Stop Fundamentalism, 12 September 2011 – Despite Iranian government’s military and security preparations to prevent further protests from taking place in the Azerbaijan province of Iran, last Saturday many cities in this northern province including Tabriz, Orumieh, Khoy, Salmas witnessed massive street demonstrations by Iranian people.
Reza Fard
Anti government demonstrators in Iraq have been repeating the same slogans across the country in the past six months: “Maliki is a lier”, “Maliki; out” and “Iran; out out”. These could clearly be heard on Aljazeera TV on Friday reporting live from Al-Tahrir Square of Baghdad. Some five thousand angry young demonstrators in the square, out of tens of thousands of others who were prevented from reaching the site by security forces deployed at dozens of check points around the area, vowed to continue with their protest until Maliki is gone.
This is a strong signal to the Iraqi government and its backers in Tehran in light of recent developments in Libya and Syria.
Stop Fundamentalism – HRA News Agency reported Friday that Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first chanceler of Iran’s worldknown Tehran University following the 1979 revolution has written a shocking letter to Mr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran. In this letter Maleki has highlighted the tragic situation of human rights in Iran and announced that he is ready to testify about tortur and execution of political prisoners in iran and is willing to pay the price.
Stop Fundamentalism, 9 September 2011 – The Oscar winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has been making some headlines in an odd place far away from Hollywood. Tehran that is and he is planning to make a move about, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s not so popular president.
Iranian Mehr News Agency reported this week that Sean Stone, the son of director Oliver Stone is currently in Tehran to make preparations for the filming. He was supposed to have a press conference in Tehran on Wednesday but the conference was later canceled without any explanation.
Stop Fundamentalism, 6 September 2011 – The Iranian main opposition movement, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI), announced yesterday that its members have elected a new Secretary General on organization’s 47th anniversary.
Hamid Arbab
Following the 9/11, New York Twin Tower bombing tragedy, the Iranian regime was named by then President of United States as part of “axis of Evil”. The sponsorship of terrorism by the Iranian regime is well known to the entire world. It’s public support for such groups as Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine and its covert support for Al-Qaida and Taliban is no secret.
The world still has not forgotten the tragic hijacking of an airplane in 1985 in Lebanon resulting in death of American nationals. The deadly suicide attack to US Marine barricades in Beirut in 1983 killing 241 US servicemen, deadly Khobar towers attack in Saudi Arabia killing 19 US soldiers, attacks to US and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983 and finally the assassination of Rafique Hariri, the prime minister of Lebanon in 2005, are only examples of Iranian regime’s continuous support for terrorism worldwide.
Stop Fundamentalism, 4 September 2011 – A group of human rights activists in Iran are calling on international community to form a truth finding committee in order to investigate the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran, reports HRA news agency on the 23rd anniversary of incident.
During the summer of 1988, on a religious decree issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, thousands of political prisoners were executed during a period of less than two months.
Stop Fundamentalism, 3 September 2011 – According to sources inside Iran large number of demonstrators have turned out today in the northern cities of Orumieh and Tabriz in Iran chanting anti-government slogans. Heavy clashes between demonstrators and government agents have been reported in both cities.
According to eyewitness reports people were still present in the streets of Orumieh chanting slogans. Gunshots could be heard throughout the city.
Stop Fundamentalism, 3 September 2011 – According to sources inside Iran large number of demonstrators turned out today in the northern cities of Orumieh and Tabriz in Iran chanting anti Iranian government slogans.
Heavy clashes between demonstrators and government agents have been reported in both cities.
The presence of a crowd of thousands of Iranian exiles in front of the State Department in Washington, calling on the Secretary of State Clinton to remove the main Iranian opposition movement, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), from the U.S. terror list, has certainly drawn considerable media attention during the past few days. But one article, coming from a peculiar Iranian daily can be considered as a satire piece rather than a news article.
The Iranian daily, Keyhan reported on 29 August that only 25 showed up at the said demonstration siding with those in Washington who say MEK has no popular support!
