Iran: Crimes Against Humanity

Farzad Kamangar, an Iranian Kurdish teacher was arrested in 2006. He has been tortured severely and is sentenced to death. The execution proceeds in three weeks.

Chris de Burgh: Shame on you!

In his recent interview Chris de Burgh has said: Tehran is safer than NY and London. Shame on him for saying this when Iranians don’t have political, religious, and social freedom, women activists are sentenced to lashing and prison, and people are executed or stoned to death in the streets. Let us hope his daughter Rosanna Davison will not visit Iran any time soon or the enforcers the regime uses might end up lynching her for showing her bare skin!

If Barack Obama is to be the Democrats nominee then his best running mate will be Jim Webb to win the working class white votes!

Tiny Iran

Barack Obama needs a reality check! In his latest statement he has talked about tiny Iran. Tiny Iran? Mister! Iran is on the verge of being a nuclear power, is one of the top five oil gas countries in the world, and 70,000,000 population is not even comparable to Cuba, and Venezuela.

Why are most dictators men of short stature?


Well! I don't know the answer to that question but I learned of an interesting issue related to NIAC. This organization’s latest act against freedom of expression has been to file a lawsuit against Hassan Daioleslam an Iranian-American commentator. In my opinion Daioleslam articles have not defamed anyone and have used facts available to public. Unfortunately like the Mullahs, Parsi dearly seems to admire, his approach is about silencing voices. Apparently where Parsi says: "Our community will never live up to its full potential in America unless these undemocratic practices are put aside," he means suing each other for talking! Perhaps Parsi needs to be reminded of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Iran: Human Rights Violations

A few days ago the entire Baha'i leadership were arrested in Iran and taken to the Evin Prison. Please sign the petition and protest the arrests.

Human Rights campaigns should be more than a fashion statement!

IRAN: Crimes Against Humanity



The twenty five year old Kaveh Azizpour was tortured and killed by the agents of the Islamic Republic.

IRAN


I dedicate this posting to the memory of T.C. who passed away at the age of 38 yesterday. Despite being born in the West and having the advantage of living a luxurious life as an attorney, he chose to live and work in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.

Peace is a Dinosaur bone where democracy and human rights don’t exist, justice is not done, corruption is an everyday norm, the laws that treat women as second citizens, and people who are arrested and killed. For these reasons and more the regime must go.

IRAN

I had promised a reader and supporter of NIAC to write why I think an Iranian lobby is a must in the United States. My reasons are simple. With an impressive national history and being one of the power players in the Middle East, Iran must have a lobby in the U.S. but not in the hands of the current Iranian regime. What credentials of people like Trita Parsi are?! He and his organization are playing a dangerous game. Human rights are not to be bargain with.

The overseas extensions of Islamic Republic in the U.S. (Abbas Milani and Trita Parsi) should be very happy these days. With the next presidency nominee, and Khatami in the game to secure the U.S. and Iran talk, they should start blowing in their trumpets! Let us not forget it was Khatami's presidency which led to the deaths of many students and the arrest of many more.

SEVEN VALLEYS OF LOVE

I was born on a November day in 1972 in a room on the third floor of Hashtroudian hospital in Tehran, Iran. Not the kind of information you were looking for? Okay, here is a more detailed one:
I wake each morning to the lovely sound of my few-months-old baby and with a body not fully recovered from the shock of an emergency c-section, I get ready to feed the now-all-screaming-up apple-pie. Once I am finished feeding, I go to wake up my daughter who asks for more time to sleep to which I respond: No.
Of course, while all of the above is exciting I should stay with the original plan which was to announce the release of my recent publication, a bilingual anthology of women poets from Middle Ages Persia to present day Iran. I started working on this anthology after losing my mother to breast cancer. I chose to work through my grieving period. I also like to thank Ms. Pouran Farrokhzad for giving me the permission to use and translate a selection of Persian poems from Zanan-e Hamisheh, a contemporary anthology in Persian, for this anthology.