Iran News Digest

Urgent Appeal by the Baha’is of Shiraz

Apr 20th, 2009

In response to her family’s ongoing inquiries into Haleh’s condition, the judiciary investigator recently said: “What happens if one of you dies — the fewer the better”. Haleh Houshmadi-Salehi’s 8-year old son, Sooren, traumatized by the raid on his home and the detainment of his mother, often bursts into tears.



Juvenile offender faces imminent execution in Iran

Apr 18th, 2009

Delara Darabi, an Iranian woman convicted of murdering a relative when she was 17, is reported to be facing execution in the next few days.



Predators of Press Freedom

Apr 18th, 2009

Ahmadinejad’s government continues to limit freedom of expression and the hardline president, who took office in August 2005, has named former “revolutionary guards” to head the main government ministries and institutions.



Condemn the suspicious deaths of political prisoners in Islamic Republic of iran’s jails!

Apr 16th, 2009

Recently, this inhumane and barbaric regime has found the audacity to embark on inflicting suspicious crimes on the defenceless political prisoners, particularly those held in the horrific and notorious �Evin� and �Gohardasht� prisons.



کمپین یک میلیون امضاء در فستیوال حقوق بشر

Apr 16th, 2009

روز جمعه چهاردهم فروردین ماه برابر با سوم آپریل، در دانشگاه اموری که یکی از دانشگاهای بزرگ شهر آتلانتا در ایالت جورجیای آمریکا است فستیوال حقوق بشر بر گزار گردید. در این فستیوال حدود 20 نهاد حقوق بشری فعالانه شرکت داشتند.



Opposed to war or Humanity?

Apr 14th, 2009

According to Roy Coffee, a founding member of NIAC and Trita Parsi’s close ally, “the Iranian-Americans didn’t really get into this game because of their experiences”. Parsi himself along with one of his associates in Iran, i.e. “Siamak Namazi”, expressed their views in a well known document published in 1999 regarding the ways of making use of the Iranians who settled in the USA and expressed their “disappointment” about the pacifist attitudes adopted by those Iranians who fled from “Hell in Iran”.



Iran-US Relations from Two Points of View

Apr 11th, 2009

Hassan Daioleslam (PAIC) debates Hooshang Amirahamdi (AIC) on Voice of America TV. April 11, 2009.



Torture In Iran

Apr 7th, 2009

Ahmad Batebi tells CNN’s Anderson Cooper, in his 1st U.S. television interview how he was tortured for 9 years in an Iranian prison and how he managed to escape.



Treasury Designates Iranian Proliferation Network and Identifies New Aliases

Apr 7th, 2009

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated one Chinese individual and six Iranian entities under Executive Order 13382 for their connection to Iran’s missile proliferation network.



Total says Iran gas investment “not attractive”

Apr 5th, 2009

Many western majors such as Total had come under pressure to stay out of Iran from the French government and the previous U.S. administration, which sought to isolate Tehran over its nuclear programe.