March 7, 2015- Published on NCR-Iran
On Saturday, March 7, the participants in a grand gathering in Berlin on the occasion of International Women’s Day titled “For Tolerance and Equality against Fundamentalism and Misogyny” underscored that the advancement of the ideal of equality in the world today has come face-to-face with a formidable barrier, the Islamic Fundamentalism. This phenomenon is endangering the entire Middle East and the world through genocide, terrorism and discrimination and more than anything is hostile to women.
IACNT- On the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the 1979 revolution, on Sunday, February 8th, 2015, North Texans gathered in Carrollton to renew their vows with the fallen heroes of freedom and democracy.
Oct 27, 2014- Published on LA Times
A spate of acid attacks against women and girls in Iran's cultural capital of Isfahan has been met with street rallies and social media protests, seemingly alarming Iranian authorities who have promised to take steps to quell the disfiguring assaults.
Iranian liberals, however, believe that the government helped set the stage for attacks against those deemed immodest in some way by enacting a parliamentary measure providing protection to citizens who act on their own to help enforce the country’s strict social mores.
IACNT- Sunday, October 12- On the occasion of World Day Against the Death Penalty (October 10, 2014) and to protest the alarming rise of executions in Iran, North Texans gathered in downtown Dallas. The judiciary system in Iran is neither independent nor just.
Sep 25, 2014- Published on NCR-Iran
Thousands of Iranians, supporters of the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) took part in a colourful and well-organized rally across the United Nations Headquarters in New York to condemn the presence of Hassan Rouhani at the UN. The protesters called for the referral of the regime’s abysmal rights record to the Security Council for the adoption of concrete punitive measures.