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US Congressional paralysis
Even if President Obama adopts a stronger-arm approach to domestic politics and demands legislative efficiency, the conflicts will simmer regardless, boiling over in some form or other by 2016. The Republican primaries season has been one of the nastiest in GOP political history: millions have been spent on smear campaigns and vitriolic slander. Candidates trying […]
Honorable Mario Diaz-Balart Speech
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Hillary Clinton questioned on Ashraf
Congressional hearing: Hillary Clinton questioned on Ashraf Saturday, 29 October 2011 18:21 NCRI – On 27 October, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was at a Congressional hearing of Foreign Affairs Committee of US Congress. Several Members asked about the situation of Camp Ashraf and the delay in delising of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of […]
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 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 […]
Iran: War, appeasement aren't only options
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 […]
Congressional Briefing July 26, 2011
California Society for Decocracy in Iran cordially invites you to attend this congressional briefing held in the Canon House Office Building: U.S. Policy, Iran and Camp Ashraf: The View from Congress Speakers: • John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations • Andrew Card, former White House Chief of Staff • Michael Mukasey, […]
Marzieh, Iranian Singer and Voice of Dissent, Dies at 86
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 […]
Van Nuys/Sherman Oaks Community Leaders Support the Pro-Democracy Movement in Iran
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Monday, the Americans For A Free Iran (AFAFI) held a briefing on the occasion of the anniversary of the Iranian people’s June 2009 uprising to express solidarity with the pro-democracy movement in Iran. A number of prominent Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks religious figures and human rights […]
Refocusing Washington's Policy Lens on Iran
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 […]