Spring of freedom

The head of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce announced on December 30 that Iran was ready to cooperate in the reconstruction of Syria. In comments carried by the  Fars  state-run news agency, Gholamhossein Shafeie said that Iranian and Syrian statesmen were currently in “comprehensive” cooperation for development in Syria.  Related Posts Tehran official vows “force” against Tehran’s street peddlers  JANUARY 2, 2019 Grandson of Islamic Republic’s founder says regime’s survival is not guaranteed  DECEMBER 30, 2018 Iranian “reformists” and hardliners warn of looming 2019 regime change  DECEMBER 29, 2018   “In this regard, Iran’s private sector is ready to cooperate in this field and supply the basic goods of the Syrian people,” he added in a joint meeting with Iranian and Syrian officials held in the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce established a department two years ago for reconstruc...

Republican Congressman Tom McClintock speaks to VOA Persian at an Organization of Iranian American Communities event at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, Dec. 11, 2018. A U.S. Republican lawmaker sponsoring a bill to support a democratic and secular Iran says Washington should provide Iranians with material support to help them “overcome” their Islamist rulers. U.S. Representative Tom McClintock spoke to VOA Persian late Tuesday at a Christmas celebration held by the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) at Washington’s Rayburn House Office Building. “I believe it is increasingly important that we provide (Iranians) with material support that they need to overcome the tyranny in Tehran,” McClintock said, without specifying what form that support should take. “In previous years, we provided cash on cargo pallets to the mullahs, cash used to oppress the Iranian people. Now we owe it to the Iranian people to provide the resistance with the kind of ...

Handwritten notes on walls advertising human body parts for sale Here’s a sight that has sadly become all too common in Iran: Handwritten notes on walls advertising body parts for sale, complete with blood type, health state, the age of seller and phone number to contact. This is how Iran’s poor are selling their own health to make ends meet. What makes the situation even more tragic that every day, more of the country’s youth join the ranks of body organ sellers. These are youth who are suffering from the corrupt policies of the ruling regime and resort to desperate measures such as selling kidney, livers, retina… Outrageously, state-run medical centers and official hospitals and other institutions tied to Iranian officials make stellar profits from intermediating the process of selling body organs of poor people. Among these institutions is the Association of Kidney Patients and Khomeini Hospital in Tehran, which recently posted an ad for selling body organs. The offic...

Independent judiciary; What the Iranians expect to have in a free Iran Human social evolution history tells us there is no dictator, who would not attempt to preserve its power over people through all kind of suppression, deception, and crime. In this regard, dictators the law enforcement to an oppressive organ, although they pretend that they respect an  independent judiciary . Religious dictatorship ruling Iran has deprived its own people of their basic human rights, this regime does not even respect the international human rights conventions, which it is a signatory of, let alone recognizing an independent judiciary. Thus, the Iranian people will not benefit from an independent judiciary until the mullahs are ruling, because hawks will not pick out hawks’ eyes. Therefore, exacting an independent judiciary on mullahs is an important factor to help Iranians’ struggle for achieving freedom and justice. Mullahs justify their human rights violations on the pretext of the...