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Springtime for Mullahs

This engagement conferred a respectability on his regime that Mr. Ahmadinejad could only have imagined amid his vicious post-election crackdown.Expect Iran to follow the North Korean model, stringing the West along, lying and...

We can't decide Iran's struggle. But we can avoid backing the wrong side

A German company, Siemens, which used slave labour during the Third Reich, sold a Holocaust-denying president the instruments with which he can persecute young Iranians risking their lives for freedom. Think of that every time...

Islamic Repuclic of Iran Has No Right to Nuclear Technology

The problem is that Iran is bound by its own constitution to violate the treaty, which is why insisting that the NPT still confers any rights on Iran is not only politically absurd but also wrong from a purely legal point of view.

Munich Re Insurer targeted in Iran sanctions push

The US and its allies are stepping up efforts to push through sanctions on companies that provide Iran with insurance following last week’s revelation that Tehran is building an undeclared nuclear facility. The move could affect...

Video: Tehran students protest on campus

Students in Iran have demonstrated against the government at Tehran University on the first day of the new academic year. Demonstrators were holding up green balloons and chanting slogans such as 'Government of the coup, resign!...

Germany, Iran and Israel after the German elections

The FDP has been problematic regarding Iran, expressing opposition to sanctions as a tool to get Teheran to ditch its nuclear program. The FDP's connection to Iran has a history, with former FDP Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich...

Press release: After international criticism about trade with Iran Siemens loses 300 Million Dollar contract in Los Angeles

Iran: The Struggle for Freedom Continues

The Iranian people deserve the unequivocal support of the international community in their quest to gain freedom. The time to ensure that this power reflects the aspirations of the vast majority of its population, rather than the...

Thomas L. Friedman: Cracks in Iran’s Clique

For the first time since Iran began enriching uranium, we have a glimmer of hope for a diplomatic solution — as long as we are not too diplomatic, as long as the Iranian regime is made to understand that biting economic sanctions...

Austria as willing audience for Ahmadinejad

STOP THE BOMB and Ariel Muzicant strongly criticize Austrian behavior at UN General Assembly >>

Stop Ahmadinejad! Successful rally against the UN-address of the Iranian President in Vienna

Occasioned by the address of the holocaust denier and President of the Iranian terror regime to the general assembly of the United Nations, about 300 people gathered in front of the opera house in Vienna on September 23. Their...

Trade Unions should focus on Iran

The Iranian regime's wholesale destruction of independent labour activity in the Islamic Republic includes the imprisonment of key trade union leaders. Mansour Osanloo and Ebrahim Madadi, leaders of the Tehran bus workers, have...

Obama should stand up for the Iranian people, and against the Iranian regime, at the UN.

Protesters chanted "Obama, Obama, your talks should be with us [not the regime]." Leading Iranian human rights activists have pleaded for other states to avoid steps that would confer legitimacy on the regime and grant it...

Rally against Ahmadinejad in Vienna

STOP THE BOMB protests against the UN-address of the Iranian President >>

Guide To A Big Mistake: U.S. Decision to Talk with Iran

The policy can be defended by saying that talking doesn’t hurt. But of course it does. Not only has Iran reversed the direction of events, sabotaged the sanctions, and escape any censure over the regime’s policies, it gains time...