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Middle East transfer: The continuing Iranian persecution of its Ahwazi Arab population

Middle East transfer: The continuing Iranian persecution of its Ahwazi Arab population

By Nir Boms and Roee Nahmias, Henry Jackson Society, 6th September 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Over a million Arabs have been deported from the district of Al-Ahwaz, home to some eight million Arabs, in Southern-East Iran, near the Iraqi border. They have been replaced with Persian Iranians. Human rights activists in...

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May 26, 2008
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“Is Anyone Listening?”

“Is Anyone Listening?”

November 21, 2003, 9:08 By Nir Boms & Erick Stakelbeck "The advance of freedom is the calling of our time; it is the calling of our country." With this statement, made in his November 6, 2003, speech calling for the establishment of democracy in the Middle East, President Bush galvanized...

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May 26, 2008
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Rights for Some Humans

Rights for Some Humans

The UN established the HRC, an institution that promised to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms. Outrageously, instead of focusing on human rights violators such as Iran, Uzbekistan and China it adopted nine condemnatory resolutions against Israel. Nir Boms (5/17/2007) About a year ago, in March 2006, the UN adopted...

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May 22, 2008
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North Korea: A Time for Action

North Korea: A Time for Action

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | March 9, 2005 North Korea human rights abuse has reached a new peak last month in the midst of another nuclear crisis that was initiated by Pyongyang. Amid North Korea's announcement that it possesses nuclear weapons and is suspending its participation in "six-nation" nuclear talks, Kim...

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May 14, 2008
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The Start of a New Year in Iran

The Start of a New Year in Iran

  In 2008 let us help bring some ray of hope to those working towards freedom in Iran. The fate of Iran's political prisoners, whose numbers are estimated at 30,000, should accompany every international meeting and diplomatic engagement Nir Boms While in many parts of the world people were just...

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May 14, 2008
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Iranians in Fear of Fear

Iranians in Fear of Fear

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...

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May 14, 2008
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Chilling Iranian Stories

Chilling Iranian Stories

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,...

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May 14, 2008
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Torture by Any Other Name

Torture by Any Other Name

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...

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May 13, 2008
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Iran’s summer of Discontent

Iran’s summer of Discontent

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...

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May 13, 2008
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Dissident Graveyard

Dissident Graveyard

Khatami's "vision." May 04, 2004, 8:26 a.m. By Nir Boms & Erick Stakelbeck "I never said that we have no political prisoners. We have them, and that is incontestable. They have been jailed for what they believe in." With this admission, made during an April 27 event marking Iran's "National...

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May 13, 2008
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