I am protesting against Iran's Ahmadinejad, will the world join me?

By Homeira Hesami

Iranian regime President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn’t used to seeing a vocal opposition protesting against him. His brutal government doesn’t allow demonstrations, a free media or personal liberties for its people.  But on Wednesday, he will see thousands of protesters in the streets of an American city demonstrating against him and his government. I will be one of them.

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Iran dangerously close to following Cairo, Benghazi and Tripoli against U.S.

By Radell Smith

Posted on Examiner on Sep 13, 2012

Cairo, Egypt's anti-Islam film protests are still going on as of Thursday night according to Egypt's AhramOnline.com, at least on the fringes of Tahrir Square. And plans are underway for the protests to continue on Friday.

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Former UN human rights chief in Baghdad Tahar Boumedra: Why I Quit the UN in Iraq

By Tahar Boumedra

For the past three and a half years I have served first as chief of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) Human Rights Office and then as adviser to the Secretary General’s Special Representative for Iraq, monitoring, among other things, the human rights and the humanitarian situation of 3,400 Iranian exiles who have made their home north of Baghdad since 1986 at a place called Camp Ashraf. Iraq’s government has decided to terminate their presence in Iraq and required them to vacate Camp Ashraf. UNAMI has been facilitating their temporary relocation to a former base in Baghdad called Camp Liberty, with the purported task of conducting “refugee status determination” for all of these people and ensuring that international norms of human and humanitarian rights are maintained.

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Iran isn’t afraid of the US or Israel

By Homeira Hesami

The government of Iran has been through international disdain and condemnation before. The Iranian regime isn’t scared of increased sanctions, greater isolation, or harsher words. And the mullahs aren’t concerned about the American or Israeli governments taking military action against them. The Iranian regime is only afraid of the Iranian people’s collective anger.

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Toppling Iran's Unsteady Regime

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

Ordinary Iranians are having to tighten their belts since the European Union's oil embargo came into force on July 1. The decades of economic mismanagement by Iran's authoritarian leaders have culminated in five years of increasingly stern sanctions, which are crippling Iran's economy. And notwithstanding the regime's defiant dismissal of their impact, sanctions have left many Iranian families with empty bank accounts and hollow stomachs.

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