We protest strongly this act of cultural treason committed by Mr. Soltanieh and the Islamic government and ask you to return this national treasure to our treasury immediately. The current government in Iran, which is in no way Iranian at heart, has no regard or respect for our pre-Islamic and ancient historical and cultural heritage. It has been systematically pilfering, destroying, and allowing theft or desecration of historical sites and symbols of Iranian ancient culture. Read more...
Kourosh Zaim has voiced the Iranian nation’s opposition to the Islamic regime since the beginning. Censorship of the press, silencing of the opposition, and forced retirement and expulsion of academics from universities are the norm in Iran. Yet Mr. Zaim has always spoken out for democracy and human rights, despite this repression. Now, imprisoning of known voices for human rights (including one of Mr. Zaim's lawyers, Nasrin Sotoudeh) have become commonplace. With the great wave rising against tyranny in the region, the Islamic regime has become terrified, and today more than ever Iran is a huge prison.
We, the undersigned academic, social, cultural, political, and human rights activists, point out the daily violations against human rights and the free press in Iran. We request your appointment of a UN Special Envoy to investigate abuses in Iran, and your earnest and speedy help in securing the release of prisoners of conscience there. In particular, we request your support in securing the release and freedom of Kourosh Zaim, as he is a much needed voice for stable and inclusive change in this critical time.
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There are two reasons that I, as an Iranian political activist, am writing to you today. One reason is the commemoration of the U.S. rescue of part of Iran from annexation by the Soviet Union in 1946, and the other is the current official action of the United States Navy under your command, in renaming the Persian Gulf for the sake of satisfying the egotistic preference of sheiks hosting the American fleet in the Persian Gulf. The Navy’s behavior goes against what America professes, namely truth and justice, and will not serve long-term American interests in the region. This surprising action has severely hurt the dignity and national pride of the Iranian people all over the world, and shaken their faith in the American values you aim to promote. The official Navy policy of using an artificial name, instead of the historical name Persian Gulf—declared by the United Nations long ago—may be signaling a dramatic shift of U.S. policy away from long-term interests with Iran, for the sake of immediate political or economic expediency Read more...
The people of Iran have nowhere to go to seek justice and voice complaint regarding this brutal regime and need international support, specifically from the United Nations.We implore your Excellency to make the violation of human rights and the injustice for Iranian citizens as important as is the nuclear crisis for the UN and Security Council.
Appointing a special envoy by your Excellency to Iran can help political prisoners and improve human rights in Iran. Read more...
Your Excellency, the troubling news and reports being received these days on media around the world have made us exceedingly worried that the bitter experience in Iraq and Afghanistan could be inadvertently repeated in Iran. The increase in American forces in the Persian Gulf, coupled with war cries emitted by Iranian officials on the one hand and certain U.S. quarters on the other, has us growingly concerned.
No doubt, Your Excellency, you are aware of the joint coup of the CIA and British intelligence services against the people’s democratically elected Dr. Mossadegh in Iran back in 1953. In addition to stopping the expansion of democracy in its tracks in Iran and the Middle East, it also presaged the distressing advent of the revolution that took place during 1979 in Iran. This event resulted in the expansion of terrorism throughout the Middle East and other parts of the world. Read more...
Ghorban Moradi a member of Iran National Front (INF) had been detained in Cypress nearly a year for immigration issues.Moradi who is a political refugee ,if sent back to Iran will face jail and brutal treatment by Islamic republic.INF officals in US have contacted the Interior Ministry of Cypress inquiring about this long , illegal and unjust detention.Next step for the release of Ghorban Moradi would be contacting the Human Rights commissioner and the Human Rights Watch by INF. Read more...
We recognize and respect Late Mr. Lech Aleksander Kaczinski, President of Republic of Poland, who was killed in a heart-breaking air disaster yesterday, as one of the most distinguished of Polish political activists and statesmen. Mr. Kaczinski who had dedicated his life to fighting for freedom and democracy and acted as advisor to the Solidarity freedom movement of Polish people in 1980s, remain an idol for us who are in a similar fight for freedom.
Iran National Front, a sixty-year-old political party founded in 1950, on principles of democracy, human rights and free elections by Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq, the only democratically elected head of state in Iran, expresses special respect for Late Mr. Kaczinski for his life-long struggle, his popularity with the people of Poland and for the respect he commanded internationally. In sadness, we offer people of Poland our deep condolences for loss of Mr. Kaczinski, his wife and his associates in government. Read more...
Kourosh Zaim: This is a civil movement. I'd like to remind this that in 2006, when Mr. Ahmadinejad was first declared president, in an analysis I said that the trend I see in the Islamic Republic politics is that we are moving toward official violence, militarization, widespread protestation and a silken revolution (meaning soft and strong). This is what the regime had been calling since a velvet revolution and fearful of it. Silken, velvet or colored, this is a civil movement. Read more...
Tel Aviv takes a step closer to war with Tehran as two Israeli warships sail through the Suez Canal within cruise-missile range of Iran.
Earlier this week, two Israel Navy warships, the Hanit and the Eliat, passed through the Suez Canal and across the Red Sea.
In a Thursday interview with the Times, a senior Israeli defense official said the move should be seen as serious preparations for a long-expected attack on Iranian nuclear sites.
"This is preparation that should be taken seriously. Israel is investing time in preparing itself for the complexity of an attack on Iran," said the Israeli defense official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity. "These maneuvers are a message to Iran that Israel will follow up on its threats," he added. Read more...
Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Can we still talk to these people? Should the Obama administration engage in dialogue with Iran? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations? After being jailed, interrogated and beaten by the Revolutionary Guards for 118 days for reporting honestly on the disputed June 12 presidential elections, I am often expected to oppose any dialogue. But the West still needs Iran and should continue talking to it -- no matter what it has done to people like me. Read more...
Toraj is the son od Korosh Zaim a senior member of Iran national front leadership who has been arrested since June 21 2009.He is in Evin prison but His charges are unknown.Touraj started his hunger strike on Sep 8 and he will end it on Sep 22/2009.Touraj will participate and he is one of the speakers in the demonstrations in N.Y in protest to Ahmadinejad's policies against iranian people on Sep 23 &24.
