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		<title>O.C. Iranian-Americans demonstrate at White House Families of dissidents living in Iraq fear for their safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Capitol Sunday and today stood in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: War, appeasement aren&#8217;t only options</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East, Iran Spring, Obstacles, Opportunities and U.S. Policy &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://californiasdi.org/middle-east-iran-spring-obstacles-opportunities-and-u-s-policy-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Marzieh, Iranian Singer and Voice of Dissent, Dies at 86</title>
		<link>http://californiasdi.org/marzieh-iranian-singer-and-voice-of-dissent-dies-at-86/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refocusing Washington&#8217;s Policy Lens on Iran</title>
		<link>http://californiasdi.org/refocusing-washingtons-policy-lens-on-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post
February 10, 2010 
By Ali Safavi, Member of Iran&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice for the Iranian opposition</title>
		<link>http://californiasdi.org/justice-for-the-iranian-opposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. offered assurances about Iranian exiles days before Iraqi raid</title>
		<link>http://californiasdi.org/u-s-offered-assurances-about-iranian-exiles-days-before-iraqi-raid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian-Americans in Bay Area worry about loved ones in camp raided by Iraqis</title>
		<link>http://californiasdi.org/iranian-americans-in-bay-area-worry-about-loved-ones-in-camp-raided-by-iraqis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Mujahedeen of Iran, a dissident group initially formed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Uprising</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Protesters&#8217; vigil honors slain Iranian woman</title>
		<link>http://californiasdi.org/protesters-vigil-honors-slain-iranian-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phillip Zonkel, Staff Writer
Posted: 06/25/2009 08:38:10 PM PDT
LONG BEACH &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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