| TORONTO -- The son of the deposed Shah of Iran warned that Western diplomacy or military intervention will not ease the tensions in Iran, and said there is a small window of time to empower the country's citizens to rise up against the government.
 | | | |  I was born in a country where I am not allowed to sing or perform./I was born in a country where I am not allowed to wear what I want./I was born in a country where I would be killed for my religious beliefs./I was born in a country where I would be tortured for advocating democracy./I was born in a country where, as a woman, my life is considered worth half of a mans.I was born in Iran.
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| During the 1970's, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had acceded to the monarchist governmental leadership role present throughout Iran's history, implemented economic, educational and social reforms. In 1971, the Shah and the Iranian people celebrated 2,500 years of Persian Monarchy, and in 1978 the Shah implemented a wave of democratic reforms.
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Passing through
A green corridor of songs,
After a summer rain,
Perhaps it was a feeling,
- Always being there,
But left forsaken as if for ever -,
Suddenly awakened me
In another childhood.
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| Passing through
A green corridor of songs,
After a summer rain,
Perhaps it was a feeling,
- Always being there,
But left forsaken as if for ever -,
Suddenly awakened me
In another childhood.... | | | | | Teacher Farzad Kamangar, a member of the Kurdish ethnic group, has been sentenced to death on charges of moharebe, or ‘enmity against God’, a charge levelled against those accused of taking up arms against the state. Ali Heydariyan and Farhad Vakili may also be facing execution. | |
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| | The people of Iran have been suffering for years from a common pain, namely the denial of their freedom, the price they pay in seeking this freedom as well as the discrimination they face in the course of their struggle for freedom, and so it is that in this midst whoever wishes and endeavors for progress and prosperity has taken decided even if relatively small steps for this freedom | | | | Six Bahá'í leaders in Iran were arrested and taken to the notorious Evin prison yesterday in a sweep that is ominously similar to episodes in the 1980s when scores of Iranian Bahá'í leaders were summarily rounded up and killed. It seems the six are held in the notorious Evin 209 section and are undergoing interrogations.
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| Lebanon appeared to be sliding into chaos Friday as the Iranian-backed, Syrian-supplied Hizb'allah moved to dramatically upgrade its role in the running of Israel's sorely-troubled northern neighbor.At least 11 people were reportedly killed and dozens wounded in three days of clashes which saw armed Hizb'allah fighters - who are Shia Muslims - clash with Sunni Muslim and other government-supporting Lebanese and take over most the Muslim western part of Beirut.
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Many problems of the world can be solved by the application of science, so the most importance act of universities and schools is training scientists and educated peoples. Scientists should take heart at the crying need in the emerging information for scientifically educated problem solvers, able to integrate various fields of knowledge. In this case there would be huge loss if the educated peoples lose their right way due to the effect of untruth instead of the real science.
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| | International Committee to Save the Archeological Sites of Pasargad a non-profit, non-political entity, endorses the gathering of Iranian people worldwide to protest against any and all name changing of the Persian Gulf. Recently, Google Earth, arbitrarily, and without any consultation with the United Nations, added the fradulent name of “Arabian Gulf” to its authentic name, “the Persian Gulf” on their Google Earth search engine. International Committee to Save the Archeological Sites of Pasargad finds this to be outragous, unlawful, irresponsible and a violation of all historical and International laws | | | | | Iran violently suppresses its opposition and critics, but there are those whose struggle is still aflame.Rain water has accumulated in front of the Parliament in Eidsvolls plass. Kianoosh Sanjari is holding a microphone in his Norwegian gloved hands, while covering himself with un umbrella next to a bench.Little after his arrival to Norway he managed to gather Iranians with different political tendencies in front of the Parliament. Leaders of these groups do not enjoy a favorable relation with each other. But 2008 began with a wave of executions and widespread arrests of students and this has been a factor to make the stand with each other on a common cause; to express defiance over the increase of suppression in Iran. | |
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| | MADRID .- Today is feast in Iran and mourning in Madrid. It celebrates New Year; a funeral here. Manouchehr Farhangi, On Wednesday died stabbed Manouchehr Farhangi, Persian for 82 years, a victim of a woman who he nailed a knife in the abdomen, in the same door of his villa in La Moraleja. The incident happened at lunchtime, but the streets of La Moraleja have little traffic and are lonely. The only thing we know for now is that a woman called at the door of the bungalow to 12.30, on the avenue Cuesta de la Sierra, number 12. The bad luck wanted Manouchehr out of the house, crossed the garden and opened the metal door himself | | | | | According top reports released by the Students Committee of Human Rights Reporters, and also testimony of recently released victims, students are being violently tortured in the notorious 209 section of Evin prison | |
