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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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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The ISA student activist body at Tehran Allameh Tabatabaei University reports that the university has now gone as far as creating their own fake ISA body and has started to use the ISA logo with it!
University has reportedly put up huge banners around the university, honouring the “martyrs” of the Islamic Republic, using the […]
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This time it is not Hollywood who is threatening the Iranian interest in the film business.
It is the Islamic Republic embassy in Thailand:
The Bangkok International Film Festival has dropped the Cannes prize-winning animated movie “Persepolis,” which had been skedded as the new-look fest’s opening movie. Tuesday move followed a request from the Iranian Embassy in […]
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Section209 blog reports that:
There were people from the television here near the Amir-Abbad petrol station recording a programme. They interviewed this nice clean shaved guy who was about 50 years old. After the interview was finished, the guy who was interviewed got in to the car with the TV crew and they drove away!!
As they […]
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Riots have broken out hours after the government introduced a new system to put a limit on how much petrol drivers can buy.
Although Iran has the world’s second largest reserves of conventional crude oil, it imports 40% of it’s petrol due to lack of investment in to the refinery industry.
More pictures here.
Update: It looks like […]
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