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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 second year of JMI News,com activities has begun.Jminews.com was established in mid Jan 2005.We had a fantastic year and with more than 850,000 requests we were on of the most active pro democracy sites in Iranian opposision groups.We tried very hard to echo the voice of freedom from inside Iran and we will continue working hard for democracy and human rights in Iran.
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The media is reporting on the attendance of Mr. Ahmadinejad, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the United Nations on September 14, 2005. Since the very fundamental reasons of establishing the UN were to support justice in the world and honor human dignity, this has raised a question as to why such a person should be allowed to step in this respected place. Read more...
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The people of Iran, 27 years ago in 1979, engaged in a victorious revolution which promised freedom from dictatorship, civil liberties and social justice. However, unfortunately, from the very beginning, a group of backward-thinking religious zealots monopolized the post revolution events derailing the path to democracy and led the country to a new form of totalitarianism and dictatorship. Twenty five years of struggle for freedom since the overthrow of Dr. Mossadeq's fully democratic government in the hands of CIA and the Intelligent Service in 1953, and much blood that was shed during this time for the sake of democracy, thus, was wasted. Read more...
We hereby express our condolences for the passing of Pope John Paul II, head of the Catholic Church and an outstanding world religious leader, to all followers of Christian faith, specially, to our Christian and Catholic fellow countrypersons in Iran and all over the world.
Pope John Paul II, is respected universally not only for his high religious position as the leader of over a billion Catholics around the world, but for his constructive role and efforts toward world peace and toward creating an atmosphere of mutual respect, tolerance and brotherhood among world religions.
Adib Boroumand
Head of Central Council
Iran National Front
Tehran, Iran Read more...
As you are aware, many in that nation have been waging an ongoing battle for democracy and human rights. At times their fight, which happens with little armor, little support and few means, gains some momentum and, at these times, just as their voices come close to being heard, the government ensures that they are silenced. In recent weeks, there has been a rash of disappearances and people being jailed with no due process. Stories escape from jails about mutilations and mass executions, while family members try desperately to uncover what has become of their sons and daughters. Many have been in jail for years without medical care and are in dire health. Some are wasting away as a result of voluntary hunger strikes. Read more...
For more tha 14 days 6 political prisoners have been on a hunger strike in Iran.They had been transfered to a criminal section in Karaj prison and their only demand is to return to political section in Evin prison. Read more...
The experiences of the last twenty-six years along with the numerous small and large disasters which have humiliated and isolated the people of Iran clearly demonstrate that there is but one ultimate path for ending the continuing state of crisis and freeing the suffering Iranian nation: The Creation of a Democratic System of Government which is in harmony with the Provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Read more...
Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh was born on May 19, 1882. His father "Hedayat Ashtiani" was the Finance Minister of King Naser al-Din Qajar, and his mother was a granddaughter of the Crown Prince Abbas Mirza. Read more...
There is no doubt that the fuss about Iranian development of nuclear technology is mostly politically motivated. Our interest in learning the science and developing the technology is not new. It started way back in the 1960's when Iran first built the Amirabad reactor for research. An IAEA member from the beginning, Iran also was a voluntary signer of the NPT in 1968, two years before it took effect. Read more...
WASHINGTON - After years of bitter internal divisions and a series of crackdowns from the Islamic republic, the Iranian democratic opposition in the last two weeks has organized a united front to push for a referendum on the powers of the supreme leader. Read more...