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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
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 By: Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: FoxNews
Although Westerners are inclined to think the outcome of an election is something you find out after the vote, that is not the case in Iran under the mullahs. There, elections are staged, but sometimes the plot has a twist. The real story of the parliamentary elections in Iran this Friday will not be the wholesale defeat of the so-called "reformists"; it will be the boycott of the electoral sham by the majority of Iranians, particularly the youth.
This year's election, while in many ways similar to every other election held under the rule of the ayatollahs since 1979, has a particular significance. The regime finds itself in a conundrum: it is in dire need of a show of popular legitimacy - something it obviously lacks - but it must also preserve the most radical, belligerent faction at the helm of power.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
By: Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: FoxNews
Behind the orchestrated pomp and pageantry during the visit to Baghdad last weekend by the Iranian ayatollahs' president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it was hard to miss the revulsion of Iraqis of all stripes. Adjectives like “historic” could not disguise the frustrating reality for Ahmadinejad and the ayatollahs: outside of Iraqi political spheres dominated by Tehran surrogates, they are seen as enemies of a secure, non-sectarian and democratic Iraq.
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
 By: Hossein Abedini, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Source: Global Politician
As the Iranian regime prepares itself for upcoming parliamentary elections on 14 March, I am reminded of a day in Turkey exactly 18 years before it, when the mullahs' brutal nature and their support for terrorism became a stark reality for me. On 14 March 1990, in mid-afternoon I was sitting next to the driver taking me to the Istanbul airport, when suddenly a car carrying four men blocked our path. Another car pinned us in from behind. Seconds later, two men, one from the front car and one from the car behind, raced out with automatic guns. As they approached, I opened the car door and rushed at them carrying only a small briefcase. One of the men fired nine bullets. I was shot in the chest and stomach and gravely wounded. As the second man tried to fire a coup de grace, his gun jammed. The assailants fled.
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
By: Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: FoxNews
Last week I made public new information about another escalation in the terrorist meddling of the ayatollahs' regime in Iraq. I obtained the information from my sources inside the Iranian regime. These intelligence sources are associated with a network of Iran's main opposition, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (also known as the MEK), based in Ashraf City, Iraq.
The ayatollahs' surge is primarily being carried out through the notorious Qods Force and its Iraqi terror networks. On the one hand, this is alarming news: Tehran's new terror escalation is meant to strategically extend and solidify its gains in Iraq. On the other, however, this is good news: clearly, the ayatollahs are worried about the spread and consolidation of an Iraqi counter force.
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
 by Rt. Hon. Lord Waddington
Source: Human Events
The assassination of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto is a stark reminder of the ominous threat posed to free peoples by Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, and the challenges we all face as a result. And yet in a country next door to Pakistan our Government is giving support to a vicious regime, fundamentalist in character and practicing the same sort of terrorism.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian regime has been the principal state sponsor of terrorism across the globe, with innocent civilians in London, Berlin, and Paris, and even as far as Buenos Aires, Beirut, and the Horn of Africa the victims. Since the Coalition ousted the Taliban in Afghanistan and took control of Iraq, Iranian-make weapons have been responsible for a major part of British and U.S. armed forces' deaths in Iraq, and Iranian-sponsored insurgents under orders from Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, have been instrumental in sowing sectarian discord and strife costing countless Iraqi lives.
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
By: Reza Shafa
Since a new surge of teenagers on death row, Dastjerd Prison in central city of Isfahan is no exception. Three youngsters are facing gallows. They are Ahamd Mortazavian born in 1981 arrested in 1986; Reza Hezazi born in 1987, arrested in 1993 and Iman Hashemi born in 1981 arrested in 1994.
Presently, there are juveniles waiting for their execution in most major Iranian prisons run by the mullahs' judiciary.
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
By: Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: FoxNews
Groundbreaking revelations about the Iranian ayatollahs' secret nuclear weapons program are not the only contributions the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the democratic opposition's parliament-in-exile, has made to peace and stability in the world.
Since 2003, the NCRI, relying on the information provided by the personnel of its pivotal member organization, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) — currently in Ashraf City in Iraq — has revealed many dimensions of Tehran's destabilizing campaign in Iraq. Acknowledged by many independent and democratic Iraqi political figures and tribal leaders, as well as U.S. military commanders, these revelations have saved countless Iraqi and American lives and have hugely contributed to putting in place appropriate counter-measures to deal with these threats.
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
By Jila Kazerounian
The news media report that Iran will be stoning to death two sisters convicted of adultery. The verdicts against the two sisters, Zohreh Kabiri (27) and Azar Kabiri (28) were confirmed by the 23rd branch of the Supreme Court in Iran. The sisters had already been tried and already received 99 lashes on charges of adultery. Shockingly, this was basically their second trial. In addition, a 49-year old music teacher by the name of Abdullah Farivar in Sari, Northern Iran has also been sentenced to death by stoning within a week of the two sisters.
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
 By Mark Williams - UK Member of Parliament
Source: Global Politician
It is with optimism that I usually regard elections. Win or lose, they are an opportunity for the voice of the people to be heard, but an exception to this will be the Iranian "elections" this March. Elections in Iran are neither free nor fair. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rise to the Presidency in 2005 serves as a striking example. Even by the regime's own pre-poll records, Ahmadinejad was not even close to first place. So how does a previously-unheard-of Revolutionary Guards commander with no proven success in politics and no pre-poll showing get more than 50 percent of the votes in an election widely boycotted by the vast majority of the Iranian population? Simple. He doesn't.
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