By Mohammad Mohaddessin

Paris - The recent euphoria over the outcome of upcoming talks between Washington and Tehran, scheduled for May 28 in Baghdad, has given the die-hard proponents of conciliation with the Iranian mullahs a glimmer of hope. As illusory as they are, these expectations reveal a blurred understanding of the state of affairs in Iran and the essence of the Iranian mullahs' foreign and domestic policy.

By Mohammad Amin
Hello. I am Alireza Akbari's daughter. My father is a teacher who is in jail right now. I used to think that jail was a place for bad people, now I know that jail is a place for teachers. I have not seen my father for 20 days. I haven't even heard his voice. I have not heard from him for 20 days and I don't know what he is doing. What is he thinking about? I only want to have a short conversation with him and hear him say that he is well. That is all, only that.

By: Reza Shafa
In its issue number 288, IRGC's Sobh-e Sadegh weekly, published under the supervision of the Political Office of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, expressed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) frustration over Arbil arrest of five of its top commanders posed as diplomats by the U.S. forces in Iraq. 

By Dr Sanabargh Zahedi

NCRI - In addition to Iran's foreign minister, Mottaki, as the delegation's number two, the Mullahs had also sent Mohammad Jafari-Sahraroudi, to the Sharm El-Sheikh Conference in Egypt, reports indicate.

Despite being a sought-after terrorist by the Austrian Justice system, Sahraroudi was sent by the Mullahs to an international conference and was seated on the same table with about 50 Foreign Ministers of different countries.

By: Reza Shafa
Mohammad Javad Zarif is packing up to leave his job as the Iranian regime's ambassador to the United Nations. Zarif's departure is no big deal. But the one who replaces him at this crucial time is of special importance. The regime will be scorched in two weeks time for not abiding by the UN Security Council Resolution 1747.

Who is Mohammad Khazai Torshizi, Zarif's replacement?

By: Mousa Afshar
"The international community must recognize participation rights of all countries, especially when it comes to problem solving for the whole world. They cannot eliminate one or two countries," Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister stated on Iranian media on May 4, 2007.

This was the mullah's foreign minister's assessment of the recent Sharm El-Sheikh Conference. This conference has been the largest international gathering about Iraq so far. The mullahs complain they were excluded from the conference even though they were allowed to attend.

The paper claimed that Deputy leader of Hezbollah, Sheik Naim Qassem in a rare interview in Arabic which was translated into English by the Intelligence Department in Israel's Center for Special Studies (CSS) said, "All our polices including firing missiles into Israeli territories could not have been done without the consent of the leader of Islamic Republic of Iran. He has to agree to all Hezbollah's activities in advance."

Dr. Sanabargh Zahedi
The clerical regime has been ruling Iran for 28 years. It has hardly spent one day without suppressing the population. This theocratic dictatorship has survived by this widespread suppression.

The truth is that the regime of velayate-faghih, meaning the absolute religious dictatorship was imposed on the Iranian people at some peculiar juncture of their history. Because of its backward medieval nature, this regime cannot and will not respond to the Iranian people's wishes and needs.

By: Ali Safavi
Spring in Iran was marked by the outbreak of protests nationwide by virtually every sector of Iranian society, beginning with demonstrations and strikes by tens of thousands of workers in March. By April and May, the level of discontent had escalated dramatically as tens of thousands of workers kept their pledge to turn out en masse.

More than one hundred thousand staged a rally in Tehran on May Day, making it one of the largest protests in Iran in the past two decades. Chanting "death to oppressors" and "freedom is our inalienable right," they displayed their burning desire for change.