Author: AIAINY
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
European Parliament Resolution on the Humanitarian Situation of Camp Ashraf Residents in Iraq. Read Document
The Wall Street journal If only the CIA were as effective against Iran as Manhattan’s D.A. There’s good news, and some really bad news, about Iran’s efforts to evade U.S. sanctions and infiltrate the U.S. financial system. Read More
Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY) Joins 6 other powerful House Chairs – writes letter to President Obama, to urge “firm position” on Iran. Read Letter
9:56am EDT BAGHDAD, March 16 (Reuters) – Iraqi forces have besieged a camp housing Iranian exiles in Iraq, residents and a security official said, after the national security adviser reiterated a vow to shut the place down. A source at Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Iraqi soldiers surrounded Camp Ashraf on Thursday after residents resisted an attempt to clear them out of one building inside it. The soldiers were blocking fuel and medicines getting in, he said. Read More
Iranians Rally in NYC against Ahamdinejad and for Democratic Change in Iran. On Tuesday, September 23, 2008, hundreds of Iranians and supporters of Iran’s main opposition, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) held a rally in front of the UN to denounce ayatollahs’ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for crimes against Iranian people and his plans to eliminate 3,500 Iranian dissident refugees in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Read More
Iranian Americans from New York Join 70,000 in Paris, France – Call for Democratic Change in Iran. Read More
The Wall Street Journal By CHARLES SCHUMER Last month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran was installing an additional 6,000 centrifuges at Iran’s main nuclear enrichment complex… Read More
By Bob Filner and Lord Corbett Peace movements always struggle with the balancing act of wanting to engage enemies without appeasing them. Peace activists don’t want war, but they also recognize that peace at any price can be costly. In the case of Iran, these choices are becoming painful and difficult. Read More
By Saleh al-Mutlaq THERE IS so much tragedy in Iraq that some stories go underreported – eclipsed by other negative news. This one requires attention: Inside Iraq, 20 kilometers west of the Iranian border and 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province, stands Camp Ashraf where members of the Iranian opposition – known as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq – have lived for more than two decades. Today, some 3,500 residents live in Ashraf. Read More