A short clip of the hunger strike /click here ABc report fron San Fransisco rally click here
You are certainly well aware of the recent events in Iran in the wake of the presidential elections of the June 12th of this year. The Iranian people showed up massively at the polls in the hope of bringing about democratic and peaceful change in the way their country is governed. Alas, the anti-democratic elements that have increasingly monopolized the power in Iran since the 1979 revolutions and have deprived the people of their most basic rights under the guise of religion were determined to prevent this change at any price. They grossly rigged the election and when the deeply shocked and disappointed people peacefully protested, they savagely attacked them. A large number among them were killed or injured, several thousands were arrested, imprisoned and subjected to most inhumane treatments, including torture and rape Read more...
The hunger strike begins with a press conference spearheaded by District Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, on the Polk Street steps of City Hall at noon on Tuesday, September 8th. Other speakers T.B.A. My fast begins immediately following the press conference on the SW corner of Civic Center Park (Grove & Polk). It will end fourteen days later on Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, when I go to New York to speak for the rally at the United Nations building. People will be invited to come meditate or pray and to hold candlelights vigils during the fast. A blog will keep track of activities at CaspianVoice.org. Read more...
Here is the list of those killed and detained in Iran, updated as information becomes available. The list is by no means comprehensive and does not include people arrested at protests on the streets.
Government officials have announced a total of 627 arrests in Tehran since 13 June 2009, 170 people detained prior to 15 June, 457 detained persons on 20 June, and 27 dead. Other sources claim these numbers are much higher. The Campaign believes, based on reports received from within Iran, as many as 2,000 people could be under arrest throughout the country. The following is a list of prominent political personalities, journalists, and students that the Campaign has received.
Left:Abdollah Momehi One of the students leaders<<<<<<>>>>> Right:Korosh Zaim one of INF leaders Read more...
Iranians daily, beating and killing innocent people with guns, knives, axes, motorbike chains, clubs and electric prods. The Basiji killers aimed for Neda’s heart, shot her in cold blood, and left her dying on the street.
The name Neda means "the call" or "the voice" in Farsi.
Please join us in the call to march for Neda and for Iran. Support Iranians fighting for freedom. Read more...
TEHRAN, Iran – An eerie calm settled over the streets of Tehran Sunday as state media reported at least 10 more deaths in post-election unrest and said authorities arrested the daughter and four other relatives of ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Iran's most powerful men.
The reports brought the official death toll for a week of boisterous confrontations to at least 17. State television inside Iran said 10 were killed and 100 injured in clashes Saturday between demonstrators contesting the result of the June 12 election and black-clad police wielding truncheons, tear gas and water cannons.
Police and members of Iran's Basij militia took up positions Sunday afternoon on major streets and squares, including the site of Saturday's clashes, but there was no immediate word on whether protesters were gathering.
Iran's regime continued to impose a blackout on the country's most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Read more...
INF--Abroad Press release:
A high ranking member of Iran National Front(INF) has been arrested in Tehran by Islamic republic secret police at 2 A.M on June 21 2009.The police had searched his house and took his computer and papers .His charges and whereabout are unknown .Mr.Zaim is an aurthor of many best seller books in Iran and has done extensive research in economics and development as well as cultural in Iran.
INF abroad demands the immediate release of Mr.Zaim . Read more...
TEHRAN, Iran – Thousands of protesters defied Iran's highest authority Saturday and marched on waiting security forces that fought back with baton charges, tear gas and water cannons as the crisis over disputed elections lurched into volatile new ground.
In a separate incident, a state-run television channel reported that a suicide bombing at the shrine of the Islamic Revolution leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini killed at least two people and wounded eight. The report could be not independently evaluated due to government restrictions on journalists.
If proven true, the reports could enrage conservatives and bring strains among Mousavi's backers. Another state channel broadcast images of broken glass but no other damage or casualties, and showed a witness saying three people had been wounded. Read more...
Tomorrow, our beloved land will reach its destiny. During Friday prayer, which was paid by the people, a threating speech was delivered by the leader of darkness and oppression. In doing so, he brought together the agents of darkness.But tomorrow, the bearers of Democracy will show those , who believe in darkness, that indeed, they are the rightful owners of this land.
Tomorrow, the blood of the martyrs of this month, which was shed for freedom, will be honored. They are the ones who signed the title of the land to us with their blood.
Tomorrow, the people will see if Mir Hosein Mosssavi is the man of the Azadi(freedom) circle, and if revolutionary guards and basiji will protect the will of the people. Tomorrow, the world will see if murderers and liars will continue to rule our land, or whether the foundation of oppression will be cracked, allowing peace to reign free. Read more...
For decades since the 1979 revolution the primary tension defining politics in Iran had stemmed from the irreconcilable contradiction at the heart of its constitution between its "Islamist" (particularly the concept of velayat-e faqih or rule by the supreme jurisprudence) and its republican ideals; or, if you will, between the will of the ruling clerics and the will of the people. As many commentators have observed, the tension had existed from the outset of the revolution and has expressed itself in the establishment of a parallel or dual form of government that continues to privilege the appointed over the elected institutions and offices of the state. Read more...
This is a photo received through Twitter of a man allegedly shot by pro-government militia near a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir
Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. This terrible photograph was apparently taken by Associated Press photographer Vahid Salemi.
AP – Supporters of reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi show victory signs during a rally …
By ANNA JOHNSON and ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writers Anna Johnson And Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writers – 27 mins ago
TEHRAN, Iran – Hundreds of thousands of opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied an Interior Ministry ban Monday and streamed into central Tehran to cheer their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since elections that he alleges were marred by fraud. Gunfire from a compound used by pro-government militia killed one demonstrator. Read more...
As hawks, they still favor "doing" Iran the old-fashioned way -- if you don't mind the canonization of the Bush II's first term. True, the 2008 US elections have limited their power reach inside Washington. But they remain unrepentant in their strategic aims, especially when it comes to Iran. And today's unfavorable political circumstances present them with as yet another challenge to overcome. Need I note that as a group they are not strangers to challenges nor are they known to be challenge-averse? Read more...
On May 25, 2009, something very rare in Iranian history occurred. A coalition composed of grassroots pro-democracy political forces in Iran was formed.[1] There is little doubt that the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran has lost its legitimacy. There is also little doubt that no opposition organization could on its own establish democracy and human rights in Iran.
