

The Associated Press Sunday, January 24, 2010; 2:04 AM DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Human Rights Watch says Iran’s post-election unrest is a “full-blown human rights crisis” and calls on Tehran to free government critics detained during the crackdown. The New York-based watchdog says the “systematic and brutal targeting” of demonstrators and dissidents by […]

Why we can no longer remain on the sidelines in the struggle for regime change in Iran. It’s at the core of what is likely to be the most compelling international story of 2010: Iran.