Iran News Digest

Iran’s Repression Targets Kurds, Other Minorities

Mar 5th, 2015

Hamid Yazdan Panah, March 5, 2015
The Iranian regime continues its campaign to maintain control over population that has grown increasingly weary of dissent and repression, including the denial of basic rights to ethnic minorities. Many of these minorities have organized themselves in resistance groups



NIAC Distorts Court Rulings after Losing Appeal

Feb 23rd, 2015

Hamid Yazdan Panah, February 23, 2015
The National Iranian American Council or NIAC, received a final blow to what little legitimacy it had left this past week, following a final ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The ruling was based on an appeal filed by NIAC, which challenged a District Court’s decision to award Hassan Daioleslam $183,480 in monetary sanctions based on NIAC’s conduct during trial.



Air Pollution and Empty Promises

Feb 10th, 2015

Feb. 10, 2015
Increasing air pollution all over cities from west to south and empty promises by environmental officials to request for budget to solve this life threatening issue.



Iran debuts 700km cruise missile amid negotiations

Feb 9th, 2015

Iran Pulse in America- Feb. 9, 2015
Iran’s deputy defense minister, Mohammad Eslami told the semi-official News agency about the new missile. Named Ya-Ali, the 700km missile is a step up from the previous model that Iran’s Mirage fighter jets were equipped.



A Bad Time to Be a US Ally

Feb 7th, 2015

Iran Pulse in America- Feb. 7, 2015
In this article, Eli Lake examines President Obama’s 2015 National Security Strategy and its distance to the reality. He calls the White House report “Obama’s Middle East Fantasy”.



Iran’s chief lobbyist Hossein Mousavian: We could build a nuclear bomb anytime

Feb 6th, 2015

Iran Pulse in America- Feb. 7, 2015
Hossein Mousavian, former Iranian ambassador to Germany and a suspected terrorist who is currently residing in US and lobbying on behalf of the Iranian regime has admitted that the Iranian regime has the capability to make nuclear bomb.



Iran Pulse in America

Feb 6th, 2015

Iranian American Forum- Feb. 6, 2015
Bomb near Israel embassy in Uruguay and Iranian connection
UAE is out, suspending its operations in the region
Problems of impending deal with Iran



Iran Pulse in America

Feb 5th, 2015

Iranian-American Forum- Feb. 2, 2015
White House nominee for secretary of defense position, Ash Carter attended the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday….
Alberto Nisman, the murdered prosecutor who was working on 1994 Amia bombing, was going to indict President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner…
An Iranian-born business onwner in Los Angeles is under investigation for abusing a federal program called EB-5…



The Iran Lobby’s Gift to the US: Trita Parsi

Jan 30th, 2015

Hamid Yazdan Panah, Jan. 30, 2015
Trita Parsi and the distortion team at NIAC are at it again. Parsi recently, penned a piece entitled. “The Senate’s Gift to ISIS: Sanctions on Iran”. The piece reads much like every article written by Parsi, it takes a current event, and spins it into a reason that now is the perfect time to coddle Tehran. This time he uses ISIS as the boogeyman that can only be defeated if sanctions are not imposed on Tehran.



The Human Cost of Business with Iran

Jan 23rd, 2015

Hamid Yazdan Panah, 1.22.2015
The Iran question has dominated policy discussions for nearly a decade. How to prevent the mullahs from obtaining nuclear weapons is no doubt a hot button issue. The general consensus remains that there is no viable military solution to this problem. What we are left with are sanctions and continual dialogue with an undemocratic and barbaric regime, with the hopes of getting them to “behave.” Yet even this is too harsh for some, who object to sanctions against Iran on humanitarian grounds. The question then becomes, what exactly is the humanitarian cost of doing business with Iran?