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...
Nov. 2, 2004 22:51 | Updated Nov. 3, 2004 16:52 By NIR BOMS AND REZA BULORCHI While the world is busy contemplating the appropriate response to the looming Iranian nuclear threat - be it a European grand bargain, a covert operation, or a sophisticated military assault - life in Teheran appears...
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi If doubts remained as to the extent that last month's rigged Iranian elections were boycotted by Iranian citizens, they were put to rest Tuesday, March 16. That evening, on a walk through Tehran's residential neighborhoods, one could see just how loathed...
January 28, 2004 By Reza Bulorchi and Nir Boms Defying conventional wisdom, fresh voices of freedom appear to be coming from the Middle East as of late. Assad of Syria delivers his plans for democratization directly to the New York Times. Khaddafi of Libya delivers his to Newsweek, as he...
NIR BOMS and REZA BULORCHI, July 27, 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's "elected" president, will officially assume his post next month. The elections, no doubt, were a sham and the controversy about voting irregularities is far from settled. Iran's opposition sources revealed that the national ID cards of about five million...
Khatami's doublespeak and a hot potato. December 30, 2003 By Nir Boms "What I say does not definitely reflect what I think. What I do does not necessary reflect what I say. Therefore, not everything that I do necessary contradicts everything that I think." This explanation of "Middle Eastern Logic"...