CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN IRAN

By Reza Pahlavi 01/21/12

My Dear Compatriots and Freedom loving citizens of the World,

Today I am submitting the following report to the United Nations Security Council on crimes against humanity, ordered by Mr Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, and carried out on the people of Iran. The focus of the attached ... Read More

Keep the "Voice of Iran" Alive

For over 20 years KRSI (Radio Sedaye Iran) has been in pursuit of exposing the true identity and nature of the Islamic Regime. Our resolve has been to give a voice to the people of Iran in order to achieve freedom from the plague that has ravaged our country for the past 30 long years. As you know the events from the previous year will only ... Read More

Iran says to stop some oil sales, inspectors visit

By Parisa Hafezi and Ramin Mostafavi

Iran sent conflicting signals in a dispute with the West over its nuclear ambitions on Sunday, vowing to stop oil exports soon to "some" countries but postponing a parliamentary debate on a proposed halt to such sales to the European Union.

The Islamic Republic declared itself optimistic about a ... Read More

Iran says Syria must hold free poll, but needs time

By Yara Bayoumy

Iran called on staunch ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Sunday to hold free elections and allow multiple political parties to operate in the country, but said he must be given time to implement these reforms.

Iran had at first wholeheartedly supported Assad's hardline stance against the 10 months of popular ... Read More

India won't cut Iranian oil imports: finance minister

By Ann Saphir

India, the world's fourth-largest oil consumer, will not take steps to cut petroleum imports from Iran despite U.S. and European sanctions against Tehran, its finance minister said on Sunday during a visit to Chicago.

The United States wants buyers in Asia, Iran's biggest oil market, to cut imports to put further ... Read More

Iran Media Confirm Death Sentence For Web Developer

Iranian media have confirmed that an Iranian man with Canadian residency has had a death sentence against him reinstated by an Iranian high court on charges that he operated a pornographic website.

Fars News Agency said the death sentence for Saeed Malekpour was upheld by the Supreme Court, confirming reports earlier this ... Read More

Sanctions to hit EU buyback firms: Iran oil chief

By Hossein Jaseb

European companies owed oil by Iran could lose out if Tehran imposes a ban on crude exports to the European Union next week, the head of Iran's state oil company said on Saturday.

Iran's parliament is due to debate a bill on Sunday that would cut off oil supplies to the EU in a matter of days, in revenge for a ... Read More

IAEA team heads to Iran to seek nuclear answers

By Fredrik Dahl

Senior United Nations nuclear inspectors headed to Tehran on Saturday to press Iranian officials to address suspicions that the Islamic state is seeking atomic weapons.

The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency hopes Iran, which has indicated readiness to discuss the issue for the first time since 2008, will end ... Read More

Syrian opposition says Iran plays role in crackdown

The opposition Syrian National Council on Saturday accused Iran of "participation" in the bloody crackdown on protests in Syria and called on Tehran to stop supporting the Damascus regime.

"The Council condemns the participation of the Iranian regime in killing Syrians who are demanding freedom and urges it to stop taking part in quelling ... Read More

Offer Iran a chance to compromise

Banking, trade and other sanctions imposed by the US, the EU and other countries are whittling steadily into Iran's economic and social fabric. This is being done to convince Tehran that its dogged persistence of an ambiguous nuclear programme is essentially self-destructive. Sanctions are meant to influence behaviour, not to punish the Iranian ... Read More

Peres: Iran the most corrupt country on earth

President Shimon Peres voiced concern over Hamas' foreign funding but expressed hope that direct talks with the Palestinian Authority could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an interview with CNN, which was released Friday.

Addressing the rising tensions over Iran's nuclear development, Peres also restated his call on the ... Read More

US Military to Send 'Mothership' to Middle East

A media report says the U.S. military plans to send a floating base for commando teams to the Middle East, where relations with Iran are tense and other nations are in the midst of political upheaval.

The Washington Post newspaper on Saturday cited unspecified U.S. Navy documents saying the service plans to convert an aging warship into a ... Read More

Iran students meet Israel opposition head Livni

A delegation from an opposition Iranian student group met Israel's centrist opposition leader and former foreign minister Tzipi Livni in Tel Aviv on Saturday.

An AFP photographer said the Confederation of Iranian Students delegation was headed by its secretary general, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, who said he was "happy to be in Israel, the only ... Read More

Some in Egypt Turn Their Anger on Islamists, and the Syrian Embassy Is Attacked

By LIAM STACK and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

The resentments of many young political activists toward the Muslim Brotherhood spilled into a public spat on Friday as some demonstrators who came out to mark the first anniversary of the country's revolution turned on the group.

The protesters, who accuse the popular Islamists of being too ... Read More

Oil up on Iran threat to halt supply to EU

By Robert Gibbons

Oil prices rose on Friday as Iran's upcoming parliament vote on halting exports to the European Union kept supply uncertainty in focus and countered data showing less robust U.S. growth in the fourth quarter.

Iran's parliament on Sunday will consider a measure calling for a halt in oil exports to the European Union ... Read More

Iran is gearing up for elections and it isn't pretty

By Dan Murphy

The international focus may be on Iran's nuclear program and all the war talk that's surrounded it. But less noticed is that Iran is gearing up for parliamentary elections in March. Every early sign is that it will be as closely controlled an affair as the 2009 presidential contest that kept Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power for a ... Read More

US has arrested Iranian scientist

The United States has arrested and charged an Iranian semiconductor scientist with violating U.S. export laws by buying high-tech U.S. lab equipment, a development likely to further worsen Iranian-U.S. tensions.

Prison records show the U.S. is holding Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, 54, a microchip expert and assistant professor at Tehran's ... Read More

Syrian rebels say they hold seven Iranians hostage

Syrian insurgents say they are holding seven Iranians hostage and will not release them until the government frees a rebel army officer and stops military operations in Homs, a centre of revolt in Syria's 10-month-old uprising.

A video released by the Farouq Battalion, part of the loosely organized rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), shows the ... Read More

Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready for nuclear talks

Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear program.

Even so, he insisted that the pressures will not force Iran to give up its demands, including to continue enriching uranium, that led to the collapse ... Read More

Iran may cut oil sales to EU before July

By Hashem Kalantari

The European Union rather than Iran will lose out under new EU sanctions banning Iranian oil, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday as lawmakers said they might cut supplies to EU countries ahead of a July 1 deadline.

"It is the West that needs Iran and the Iranian nation will not lose from the ... Read More