The desperate need for a broad-based coalition has animated Iranian political activists for some time. Outside Iran, there have been several attempts to bring together groups and individuals to form a powerful opposition organization with little success. However, actual coalitions of forces have been very rare in Iranian history. Read more...
جبهه ملی ایران فرا رسیدن سال نو میلادی را شادباش میگوید و آرزوی سالی سرشار از صلح و عدالت را برای ملل جهان دارد .
<.b > Happy new year from Iran National Front ,wishing the world a year field with peace and justice Read more...
Your election as the President of the United States of America has aroused new hopes among many people for more effective and substantively different U.S. foreign policies. One particularly challenging foreign policy issue facing your administration is the current U.S./Iran standoff. I would like to take this opportunity and offer my thoughts on how your administration may best approach this longstanding issue. I do so as one who has received much of his military training in the U.S. in the early 1950s, represented Iran in the U.S.-backed Central Treaty Organization in Turkey in the early 1960s, held the position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces during the early months of the provisional government headed by premier Bazargan after the 1979 revolution, and has since remained active and concerned with the historical developments affecting Iran. Read more...
The sheer truth is that with the discretionary supervision of the Guardian Council, An appointed body, which bars any candidate not fully committed to the tenets of the regime, there have been no free elections whatsoever, under the Islamic Republic regime in Iran. A regime, in which a single person in the guise of Supreme Leader has the last say in each and every business of the country and the conduct of government, has no compatibility with democracy and rule of law. In this regime the human rights and particularly the rights of women are flagrantly and constantly violated. Political dissidents are arrested, mistreated and thrown in jail without charges or after arbitrary and summary trials. Independent newspapers are banned or muzzled and websites and personal blogs are filtered. Notwithstanding, Mr. Ahmadi Nejad has had the nerve to brag everywhere about the absolute liberty the Iranians are enjoying under his watch. Read more...
We are hereby honored to nominate Mr. Abdolali Adib Boroumand, Iran’s National Poet, political and human rights activist, for the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature.
Mr. Boroumand, Born 1924, in the city of Isfahan, a lawyer by academics and profession, a linguist and literary icon, has been one of the most renowned poets of Iranian modern history. His seven books of poetry are collection of hundreds of poems he has written all in support of people’s struggle for freedom, democracy and human rights. His latest collection of poems in support of freedom movements around the world named “Message of Freedom” has been translated into 8 other languages such as English, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean Tagalog and Esperanto, and is being translated into a dozen more. His fans in Asian and western countries are dubbing him as an “International Poet” and setting up a multi-lingual site in order to make his works accessible internationally. Read more...
I am writing to you as the longest-held political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and as a prisoner of conscious who has spent more than 29 years of his life in the regime’s dungeons for the crime of defending popular sovereignty and establishing democracy in Iran. I am currently on medical furlough in order to receive necessary treatment for medical conditions, the origins of which are the long imprisonment, as well as the maltreatment, malnutrition, and lack of medical care during my imprisonment. I am writing to you at a time of high tensions between Iran and the world community, the nuclear crisis, and the danger of another war. Read more...
Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty International renews its call for those responsible for the “prison massacre” to be held accountable. There should be no impunity for such gross human rights violations, regardless of when they were committed.
The organisation is also calling on the present Iranian government not to prevent relatives of the dead from visiting Khavaran Cemetary in south Tehran , on or about 29 August to mark the anniversary and demand justice for their loved ones. Hundreds of those summarily executed are buried in the cemetery, many of them in unmarked mass graves.
Amnesty International fears that the Iranian authorities may seek to impede or disperse any protests and reminds the Iranian government of its Read more...
Fifty-five years ago this week, in mid-August of 1953, Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq, the prime minister of Iran, was toppled in a royalist coup code-named Operation AJAX by its US and British backers. The coup delivered a severe blow to the cause of constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law in Iran, and ultimately altered the path of politics there, in the region, and globally in ways that ought to be familiar to discerning readers today.
Recently, fully a third of my students in a class of thirty on the politics of the Middle East identified Dr. Mossadeq as the founder of the religion of Islam! And no, I don’t think Mossadeq’s name will resonate any better with the North American public at large. For the political managers and the mainstream media in the US have not shown any sustained inclination to inform the public of the crimes of the state they serve. They fear that an informed citizenry aroused by its sense of moral outrage may act as an unstoppable agent of humanizing change. But ignorance about Mossadeq and his fate renders a proper understanding of how and why global politics has come to its present disastrous course in the Middle East and beyond rather unlikely. So let’s break the silence on this epochal event and remind ourselves of what had taken place, why, and what it has meant for us all. Read more...
Recently a few people have contacted US media specialty VOA, and intoduced themselves as INF(inside Iran) represntatives abroad. INF and the Leadership Council in Iran have announced numerous times that there is no organic relationship with activists abroad, and INF has no represetatives outside of Iran.
INF-US was established in Washington D.C.in 1996. Admiral Ahmad Madani was the secretary general of INF-Abroad. He passed away in Feb. 2006, but more than 100 members of INF_US remain active, and a seven member executive committee carries INF -US affairs. These affairs are mostly a reflection of the activities of INF inside Iran (defending political prisoners rights and promoting the women movement in Iran, as well as the students and workers movement). INF-US has offices in Boston, L.A., Northern California, and Washington D.C.Despite the fact that INF-US is the largest organization among the many INF groups abroad, we do not interfere with INF rules and regulations inside Iran. Furthermore, we have always respected their wishes.
Abroad, there are smaller factions of INF. However, these factions sometimes work against each other. Furthermore, personal problems have diverted the focus of the INF message established by our beloved leader, Dr.Mossadegh, who founded INF in 1948. He established INF for the purpose of nationalizing the oil Industry In Iran. His message stated the principles of independence, freedom, and social justice for Iran.
Bijan Mehr
INF-US
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NEW YORK, Jul 26 (IPS) - In his new book on the covert history of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, award-winning journalist Roozbeh Mirebrahimi says that Western powers, including the United States, accelerated events by recognising and supporting religious revolutionary forces, forcing the shah to leave the country and averting a coup by Iran's army.
