לפני חודשיים נעצר הבלוגר האיראני המפורסם ביותר, שאף ביקר כאן, בחשד לריגול לטובת ישראל. השלטונות האיראניים לא מאשרים ולא מכחישים את דבר מאסרו. האם הוא לוחם חופש אמיתי או סוכן של השלטונות? מי אתה, חוסיין דרחשאן? ניב ליליאן, ניר בומס (more…)
La abismal diferencia entre las acciones y las declaraciones de los funcionarios iraníes puede explicarse en el contexto de su misión central, una misión que comenzó en 1979 con la revolución del ayatolá Jomeini. Estos objetivos se hacen evidentes cuando se examinan las declaraciones y los documentos producidos por la...
"La ignorancia es poder", escribía George Orwell, en su clásico 1984, a propósito de la censura que practicaba en dicha novela la Policía del Pensamiento para que las ideas perniciosas no llegaran a las buenas personas. Por desgracia, el discurso del Gran Hermano ha hecho acto de presencia frecuentemente en...
Nov. 10, 2008 NIR BOMS and SHAYAN ARYA , THE JERUSALEM POST Following the passage in Teheran of a new Islamic Penal Code, which codifies the death penalty for males who abandon Islam, the Iranian government called for a conference on "Religion in the Modern World." With former UN secretary-general...
Nir Boms and Shayan Arya Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Policy experts continue to debate the best approach that should be implemented with the current Iranian leadership - but before getting there, they need to answer a key question regarding the strength of their potential adversary in Tehran. Many believe that...
As a sign of the troubled relations between Tehran and the West, Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno just renamed the street next to the Iranian embassy "July 9th St." - after the date symbolizing the 1999 student pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran. Iran responded angrily, but at the same time...
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi The National Interest | Tuesday, June 15, 2004 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...
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...
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...
By Nir Boms Published February 15, 2007 "Ignorance is power," wrote George Orwell in his famous book "1984," referring to the information police that kept bad ideas from the eyes of good people. Our world was not immune from this logic that reversed "good" with "bad" and "war" with "peace."...