News, Events, and Analysis
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Iranians seek U.S. help for dissidents in Iraq
By Paul M. Krawzak
U-T WASHINGTON BUREAU
September 9, 2008
Iranian immigrants from San Diego County joined others from across the nation yesterday, taking to the streets of
Washington, D.C., to warn of a humanitarian catastrophe if the United States gives up protection of Iranian dissidents
in Iraq. Read the entire article...
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March
2008
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CSDI along with Iranian-American organizations from 39 different U.S. States to host a Pan-American Parliamentary
briefing on Iran and Iraq in the United States Senate. Two members of the EU parliament, the representative from
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson discussed EU and U.S. Policy in Iran and Iraq.
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O.C. Iranian-Americans demonstrate at White House
Families of dissidents living in Iraq fear for their safety
By DENA BUNIS
The Orange County Register
September 08, 2008
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 the hot sun
across from the White House and demand that the U.S. government continue to protect their family and thousands of
other Iranian exiles living in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
"We want to make sure they're going to be protected and not turned over to Iran because we know then they'll all be
executed,'' Shadi Zolgalal, 24, said. She held a red, white and green Persian flag in her hand while Melissa, 23, waved a
royal blue and yellow flag with the symbol of the Mujahedeen Khalq, known as MEK. The MEK fought against the
Shah of Iran and its members have been living in exile after the Islamic fundamentalists began their rule of the country.
Read the entire article...
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Iranian Opposition isn't Terrorist
Nasser Sharif
The Orange County Register
June 09, 2006
The most noble of all activism is that which pursues peace. As humanity struggles with war, terrorism, and threat of
nuclear proliferation, peaceful movements must not succumb to a limited vision or be passive. Peace requires activism
against tyrants and warmongers because failure to do so will invite war. America’s standoff with Iran is where these
principles are being put to the test....Read the entire article...
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February
2008
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In February, 2008, Iranian-Americans from across California joined hundreds of other Iranians, members of congress,
religious leaders, and congressional staff members to encourage a decisive policy towards Iran.
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May 15, 2008
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Don't enable Iran's offenses - 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.
The peace movement is determined to ensure that we not make an Iraq-like mistake by launching a military campaign
against Iran. Calls for "engagement" with Iran have been a central component of the drive to deal with the despotic
regime in Tehran. But in our desire to end the U.S.-led mission in Iraq, and to avoid any intervention in Iran, significant
elements in the peaceful anti-war movement risk being turned into unwitting enablers of Iran's appalling human rights
violations, nuclear proliferation, weapons trafficking and support for international terrorism. Read the entire article
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May 6, 2008
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Iran: Young man faces execution despite international protests, AKI
AKI: A 20-year-old Iranian is due to be executed on Wednesday for a crime he allegedly committed as a teenager despite
international efforts to save his life
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April 23, 2008
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Iraq's political refugees in limbo - Boston Globe
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
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May 04, 2008
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Iran's annual inflation rises to 24.2 percent - Reuters
TEHRAN, May 4 (Reuters) - Iran's annual inflation rate jumped by 1.7 percentage points to 24.2 percent in the year to
April compared with the previous month, the central bank said.
The statistics highlight the economic problems facing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, under pressure
from many lawmakers, media and the public over its failure to rein in rising inflation in the world's fourth-largest oil
producer.
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November 30, 2007
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Who should stand up to the mullahs? - Orange County Register
The most realistic option to the Iranian dilemma at this juncture, as every other juncture, is regime change The
designation by the United States of the Iranian regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Ministry of Defense
and a number of affiliated banks and officials on its terrorism blacklist was a major shift vis-à-visTehran. In the resulting
political atmosphere, which rests atop a general antipathy to war, two diametrically opposed policy options have been
promoted
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