Tag Archives: Human Rights

14May/08

Iranians in Fear of Fear

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By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi
Published March 23, 2006

Following two decades of Tehran’s lies and three years of international wishful thinking, Iran’s nuclear case was finally brought to the hands of the U.N. Security Council. In the meantime the mullahcracy in Tehran has been gearing itself for another phase of international standoff.   

On the same day Tehran declared “the Russian proposal is no longer on our agenda.” the Sunday Telegraph reported that Iran has built a secret underground emergency command center in north Tehran as “they prepare for a confrontation with the West over their illicit nuclear program.”     Continue reading →

14May/08

Chilling Iranian Stories

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Article published Jul 16, 2007

By Nir Boms

In the background of new reports about Iran’s ability to produce its own nuclear centrifuges and while Olli Heinonen, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s No. 2 is making his way to Tehran in order to observe the “transparency” of its nuclear program, Iran’s security forces appear busy with more pressing matters. Continue reading →

13May/08

Torture by Any Other Name

Human Rights, Iran, Middle East,

By Nir Boms
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 28, 2004

Earlier this month, Iran’s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi wasted no time denouncing the abuse of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison, accusing the United States of “systematically killing, torturing and raping Iraqis.” Echoing this statement, President Mohammad Khatami said, “The painful torture inflicted by the occupying forces on Iraqis is a great tragedy.” Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati went even further with his own invective saying “the pictures shown on the television showed the US criminal essence, which emanates from American savagery.”

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13May/08

Iran’s summer of Discontent

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Jun. 15, 2004

NIR BOMS & REZA BULORCHI

In recent years, summer in Iran has been marked by uprisings, strikes, public protests and the government’s harsh crackdown against them. There are signs this summer will be no different.

As the anniversary of the anti-government uprising of July 1999 approaches, widespread arrests of dissident students and women are taking place.

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