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Nasser Sharif: Iran's leader not real power in negotiations
Negotiations with Iran are at a major crossroads. Will the undemocratic, fundamentalist dictatorship of the ayatollahs give up on its drive toward nuclear weapons or not? Despite the charm offensive of the “moderate” Hassan Rouhani, a man with no real control over the government, the nuclear issue looms large. After three exhausting rounds of talks […]
Iran's Nuclear Masters: Tehran has kept its core team of weaponization researchers intact.
WSJ: The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran last week issued a joint statement in which Tehran pledged to apprise the Agency of “the initiation of high explosives, including the conduct of large scale high explosives experimentation in Iran.” In a word: weaponization, the most secretive dimension of the Iranian nuclear program. Tehran’s willingness to […]
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi Meets Mr. Ahmad Jarba
NCRI – Speaking in support of the recent meeting Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of Iranian Resistance met Mr. Ahmad Jarba, the President of National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, to forge closer ties between the two opposition movements, Mr Ziyad Hassan, member of Syrian National Council’s Political Delegation said the movements seek freedom and […]
Iran executes man despite international pressure
<a href=”http://www.afp.com/en/news/iran-executes-man-despite-international-pressure” target=”_blank”>AFP:</a> Iran on Sunday hanged a man said to be affiliated to an exiled opposition group, state media reported, despite international pressure on the Islamic republic to halt the execution. According to the official IRNA news agency, Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani was convicted of “waging war against God” (moharebeh) by helping the People’s Mujahedeen […]
Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) Condemns Iran's Brutal Attack on Political Prisoners
PR Newswire WASHINGTON, April 23, 2014 WASHINGTON, April 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) is disturbed by reports that political prisoners in Evin & Ghazal Hessar Prisons in Iran were attacked in a raid directed by Iranian Ministry of Intelligence during which agents savagely beat and tortured defenseless prisoners. This incident is the latest example of Iran’s perpetual […]
U.S. lawmakers seek to revive stalled Iran sanctions bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. senators sought to revive a bill on Tuesday that would impose new sanctions on Iran despite President Barack Obama’s insistence that the measure would endanger delicate negotiations seeking to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. Senator Mitch McConnell, the party’s leader in the Senate, told reporters Republicans wanted to include the sanctions […]
Obama administration must act to protect Iranian dissidents threatened in Iraq, says former senior U.S. officials, Iranian American community leaders
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2014, OIAC – Top American supporters of the Iranian resistance are growing increasingly critical of the Obama administration for failing to keep a U.S. promise to protect more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents in an overcrowded refugee camp in Iraq, where they have been under repeated deadly attacks by Iraqi gunmen. “It was […]
Symposium on Iran Negotations
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Six powers, Iran to begin new nuclear talks on February 18
BY ANNA MCINTOSH MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – Six world powers and Iran will begin talks in Vienna on February 18 on a long-term deal for Tehran to curb parts of its nuclear program in exchange for a gradual end to sanctions, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Friday. “We have agreed that we will […]
Nasser Sharif: Iran's president a phony 'moderate'
By NASSER SHARIF / For the Register On June 15, when Iran announced the results of its recent presidential election, the New York Times reported the news of Hassan Rouhani’s victory under the headline, “Iran Moderate Wins Presidency by a Large Margin.” In the weeks since the election, the Times has run scores of articles in […]