Iran lacks sufficient refining capacity to meet its needs, forcing it to import the shortfall and burdening state finances. Tehran pays international prices for the fuel but its subsidies at the pump ensure its gasoline is among the world’s cheapest.
Esha Momeni, 28, a dual citizen, is scheduled to appear in an Iranian court Tuesday on charges of acting against national security and propagating against the system, her father Reza Momeni told the Los Angeles Times. Both charges could carry lengthy prison terms.
On behalf of “PAIC” we would like to extend our congratulations to the President-elect Mr. Barack Obama. This historic event is a significant illustration of the American democracy at its best.
The Iranian community in the USA expects Mr. Obama to take effective steps in handling the Iranian regime’s threats in the Middle East by bringing the whole world together in order to neutralize Iran’s rulers’ ambitions to acquire the nuclear bomb, and to offset Islamic Republic’s lobbying influence in the USA.
“The sentence ordered by the court is only 10 lines! This court order which is supposed to be based on article 168 of the Islamic penal code has no reference on any evidence provided against my client Yasser Goli. My client has in none of his interrogations, let alone in the court sessions held against him, confessed against himself” Reiterates attorney Nemat Ahmadi.
Human right activists in Iran (HRAI) announced that Mr. Abdol Reza Rajabi, 46 years old, died suspiciously in prison on October 30th.
Soghra Najafpour spent 17 years on death row, having been convicted at 13 of murdering an eight-year-old boy – the son of the family who she had been working for as a maid since she was nine.
Hopefully, with the new president, tougher policies will be implemented against Mullahs’ ambitions. We, the Iranian Americans can play a decisive role to confront the Mullahs’ lobby. We must make a concerted effort to raise the awareness of the American public to the Human Rights situation in Iran, stop the Mullahs’ nuclear ambitions and prevent their domination of the Middle East.
“This is a completely unusual and unconventional ruling for a human rights advocate,” Sotoodeh said. “I believe this is meant to ring alarm the bells for other rights activists in Iran.”
Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the bases were being built on the Sea of Oman coast from Pasa Bandar, near the Pakistan border, to Bandar Abbas, Iran’s major port on the Strait of Hormuz, the English-language newspaper reported on Thursday.
The Mullahs’ actions are part of a systematic campaign of destroying the universal inclusive Persian vision and promoting the barbaric exclusionary Islamist myopia. To these turbaned criminals and their functionaries, any non-Islamic, including people such as Jews, Baha’is, or unbelievers of any kind have no right to exist at all. It is in this vicious intolerant spirit that the IRI’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has placed the destruction of Israel at the top of his agenda.
