Spring of freedom

Civil rights activist and journalist Sepideh Qolian. File photo A female civil rights activist who was arrested in November and spent close to one month in detention has talked about “brutal torture” of her and a labor activist arrested with her. Sepideh Qolian was at the Haft-Tapeh Sugar Mill in November, where workers were on strike and protesting for their unpaid wages, when security officers attacked and detained her with several labor activists. At the moment of the arrest they started beating her and a labor leader, Esmail Bakhshi who tried to intervene was severely assaulted. Qolian says that Bakhshi lost consciousness and they were taken to prison where systematic torture began. On January 7, Bakhshi wrote about their torture on his Instagram page, which led to a public debate in Iran about torture. Top officials began talking about it and parliament members as well as the usually hardline Judiciary promised to investigate. Sepideqoliyan @sepideqoliy...

Shocking images of Iranians forced to make homes out of graves.  From the early days of its rule Iran’s regime has been increasing economic pressure on the people, especially the lower class and most deprived. A vivid result of such practice has been the astonishing phenomenon of many Iranians willing to sell their  kidneys   and other organs, and even mothers pre-selling their unborn fetus. This is parallel to the growing phenomenon of child labor, a swelling number of homeless people roaming the streets and people even resorting to making homes out of graves. Tehran has a history of increasing domestic pressure and skyrocketing prices to provide for the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, exporting terrorism and fundamentalist across the region, and currently, the onerous finances needed to confront international sanctions and managing an economy in ruins. Iran’s regime has shown it cares less about such matters as billions are poured into various domestic and inte...

Former intellligence minister and one of the perpetrators of the AMIA bombing IRAN, 17 July 2017 --  In an interview with an Iranian regime funded television station, Ali Fallahian, the former Iranian intelligence minister and one of the perpetrators involved in the AMIA bombing that killed 85 people on July 18, 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, revealed the mindset behind the mass execution of more than 30,000 political prisoners in Iran during the summer of 1988.   Mass execution of more than 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 in Iran   The AMIA community centre bombing on July 18, 1994  People holding photographs of the  victims of the  1994 AMIA bombing participate at the ceremony to mark the 16th anniversary of this henious act that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires Argentinian Prosecutor Alberto Nisman Shot Dead befor he had a chance to prove to the court the unquestionable Iran's involvment in AMIA bombing. ...