Members of the Basij-militia are attacking the house of Mehdi Karroubi, according to his son:
A mob ransacked the entrance to the Tehran apartment complex of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi late Thursday, an assault that resulted in an attack on the head of his security detail, his son said.
“Our situation is not good at [...]
Iran continues to make headway on its nuclear program and the rest of the world is watching on while the theocratic regime comes closer to obtaining a nuclear bomb.
Reza Khalili writes:
Russia turned on the switch to Iran’s first nuclear power plant on Aug. 21 after repeated delays and more than 15 years of construction. [...]
Reuters reports that the United Nations lifts the issue of discrimination against Iran’s different non-Persian nationalities:
Iran should do more to protect its ethnic minorities such as Arabs, Kurds and Baluch, a United Nations human rights body said on Friday.The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a group of 18 independent rights [...]
I have received several angry emails asking about our reaction on the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Governments decision to commemorate Ayatollah Khomeini in the Qazi Muhammed Conference Centre in Erbil for the second year in a row.
It is important to underline that the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government and the two ruling political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan [...]
The Islamic Republic of Iran has once again shown its enmity against the Kurdish people. In fear of losing their power the regime continues to suppress, torture, imprison and execute Kurdish and Iranian citizens.
The Islamic Republic of Iran announced that they had executed five political prisoners by the names of Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heiderian, Ferhad [...]
The human rights organization HRNA reports that four of the 22 Kurdish political prisoners on death row were executed this morning. The names of the executed Kurdish political prisoners are: Farzad Kamangar, Ali Haiderian, Farhad Wekili and Shirin Alemholi (woman).
It is worth underlining that in at least three of the four cases an appeal court [...]
According to reports from Iranian Kurdistan nine members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been killed during the last couple of days in the Kurdish cities of Mariwan, Piranshar, Saghez and Bokan.
Yesterday a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard by the name of Hama Rasoul was found dead in the Kurdish city of Piranshar.
A couple of days [...]
Finally someone who gets it:
The recent revelation of Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates’ January memorandum to senior White House officials apparently outlining a range of options for dealing with Iran’s persistent drive to achieve nuclear-weapons capability is most timely. On April 19, hard-line Iranian authorities banned the country’s two remaining official “opposition” parties [...]
The United States Defense Department has released a 12 page unclassified report on Iran’s military power that describes Iran’s relative growing military power (including Iran’s nuclear program) and its efforts to become a regional superpower by supporting terrorist organizations and waging a proxy war against the United States and its allies.
Personally I think that the [...]
It is quite interesting to hear how the Afghan official (end of the clip) is trying to pressure the border guard not to reveal that it is Iran supplying the Taliban with weapons. It is also strange that the International forces and the Afghan government have been reluctant to talk about this reality. Iran is [...]
