By Lisa Daftari Twelve Christians stood trial Easter Sunday in Iran, where they were called “apostates” in a courtroom and tried on multiple charges, according to sources close to Iran’s Christian community. The Christians had been acquitted on the same charges, including “crimes against the

Although Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to a disputed island in the Persian Gulf, claimed by both Iran and the United Arab Emirates, created an international incident last week, video posted online later appears to show that Iran’s president was also forced to engage in what Americans

By Tom Ridge To believe that the resumption of negotiations in Istanbul could -- or ever will --avert Iranian nuclear breakout and a possible Middle East conflagration, is to believe in the triumph of hope over experience. When it comes to the Mullahs’ intentions, however, we

NEW YORK, A bipartisan group of former U.S. political and military leaders is calling for the U.S. State Department to remove a prominent Iranian dissident group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran/Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (PMOI/MeK), from its list of terrorist organizations, saying the classification is unjustified and

The infamous Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’s has a well-known saying: “If you tell a lie big enough and repeat it often enough, and the whole world will believe it.” Trita Parsi’s preposterous and naive attempt to besmirch the reputation of the main Iranian opposition Mujahedin-e

By Ali Safavi, Member of Iran's Parliament in Exile; President of the Near East Policy Research On a chilly October day in 1981, after returning home from the University of Michigan campus, I answered a phone call. On the other side of the line was my step

Members of Congress Hold Press Conference to Express Support for the Iranian Dissidents Living in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Read More

Prominent New Yorkers Call for International Intervention for Protection of Camp Ashraf; Immediate Release of 36 Abductees NEW YORK, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a newsbriefing today the "International Committee for Implementation of the Fourth Geneva Convention for Ashraf Residents" condemned the July 28 barbaric and

This morning, Iranian authorities executed Delara Darabi in Rasht Central Prison. She is the second person to be executed this year after being convicted of a crime she was alleged to have committed while still under 18, Amnesty International revealed today. Read Statement