THE EYERANIANS

Here is my reading of Khosrow Golesorkhi’s poem “Agar Yek Ba Yek Barabar Bood” which in translates to “If one was equal one” during last weekend’s Persian Performing Arts Show at the University of Texas at Austin. Sina Najmai played the Sitar. The text of this poem is posted at The Iranian. Golesorkhi was famous [...]

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Journalist Emadeddin Baghi who is also the head of Iran’s Organization for the Defense ‎of Prisoners’ Rights (Anjomane Defa az Hoghooghe Zendanian) has been in Evin prison ‎for 6 days now. He has written a letter to ayatollah Shahrudi, the head of the country’s ‎judiciary branch of government in which he mentions the threats that [...]

Ehsan Mansouri, Ahmad Ghassaban and Majid Tavakkoli, Three students of the Amir Kabir University were sentenced to 2, 2.5 and 3 years of prison a few days ago. Officials arrested the students in May along with five other students on charges of endangering national security and insulting Islam. They were accused specifically of distributing newsletters [...]

This letter was written by an employee of the NIOC (National Iranian Oil Company), Ali Mokhles, back in the 1960`s to his American boss, Mr.Hamilton. Dear Mr.Hamilton I, the undersigned, have worked in the NIOC in Masjed-Solyeman for three years, But since Mr.Ahmadi transferred here everything has changed. I don’t know “what a wet wood [...]

As many of you will be aware, jailed Iranian labour activist Mansour Osanloo faced the loss of vision in one eye while the regime refused him medical treatment.  A massive online campaign involving Amnesty International, the International Transport Workers Federation, and many thousands of LabourStart readers has resulted in Osanloo receiving the medical treatment he [...]

SHOWDOWN WITH IRANTuesday, October 23, 2007 9 P.M. (check local listings) As Iraq descends into chaos and civil war, FRONTLINE producer Greg Barker (The Age of AIDS, Ghosts of Rwanda) examines the rise of its neighbor–Iran–as one of America’s greatest threats and most puzzling foreign policy challenges. Through interviews with key players on both sides, [...]

Iranian veteran actor Ezzatollah Entezami recited the Message of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the 20th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty during a ceremony at the Honar Cultural Center. Entezami, who has previously raised funds for Afghan children during the USA invasion, alluded to a sentence in the message reading ‘let [...]

One of Iran’s best known human rights defenders, Emaddedin Baghi, the head of the Association for the Defence of Prisoners Rights and leading anti-death penalty campaigner, was detained on 14 October when he attended a session before Branch 14 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. Details

Mansour Osanloo, the jailed leader of the bus workers’ union in Tehran, faces the possible loss of his eyesight unless he receives urgent medical attention — which the Iranian authorities are denying him. Amnesty International has just now launched an online campaign calling on the Iranian government to allow Osanloo to receive medical attention.  I [...]