remembering your birthday

  

 

IRAN: Mansour Osanlou, the head of the executive committee of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (SWTBC), the transport workers' trade union in Tehran, Iran is sentenced to five years of prison. His colleague, Ebrahim Madadi is sentenced to three and half years in prison.

اخبار روز: "منصور اسانلو به پنج سال زندان محکوم و به بند معتادان در زندان اوین منتقل شده است. ابراهیم مددی به سه سال و نیم زندان محکوم شده و در زندان رجایی شهر زندانی است."

  

 

Tartlets with Cream Topping

After reading Hassan Dai’s article I realized why Niki Akhavan known to some as the Iranian Hoochie Mama has claimed I have defended Abdulmalek Rigi on my Voice of America interview! The funny thing is in this day and age we can’t fabricate the truth. The interview can be obtained from VOA and it will show that I have spoken about the 700 Iranian Baluch who are to be executed in Iran. That said who can we trust when these people lie to our face and try to rephrase our words according to their mindset! Our Noble peace prize winner has her own double standards, our world renown humanitarian is financially supported by a gambler who may or may not be involved in a prostitution ring, our Iranian-American lobbyist has his hand in marriage with a regime that not only commits crimes against its own people but also supports worldwide terrorism, most of our women activists are either communists or Islmaists and don’t really recognize secularism, and well the Iranian political dinosaurs, they are just what they are!

  

 

Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead

Recently I read a short note on a Bahraini blogger by the name of Esra’a Al Shafei and some of her fellow bloggers who are trying to bring attention to the crimes the Iranian regime commits against Iranian Baha’is. Al Shafei is from Bahrain. It is an amazing work she is doing emphesising the Baha'is condition in Iran but the question is why we don’t find anything about the human rights violations where human rights defenders have been subjected to harassment, including prosecution on false criminal charges, threats or assault, the social discrimination that goes against Christians and official discrimination against Shi'a Muslims who are classified as "bidoon" and mostly living in extreme poverty, violence against women, and foreign workers who are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation without no protection at all in Bahrain, her country of birth, on their website. As some of us know there are Bahraini refugees in Iran as well as in Europe who have had to flee their country because and due to their belief system. The question is, are these Mideast Youth bloggers thinking ahead or some of them just turn a blind eye to what is happening in their own countries and to their fellow countrymen! It would be as if I as an Iranian born would not discuss the crimes committed against the Baha’is in Iran but only discuss the discrimination acts against the Shi'a Muslims, Mirzai's a.k.a Ahmadiyyah (Qadianis/Lahorites), Christians, and the ethnic cleansing of Kafirs in Pakistan.

  

 

Iranian Regime’s National Honours

Once again the Iranian regime denies requests and visitation rights to the attorneys of the two young Iranian Kurds Adnan Hassanpour, journalist and Hiva Butimar, civil and environmental activist, who are sentenced to execution.

  

 

Truth is not a self-serving tool.

  

 

Flowers every night
Blossom in the sky;
Peace in the Infinite;
At peace am I.

Sighs a hundredfold
From my heart arise;
My heart, dark and cold,
Flames with my sighs.

-- Rumi

  

 

Should we let people like Shariatmadari voice out our history?

Here is a recent interview of Iraj Gorgin who was the director of Iranian National Radio and TV- Channel Two during the Pahlavi regime.

  

 

IRAN: Urgent Medical Treatment Needed for Jailed Trade Union Leader

Mansour Osanloo, the jailed leader of the bus workers' union in Tehran, faces the possible loss of his eyesight unless he receives urgent medical attention -- which the Iranian authorities are denying him. Amnesty International has just now launched an online campaign calling on the Iranian government to allow Osanloo to receive medical attention.

  

 

IRAN: Woman Poet and Publisher is Threatened to Death and Disappearance

The first recipient of the Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Prize in 2003 was Farkhondeh Hajizadeh, an Iranian publisher who is also a writer, poet, and the editor of two literary journals. Now she is threatened to death and disappearance and her publishing firm is being shut down. It is part of the systematic crackdown by the regime on independent publishing houses and writers, specially women in Iran.

  

 

Terrorists Should Not Go Free

اخبار روز: قدرتمندان ایران عملیات تروریستی در خارج از کشورشان را نه تنها مثبت می دانند و قاتلین را به طریقی واضح ارج می نهند و پاداش می دهند، بلکه خود چنین عملیاتی را بر علیه کسانی که تنها جرمشان دگر اندیشی است طراحی نموده و به جامه‌ی عمل در می آورند. اینان مخالفان سیاسی شان را تنها به خاطر حفظ قدرتشان نابود می کنند.

  

 

Hassan Daioleslam: Similar to the Iranian regime's goal of putting Israel at the center of its foreign policy, its advocacy organizations have also concentrated their efforts on Israel. It is not accidental that Parsi's doctoral thesis and his only book are focused on the "Israeli problem."

Akbar Atri: “Criticism of American support for Iran's democracy movement is not defensible when made by those who have barely seen Iran, much less been a part of its struggle for freedom. Despite being an elected leader of the Iranian student movement and an active participant in university politics for 10 years, I do not purport to represent Iranians or even the Iranian student movement. I speak for myself. Yet when Iranian-Americans who have no standing in Iran, and who have received no backing from Iranians, claim to represent the will of all Iranians, I feel I need to speak up.”

  

 

Mykonos

On September 17, 1992, several Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders were assassinated at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin, Germany. In its 10 April 1997 ruling, a German court declared that the assassination had been ordered by Iranian intelligence minister with knowledge of supreme leader Ali Khamenei and then president Hashemi Rafsanjani. The court found Kazem Darabai, an Iranian national, and Abbas Rhayel, a Lebanese national, guilty of the murders and sentenced them to life in prison. However after serving only 15 years in prison, these two terrorists are set for early release by German authorities. The free world should be outraged by such lenient treatment of terrorists. Cutting secret deals with terrorists only emboldens them to pour more innocent blood.