by Sam Razi | Apr 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General
(RFE/RL) | April 5, 2010 Iranian Justice Minister Morteza Baktiari announced on April 3 that a special court will be established for Iranians living outside the country. He didn’t give the reason for the move, but said that the head of Tehran’s Justice Department and...
by Sam Razi | Apr 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights
(International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran) | April 5, 2010 Journalist Issa Saharkhiz’s health has taken a turn for the worse after going on a hunger strike in March. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, his son, Mehdi...
by Sam Razi | Apr 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights
(Radio Zamaaneh) | April 4, 2010 Iranian Shiite leader, Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani condemned the continued incarceration of Iranian political and social activists as a strategy to “hold on to power.” In a meeting with families of recent detainees, the reformist cleric...
by Sam Razi | Apr 4, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Tehran Bureau) | March 30, 2010 by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles Ahmadinejad and His Men: Embodiments of Fraud and Corruption. There is no doubt in the minds of many Iranians, including the author, that Tehran’s hardliners committed fraud on a vast scale to...
by Sam Razi | Apr 4, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, World
(The Guardian) | April 4, 2010 Martin Chulov, Baghdad Explosions kill 32 and injure 200 in strikes on consulates of Iran, Egypt, Syria. German ambassador’s residence may have been primary target Three powerful explosions hit foreign embassies in Baghdad today,...
