Violence and threats against journalists abroad who are reporting about Iran is recognized internationally and condemned, even by the largely useless UN. And the regime’s targeting is ramped up during times of uprising. I and the women of Iran have today won and you @khamenei_ir and your hated regime have lost! I am relieved that […]
Iranian dissidents demand investigation into Islamic regime’s secret U.S. lobbying network
A group of nearly 100 prominent Iranian dissidents is demanding that Congress launch investigations into clandestine efforts by the Islamic Republic to influence U.S. policy. It is no different in Canada. As I wrote in 2012: Iranian Canadian activists Shadi Paveh and Shabnam Assadollahi have translated an interview with Hamid Mohammadi, an Iranian official working […]
An Iranian dissident speaks out: Is Islam compatible with women’s rights and democracy?
The story below was sent to me by a friend, Shabnam Assadollahi, an Iranian dissident who is a fully aware activist for women’s rights and as a whole, human rights. My first encounter with her was in her role as an Iranian language interpreter in an article I wrote entitled: “Shut Down Iran’s Embassy In […]