UNITED NATIONS — China is ready for “serious” talks at the United Nations on Iran’s nuclear program, the United States said Wednesday, as it sought support for sanctions against Tehran. “China has agreed to sit down and begin serious negotiations here in New York,” the US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said on [...]
Amnesty International Executions increased at the time of mass protests over last year’s Presidential election © Javad Montazeri A series of ‘show trials’ led to two men being hanged in January © APGraphicsBank There was a rise in executions of juvenile offenders like Delara Darabi who was put to death in April © www.myspace.com/helpdelara 30 [...]
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It was signed by seventy members of US Congress concerning mismanagement at Voice of America’s Persian news Network: “The apparent lack of oversight regarding the management, staffing, mission, and content of VOA-PNN broadcasting- an American-taxpayer-funded program-ironically may have harmed the plight of those seeking human rights, instead of helping it.
More than 900 social and political activists have signed a statement, demanding the unconditional release and fair trial of Omid Montazeri. The activists stated: “Issuing such a heavy sentence for a young man who has written about his society’s cultural and social issues within the framework of the law, abandoning the “innocent until proven guilty” [...]
By Michel Comte (AFP) – 3 hours ago GATINEAU, Canada — Iran’s nuclear ambitions took center stage Tuesday at a Group of Eight foreign ministers summit on global security and terrorism, overshadowed by the deadly Russian subway blasts. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton affirmed late Monday the participation in Iranian sanctions talks of China, [...]
By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: March 27, 2010 NY TIMES WASHINGTON – Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations demands. [...]
On March 24, Obama administration officials briefed reporters on what was described as a very positive development in the U.S. effort to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon: China had agreed to participate in a conference call to discuss sanctions.
OTTAWA (AFP) – New sanctions against Iran are inevitable due to its continued refusal to curb its nuclear ambitions, Canada’s top diplomat said Friday. “Unfortunately, I believe we are left with little choice but to pursue additional sanctions against Iran, ideally through the United Nations Security Council,” Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon told a media [...]
The Islamic regime in Iran has a pool of defenders among the American “elite” media, political analysts, activists, and academia.