Islamic Republic apologist Mohammad Navab, currently on board of directors of NIAC (National Iranian-American Council) - well known apologists for the fundamentalist regime, has apparently resigned from CASMII where he was serving as a director!
In fact, he has denied even being a member!!
Do these regime apologists think that their crimes will not be exposed? Do […]
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Today is the anniversary of the 1906 Iranian constitutional revolution. However Iranian people are still struggling for democracy and student activists are still sent to jails.
This year several student activists will spend this year’s anniversary in prisons. They include: Mohammad Hashemi, Ali Nikoonesbati, Ali Vefghi, Bahareh Hedayat, Mehdi Arabshahi, Hanif Yazdani, Abodllah Momeni, Bahram Fayyazi, […]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSGAa8AfboM
The good news is that the international Confederation of Iranian Students is working really hard, here is a music video from their UK federation.
The bad news is that the fundamentalist regime is hanging everyone..
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It’s only been a month since the Iranian airline Mahan increased it’s flights from Tehran to Manchester to 5 times a week but today UK suspended it’s flights on safety grounds.
Interestingly the Islamic Republic propaganda outlet Press TV which did not cover the petrol rationing crisis or the 18 tir anniversary events, has covered […]
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Adnan Hasanpur (pictured), a journalist for the Asu Kurdish-Persian weekly and Heyva Butimar an activist from the Kurdish areas of Iran are to be hanged. Their crimes were described by the Islamic Revolutionary Court as “Propaganda against the Islamic Republic government, and acts against national security“.
Arrested on January 25th Adnan was first told that […]
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Today three out of the nine Amir Kabir University activist students in jail, Majid Sheikhpur, Ali Saberi and Abbas Hakimzadeh were released after 70 (M.S.) and 43 days (A.S, A.H) from prison.
Majid was arrested during the ISA elections in which he was elected to be on central committee for the ISA with over 900 […]
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Posted in 18 Tir, Activism and opposition movements, Amir Kabir University, Basijis, ISA, Islamic Revolution, Political prisoners, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism, Tahkim Vahdat on Jul 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
The July 9, 1999 Tehran student rebellion was the single most important movement against the Islamic Republic government. The student movement had steadily got more and more furious against the useless Islamic government who had failed to bring about any changes, even under the name of Khatami’s ‘reformist government’.The students were ready to rebel against […]
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Popular anti-war Labour MP Clare Short promoting the documentary
I just heard the great news that the undercover documentary Execution of a teenage girl produced by Arash Sahami (left in the picture) won the television documentary award at the Amnesty International Media Awards tonight. Arash Sahami and his team risked their lives by going undercover in […]
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As the Islamic Republic closes yet another newspaper, it introduces a TV channel which Ahmadinejad has called “the oppressed people’s media”.
PRESS TV is an English language media outlet by the Islamic Republic, claimed to be well financed and to have branches in 27 countries worldwide. I have not yet had the time to check their […]
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The head of the ILNA (”Iranian Labour News Agency”) Masoud Heidari resigned yesterday after pressure from the Islamic Republic.
Since Ahmadinejad came in to power, there has been a lot of pressure on this news agency because of their coverage of the politically active students who are now widely referred to as “Starred Students” (if they […]
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