U.S. Iran Talks: A wakeup call
The Global
Politician, August 16, 2007
By
David Johnson
Talks between the U.S. and Iran on Iraqi security came at a
crucial time for all parties involved. Right now, Baghdad is a
bull’s-eye in a decisive competition for influence in the Near
East . In our increasingly globalizing world, the stakes are
higher than ever. While the United States is using talks to
clarify necessary steps toward sustainable peace in Iraq , Iran
is using talks as a means to acquire official legitimacy to
sustain violence...
Lying For Iran
The Global
Politician, April 25, 2007
By
David Johnson
When 15 British Sailors and Marines were taken hostage by the
Iranian Government last month, few could have anticipated the
rewards Iran would receive for its crime. What could have been
and should have been a major international incident has been
brushed under a Persian carpet in Tehran. Since then, the
Iranian government has resumed business as usual. The U.S. State
Department is reported to have softened its tone. Nuclear
Contracts with Russia are back on track. New $30 Billion natural
gas deals with Austria's OMV are in the works. The European
Union plans to join nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in Turkey....
Iranians in fear of fear
The Washington
Times, March 23, 2006
By Nir Boms and
Reza Bulorchi
Following two decades
of Tehran's lies and three years of international wishful
thinking, Iran's nuclear case was finally brought to the hands
of the U.N. Security Council. In the meantime the mullahcracy in
Tehran has been gearing itself for another phase of
international standoff. On the same day Tehran declared
"the Russian proposal is no longer on our agenda." the Sunday
Telegraph reported that Iran has built a secret underground
emergency command center in north Tehran as "they prepare for a
confrontation with the West over their illicit nuclear program."
...
Iraq Counters Tehran’s Meddling
Intellectual Conservative, March 21, 2006
By Reza Bulorchi
The national security
strategy of the United States has been updated. It in effect
puts a presidential seal on what many senior administration
officials have been saying recently in regards to US policy
toward Iran. The document, released on March 16, states that “we
may face no greater challenge from a single country than from
Iran.” The 54-page report stresses that “as important as are
these nuclear issues, the United States has broader concerns
regarding Iran. The Iranian regime sponsors terrorism; threatens
Israel; seeks to thwart Middle East peace; disrupts democracy in
Iraq; and denies the aspirations of its people for freedom.”...
Iranian Women and the Path to a Free Iran
American
Thinker, March 17, 2006
By Roya Johnson
Since Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad’s presidency, the Iranian regime has increased its
oppressive tactics at home. The government is indeed tightening
its fascist fist around the Iranian people, particularly women.
It plans to segregate Iran’s pedestrian walkways on a gender
basis, according to a deputy in Iran’s Parliament. Early
this March, security forces removed several hundred women
spectators from an indoor stadium by force as they were watching
athletes performing in the 2006 Gymnastics World Cup tournament
being held in Tehran, eye-witnesses have reported. A few days
earlier, State Security Forces attacked female soccer fans in
Tehran after they held a defiant protest against the government
decision to ban them from soccer stadiums...
Tehran Casts its Shadows over Iraq's Election
Global
Politician, December 15, 2005
By David Johnson
A
day after reports came out about the discovery of another secret
Interior Ministry's detention center in Iraq, run by the
operatives of Iran-linked Badr Brigade, the leader of the main
pro-Tehran Iraqi Shiite party said the Brigade is ready to
provide "security" for the December 15 Parliamentary elections.
Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the
Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), told a gathering on Tuesday
that "I declare that the Badr Organization is ready to mobilize
200,000 of its men in all parts of Iraq so that they can play a
role in defending Iraq and Iraqis." Translation: We, as allies
and agents of Tehran, are making sure the elections go "our
way."
Ahmadinejad’s terror policy must be fought
American
Thinker, November 16, 2005
By Roya Johnson
Government officials
all over the world were stunned last month by statements made by
Mahmood Ahmadinejad, the current president of Iran. Ahmadinejad
stressed that having a world without the United States and
“Zionism” is indeed a goal “which is attainable and could
definitely be realized”. Ahmadinejad also threatened leaders of
Muslim countries with ties with Israel that they would burn in
the “fire” of their nations’ “fury”. “This occupying country
[Israel] is in reality the staging-ground of the World Arrogance
in the heart of the Islamic world…” Ahmadinejad’s remarks are
indeed an articulation of his government’s terror policy...
