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Bruno Schirra: Germany's Spies Refuted the 2007 NIE Report

The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany's foreign intelligence agency, has amassed evidence of a sophisticated Iranian nuclear weapons program that continued beyond 2003. This usually classified information comes courtesy of...

Petition: Deny Ahmadinejad the visa to attend the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York!

Neither Ahmadinejad nor any of the members of his cabinet have any legitimacy to be recognized as the president or be regarded as the representatives of the Iranian nation. This is the least the civilized world can do for the...

Targeting Human Rights Abuse in Iran: A Postelection Strategy

The United States and Europe should focus on the regime's latest human rights abuses, signaling to Iranian dissidents that they are not alone and that current or future sanctions are not intended to punish them for a regime that...

Siemens risks losses due to Iran ties

Siemens could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in sales to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) because it sold Iran equipment used to spy on dissidents. Shirin Ebadi is urging Los Angeles County not to...

Iranian consumers boycott Siemen-Nokia for 'collaboration'

Nokia is the most prominent western company to suffer from its dealings with the Iranian authorities. Siemens is also accused of providing Iran with an internet filtering system called Webwasher.

German group called 'Mossad front'

Renate Künast, the head of one of Germany's main political parties, the Green Party, recently attacked the nonpartisan Stop the Bomb group as a front for Israeli intelligence, according to a member of the German-Israeli...

Hitting Tehran Where It Hurts

While a gasoline embargo is not a "silver bullet," it may be "silver shrapnel," and shrapnel also wounds. This is especially so since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is already under immense pressure.

Video: People & Power - Iran: Inside the protests

A unique look inside the protests in Iran

It is not just democracy that is illegal in Iran

We must make sure that our understandable focus on the pro-democracy protests does not cause us to overlook the threat to the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. It is at times such as these that the Iranian...

Iranian exile speaks out against militia he once supported

Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, a former child fighter and political prisoner, says Iran's bloody crackdown on protesters prompted him to 'out' ex-colleagues in Ansar-e Hezbollah who took part in the beatings.

Press release: Protest against meeting of the German-Iranian Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg on July 13 2009

Clerical discontent challenges Iran leader

The outright rejection by some clerics of election results that Khamenei ruled valid breaks a basic taboo against criticizing the man who in the philosophy of the Islamic Revolution literally represents God's rule on earth.

Iran Opposition Finds New Ways to Protest

Protesters have been asked to create a possible electrical blackout in Tehran by plugging in all their household electric appliances exactly at the same time, and to spray green paint on walls in their neighborhood -- moves that...

Let's Hear the Democracies

Germany, France and Italy are major trading partners with Iran. Their decision to refuse to recognize the Ahmadinejad regime would have an immense effect. More compelling still would be a similar declaration from the entire Group...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard acknowledges taking a bigger role in nation's security

Jafari's comments came the closest yet to publicly acknowledging what government supporters describe as a heroic intervention by the Revolutionary Guard and critics decry as a palace "coup d'etat" instigated by military elites...