In 1953, the United States had deposed the popular government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet via a CIA-backed coup d'état. Anti-communist civilians and army officers supported the coup. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's second departure from Iran, almost a month before the victory of the revolution in February 1979, had dramatically raised concerns among the leaders of the revolution that Washington would try to stage another coup to bring back the shah, who had fled to the United States. However, diplomats who were at the centre of events say that an accommodation was reached between Western countries and Iran's Islamic clergy. Read more...
Since the Islamic Republic took power in Iran nearly three decades ago, women of Iran have been treated as second-class citizens, and laws have been instituted in order to deprive Iranian women officially of their basic civil and human rights. The new laws not only stripped Iranian women of their traditional and historical equality with men, but prescribed the most inhumane punishments for any violations of these newly instituted restrictions. A woman is considered half a man in courts, civil disputes, and material comparatives, although in punishments women must take even part of what man must endure. They are forced to dress and behave according to official guidelines and continually harassed, insulted or arrested in the streets, at gatherings, and at places of employment. Read more...
A review of the activities and achievements of the women’s movement in Iran, makes clear that for some time this movement has – in many ways and forms - moved ahead of other movements and political efforts. Among others, the freedom of Nazanin 1, pardon of Makrameh 2, the noticeable increase of international solidarity with the “ Change For Equality Campaign”3, the presence of men and youth in this campaign side by side with the women, the questioning of the absolute nature of patriarchal regime, debates on gender taboos as well as the bestowing of the Olaf Palme Prize to Parvin Ardalan, are some of the achievements of the this movement in the past solar (Iranian) year. Read more...
Your statements concerning our sovereign and ownership rights in Caspian Sea, our sovereign, cultural and strategic interests in Persian Gulf, our strategic interests and legal rights in Arvand Rud, your positions on the UN Security Council resolutions and UN powers all stem from your lack of knowledge of international law and the responsibilities and powers of the international organizations, and even our own history, failures which cannot be easily forgiven. Read more...
It is astonishing to note the ignorance of Google Site Administrators with regard to the facts and history of our civilizations on the planet Earth! Throughout the history of mankind, as recorded in all authentic documents in different world libraries, museums and archives, the gulf which is separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula is called Persian Gulf, and nothing else.
It is not the political choice or taste of a superpower, depending on the mood of the day or time, to distort or rename the facts of history. Iran National Frontّ Organization(INF), which is struggling for peace, implementation of human rights and democracy in Iran , strongly condemns the misrepresentation of Iranian people, or their cultural heritage in any manner. Read more...
The site being destroyed by the Islamic Republic is the ancient city of “Hormoz Ardeshir” dating back to the period of 2000 to 4000 years ago, which was registered as an Iranian National Heritage site in 1931 under docket Number 43. This site, due to its international value, must be registered as a world heritage site with the UNESCO as well. A deed we shall demand be done, if it survives the Islamic Republic. Read more...
The most noteworthy aspect of the “election game” of the 8th parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was the endeavor of those persons and groups who were active players , to appear as if each possessed an optimal plan. Among those laying claim to power, each faction sought to use any means, including character assassination, in order to present their choices as the most effective. But in fact neither the option of participation, nor that of boycott could be considered intelligent and true options for the Iranian society, and the promoters of none of these options, even should those backing participation win some of the coveted seats , had an effective program for the day after the elections. Read more...
فرا رسیدن نوروز ۱۳۸۷ و ۲۹ اسفند سالروز ملی شدن صنعت نفت را به ملت ایران تهنیت میگوییم.
Happy new year from all of us in Iran National Front-Abroad
Hassan Lebaschi/Bijan Mehr/Hadi Zamani/A.H.Aryanpour/Hormoz Chamanara/manochere ghanbari/Farzin Bostajani/Morteza Anvari/Hassan Sharyatmadari/Mehran Barati/Mahmood Jafari/Kamal Aras/Reza Siavoshi ................................ Read more...
Whereas, a proposal has been made by me to your good office on June 5, 2007, Kourosh Zaim to amend Articles 5 and 7 of the Rome Statute by adding crimes against world cultural heritage as crimes against humanity punishable by international law through the International Criminal Court;
AND WHEREAS, said proposal was confirmed and recommended at the Tehran International Law Conference of June 2007, and which said proposal has been duly submitted to the office of the President of the International Criminal Court for consideration and further action, Read more...
جبهه ملی ایران سال ۲۰۰۸ را به شما شادباش میگوید و آرزوی سالی سرشار از صلح و دوستی برای تمام ملل جهان دارد
Happy new year from all of us in JMI News
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2 Members of INF_Abroad have been in immigaration jail for last 7 months.Nader Maghsoudlou and Aliakbar Jamshidi had organized and participated in "Student Day" demonstrations for freedom of political prisoners in Iran , in front of Islamic Republic Embassy in Nicozia .They were also very active in collecting signitures in support of AmirEntezam's National Congeres proposal for unity of Iranian opposision. Read more...
Cyrus! You have never died, for your spirit is alive within us.
Cyrus! We are ashamed before you, for we have many times in the past have let aliens in thought and heart and those without cultural identity to rule your land and to destroy our prominent cultural heritage and identity. We let the ignorant to rule us, so that untruth, deceit and corruption take the place of traditional truthfulness, honesty and brotherhood. And, that the traditional Iranian motto of good thought, good word and good deed be sacrificed in the struggle for survival. Read more...
Twenty five centuries ago, when savagery was the dominant factor in human societies, a civilized and compassionate declaration was written on clay and issued to the “four corners of the world” that dealt with important issues relevant to the rights of humans, the same issues that not only in those days but even today can inspire those who believe in human dignity and rights.
This document, known as “The Declaration of Cyrus the Great,” emphasized on the removal of all racial, national discrimination and slavery, bestowing to the people, freedom to choose their places of residence, faith and religion and giving prominence to the perpetual peace amongst the nations. This Declaration could actually be considered as a present from the Iranian people, expressed through the words of Cyrus, their political leader and the founder of the first empire in the world, to the whole humanity. In 1971, the general assembly of the United Nations recognized it as the first Declaration of Human Rights, thus, registering such an honor to the name of Iran as the cradle of this first historical attempt to establish the recognition of human rights. Read more...