Iran: Terror Rising under Ahmadinejad
Intellectual
Conservative,
November 15, 2005
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
As seemingly
ineffectual trans-Atlantic efforts to halt Tehran’s nuclear
weapons program are stepped up before the November 24 meeting of
the UN nuclear watchdog, recruiting and training of suicide
volunteers has been a thriving enterprise in Iran since Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad became the mullahs’ president last summer. And why
not?
Mullahs intensify crackdown on Iranian dissidents
American
Thinker, August 3, 2005
By Roya Johnson
Forceful statements
made recently by the Bush administration denouncing arrest of
Iranians protesting the ruling regime in Tehran and demanding
the immediate release of political prisoners including that of
dissident journalist Akbar Ganji are a welcome move. More,
however, is needed, as a wave of anti-government protests has
swept Iran’s western provinces as a result of which hundreds of
activists have been arrested. As usual, there are some in the
pro-appeasement camp who disagree. They absurdly suggest that
vocal support from Washington and other capitals for Iran’s
dissidents is counterproductive for the democracy movement in
Iran. Nothing could be further than the truth.
A Tipping Point for Tehran
The Wall Street
Journal - Europe, July 27, 2005
By Reza Bulorchi
and Nir Boms
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Iran's "elected" president, will officially assume his post next
month. The elections, no doubt, were a sham and the controversy
about voting irregularities is far from settled. Iran's
opposition sources revealed that the national ID cards of about
five million dead people were provided to regime supporters,
enabling them to vote multiple times at multiple locations. So
Mr. Ahmadinejad's victory had little to do with the fact that he
campaigned as the "populist" son of a blacksmith and hoisted the
flag of class warfare against the "wretched rich and corrupt."
Instead, his victory can be attributed solely to his loyalty to
the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the support of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) top brass. A former
commander of the Qods (Jerusalem) Force in the IRGC -- tasked
with the planning and execution of terrorist plots and
assassinations abroad -- Mr. Ahmadinejad was catapulted to the
presidency by Iran's ultraconservative faction...
Iran: Targeting the Heart of Terrorism
Global
Politician, July 19, 2005
By David Johnson
On the surface, the
recent terror bombings in London and the recent ascension of
fundamentalist radicals, including but not limited to
President-Elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad, to high ranking positions
in Iran may appear unrelated. However, they both should serve as
a stern wake-up call. The core threat they both represent is a
deadly and barbaric fanaticism under the cloak of Islam. The
core threat is by no means alone. Its spin-off threats include
clandestine nuclear proliferation, facilitation of terrorist
operations world wide and heinous human rights violations
perpetrated against Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Iran's new dark side
The Washington
Times, July 14, 2005
By Reza Bulorchi
and Nir Boms
Officially, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, the incoming Iranian "elected" president, will
assume his post next month — but his presence is already felt in
the political circles and the streets of Tehran. Since his
election, under the banner of a renewed Islamic revolution, the
clerical regime hanged six people and sentenced another to death
in the past week alone. The elections, no doubt, were a sham and
the controversy about election irregularities is far from
settled. It was no less than the outgoing President Mohammad
Khatami who announced an upcoming release of a report
documenting the extent of electoral violations and smear
campaigns. A similar account, further exposing factional
disarray within the theocratic rule, was introduced by former
parliament speaker, mullah Mehdi Karroubi, who lost his
presidential bid in the first round...
Democracy
For Iran, Security For America: Mullahs Must Go
American Daily,
December 2, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
As
several thousands die-hard supporters of the Iranian theocracy
were marking the 25th anniversary of taking 52 Americans hostage
in Tehran on November 3, President George W. Bush was
re-elected...
Appeasing Iran Didn’t Work Before, Won’t Work Now
Intellectual Conservative,
November 17, 2004
By David Johnson, the co-founder
of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
The nuclear agreement between the European Union and Iran
provides the diplomatic cover under which the mullahs' regime
will gain valuable time to reach the nuclear point of no
return...
Iran: Children and Nukes
The Jerusalem Post,
November 2, 2004
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi
While the world is busy contemplating the appropriate response
to the looming Iranian nuclear threat - be it a European grand
bargain, a covert operation, or a sophisticated military assault
- life in Teheran appears to be running its normal course:
celebrating uranium enrichment, developing a longer-range
Shihab-3 missile and, of course, promoting the rule of law.
