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Global View on Iran
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
By LORD CORBETT OF CASTLE VALE
LONDON, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- Feb. 11 marked the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet, as nations across the world have made huge technological and scientific advancements over the past three decades, Tehran's rulers have taken the people of ancient Persia back to the closest thing to the Middle Ages.
Once the cradle of civilization, Iran under the mullahs' rule is today a state of repression and terror. In January, authorities announced they had amputated the arms and legs of five prisoners for taking part in activities against the state. More than 30 people were executed and two sisters sentenced to stoning during the same period. Despite the atmosphere of heightened repression, Iranian youths are ready for change. Millions like them demand the freedoms offered by Iran's parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
Commentary by U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran
Ahmadinejad’s government is clearly a lot better at spinning centrifuges than it is at spinning the IAEA report released last Friday. The report paves the way for the third round of UN Security Council sanctions due for vote on Saturday and ayatollahs’ spinning of the report as a “great and historic victory” is mocked in Iran.
The clerical regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who is bent on solidifying and expanding political dominance of the faction representing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) weeks before the March parliamentary elections, joined the “nuclear victory” bandwagon. Few days after the IAEA report, he reaffirmed his support for his hand-picked president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the IRGC’s handling of the nuclear program.
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 By: Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: FoxNews
The bombshell revelations by Iran's parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance (NCRI), about a working nuclear warhead development facility and a new command and control center for Iran's nuclear bomb-making only two days before the release of the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) proved to be a major blow to the ruling Ayatollahs in Tehran.
In a news conference in Brussels on February 20, 2008, Mohammad Mohaddessin, the Chairman of the NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that in April 2007, the Iranian regime's nuclear project entered a new phase. For the first time, a command and control center, known as Mojdeh site, was established to head up the drive to complete a nuclear bomb. A development facility called the "Field for Expansion of Deployment of Advanced Technologies" was set up in the Lavizan 2 site (see satellite imagery).
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 David Amess - UK Parliament Member
Source: Global Politician
The Islamic fundamentalism espoused from Tehran is the biggest threat that faces our nation today. Iran has become a nation of horror stories. I have heard of young children tortured as their mothers are forced to watch. I have also seen vivid images of this brutality on videos. These videos have included public hangings. Such crimes are carried out on the Iranian people on a daily basis.
A large percentage of those executed or tortured face such crimes simply because they have demanded basic human rights and democracy, something that I believe we in the UK at times take for granted. In fact, the largest group to have suffered for these most basic of demands has been the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), an organisation which has had over 120,000 of its members and sympathisers killed.
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
 The government is shamefully still branding Iran's main opposition party as terrorists
writes LORD FRASER OF CARMYLLIE
Source: The Scotsman
AGENTS of Iran's notorious intelligence ministry detained Ebrahim Lotfollahi on 6 January during a university exam in the western city of Sanandaj. On 15 January, his parents were notified of his death in custody. The official version is that Lotfollahi committed suicide, but his relatives say he had signs of torture on his body when they briefly visited him several days after his detention.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
 By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: FoxNews
The fourth round of U.S.-Iran talks over Iraq’s security, originally scheduled to take place in December of last year in Baghdad, was again postponed by Tehran for “technical” reasons. Let’s not forget that the U.S. embassy in Baghdad has on numerous times expressed the complete readiness of the American side for these talks. Are ayatollahs in Tehran playing hard-to-get with Washington?
Speculations on reasons behind Tehran’s reluctance abound. Some Iraqi officials have blamed the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program for the postponements saying the report has emboldened Tehran by taking the pressure off ayatollahs’ backs. Still, there are others who suggest that Tehran will wait until after Ahmadinejad completes his visit to Iraq scheduled for March 2, to resume the talks.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
 By Baroness May Blood - Member of UK House of Lords
Source: Global Politician
On January 31, the European Parliament (EP) adopted a resolution expressing its "deep concern over the deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran." The EP strongly condemned the death sentences and executions in Iran, in particular those imposed and/or carried out on minors.
The resolution came not a moment too soon. The EP in particular protested vehemently the execution of Zamal Bawi, who was executed just hours before the vote. Twenty-four hours earlier, five men were summarily hanged by Iranian authorities in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Fearful of a population increasingly discontent over the tremulous state of the economy and lack of basic rights, in January alone the regime executed at least 31 people, including a mother-of-two.
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
Commentary by U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran
It is almost an impossible task to legitimately and successfully defend and justify negotiations and reconciliation with a regime that is persistently killing, maiming, torturing, and stoning its own citizens. So it should not come as a surprise that Tehran’s apologists are working double hard these days to hide the ayatollahs’ bloody hands and deny the existence of appalling human right crisis in Iran. They blame everyone and everything but the regime - from the “radical demands” of people and “radical political organizations” to Washington’s statements supporting democracy - for the barbaric rights violations going on in Iran.
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
By LORD DHOLAKIA, Deputy leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat Party
LONDON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- On Jan. 24, the Iranian regime's Interior Ministry announced that more than 2,000 so-called reformists had been disqualified from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, effectively ensuring that allies of the regime's ultra-conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would retain and perhaps strengthen their hold on the 290-seat Parliament come March 14.
The announcement came less than 48 hours after the U.N. Security Council's permanent five members and Germany reached an agreement to impose new sanctions on the regime over its refusal to abandon its uranium enrichment activities in line with demands by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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