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Hollywood: Grounded Iranian Director Jafar Panahi is more than a Martyr

Iranian director Jafar Panahi and his clashes with the Islamist mullahs are causing another stir in the international film world. His short film “The Accordion” was scheduled last week to open this year’s Venice Film Festival, but the Iranian government would not let him leave the country to attend. Once again he’s grounded.

Video: Palestinian activists clash with Iran’s Greens – Hezbollah, Shame on You!

This year’s Al-Quds Day rally, on September 4, took place in central London and protestors marched from Marble Arch to he US Embassy at Grosvenor Square. While marching they had to listen to Iran’s Greens, shouting ‘Shame on You Hezbollah’!

Dutch Dreamy Delft Now Major Center for Iranian activists abroad

A dreamy university town in the Netherlands known as the birthplace of 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer has become a major center for Iranian activists abroad.

Help Save Zahra’s Bahrami’s laywer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, arrested for Mohareb: Sign Petition!

Women’s rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, laywer of Dutch-Iranian citizen Zahra Bahrami, goes on trial accused of ‘waging war against God’. Last Saturday she visited Evin prison and was arrested by IRI Security forces.

Kayhan’s Hossein Shariatmadari bares teeth again after calling President Sarkozi’s wife a prostitute

Given his sinister reputation and vociferous contempt for the West, US reporters who interview Hossein Shariatmadari are invariably surprised to find him humble, affable and even “courtly” in person. Surprised because the ultra-radical editor-in-chief of Kayhan, Iran’s most influential pro-regime newspaper, is feared and loathed by many of his compatriots.

Ayatollah Khamenei: ‘Commit and Obey Orders as I Have Sovereignty Over The People’ (Eng/Parsi)

On behalf of Ayatollah Khameni his ‘Information Office Center’ answered today some questions about the leadership model in Iran. According to his Information Office Center Ayatollah Khamenei stressed: Commit to the supreme leader, obey governmental orders when you are a true muslim. This does not look good for reformers such as Mousavi and Karroubi.

Neda-Agha Sultan Memorial Day in Belgium

On June 20, 2009, the young woman Neda Agha-Soltan was wound to the heart in the streets of Tehran while peacefully protesting. Dirk Verhofstadt organized, on behalf of the Belgium Liberales, a Neda-Agha Sultan Memorial Day.

Will the opposition take the streets of Tehran again?

Political detainees report being stripped naked and forced to stand outside in plunging temperatures during the night. Anyone can be intimidated. But can it keep them from victory?

Three political prisoners still on hunger strike in Iran

Two bloggers, Babak Khoramdin and Koohyar Godarzi, and one leading student activist, Majid Tavakoli, – deprived of their pen and blogs in an Iranian prison – are now using a hunger strike to protest prison conditions and defend their rights.

With death sentences Iran sends a chilling message to opposition

It didn’t take much for Iranian courts to sentence 10 people to death over the country’s post-election turmoil. For one prisoner, the main evidence was that he allegedly sent videos of protests abroad.

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