An influential Iranian cleric says Iran might bring Shiite militias to the country from other parts of the Middle East to fight threats to the government. Musa Ghazanfarabadi, head of the Tehran Islamic Revolution Courts, told religious students in Qom this month that his government could use foreign fighters to crack down on potential popular […]
Minority Rights: Ignored by Regime and Opposition Alike While it is true that all dissidents in Iran are persecuted by the regime, non-Persian minorities are subjected to far greater persecution on top of the regime’s standard totalitarian oppression. Non-Persian peoples are treated as second-class citizens, denied the right to public education in their own languages and other rights automatically […]
ZAHEDAN: The Iranian Mersad, Sepah and border forces killed 15 and injured 13 innocent Baloch under different pretexts in the first two months of 2019. According to media reports and local sources, most of the victims were poor Baloch youth who were shot either dead or their vehicles overturned after the Iranian forces chased them. […]
Is it possible that the Warsaw Conference that was held last month, could be as decisive as the Guadeloupe 1979 conference in France, which succeeded in laying the groundwork for the political decisions and supportive positions that led to the overthrow of the Shah’s regime? We can agree with optimists who assert that the conference […]
