Monday, June 8, 2015
iran- Dr. Antonio Stango : If You Respect the Iranian People, You Should Support Them, not the Regime
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| Dr. Antonio Stango |
Recently
Linda Mason of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership wrote an editorial for CNN, suggesting that Americans have a
mistaken view of the people of Iran. She describes a recent trip that she took
to the Islamic Republic and the surprise that she felt at finding the people to
be warm, open, and interested in Western culture.
I’ve
heard this argument many times before, but I have a hard time believing that
the average westerner views everyday Iranians, as Mason says, through the prism
of the 1979 hostage-taking at the US embassy. I’m sure that the average
American understands that that incident was the work of a group of Islamist
revolutionaries, and not the entire population of the country, working in
tandem.
About
half of the population of today’s Iran hadn’t even been born yet at the time of
the revolution and the hostage crisis. A person would have to have a
one-dimensional view of the country and its people to believe that such events
reflect on the character or ideologies of people who had nothing to do with
them.
IRAN -TO THE GREAT IRANIAN GATHERING PARIS- FRANCE
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| With Maryam Rajavi inVilpant |
United
against Islamic Fundamentalism and Terrorism by attending in the grand
gathering of Iran’ian in Paris on June 13, 2015 -France.
Iran- Iranians Assert Themselves by increasingly voicing their opposition to the mullahs’ regime
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Protests are getting momentum in Iran
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Gulf News - 06/04/2015 - Recent months have witnessed a series of unrelated, nationwide protests in Iran by teachers demanding salary hikes as well as ethnic groups decrying government abuse and calling for greater rights. With the exception of the teachers, most of the protests erupted spontaneously sparked by incidents as well as pent-up anger and frustration.
The protests potentially signal that Iran is not immune to the winds of change blowing across the Middle East and North Africa that is locked in multiple, often bloody conflicts between social and political forces demanding political change and conservative governments determined to cling to the status quo.
The protests potentially signal that Iran is not immune to the winds of change blowing across the Middle East and North Africa that is locked in multiple, often bloody conflicts between social and political forces demanding political change and conservative governments determined to cling to the status quo.
Iran - Camp Liberty residents tell their plight to Al-Arabiya TV
Sabriya and Shokriya Shafabin tell their story:
Al Arabiya: Before it leaving Iraq, the United States
asked Iraq to guarantee the security of Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf, but
Nuri Maliki’s forces attacked this camp several times and resorted to a
massacre of the residents.
Shokriya: In Ashraf we said that Ashraf is like a
mini Iran. All Iranian ethnicities are present; the Baluchis, Kurds, Fars and
there really is no difference between them. Ashraf was a .small size Iran and a
model for the Iran of the future.
Iran: Visiting MEPs barred from speaking to foreign media
Members of European Parliament visiting Tehran were prevented Sunday to meet the foreign press and an official of the security services threatened journalists of reprisals if they were filming or taking pictures of the incident.
A press conference was scheduled for 12:00 local (7:30 GMT) in the hotel where the delegation of MEPs led by German Elmar Brok, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament is staying.
The police prevented Mr Brok to speak to the foreign press, first inside the hotel and on the sidewalk.
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