Harry's Place

This is a crosspost by Arash
I am fuming. Yet again, these morons who run our universities are turning a blind eye to the Islamic Republic apologists that seek to indoctrinate British students. This Thursday (11th Feb/22 Bahman), University College London’s AhlulBayt Islamic Society is playing host to some of the vilest promoters of the Islamic [...]

Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq was a popular Iranian politician. An Iranian nationalist, who hailed from a wealthy and prominent family he served as Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 – 1953.[1] According to one of his own cousins, as well as being “Distinguished,” he was “highly emotional.” He would gesture “wildly” in “theatrical” speeches. When [...]

For one day only!
Darius (for obvious reasons, a pseudonym) is an Iranian citizen born and bred in Iran. He lives in Tehran, a city he loves in a country that he loves. There is one issue: he, like many others in Iran, is opposed to the regime in control of his country.
Darius is very concerned [...]

On February 11, 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini led a coalition to a new government in Iran. Little did many of the revolutionaries who assisted in bringing him to power know what would be in store for them. February 11 is known in the Islamic Republic of Iran as “Islamic Revolution’s Victory Day.” This event is commemorated with a [...]

On Sunday, the Iranian embassy in France held its annual banquet celebrating the day Ayatollah Khomeini left France for Iran in 1979. The banquet was held at his former home in Neuphle-le-Chateau.
This year the celebrants were greeted by chanting anti-regime demonstrators. According to an account on the Persian2English website:
When the bus of the ambassador arrived [...]

This is a crosspost by Potkin
I thought I had mentioned all the injustices surrounding the execution of the 19 year old Arash Rahmanipour yesterday on Aljazeera. However I learned about yet another heartbreaking fact from his lawyer’s interview with VOA Persian. I mentioned that Arash’s pregnant sister was frequently brought into the interrogation room to put [...]

This is a cross-post from Z-Word
On February 1st, France assumes the Presidency of the UN Security Council with Iran likely to be the dominant issue. This morning, I interviewed Gérard Araud, France’s Ambassador to the United Nations, for AJC’s new internet TV show, Reality Check. He was refreshingly candid. Watch the video below for the [...]

“Iran has executed two men arrested during the period of widespread unrest that erupted after June’s disputed presidential election, reports say.” The BBC has the rest of the story.

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing
Nick Griffin has rightly been described as a political chameleon, having been, as his former International Third Position friends put it:
a conservative, a revolutionary nationalist, a radical National Socialist, a Third Positionist, a friend of the ‘boot boys’ and the skinhead scene, a man committed to respectable politics [...]

British filmmaker Ken Loach has withdrawn his movie Looking for Eric from this year’s Fajr festival in Tehran.
The Independent reports that Loach and theater director Peter Brook “are among leading Western artistic figures who have informed the Islamic regime they are pulling out in protest at its brutal crackdown on the opposition, which includes torture, [...]