October 18, 2011
By DENA BUNIS The Orange County Register WASHINGTON – Shadi and Melissa Zolgalal were seven and eight-years old when their parents sent them to the United States rather than have them mixed up in their fight to overthrow the Iranian regime. But the two young women flew from Orange County to the nation’s Capitol Sunday and today stood in [...]
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October 18, 2011
By NASSER SHARIF February 3, 2010 President, Southern California Society for Democracy in Iran, political and human-rights activist http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/regime-232470-pmoi-iran.html When Iranians poured into the streets of major cities to protest the fraudulent June 2009 presidential elections, many thought the protests would subside in a matter of days. Eight months later, not only were the protesters still out in force, but [...]
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October 16, 2010
By MARGALIT FOX October 16, 2010 Marzieh, the great diva of Persian traditional song, who was silenced after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 but who re-emerged years later outside Iran as a singer and a highly public supporter of the resistance, died on Wednesday in Paris. She was 86 and had defected to France in 1994. Her death, of cancer, [...]
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February 10, 2010
The Huffington Post February 10, 2010 By Ali Safavi, Member of Iran’s Parliament in Exile; President of the Near East Policy Research http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-safavi/refocusing-washingtons-po_b_457070.html 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 mother from Iran. She [...]
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February 01, 2010
http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/ February 1st, 2010, 5:00 pm by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer I talked Friday with a couple of representatives from the California Society for Democracy in Iran about the ongoing injustice of listing the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) as a terrorist organization. As I noted in this more extensive [...]
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August 19, 2009
A deadly clash after Iraqi forces stormed the camp has sparked protests and calls for better protection for the 3,500 Iranian dissidents living at Camp Ashraf. A Times Staff Writer August 19, 2009 The Obama administration downplayed international fears about the safety of Iranian dissidents living at a camp in Iraq as recently as mid-July, days before a raid by [...]
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August 05, 2009
San Jose Mercury News August 5, 2009 Ken McLaughlin http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_12993041?nclick_check=1 When Iraqi police raided a remote refugee camp in the desert last week, hundreds of Iranian-Americans in the Bay Area feared for the lives of loved ones in the camp. The 3,500 residents of Camp Ashraf are members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, a dissident group initially formed [...]
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June 25, 2009
By Phillip Zonkel, Staff Writer Posted: 06/25/2009 08:38:10 PM PDT LONG BEACH – Nasser Sharif fled his home country of Iran to save his life, he says. In 1982, the Long Beach resident was a first-year college student and member of a student group demonstrating against the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini. After a fellow student protester and friend of [...]
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