by Sam Razi | Sep 29, 2010 | Featured, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, Video, World
DipNote | September 29, 2010 Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order that imposes sanctions on Iranian officials determined to be responsible for or complicit in serious human rights abuses involving Iran. In a press briefing with Treasury Secretary Timothy...
by Sam Razi | Sep 28, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Politics, World
Associated Free Press (hosted by Google) | September 27, 2010 OTTAWA — A 19-year prison sentenced handed to a Canadian-Iranian credited with starting the blogging movement in Iran is “unacceptable and unjustifiable,” the Canadian government said Tuesday....
by Sam Razi | Sep 28, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World
CBC | September 28, 2010 A Canadian-Iranian blogger has been sentenced in Tehran to 19 years in prison after being convicted of creating anti-government propaganda. Hossein Derakhshan was arrested in Tehran on Nov. 1, 2008. He was tried on charges of collaborating...
by Sam Razi | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/27/irans-interrupted-lives/ | September 27, 2010 Haleh Esfandiari Indeed—as a small photography exhibition about student repression in Iran at Georgetown Law School this month powerfully reminded us—hundreds of Iranian...
by Sam Razi | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Politics, World
RIANOVOSTI | September 27, 2010 Russia’s ban on the sale of S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran was the result of Tehran’s “flawed foreign policies”, a top Russian deputy said Monday. “The ban is not Russia’s choice; it is the...
by Sam Razi | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, World
Foreign Policy: Passport Blog | September 27, 2010 by Blake Hounshell By now, you’ve probably heard of Stuxnet, the mysterious computer worm that infects Windows computers running software designed by Siemens, the German industrial giant. The software, Simatic...