List of Insurers who Refuse Moratorium Revealed; $6 Billion in Current Holdings Disqualified
from Insurer Financial Statements for Iran Ties
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner today announced that 1,010 insurance companies – more than 75 percent of insurers licensed to do business in California -- have agreed to forgo future investments in 50 companies identified as doing business with Iran’s nuclear, energy or defense sectors.
It was late February 2003, a few weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and President George W. Bush's administration still lacked a real strategy for the would-be regional hegemon next door. As the Iran desk officer in the office of the secretary of defense, I felt desperate. We were about to invade Iraq without a definitive policy toward its most bitter foe. I feared a repeat of Vietnam and saw in Iran a new Ho Chi Minh Trail -- the enemy lifeline that snaked through Laos and Cambodia and helped dash U.S. hopes for Southeast Asia.
© IRAN-RESIST.ORG – August 14 2009 | During his candidacy time, every sentiments expressed by Mussavi arrived to us with drastically cut conclusions : the reason is that they were invariably much pro-Khomeini ! Such trend is going on thanks to our friends from AFP’s Iranian Bureau who are specialist in news that are favorable to the regime despite deplorable content.
cClatchy Newspapers
CAIRO, Egypt — More than 100 leading opposition activists stood trial in Iran on Saturday, the first since the government's crackdown in the violent aftermath of June's disputed presidential election, according to Iranian state media.
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 10, 2009
By: Lisa Daftari
Iran was back in the news yesterday, as anti-government protestors defied a government ban on demonstrations and a brutal crackdown on dissent to mark the tenth anniversary of the 1999 uprising by Iranian students at Tehran University.
Yet news reports missed a crucial aspect of the story. In portraying yesterday’s protests as the first anti-government activity in two weeks, the media inadvertently reinforced the impression that Iranian democrats and demonstrators really had been passive over the past few weeks.
WASHINGTON (18 June) – U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia, today issued the following statement after the House passed a bipartisan resolution expressing support for all Iranian citizens who struggle for freedom, human rights, civil liberties, and the protection of the rule of law:
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Twitter Revolution and President Obama: This time Let’s Stand Up With Roozbeh and the People of Iran
I had never heard of Roozbeh Farahanipour before the Simon Wiesenthal Center's June 24th press conference at the Museum of Tolerance where we joined with Iranian expats urging UN intervention over the fraudulent re-election of President Ahmadinejad.
Marze Por Gohar in Iran Organizing Nationwide Demonstrations for July 9th
The MPG Party Members and Leaders in Iran For Nationwide Demonstrations on the Tenth Anniversary of the July 1999 Student Uprising in Iran
By: PR Newswire
Jul. 5, 2009 07:02 PM
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