Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Elaheh Rostami-Povey
Source: Guardian
Shah Abbas I, the fifth Saf av id ruler, came to power in 1587. Under his rule Iran became a great polit ical power, transforming international trade and diplomacy. His legacy, however, goes beyond political ambition and culminates in a clear and decisive vision for cultural and artistic expression and development.
Shah Abbas created a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Huffington Post
The New York Times assigned to the story a campaign-trail reporter, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, whose political perceptions are bland and whose knowledge of Israeli-American relations is an antiseptic zero. At the newspaper of record, a thing like that does not happen by accident. They took the most anxiously awaited meeting with a foreign leader of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jon Snow (Channel 4 News presenter and journalist):
other speeches:
Mehri Honarbin-Holliday (Campaign Iran)
Ali Fathollah-Nejad (CASMII)
John Rees (Stop the War Coalition)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OBAMA and IRAN
a Campaign Iran Public Meeting
with
JON SNOW Channel 4 news journalist and presenter
MEHRI HONARBIN-HOLLIDAY academic and writer, leading member of Campaign Iran
ALI FATHOLLAH-NEJAD Political scientist and academic councillor of CASMII
JOHN REES Stop the War Coalition
Chaired by
BARONESS PROFESSOR HALEH AFSHAR Prominent Iranian academic
MONDAY 27TH APRIL – [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Assemble US Embassy, Grosvenor Square at 2pm
From the Stop the War Coalition:
Saturday’s Put People First demonstration was excellent. Tens of thousands came
out to protest against the whole spectrum of the world leaders’ policies. The
anti-war bloc was very big and very loud and got lots of coverage.
The next big event is the Yes We Can demonstration [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Friends,
The Iranian peoples of diverse ethnicities and languages will be celebrating Noruz or ‘new day’ in Iran and around the world on Friday March 20th this year. This is the beginning of the Spring Equinox and the month of Farvardin in the mellinia old Iranian solar calendar. Noruz marks a new cycle in the solar system and it is a reminder of our shared [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Simon Tisdall, Guardian, 5 Mar 2009
The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s quasi-regal progress through the Middle East this week seems to have been too much for Iran’s Supreme Leader to bear. Speaking publicly about the new US administration for the first time since Barack Obama took power, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was by turns angry and dismissive.
“Even [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ali Fathollah-Nejad / Guardian 20th Feb 09
The latest report on Iran’s nuclear programme by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has spurred alarmist speculation about the whereabouts of the “mullahs’ bomb” just when hopes for a US–Iran rapprochement are at an all-time high.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog says Iran has only slowly increased the number of centrifuges in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Campaign Iran has prepared a resolution for trade union activists to pass at the own branches and to move at union conferences. It’s an important resolution. The new US administration has so far shown no signs of removing the crippling sanctions on Iran that are damaging the lives of ordinary Iranians especially the poorest sections [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Naz Massoumi (Campaign Iran)
On Tuesday this week, in a rally celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, Iranian President Ahmadinejad softened his recent more hostile stance to the US by welcoming talks based on ‘mutual respect’. This came on the back of a number of recent reports, ever since the election of US President Barak [...]
