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HUFFPOST 06/08/2017 – Dr. Majid Rafizadeh HUFFPOST - A resolution was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, condemning an atrocity that most Americans, and indeed most westerners, have never heard of: the 1988 killings of approximately 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. Lawmakers led by Congressman Michael...

AL ARABIYA Sunday, June 4, 2017 AL ARABIA - Iran’s government has a clear aim which is creating a reality that suits it and that imposes itself when deciding Syria’s fate and that expands its role in Iraq later. To achieve...

Washington Post There’s no clear winner for America in Iran’s presidential election By Editorial Board   - May 18, 2017 IRAN’S PRESIDENTIAL election on Friday is a familiar contest between a relative moderate, the incumbent Hassan Rouhani, and a hard-line conservative backed by the Revolutionary...

May 17, 2017 – Voice of America John Bolton, the prominent diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations sat down for an exclusive interview with the Voice of America's Persian service just days before the presidential election in...

May 1, 2017 REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS issued a statement on April 26th describing Iran as one of the world’s five major prisons for media activists and placed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the list of enemies of press freedom. “… Iran...

Aiding and abetting terrorists is bad business Washington Times By Clifford D. May   -  Tuesday, April 25, 2017 ANALYSIS/OPINION: Sometimes international law is ambiguous. Sometimes not. When it comes to murdering civilians and using chemical weapons to get the job done, there are no...

UN Secretary General highlights ‘alarming rate’ of executions, unfair trials and arbitrary detentions in 19-page report Tuesday 4 October 2016  Saeed Kamali Dehghan The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has given a damning assessment of human rights in Iran, highlighting the “alarming...