Nir’s Notes

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 [...]

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By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | July 6, 2004 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are usually associated with humanitarian relief and peaceful advocacy work.  As such, it is not everyday that an NGO is in charge of recruiting “suicide volunteers” to dispatch overseas to strike at “world arrogance.” Yet that was precisely the case at a three-day conference [...]

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