In an interview June 20, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates noted that Iran’s government has been transitioning over the past 18 months into a military dictatorship. It is a transition that has occurred as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has gained power in Tehran under the sponsorship of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

OTTAWA, Canada—A group of international scholars, politicians, and activists issued a scathing report in Ottawa on Tuesday condemning Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what they describe as his flaunting international norms regarding nuclear arms, human rights, and terrorism.

The report’s authors claim the document contains the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative witness testimony and documentary evidence to date regarding Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

The gap between the reformist leaders of the Green movement and its supporters began to show itself when the initial question ‘where is my vote?’ was replaced by the chant: ‘freedom, independence, Iranian republic’. The incompatibility between the reformist leaders’ demands for a re-run of the election and the rank-and-file’s revolutionary demand to replace this regime with a democratic government has resulted in a schizophrenic identity as each side attempted to pull the movement in its own direction

European Union leaders have approved a new set of sanctions against Iran that go further than the latest United Nations measures.

The fresh EU sanctions include a ban on investments, technical assistance and technology transfers to Iran’s key oil and gas industry

The Security Council would be entitled to use its power to set up an ad hoc international court to indict the Supreme Leader and others in his government. This may be a better way to deal with a theocracy whose inability to punish, or even admit, the barbaric behaviour of 1988 provides the greatest reason for concern over its future access to nuclear weaponry.

By STEPHEN CASTLE LUXEMBOURG — The European Union is likely to agree on tough new sanctions against Iran that cover further investment in the country’s oil and gas industry as well as its financial sector, Foreign Secretary William Hague of Britain said Monday. His comments came ahead of a meeting of the bloc’s 27 heads [...]

Mousavi says the regime, a “cult,” is doing more harm to the nation than its enemies can. The words must cut deep as a planned mass opposition rally on the anniversary of June 12 election approaches

Iran Human Rights, June 6: According to reports from Iran, 26 people have been transferred to the quarantine section of Ghesel hesar prison, west of Tehran, and are being prepared for execution. They can be executed within the next 48 hours. The human rights lawyer Moammad Mostfaei wrote in a letter that this news has [...]

13 OF THE 26 from Gezelhasar prison that were moved to solitary in advance of execution have in fact been murdered by the Islamic regime. PLEASE SEND YOUR MAILS NOW.