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 The newspaper, citing what it describes as “previously unpublished documentation” from an International Atomic Energy Agency compiled dossier, said Iranian scientists […]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 […]
23 October 2009 The Iranian authorities must immediately release dozens of people arrested on Thursday during a prayer service in support of activists detained following protests after June’s presidential election, Amnesty International has said. The prayer service was organized by the family of Shahaboddin Tabatabaei, a prominent supporter of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who […]
http://www.petitiononline.com/safar17/petition.html To: Secretary-General of United Nations Ban Ki Moon, U.N. High Commissioner Navanethem Pillay, Iran’s Permanant Representative of United Nations Mohammad Khazaee, U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Head of Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, Head of Tehran Judiciary Ali Reza Avaei. We are requesting for an urgent call to action […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,654596,00.html ‘Embarrassing’ Incident in Gulf of Suez German Ship Transporting Arms for Iran ddp The US military discovered eight containers, similar to these ones, containing ammunition apparently being shipped from Iran to Syria aboard a German-owned freighter. US troops boarded a German-owned freighter in early October and found eight containers full of ammunition, allegedly headed […]
Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:46pm IST [–] Text [+] TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran hanged a man on Sunday who was under 18 when he stabbed a boy to death, Iranian media said, with one report saying the victim’s parents helped to carry out the execution. Behnoud Shojaie was put to death in Tehran’s Evin prison […]