We understand that the behavior of our government of Islamic Republic on the international stage has generated such negative reactions that the Ukrainian public opinion too cannot help but be affected by its anti-human rights and anti-democratic connotations. However, the general attitude of the Ukrainian police and government officials, especially in Ministries involved in foreign student affairs, must not be allowed to reflect pre- judgment of the Iranian people. Much like the Ukrainian public resented being judged by the Soviet Unions' misbehavior, Iranian public like to be regarded only as a people rich in cultural background and respectful of, as well as historical contributor to, international norms and rules. Read more...
Considering our capability to act as a whistle-blower that informs the rest of the world about this unfortunate and ongoing saga,A new cultural foundation has legally been created and registered under the name, Pasargad Heritage Foundation (PHF). This foundation has been created as homage to Cyrus the Great, the author of the first human rights declaration in the history of mankind.PHF is a not-for-profit, non-political and non-religious organization managed and run by unpaid volunteers from all over the world. They are only motivated by their love of the Iranian cultural treasures and their belief in the necessity of their preservation. Read more...
A few days after the broadcast of a television show featuring two Iranian academics, Shirin Ebadi, the defense lawyer for Haleh Esfandiari and winner of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, says her client has been deprived of all her rights as a citizen since the case began. In an interview with Rooz, Ebadi said the day after the television program entitled “In the Name of Democracy” was broadcast, Haleh Esfandiari contacted her mother and said: “I don’t know what else to do. Get me out of here.” Following is the interview. Read more...
TEHRAN, June 10 (MNA) -- The celebrated scholar and professor of archeology and sociology Parviz Varjavand died of heart failure on the morning of June 10. Varjavand was the first culture minister in the provisional government of Mehdi Bazargan which was formed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.Born in 1934 in Tehran, he graduated with an MA from the University of Tehran and also obtained a PhD in the Renovation of Monuments and Classical Architecture of Iran from the University of Sorbonne in France.He published the first Iranian students’ newspaper when he was 16.Varjavand was active in cultural heritage affairs and he made efforts to register Persepolis, the Choghazanbil Ziggurat and Naqsh-e Jahan complex on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Read more...
In their efforts to combat tyranny and achieve freedom and democracy, theoreticians of various Iranian political groups have been recently placing constitutional monarchy vs. republicanism. Which one is more popular in Iran today has been debated without conclusion. Some view constitutional monarchy as the solution, while others see republicanism to be capable of doing the job. There are of course others too who advance a third way, which is the least reformist. Read more...
As the G8 summit progresses, Rooz Online talked with Iranian international affairs expert Parviz Varjavand. He believes that the streamlining of the views and positions of China and Russia with those of the US would lead to harsher decisions over Iran regarding its nuclear stand off at the meeting. In view of the new Middle East crises and Tehran’s diplomatic and domestic postures, decisions at the summit could be very threatening to the national security of Iran, he added. Read on for excerpts of the interview. Read more...
Please listen to the last clamor of Bolaghi Gorge
Pasargad Plains and the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great!
An open letter to the world
Ladies and gentlemen! According to the official news-agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the government of Mr. Ahmadinejad has decided to begin the impoundment of the Sivand Dam in the next few days, despite the fact that many experts and thousands of people from all over the world have protested against such an atrocious act. Read more...
Depicting native-Americans as savages during the early periods of Hollywood was not humane, but understandable in the light of official propaganda and the unavailability of historical information about their cultures. There was no written history, no inter-cultural communication and or cultural interaction at the time to prove Hollywood wrong or presume mischief in making deliberately insulting movies. Read more...
“Better to have a few free criminals than to hold an innocent man in captivity,” says Imam Ali [the first Shia Imam]. But apparently, the conservatives, who claim to follow the Imam’s path, insist on behaving in exactly the opposite manner. Read more...
For many Iranians the cinematic movie ‘300’ may come as a shocking revelation. But to those of us who came up through America’s school system, the ‘Battle of Thermopylae,’ which is what the movie ‘300’ is based on, is as familiar as George Washington’s fabled “cherry tree” episode. Read more...
The “29th of Esfand” (20th of March) is the Eve of Persian New Year. This day is also the day that Iranian oil was nationalized by Dr. Mosaddegh. This year, Iranian students in Northern California and Jebhe Melli Iran are holding a two-day conference on March 16th, 17th, and Meeting on March 18th at University of California, Berkeley, to celebrate that seminal event. Read more...
Members of the Swedish Parliament and the political party (Folkpartiet Liberalerna) call for the immediate and unconditional release of women’s rights advocates who have been arrested recently by the Iranian official security forces. We hold the Iranian government fully responsible for the well-being of the detainees.The Islamic Republic, once again, has violated the rights of its citizens under both international and Iranian law. Freedom of assembly is a fundamental right Read more...
Jebheh Melli Iran, our mother organization in Tehran, is a political party founded 57 years ago with the goal of establishing democratic government and full commitment to the International Bill of Human Rights to which Iran has been a signatory. JMI has been and still is the most respected opposition political organisation in Iran by the people for its steadfastness, unwavering devotion to democracy and human rights. JMI, true to the Iranian heritage, has always maintained the highest standards of integrity, truthfulness and public leadership. Read more...
When criticism on the make-up and effectiveness of the former Commission on Human Rights lead to reform, the expectation was re-formation of this essential world body into an effective and authoritative entity the people of the world could depend on for protection of their basic rights. However, the most significant change instituted was merely an administrative status change from an independent Commission to a subsidiary Council. No qualitative change was affected. Read more...
Dr. Paviz Varjavand, spokesman and member of INF leadership council, has been summoned to the "Government employee" court. theformer acting Cultural Minister after the 1979 revolution has been charged with
propaganda against the regime of Islamic Republic. Dr. Varjavand, a University professor, respected archeologist and cultural expert, had been very outspoken concerning the destruction of Iran's historic sites and cultural herritage. He was jailed for 3 years in the 1980s, when ayatollah Khomeini declared Iran National Front(INF) as "INFIDELS". Read more...
