The Islamic Republic's Killing Fields

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Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Frank Nikbakht, an Iranian democracy activist. Born in Tehran in 1953, he escaped Iran in 1982 with the help of Kurdish tribesmen, making his way to Turkey and eventually ending up in the United States. He is the founder of the Committee for Religious Minority...

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In 1936, Reza Shah ordered the public unveiling of women in Iran. The clergy vigorously protested; women of the mercantile middle class stayed home, refusing to appear „naked” in public. Lower middle class and rural women began to work outside the home, most of them in small textile shops. It is...

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از کتاب «نه زیستن، نه مرگ» که تلفیقی از خاطرات و گزارش

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Washington DC, August 15, 2007

Iran is witnessing a wave of publicly announced executions, unprecedented in more than a decade, and a serious crackdown on the government’s critics and proponents of legal reforms within civil society. With this new surge of state violence, the Islamic...

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The early risers in my neighborhood arrived at the local bakery one recent morning to find the doors locked and the stone oven cold. They milled about for a while and then began speculating about why the bakery should mysteriously be shut. Before long, they settled on an explanation: the Iranian government...

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A surprise American or Israeli air strike on Iranian nuclear sites could cause a large number of civilian as well as military casualties, says a report published today.
The report, Iran: Consequences of a War, written by Professor Paul Rogers and published by the Oxford Research Group, draws...