The 1988 Iran massacre: crimes against humanity
American Thinker,
September 22, 2004
By Roya Johnson, the Vice
President of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
September 1st is recognized by Amnesty International as the
“International Day in Remembrance of the Massacre of Political
Prisoners” in light of the massacre of political prisoners in
Iran in 1988. In the span of several months, thousands of
political prisoners in what is now known as “The 1988 Iran
massacre” were brutally murdered....
Toward A
Coherent Policy In Support Of Regime Change
American Daily,
September 13, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
In
calling for a strong policy toward Iran, Lt. Gen. McInerney and
Maj. Gen. Vallely, two veteran military analysts, wrote in the
Wall Street Journal yesterday, “It is imperative… that we
immediately and forcefully check Iran, inside and outside of
Iraq.” In doing so, they cited the clerical regime’s sinister
designs in Iraq...
Dialogue
With Iran’s Tyrants? Pro-Appeasement “Realists” Need A Reality
Check
American Daily,
July 30, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
It is quite
amazing that no matter how many Iranians the mullahs torture and
murder, how many suicide bombers they dispatch abroad, how many
lies they tell about their nuclear weapons program, how many
Americans and foreign national they kill, how many agents they
send into Iraq and elsewhere to foment fundamentalism, there are
always some pro-appeasement “realists” at work to whitewash the
mullahs’ crimes and deceptions. They put the blame for the
mullahs’ behavior on everything but the mullahs themselves....
An Ineffective, Inappropriate 'Grand Bargain'
Washington Post
By Reza Bulorchi, the Executive
Director of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran.
The idea
discussed by David Ignatius of swapping nearly 4,000 members of
the Iraq-based Iranian opposition Mujahedeen-e Khalq for members
of al Qaeda detained by the Iranian regime ["Lost Chances in
Iran," op-ed, July 9] is inhumane, illegal, unrealistic and
strategically counterproductive.
That "grand bargain" is another name for the repeatedly failed
policy of appeasement toward Iran. It suffers from the same old
false notion that one can make a deal with a regime that
arrests, tortures and executes dissidents and uses terrorism and
diplomatic blackmail as instruments of advancing its foreign
policy...
July 1999
Student-Led Uprising Shook Foundations Of Tyranny In Iran
American Daily,
July 14, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
On July 9,
1999, six days of student-led uprising in Iran against the
ruling fundamentalists shook the regime to its foundations,
marking a new chapter in the history of Iranian people’s two
decades of long struggle to overthrow tyranny and establish a
democratic and secular government...
Iran's Terrorist 'NGO'
The Wall Street Journal Europe,
July 7, 2004
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi
Nir Boms is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies and at the Council for Democracy and Tolerance. Reza
Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the US Alliance for
Democratic Iran.
It's tempting to dismiss Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's latest threat
that Iran will harm America "around the world" if it attacks its
interests as empty bluster from Iran's mullahs. But there are
signs that Iran is taking concrete steps to match its
belligerent words with deeds....
Iran
Mullahs’ Diplomacy: Bullying Others Into Making Concessions
American Daily,
July 8, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
It can
reasonably be argued that the arrest of eight British servicemen
by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway
last month has striking similarities with the clerical regime
taking 52 Americans hostage in 1979. Parading them on TV
blindfolded, forcing them to “apologize” and to say they now
“understand Islam better” certainly ring familiar. It also seems
that Tehran is trying to reap domestic and diplomatic political
benefit as it did in 1979....
Iran's Suicide Registration Service
FrontPageMagazine.com,
July 6, 2004
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi
Nir Boms is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies and at the Council for Democracy and Tolerance. Reza
Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the US Alliance for
Democratic Iran.
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are usually associated
with humanitarian relief and peaceful advocacy work. As such, it
is not everyday that an NGO is in charge of recruiting “suicide
volunteers” to dispatch overseas to strike at “world
arrogance.”...
Iran's summer of discontent
The Jerusalem Post,
June 16, 2004
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi
Nir Boms is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies and at the Council for Democracy and Tolerance. Reza
Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the US Alliance for
Democratic Iran.
In recent
years, summer in Iran has been marked by uprisings, strikes,
public protests and the government’s harsh crackdown against
them. There are signs this summer will be no different...