Hostility to Jew by the present and past Iranian rulers has always been condemned by the Iranian people as a reprehensible and disgraceful act. The history of our country shows that Iranians have always treated minorities with respect and that our people, drawing on lofty Iranian traditions, have lived in peace and harmony with their neighbours for many centuries. Read more...
The liberation struggles of the Iranian people to establish democracy in our country had begun since the constitutional movement (1905) and after 70 years of struggles was able to overthrow the dictatorial monarchical system in 1979. The era witnessed the struggles for the Constitution and reached heights of success in nationalizing our oil under the leadership of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh and after that the widespread, persistent and glorious struggles of the Iranian people to overthrow the monarchy with the hope of establishing democracy was a long journey that took only 70 years. Read more...
The United Nations is meant to be a world government and, technically, an authoritative body much more powerful than the member countries. This, however, has not been the case, and the existing administrative structure of the UN does not allow for an independent and powerful world government.
The UN does not posses the strength it is expected to have, and not because there is any flaw in the idea of the UN, but in how its membership and representation is defined. Although this world body is the "United Nations" by definition, it is the "United Governments" by rule and practice. The strength of the UN is dependent on how strong and when and for what purpose the more powerful or favored member governments allow it to be. The UN should eventually be the final and independent authority serving the interests of the people of the world. However, because it is represented by the governments rather than the nations, it does not always enjoy the support of the peoples of the member countries. This may not be as serious of a case for countries where leaders are chosen through free elections, but, in the countries ruled by despots or in which free elections are rarely experienced, is of grave concern. The UN has, as a result, been a brokerage house for governments, a great number of which have not been and still are not true representatives of their peoples. Read more...
Since the establishment of the International Committee to Save the Archeological Sites of Pasargad Plains less than two years ago, we have continuously read the news and reports of your exciting excavations and discoveries and have reflected on them in the Committee's site, as well as sending them to hundreds of interested people around the globe. Thus, your names are now known and esteemed by numerous people who love cultural and historical remainders of the past. We all have followed you, step by step, with utmost concern and hope. We are all aware that you have done whatever was humanely feasible with the aim of preserving the archeological sites of Bolaghi Gorge. Read more...
Mr. Zaim had been an activist in support of democracy and human rights in Iran. His opposition to mismanagement of affairs by the Islamic regime in Iran, especially on the nuclear technology crisis and the destruction of “Pasargad” tomb of Cyrus the great (a 2500 year old ancient site) have lead the rulers to his arrest. Mr. Zaim has been voicing the Iranian nation’s opposition to the Islamic regime. Censorship of Press, silencing the opposition and the expulsion and retirement of academia and scholars from participating at Universities, are a way of life in Iran today. Read more...
At a time that the Tehran regime has multiplied its bellicose statements and irresponsible rhetoric toward the outside world, the brutal crackdown on political dissidents has also dramatically intensified in Iran and fresh restraints has been imposed on the already badly muzzled independent press. Read more...
Mr. Ahmadi-Nejad and his guardian Islamic regime are not representing Iranian people. Although no freedom-loving human being in the world today would advocate military action against such a brutal regime, however, we would like to see your support for freedom of all political prisoners in Iran, including Mr. Korosh Zaim and Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam, two of political leaders, freedom of press, and conducting a free democratic national election in support of democracy and human rights in Iran. Islamic regime can not tolerate any genuine political alternative in Iran. Read more...
A high ranking member of Iran National Front(INF) has been arrested in Tehran by Islamic republic secret police .His charges are unknown and according to Dr.Varjavand( another member of INF executive board )he is in the notorious Evin Prison.Mr.Zaim is an aurthor of many best seller books in Iran and has done extensive research in economics and development in Iran.His last research was about under construction Sivand dam in Fars province, which if built will damage a 2500 year tomb of Cyrus the great.
INF abroad demands the immediate release of Mr.Zaim . Read more...
Mr. Khatami and his guardian Islamic regime are not representing Iranian people. Although no freedom-loving human being in the world today would advocate military action against such a brutal regime, however, we would like to see your support for freedom of all political prisoners in Iran, including Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam, one of political leaders, freedom of press, and conducting a free democratic national election in support of democracy and human rights in Iran. Read more...
The people of Iran made history three times in less than a century by successful popular movements to replace dictatorships with parliamentary democracies. Each time becoming a model for other enslaved nations in the region, and each time seeing their democracies, so painfully earned, destroyed by the ugly marriage of foreign power interests and those of the self-serving clergy. Read more...
The Russian-made Ilioshin plane is one of the planes that Saddam Hussein sent to Iran during the first Gulf War for safekeeping, when Saddam invaded Kuwait. But Iran never returned them to Iraq. Read more...
We fear that he may end up sharing the same fate as other courageous political prisoners, such as Zahra Kazemi, who was brutally raped and murdered in Evin Prison, and Akbar Mohammadi, who recently died in Evin’s hospital, after a long and painful hunger strike. Read more...
The United States condemns the Iranian government's severe repression of dissidents, and its continued crackdown on civil society and those fighting for personal freedom in Iran. The regime's actions resulted in the recent death ofimprisoned Iranian student activist Akbar Mohammadi. Mr. Mohammadi died on July 30, eportedly as a result of a prolonged hunger strike, still in the notorious Evin Prison where he has been held for his role in pro-democracy student demonstrations in July 1999. Unfortunately, Mr. Mohammadi's detention was notan isolated case. Read more...
NEW YORK -- A top Iranian journalist and activist recently released from prison said Sunday that the war in Iraq has hurt the democracy movement in Iran and that until control of oil revenue is wrested from state hands there will be no democratic nations in the Middle East. Read more...
About 70 years ago a number of archaeological artefacts were borrowed by an American archaeologist from an Iranian museum and taken to America with the excuse of carrying out scientific research on them.(The research must have been very profound taking two generations of scientists!). Read more...
Said Mortazavi has been at the centre of the violation of human rights in its most cruel and brutal form in Iran, and his appointment to represent Iran is condemned and resented by all freedom loving people, in particular those who have suffered from his criminal activities in Iran. Read more...
Just after the lightning takeover of Baghdad by U.S. forces three years ago, an unusual two-page document spewed out of a fax machine at the Near East bureau of the State Department. It was a proposal from Iran for a broad dialogue with the United States, and the fax suggested everything was on the table -- including full cooperation on nuclear programs, acceptance of Israel and the termination of Iranian support for Palestinian militant groups. Read more...