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| The foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany agreed yesterday to impose additional sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. The decision's importance is primarily symbolic, since the planned sanctions will have little impact on Iran's economy. Nevertheless, they show that the international community remains suspicious of Iran's nuclear ambitions, despite the publication two months ago of a new U.S. National Intelligence Estimate claiming that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons program. Advertisement
| | | | | WASHINGTON — R. Nicholas Burns, the country’s third-ranking diplomat and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s right-hand man, is retiring for personal reasons, the State Department said Friday.The White House said that it was nominating William J. Burns, the United States ambassador to Russia, to replace him as under secretary of state for political affairs. The two men are not related. Like R. Nicholas Burns, William Burns is a career Foreign Service official. He has served as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs as well as ambassador to Jordan. | |
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| | Dr. Zahra B. 27 years old was arrested together with her fiancé in a park in Hamedan city by agents of Center for Moral Control. The agent of this center claimed that was arrested due to uncertainty of her relationship to her fiancé, while her parents say that their daughter married temporary 3 months before and witnessed by 2 persons . | | | | | Empress Farah Pahlavi was born on October 14, 1938, the only daughter of Sohrab Diba, who passed away when she was only nine vears old. An Iranian Army officer, her father was also a law graduate of the Sorbonne and the famed French military Academy of St. Cyr. Her mother, Mme. Farideh Diba, personally supervised her education, first at Tehran's Jeanne d'Arc and Razi schools, and later at the Ecole d'Architecture in Paris, where she was studying up to the time of her marriage to the Shah anshah Aryamehr, which took place on December 20, 1959. | |
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|  At the invitation of Romero Britto, on Tuesday evening October 9th, Her Majesty Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi, attended as a guest of honor the opening of his new works at the Opera Gallery in Paris.
| | | | Radio Zamaneh reaches young people in Iran, from Amsterdam and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But what is the state of its promised independent journalism? Zamaneh's self censorship. 'The staff in Amsterdam is professional. But in Iran I work with many amateurs.'
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| | Given the limits on freedom of research and the prevalence of terror and intimidation within Iran, it is small wonder that so much Western commentary on the country is framed by the propaganda purposes of a totalitarian regime. Yet Iran watchers can and should do better. | | | | 26 October 2007, 7.30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London. A rap and pop concert by Iranian artists with music and words that are inspired by the writings of Jalal al-Din Rumi.Jalal al-Din Rumi's mystic poems have inspired musicians and artists of all genres throughout the world, arching over all culture, religion and language barriers reaching out and unifying millions of people of all ages.
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| Iran's President Mahmood Ahmadinejad is scheduled to speak at Columbia University on Monday September 24th. This arrangement is not accidental. The event would have not been possible without the tireless and focused efforts of the well known Tehran advocate Dr. Gary Sick, an influential figure in Columbia.
| | | | Mr. Kaboodvand director of the "Defense of Human Rights "organization of Kurdistan – who is now in prison- informed his family that his life is threatened in prison.
In this conversation he told his family that 2 prisoners with dangerous criminal records have been transferred to his cell. (This is one method used by the interrogators to force prisoners to co operate with prison officials.) | |
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| Saeid Mortazavi , Tehran’s public prosecutor has told families of the three detained student activists ; Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli, and Ahmad Ghassaban to write in repentance to get their freedom.Mortzavi has also prevented the families from any meeting with the prisoners saying that their recent interview with the press is the reason.Mr.Mansouri (Ehsan Mansouris’ father) in an interview said, he predicts the situation would deteriorate, and the detainees would under go “more pressure”. He was told by his son that if their telephone contacts stop, it would mean that the students have been put in to solitary confinement.
| | | | Execution is an antihuman phenomenon in all the international centers and according to all the international resolutions is against the Human Rights. Execution by totalitarian and dictator countries is a punishment for freedom thinkers and liberals and so.
