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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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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
By Lars Rise, President of Friends of a Free Iran Committee-Norway
The majority of the European population has been willing to accept much of the use of terrorism legislation as a means to put an end to terrorist activity. However in recent times, one specific case and one particular piece of this terrorism legislation has come under major criticism from all quarters in Europe.
The European Union blacklist has for a number of years now been used as a tool to ban organisations and individuals accused of having links to terrorism. However, the analysis in the case of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the principal Iranian resistance organization and the pivotal force of the opposition coalition of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is that rather than being listed due to any link to terrorism, this organisation was in fact listed simply to further relations with the Iranian regime, one of the main supporters of international terrorism.
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
 By BARONESS GOULD OF POTTERNEWTON
LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Iran under the mullahs is the only country in the world that continues to hang children, and it has an equally sinister track record over its treatment of women.
On Jan. 15, Amnesty International said in a report that nine women and two men in Iran are waiting to be stoned to death, adding that the "horrific practice" was "specifically designed to increase the suffering of the victims."
"The majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women. Women suffer disproportionately from such punishment. One reason is that they are not treated equally before the law and courts, in clear violation of international fair trial standards," Amnesty International said.
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
By Rudi Vis, British Member of Parliament and UK delegate to the Council of Europe.
Source: Middle East Times
As a UK delegate to the Council of Europe, Europe has always been at the heart of much of the political work that I have done throughout my career. It is through such experience that I believe the Council of Europe and the European Union can do a great deal to achieve success on a number of the most challenging international issues.
The EU has an especially critical role to play on the issues that currently face us in the Middle East. In a region where we are faced with a faltering Middle East peace process and a region beset by constant and growing instability, a united stance from European nations may lead to a solution. However, the very difficult task that faces the international community was made ever more vivid with the recent assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan.
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
Commentary by U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran
A ferocious war is going on inside Iran. It is the war the tyrannical regime of ayatollahs has declared on people of Iran since coming to power in 1979 in order to preserve its nefarious rule. At its core, this is a war over two very different kinds of Iran; a democratic Iran with a pluralistic secular system of government at peace with the outside world; and a theocratic Iran under the tyranny of ayatollahs which breeds terrorism and proliferate weapons of mass destruction.
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