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  • Human Rights Travesty

    07/23/2007 9:42:25 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 8 replies · 539+ views
    Frontpage Mag. ^ | July 23, 2007 | Kenneth R. Timmerman
    Human Rights Travesty By Kenneth R. Timmerman FrontPageMagazine.com | July 23, 2007 If human rights abuses were ranked like baseball careers, Iran’s ruling clerics and the mighty midget they’ve installed as president would deserve honored places in the 21st Century’s Hall of Shame. On July 10, Iran’s Interior ministry confirmed the sentence, handed down ten days earlier by a court in the north of the country, condemning a man to death by stoning. If you’ve never witnessed a stoning (and most of us haven’t, I trust), you can get a flavor for the barbarity of this Koranic punishment from a...
  • Five Iranian bassijis, three Iraqis killed in southern Iraq

    04/07/2004 3:27:46 PM PDT · by Eala · 5 replies · 212+ views
    Persian Journal ^ | 4/07/2004 | ink
    Five Iranian bassijis and three Iraqis were killed when foreign troops fired on their vehicle near a checkpoint near the Shi'ite town of Kerbala, police and hospital officials said on Wednesday. Police said the incident happened late on Tuesday when the vehicle in which the victims were travelling ran a checkpoint in Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad. Fighting has raged since Sunday in Shi'ite areas of Iraq between foreign troops and militiamen loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Thousands of Iranians are in Iraq ahead of the Shi'ite Muslim holy day of Arbain this month when...
  • Letter From Iran - Clerics See Writing on the Wall

    04/15/2003 5:02:01 PM PDT · by freedom44 · 28 replies · 214+ views
    Pacific News Service ^ | 4/15/03 | Shalala Aziz
    TEHRAN--The day after Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in Baghdad, I was curious to gauge reaction on the streets of Tehran. I started with taxi drivers, my barometers of public opinion. Often, perhaps because of the monotonous and frustrating nature of their job (traffic in Tehran is horrendous), they speak candidly. The first cabbie had loud, banned music blaring from the radio. When I asked him what he thought, he said without hesitation, "'These guys' (usually used to mean the mullahs in power) are next -- they are scared." Here, your dress and demeanor betrays your politics, or at least...