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| | Homa Arjomand calls a Press Conference at Queen's Park, Toronto, on Monday July 30th, 2007 at 11:00 AM. In a press statement released by Opposition Leader John Tory on July 24,07, it stated, “Taxpayers should fund Islamic, Hindu, Jewish and other faith-based schools just like public and Catholic ones”. “Tory and his party have started a dangerous game, We, all concerned citizen and progressive forces will defeat John Tory as we did it in the struggle against faith based arbitration” said Ms. Arjomand | | | | | PRAGUE -- Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last shah of Iran, suggests taking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to annihilate Israel very seriously. However, he suggests refraining from military action against his country | |
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| According to the latest report received from section 209 of the Evin Prison, Mr. Abolfazl Jahandar, an imprisoned student activist has gone on a hunger strike. Mr. Jahandar was a member of the Islamic Students Association in Alame Tabatabai University as well as a member of the student organization Tahkime Vahdat before his arrest and imprisonment.
| | | | | At dawn of the day July the 9th 2007 all of the members of the central committee of “Daftar-Tahkim-Vahdat”, a student organization which is known as the leader of the student movement in Iran, were arrested by the security guards. | |
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| | The security office at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court posted bail for Mojtaba Derakhshandi, the father of jailed student activist Saeed Derakhshandi, for speaking to the press about his son’s medical condition. Judge Haddad, who resides over the office, also summoned and threatened the families of several other student activists, asking them to refrain from speaking to the press | | | | | I met Behrouz Javid Tehrani, an Iranian democratic activist and an exceptionally brave man, during a rare period over the last eight years when he was not in jail. It was in April 2004, in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Tehrani had just completed a four-year prison term that included 10 months of solitary confinement and extensive torture. He had first been arrested after the 1999 student riots in which thousands of Iranians demonstrated to support press freedom and democracy and fought pitched battles with police and Islamic vigilantes. | |
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| I have decided to share with all human rights organizations and freedom fighters all over the world my story, and what has happened to me in the past year at the hands of the Islamic Regime of Iran.
| | | | | he etymology concerning the name Europe is much debated. One apprehension is that it derives from the Greek mythology where Europa (Greek Ευρώπη) was a Phoenician princess, famous for her beauty, captured by Zeus in the shape of a bull. She was brought to the island of Crete where she became the mother to Minos. | |
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| The Foundation focuses on providing care, support, education and training for severely disadvantaged young women in Tehran, aged from 15 to 25. These are women who, faced with relentless emotional and financial deprivation, are desperately vulnerable to anti-social influences, and struggle to remain engaged in society. All are in urgent need for help.
| | | | n the Dashli building, Asko Parpola recognized a tripura such as have been described in the Vedic literature as the strongholds with three circular concentric walls of the Dasas or Asuras (Asura/Ahura worshippers), which Parpola himself has identified elsewhere as Iranian.
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|  Parviz Varjavand (1934 — June 10, 2007) was a notable Iranian archaeologist, researcher and University Professor. He is a former Iranian Minister of Culture and a member of the National Front party.Professor Varjavand graduated with an MA from the University of Tehran and also obtained a PhD in the Renovation of Monuments and Classical Architecture of Iran from the University of Sorbonne in France | | | | My name on my ID is of no importance, but I'm known as Sayeh. I'm 26 years oldand I'm a transsexual. I left Iran a year ago and I now live in Turkey. Could
you please give me a tranquilizer please? I can't think clearly. I am angry,I'm confused.