After Kazemi's death, Hachemi demanded that Iran return her body to Canada for burial – but Iran refused. He has also been critical of the federal government, saying Ottawa did not do enough to help his mother. He has demanded that Canada take the case to the International Court of Justice. Read more...
(New York, June 15, 2006) – Iran must investigate the police beating of hundreds of women’s rights activists during a peaceful demonstration in Tehran on Monday, Human Rights Watch said today. The organization called on the government to release those detained after the police attack on protestors. Read more...
Iran National Front - Abroad (INF) does not advocate the use of force in confronting the Islamic regime or even economic sanctions, since it will cause more suffering on Iranian people and encourage the freedom loving people within the country to consolidate their forces behind the existing regime in defense of the country. This will hinder any attempt by the Iranian people in their political struggle to implement democracy in Iran. INF Abroad strongly believes in a major policy decision at the United Nation to apply Political Sanctions against the non-democratic regime of Iran which is not the legitimate representative of the nation to enter into any agreement. Read more...
Over a half century ago, Iranian people, under the leadership of the prime minister and founder of INF, Dr.Mossadegh, had achieved a great victory by nationalizing the Oil industry.This event was the beginning of many movements against colonialism and for independence in the world. Read more...
This letter provides and discusses what I judge to be a new concept for peace in the Middle East. For background, it provides (in the initial several pages) a short history of the situation in Palestine. This is followed (at the end of the letter) by my five point conceptual proposal on how to reverse and mitigate the ugly situation. Read more...
A 17-year-old boy, known only as Ne'mat, is facing imminent execution. The Supreme Court has rejected his appeal, so he could be executed at any time. The Head of the Judiciary has the power to order a stay of execution and a review of the case. Iran is a state party to international treaties that expressly prohibit the death penalty for crimes committed by those under the age of 18. Read more...
A friend says former University of Toronto professor Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian-Canadian detained in a prison in Tehran since last week, has been transferred to a hospital.
Evin is the prison that Montrealer Zahra Kazemi was trying to photograph when she was arrested on June 23, 2003. Kazemi was beaten so badly by interrogators that she died. Read more...
We the signatories of this letter have dedicated our lives to studying the Middle East and it is in that capacity and as concerned citizens that we write to strongly oppose and warn against the military option in Iran. As the International Atomic Energy Agency has found no evidence of research or diversion of materials toward atomic weapons in Iran, concerns about future dual use of nuclear technology ought to be addressed in face to face negotiations Read more...
19 November 2005 (CHN) -- Persian (Iranian) people in the English-speaking countries are the only community who use two different terms to refer to their language, "Farsi" and "Persian." This behavior has caused some confusion among the Westerners as to the appropriateness of these terms. Read more...
Iran's ambitions to develop nuclear weapons more than likely exceed the country's ability to procure or develop the technology, according to Dr. Seyf Ehdaie, a professor of environmental science at the University of Texas at the Permian Basin and native of Iran. Read more...
For years, information about Iranian prisons and the fate of their victims have gradually been collected and documented by several human rights organizations, most recently by the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center and the Boroumand Foundation. As a result of these efforts, indictment of those who perpetrated crimes against political prisoners and other citizens of Iran will be forthcoming. Confronting a moral dilemma, S. Ardavan, and hundreds of victims like her, will have to decide on either amnesty or retribution. Read more...
A number of Iranian opposition leaders and political analysts will be discussing the current issues regarding the terrorist regime of Iran and the alarming nature of the recent crisis with the U.S. These issues are relevant to the future of Iranian people and the future of our homeland. Read more...
The assembly and the centeral committee of Iran National Front (INF) in US have been changed. In the last meeting of INF assembly on March 12 2006 ,Mr.Moalem and Dr.Toosi directors of International committee and youth committee were replaced by Dr.Razi From Houston University and Mr.Ghanbary from California . Also in that meeting, Admiral Aryanpour(RET) and Dr. Bahramian from Maryland University were elected as the advisors of the assembly by the majority vote of assembly members.
Biography of new officals Read more...
The attitude of the U.S., some western governments and Israel toward Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections and a Hamas-dominated government is bewildering. Isn't this outcome what everybody wanted? That a militia organization to become a responsible and accountable government? Where is logical political foresight and good sense? Read more...
A Persian proverb says that "an idiot drops a stone in a well a hundred wise men can't pull out."
Publishing by a Danish newspaper of an offensive caricature of a prophet revered by hundreds of millions of people, contrary to what Danish government claimed, is not "freedom of expression" by a long shot. It is merely social irresponsibility. If this is freedom of expression, then child pornography is also freedom of expression. Read more...
In his 26 years exile he was a major figuer in opposision.He helped many former Iranian army officers and political refuges but later he was blamed because the financial source was US goverment.Interesting enough CIA was the one which revealed the source in an article in NY Times .Apperently he only agreed and intended to help the vicitims of Islamic Republic and nothing else. Read more...
Now, it is Hamas' turn. No wonder Fath party, asked by Hamas to continue with the task of governing, refused. Fath government was marred by Hamas militancy. Their peace negotiations and agreements with Israel were continually disrupted by Hamas' refusal to cooperate. Now, Fath wants Hamas to occupy the hot seat and see what governing involves. Read more...
Journalist and blogger Ahmad Reza Shiri will have a permanent threat hanging over him as a result of the suspended sentence of three years in prison handed down by a court in the northern city of Mashad on 8 January, Reporters Without Borders said today. He was reportedly accused of writing articles in his blog calling for a boycott of last February’s legislative elections. Read more...
When chants of "Bakhtiar Nokar-e Bee-ekhtiar" (Bakhtiar the powerless servant) were heard in the streets of Tehran, we were not dismayed or even a bit troubled as we were all fiery in the fervor of the revolution. We thought at the time that Shapour Bakhtiar had no guts or that he succumbed too easily to the demands of the Shah.
The people of Iran have nowhere to go to seek justice and voice complaint regarding this brutal regime and need international support, specifically from the United Nations.We implore your Excellency to make the violation of human rights and the injustice for Iranian citizens as important as is the nuclear crisis for the UN and Security Council. 
