Up to 1 million people poured into the streets yesterday despite a ban on opposition protests. Basij (paramilitary) forces opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least one person and injuring several others. According to reports, as many as five students at Tehran University were shot dead over the weekend and another person was wounded when security agents opened fire on a demonstration.

This election lacks all aspects of a democratic exercise and moreover, the electoral system has been rendered insignificant by the doctrine of velayet-e faqih (i.e. guardianship by Mullah). According to the article 57 of the Islamic regime’s Constitution, the Supreme Leader has the absolute authority over all branches of the government and has tried to dominate every sphere of life of each individual in the country. Now four men who have held high position within the system and shown their allegiance to the Leader, are selected and approved as candidates and people are asked to choose one!

Just as he is being criticized by those to his right for his emphasis on engagement with Iran, President Obama came under attack from the left, in the op-ed pages of the May 23 New York Times, for just the opposite. Unlike critics from the right who largely concur with the president’s stated objectives but disagree with his tactics, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett argue for a full about-face on Iran policy.

-Just tell us what PAIC has accomplished! Tell us that you don’t support bombing Iran and Iranians and that you do what humanly possible to stop it.
-What you don’t see PAIC doing is not to ignore human rights violations in Iran, whereas NIAC and AIC do. What you don’t see PAIC doing is to call Hezbollah and Hamas as non-terrorist groups, whereas Hooshang Amirahmadi of AIC has.

Libel Lawfare:Silencing Criticism of Radical Islam
Hassan Daioleslam (Researcher, IranLobby.com)
Alan Dershowitz (Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)
Frank Gaffney (President, the Center for Security Policy)
Brooke Goldstein (Attorney at law, Director of the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum)
David Harris (Attorney at law, Director of the International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc.)
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Therefore, to promote human rights and democracy and fight international terrorism, the policies of the democratic governments, the United Nations, and international human rights organizations toward the Islamic regime are very important. These governments and institutions should provide the moral and political support for prodemocracy movement in Iran. This can be achieved by demanding the respect for human rights, in any possible meeting and negotiation with the regime.

Until recently, these kinds of wheeling-and-dealings had not been exposed to the mainstream Iranian community residing in Washington. Bob Ney who had spent a few years in Iran and could more or less speak Farsi was better identified by his close friendship with two other Iranians who ran his private and public affairs with the Islamic Republic. These two well-read characters are Houshang Amir Ahmadi; acting as the toll man and the financial aid incumbent and the other is Trita Parsi; acting as cultural mediator and so called foreign affairs advisor.

Speaker: Hassan Daioleslam
James Madison High School
Monday April 13 2009
بیست و چهارم فروردین 1388
سخنران:حسن داعی
موضوع:شبکه لابی رژیم ایران درآمریکا

On behalf of the Iranian-Americans, gratefully appreciate your Nowruz greeting on the occasion of Iranian New Year, and, rightly praising the Iranian people and its heritage. We believe the only way to halt the nuclear apparatus of the rulers of the Islamic Republic by all the international community would be to cut off ALL the economic and diplomatic relations with the rulers of the Islamic Republic and to side with the people of Iran.

Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Iranians. The moment the sun crosses the equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year and Persian families gather together to observe the rituals.