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| | The difference between some one like Haleh Esfandiari and I, Sheema Kalbasi, is that I see the Iranian regime as a group of people who have committed and continue to commit horrendous crimes against humanity. People like Dr. Esfandiari -- who I hope will return to the U.S. safe and sound especially since Keyhan has accused her of apostasy-- do support a dialogue with the Iranian regime. I like to know why Ms. Esfandiari's husband is devastated over his wife's arrest and why he doesn't try to engage in a dialogue with the Iranian regime? Why Shaul Bakhash goes on BBC to confirm that Esfandiari is still a Muslim? After all Ms. Esfandiari and people like her insist on engaging in a dialogue with the Iranian regime. | | | | | On Sunday, May 20, Amnesty International joined forces with the SaveDelara campaign by putting its Human Rights Bus into action in Warsaw, Poland, where human rights activists joined SaveDelara campaign's Krzysztof Pacyński in a protest outside the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in opposition to Delara Darabi's impending execution. | |
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|  Iran possesses an ancient culture that has endured and at times thrived through millennia of vicissitude and foreign invasions without losing its Iranian identity. Iranians within Iran and those in the diaspora continue to produce significant works of distinctive character in the fields of literature, music, painting and cinema.
| | | | | The Hamas was founded by Sheik Ahmed Yassine with the help of Iran in so far as the armed arms of the “Muslim Brotherhood” in Palestine and the launching of the jihad in 1987. Numerous experts think that the history of the Hamas only began in the 1980s when its political influence began to assert itself.The abbreviation Hamas appeared nevertheless for the first time in 1987 in a document accusing the Israeli secret services (the Mossad) “of perverting the morals of the Palestinian youth in recruiting them as collaborators.” | |
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| | Pasargad and Bolaaghi gorge have only a last chance to survive before to be flooded by supplying water to Sivand Dam .These are not only a very important part of Persian Heritage, but also a cultural treasure belong to the whole humankind. | | | | | Khomeini, witness our protests!” was one of the slogans shouted repeatedly and loudly by demonstrators in front of the British embassy in Tehran this week. One placard read: “The roaring pride of our martyr-seeking nation is a strong blow to the deceiving and treacherous mouth of Britain.” The number of demonstrators, according to an individual who identified himself as a Basiji student from the Polytechnic University, was about 250 people. | |
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| | As the month of March came to its end, Ali Farahbakhsh, the journalists who has spent the last 5 months in prison in Iran on charges of espionage, was sentenced to three years imprisonment. His mother Badri Farahbakhsh and his father who is a retired judge tried everything to secure their son’s release. | | | | | A number of Iranian women’s rights activists were arrested at Tehran’s Laleh Park while collecting signatures for the One Million Signature Campaign Demanding Changes IN Discriminatory Laws. | |
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| | Demonstrating one of the most civilized and cultured nations in history, to whose contributions world civilization is indebted, as savages, could not have been for lack of historical information or for lack of inter-cultural communication. There must have been other motives. From the business point of view, any well-made movie involving Iranians would have presented the same potentials for success or failure due to the wide publicity about Iran. | | | | | Its the Iranian New Year, Nowrooz, and hundreds of Iranian teachers are in Evin prison. They should have spent Nowrooz with their families, around the Haft-Sin table waiting for the exact hour, minute and second when the Spring Equinox takes place. Their children should be thinking of nothing but their new clothes, and their new presents. Yet all they have on their mind is when will Mum or/and Dad come home? | |
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| | Hereby I would like to apprise you of the threats and troubles that the ministry of information made for me after I was discharge from the prison. Having being incarcerated and under interrogation for 80 days in the security detention home No 209, I managed to set myself free from Evin prison by depositing a mortgage sum to the court. When I was liberated, I notified the Persian media abroad about the cruel inhuman comportment I had witnessed in the detention home No 209. | | | | 
The “29th of Esfand” (20th of March) is the Eve of Persian New Year. This day is also the day that Iranian oil was nationalized by Dr. Mosaddegh. This year, Iranian students in Northern California and Jebhe Melli Iran are holding a two-day conference on March 16th, 17th, and Meeting on March 18th at University of California, Berkeley, to celebrate that seminal event. | |
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Help Iranian people change government, Shah's son urges