Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Sivand Dam

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Ever since the 1979 frenzy, I have insisted that our country, Iran, has been under foreign occupation. The new rulers of Iran changed our Ir...
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Saturday, August 27, 2005

Appeasement of Terror?

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I am hearing so many conflicting reports about the mastermind of London bombings, Haroon Aswad, that its hard to make any convincing conclus...
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Friday, August 26, 2005

Jannati at Today's Friday Prayers

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Ayatollah Jannati, the secretary of the all powerful unelected Guardian Council in the Islamic Republic, held the Tehran Friday prayers serm...
Thursday, August 25, 2005

Meeting with Eric Jerpe

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Eric Jerpe worked as a statistician for the IMF most of his life. Now retired, he is making good time of his retirement by travelling around...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

More on the Messianic Hojjatieh Sect

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More and more public figures in the Islamic Republic are hinting at their unease about the clandestine Messianic Hojjatieh group, taking ove...
Monday, August 22, 2005

Remembering the "Arashes" of the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Political Prisoners

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We were in the fourth or fifth grade in the primary school in Iran at the time. It was the Persian literature class. Not a subject that I pa...
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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Khatami's Remarks on Hojjatieh's Hold of Power

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I was reading Khatami's first public post-presidency speech in Mashad. It was quite eerie to say the least. Khatami said in his speech, ...

International Support Can Save Lives

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Finally Kofi Annan, also demands the release of Akbar Ganji. Hundreds of Iranians wrote letters to the UN General Secretary soliciting his s...
Friday, August 19, 2005

The Latest on Akbar Ganji

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This is the latest information we have available on Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji. His family and his lawyers have been unable to see Ganji ...
Thursday, August 18, 2005

Acting Against National Security

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I don't know if anyone ever has carried out a research into the most repeatedly used charge against dissidents in dictatorships, but I a...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Watch Out for the Mad Ayatollah Mesbah

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Today I had a rare opportunity to tidy up my office. It seems no matter what I do, piles of paper just seem to mount up. I suppose that is o...
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Ahmadi-Nejad's New Cabinet

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I am still working on gathering more information on the members of the new cabinet proposed by the newly selected president, Ahmadi-Nejad. H...
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Ball Bearing Pistols v Nuclear Weapons

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Let me warn you that what you read below is not an attempt by me to be humourous in any way. It is exactly as the events have taken place. R...
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Another "Iran Expert" who Should Take an Introductory Course in Elementary Statistics

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I can not help but feel despair after reading Fareed Zakaria's advice to Untied States in Newsweek on what to do about the Islamic Repub...
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Saturday, August 13, 2005

The Interconnectedness of the Nuclear Issue and Human Rights in Islamic Republic

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As I am writing this, the Iranian dissident, Akbar Ganji, has now been on hunger strike for 65 days. No one including his immediate family h...
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I took part in the execution of my own son - Molla Hassani

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Molla Hassani, the Friday sermon leader of Oroumieh is known to most Iranians because of his fiery sermons and the ridiculous statements he ...

The Consequences of World Media’s Silence on Election Fraud in Iran

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When I wrote this below, it was a couple of weeks before the London bombings. It gave me no satisfaction that the points I made here became ...

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Time I joined the rest of them!