Striving for over two decades to make political strides in his homeland, Iranian political activist Roozbeh Farahanipour will have a chance to play out his political ambitions in Westwood, a region of west Los Angeles, which boasts the largest enclave of Iranians outside of Iran.
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.
April, 17 2010
Recent speeches and statements by officials of the Islamic Republic are once again tilting towards to the belligerent and war-mongering side. Listening to Ahmadinejad's speeches, such as the one he gave on the anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic, one gets the distinct impression that the theocracy is practically outright trying to instigate a conflict with other states.
By: Ken Timmerman
The short video shown on Iranian state-run TV was dramatic. It showed masked Iranian security men boarding what appeared to be a private jet on Tuesday morning, and arresting one of the most hunted opposition leaders in Iran, Sunni militant leader Abdulmalik Rigi.
The following pictures were taken during 22 Bahman protests in Iran.
The MPG posters read:
Independence
Freedom
Iranian Republic
MPG Posters in Iran 3
FrontPage Interview’s guest today is Hadi T. Ardestani, a Nuclear Waste Management Expert and a Nuclear Issues Specialist in the Marze Por Gohar Party (MPG), an Iranian opposition party seeking the establishment of a secular republic in Iran.
FP: Hadi T. Ardestani, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
I would like to talk to you today about the Electromagnetic (EMP) threat. Many people are not really that familiar with it. Give us the definition and tell us what it is all about.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 9:46 AM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Every Nov. 4, the Iranian regime buses tens of thousands of schoolchildren from around the country to Tehran to commemorate the assault on the U.S. Embassy in 1979, when 52 U.S. diplomats were taken hostage.
The embassy attack and the subsequent 444-day hostage crisis were called “a second revolution” by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, because they led to the collapse of the moderate post-revolutionary government that was seeking to repair ties with the United States and the West.
Bill Flanigen from the November 2009 issue
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.