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...
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi Published March 11, 2005 As Washington considers backing the European Union's proposal for trade benefits for Iran, troubling revelations emerged this week about Tehran's continued mislead-and-cheat tactics to hide the extent of its nuclear weapons program. (more…)
By Nir Boms and Elliot Chodoff, 6th May 2008 Executive Summary Thirty years following the Islamic evolution in Iran, its Zeal lives on - but with an escalating debate about its future. Ayatollah Khomeini's own grandsons, Ali Eshraghi and Hassan are playing central roles in the current debate...
By NIR BOMS and REZA BULORCHI July 7, 2004 It's tempting to dismiss Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's latest threat that Iran will harm America "around the world" if it attacks its interests as empty bluster from Iran's mullahs. But there are signs that Iran is taking concrete steps to match its...
2/2/2004 By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi Defying conventional wisdom, fresh voices of freedom appear to be coming from the Middle East as of late. Bashar Assad of Syria delivers his plans for democratization directly to the New York Times. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya delivers his to Newsweek as...
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...
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...
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...
August 4, 2004 By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi It is not often that legal rulings in other countries make headlines in the United States. But two recent verdicts in Iran have made activists in the U.S. and around the world take notice. Last week, Hashem Aghajari, who was previously...
By Nir Boms and Elliot Chodoff June 16, 2005 While Iran continues to play an ongoing nuclear ping-pong match with the European Union, risking the nuclear stability of the Middle East and a possible showdown with the West, it is also eagerly preparing for its upcoming elections Friday. Carrying the...