Iran News Digest

Dennis Ross, Iran envoy

Jan 26th, 2009

He wasn’t unveiled at the Obama/Biden/Hillary Clinton envoy roll-out event at Foggy Bottom last week



A Prize from Simone de Beauvoir Foundation

Jan 24th, 2009

The Simone de Beauvoir award ceremony in honour of campaign for one million signatures took place in Café Les Deux-Magots in Paris where most meetings of simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre and other intellectuals had been taken place.



Iran Hangs 22 in Executions This Week

Jan 23rd, 2009

The state-run television news reported Thursday that 10 men were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison on Wednesday. The semi-official Fars news agency reported that an 11th man, scheduled to be executed in February, witnessed the hanging of the 10.



Amnesty International:Preserve the Khavaran grave site for investigation into mass killings

Jan 23rd, 2009

Amnesty International calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately stop the destruction of hundreds of individual and mass, unmarked graves in Khavaran, south Tehran, to ensure that the site is preserved and to initiate a forensic investigation at the site as part of a long-overdue thorough, independent and impartial investigation into mass executions which began in 1988, often referred to in Iran as the “prison massacres”.



Alavi Foundation, Rutgers University, and the New Conference on Iran

Jan 23rd, 2009

The foundation is believed to have close ties to the Iranian regime. For the past 30 years, Alavi has been granting financial support to peoples and organizations around the US. The Rutgers University has in largely profited from the Alavi’s generosity receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars.



Alaei brothers given 9 year prison term

Jan 23rd, 2009

Iranian revolution Court has sentenced Dr. Arash Alaei and his brother Kamyar Alaei , specialists in research and curbing AIDS, to altogether 9 years imprisonment. They are charged with participating in “soft toppling”.



Treasury Targets Al Qaida Operatives in Iran

Jan 19th, 2009

“It is important that Iran give a public accounting of how it is meeting its international obligations to constrain al Qaida,” said Stuart Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.



Fresh Clues of Iranian Nuclear Intrigue

Jan 18th, 2009

U.S. security and law-enforcement officials say they have fresh evidence of recent efforts by Iran to evade sanctions and acquire metals from China used in high-tech weaponry, including long-range nuclear missiles.



Many Arrested; Bahai affiliates and Dervish members

Jan 17th, 2009

According to reports released by Bahai students; Jinus Sobhani, Shahrokh Taeff, Azizollah Samandari, Payam Aghsani, Didar Raoof, Nima Haghar have been arrested.
Six members of the Dervish community of Gonabad, have been arrested in an attack by security agents in Kish (Island in the South of Iran)



Dream or Nightmare for Tehran’s regime?

Jan 16th, 2009

A new carrot-and-stick plan will be offered by new foreign policy makers. These carrots and sticks are more defined with a definite timetable and therefore will enervate Mullahs power to maneuver. With the new administration in place, the Iranian regime has already lost its labeling propaganda to name America as a war monger.