Ghorban Moradi a member of Iran National Front (INF) had been detained in Cypress nearly a year for immigration issues.Moradi who is a political refugee ,if sent back to Iran will face jail and brutal treatment by Islamic republic.INF officals in US have contacted the Interior Ministry of Cypress inquiring about this long , illegal and unjust detention.Next step for the release of Ghorban Moradi would be contacting the Human Rights commissioner and the Human Rights Watch by INF. 
Kourosh Zaim: This is a civil movement. I'd like to remind this that in 2006, when Mr. Ahmadinejad was first declared president, in an analysis I said that the trend I see in the Islamic Republic politics is that we are moving toward official violence, militarization, widespread protestation and a silken revolution (meaning soft and strong). This is what the regime had been calling since a velvet revolution and fearful of it. Silken, velvet or colored, this is a civil movement. 
ABc report fron San Fransisco rally click here 
The hunger strike begins with a press conference spearheaded by District Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, on the Polk Street steps of City Hall at noon on Tuesday, September 8th. Other speakers T.B.A. My fast begins immediately following the press conference on the SW corner of Civic Center Park (Grove & Polk). It will end fourteen days later on Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, when I go to New York to speak for the rally at the United Nations building. People will be invited to come meditate or pray and to hold candlelights vigils during the fast. A blog will keep track of activities at CaspianVoice.org. 
CBS:Interview with Toraj Zaim/ click here 
Iranians daily, beating and killing innocent people with guns, knives, axes, motorbike chains, clubs and electric prods. The Basiji killers aimed for Neda’s heart, shot her in cold blood, and left her dying on the street. 
delivered a severe blow to the cause of constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law in Iran, and ultimately altered the path of politics there, in the region, and globally in ways that ought to be familiar to discerning readers today. 
NEW YORK, Jul 26 (IPS) - In his new book on the covert history of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, award-winning journalist Roozbeh Mirebrahimi says that Western powers, including the United States, accelerated events by recognising and supporting religious revolutionary forces, forcing the shah to leave the country and averting a coup by Iran's army. 
A review of the activities and achievements of the women’s movement in Iran, makes clear that for some time this movement has – in many ways and forms - moved ahead of other movements and political efforts. Among others, the freedom of Nazanin 1, pardon of Makrameh 2, the noticeable increase of international solidarity with the “ Change For Equality Campaign”3, the presence of men and youth in this campaign side by side with the women, the questioning of the absolute nature of patriarchal regime, debates on gender taboos as well as the bestowing of the Olaf Palme Prize to Parvin Ardalan, are some of the achievements of the this movement in the past solar (Iranian) year. 
فرا رسیدن نوروز ۱۳۸۷ و ۲۹ اسفند سالروز ملی شدن صنعت نفت را به ملت ایران تهنیت میگوییم. 
Cyrus! You have never died, for your spirit is alive within us. 
Considering our capability to act as a whistle-blower that informs the rest of the world about this unfortunate and ongoing saga,A new cultural foundation has legally been created and registered under the name, Pasargad Heritage Foundation (PHF). This foundation has been created as homage to Cyrus the Great, the author of the first human rights declaration in the history of mankind.PHF is a not-for-profit, non-political and non-religious organization managed and run by unpaid volunteers from all over the world. They are only motivated by their love of the Iranian cultural treasures and their belief in the necessity of their preservation. 
TEHRAN, June 10 (MNA) -- The celebrated scholar and professor of archeology and sociology Parviz Varjavand died of heart failure on the morning of June 10. Varjavand was the first culture minister in the provisional government of Mehdi Bazargan which was formed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.Born in 1934 in Tehran, he graduated with an MA from the University of Tehran and also obtained a PhD in the Renovation of Monuments and Classical Architecture of Iran from the University of Sorbonne in France.He published the first Iranian students’ newspaper when he was 16.Varjavand was active in cultural heritage affairs and he made efforts to register Persepolis, the Choghazanbil Ziggurat and Naqsh-e Jahan complex on the UNESCO World Heritage List. 
Please listen to the last clamor of Bolaghi Gorge 
Dr. Paviz Varjavand, spokesman and member of INF leadership council, has been summoned to the "Government employee" court. theformer acting Cultural Minister after the 1979 revolution has been charged with 
The people of Iran made history three times in less than a century by successful popular movements to replace dictatorships with parliamentary democracies. Each time becoming a model for other enslaved nations in the region, and each time seeing their democracies, so painfully earned, destroyed by the ugly marriage of foreign power interests and those of the self-serving clergy. 
The United States condemns the Iranian government's severe repression of dissidents, and its continued crackdown on civil society and those fighting for personal freedom in Iran. The regime's actions resulted in the recent death ofimprisoned Iranian student activist Akbar Mohammadi. Mr. Mohammadi died on July 30, eportedly as a result of a prolonged hunger strike, still in the notorious Evin Prison where he has been held for his role in pro-democracy student demonstrations in July 1999. Unfortunately, Mr. Mohammadi's detention was notan isolated case. 
Said Mortazavi has been at the centre of the violation of human rights in its most cruel and brutal form in Iran, and his appointment to represent Iran is condemned and resented by all freedom loving people, in particular those who have suffered from his criminal activities in Iran. 
In his 26 years exile he was a major figuer in opposision.He helped many former Iranian army officers and political refuges but later he was blamed because the financial source was US goverment.Interesting enough CIA was the one which revealed the source in an article in NY Times .Apperently he only agreed and intended to help the vicitims of Islamic Republic and nothing else. 
Journalist and blogger Ahmad Reza Shiri will have a permanent threat hanging over him as a result of the suspended sentence of three years in prison handed down by a court in the northern city of Mashad on 8 January, Reporters Without Borders said today. He was reportedly accused of writing articles in his blog calling for a boycott of last February’s legislative elections. 
When chants of "Bakhtiar Nokar-e Bee-ekhtiar" (Bakhtiar the powerless servant) were heard in the streets of Tehran, we were not dismayed or even a bit troubled as we were all fiery in the fervor of the revolution. We thought at the time that Shapour Bakhtiar had no guts or that he succumbed too easily to the demands of the Shah. 