EU, Iran:
Partners In Trade, Partners In Human Rights Abuse?
American Daily,
June 16, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
If there was
any doubt about the impossibility of any improvement of the
Iranian people’s lot under the current theocratic rule, it was
put to rest by the report published earlier last week by the
US-based Human Rights Watch...
Iran's Summer Persecution
FrontpageMagazine.com,
June 15, 2004
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi
Nir Boms is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies and at the Council for Democracy and Tolerance. Reza
Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the US Alliance for
Democratic Iran.
In recent
years, summer in Iran has been marked by uprisings, strikes,
public protests and the government’s harsh crackdown against
them. There are signs this summer will be no different...
The Ticking Clock of Iran's Nuclear Program
EurasiaNet, June 14,
2004
By Reza Bulorchi, the
Executive Director of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran.
The
International Atomic Energy Agency convened a board of governors
meeting June 14, debating how to respond to Iran’s nuclear
program, which critics say is dedicated to the development of
nuclear weapons. The head of the United Nations’ agency,
Mohammad ElBaradei, announced that Tehran’s cooperation has been
"less than satisfactory."...
Iran's Summer Song of Dissent
In The National
Interest,
June 9, 2004
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi
Nir Boms is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies and at the Council for Democracy and Tolerance. Reza
Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the US Alliance for
Democratic Iran.
In recent
years, summer in Iran has been marked by uprisings, strikes,
public protests and the government’s harsh crackdown against
them. There are signs this summer will be no different...
Mullahs' Reign of Terror in Iran
American Thinker,
June 3, 2004
By Roya Johnson, the Vice
President of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
As a former
political prisoner, I have been asked on many occasions what has
kept the mullahs’ regime in power in Iran for twenty five years.
After all, the overwhelming majority of Iranians loathe them;
their oil-driven economy is in shambles, with a majority of the
population below the poverty line or very close to it.
Internationally they are condemned as the most active sponsor of
terrorism and major proliferators of weapons of mass
destruction. So, what is their secret?...
The Mullahs
In Iran Are Recruiting Suicide Bombers For Iraq Attacks
American Daily,
June 9, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
With summer
fast approaching, Iran’s internal security forces are gearing up
to crackdown on anti-government demonstrations which usually
escalate in the months of June and July. There have been many
protests in Iran’s major cities already. In March, violent
anti-government protests erupted in Fereydoun Kenar, Marivan,
Boukan, and Isfahan. And earlier this month, teachers in Tehran
and elsewhere staged demonstrations that led to the closure of
many schools across the country. Moreover, more than 20,000
people took part in a protest by tea growers in northern Iran
last week....
The Looming
Summer Of Discontent In Iran
American Daily,
May 18, 2004
By Roya Johnson, the Vice
President of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
With summer
fast approaching, Iran’s internal security forces are gearing up
to crackdown on anti-government demonstrations which usually
escalate in the months of June and July. There have been many
protests in Iran’s major cities already. In March, violent
anti-government protests erupted in Fereydoun Kenar, Marivan,
Boukan, and Isfahan. And earlier this month, teachers in Tehran
and elsewhere staged demonstrations that led to the closure of
many schools across the country. Moreover, more than 20,000
people took part in a protest by tea growers in northern Iran
last week....
(More)
An Advanced
Nuclear Weapons Program Behind Iran’s Sham Cooperation
American Daily,
May 4, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
As the EU big
three - France, Britain, and Germany - are playing footsy with
Tehran over its nuclear program, new revelations last week
confirmed that Iran’s military is now running the mullahs’
secret nuclear weapons program...
(More)
Iraq: Iran
Encore?
Muslim
World Today, April 30, 2004
By Reza Bulorchi, the Exec.
Director of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
There are
striking similarities between Iran of 1979 and today's Iraq
where a nation just gone through a regime change aspires to
establish a pluralistic and democratic system of governance. But
the same dark forces which rubbed Iranians from a bright future
are now bent on repeating their feat in Iraq....
(More)
Diplomatic
Blackmail, Hostage-Taking: Iran’s Main Instrument To Advance Its
Foreign Policy
American Daily,
April 30, 2004
By the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
In the 1980s,
Tehran perfected the art of using hostage-taking as a profitable
instrument of advancing its foreign policy. Iran, indeed, has
used terrorism as part of its overall policy of exporting
fundamentalism and expanding its sphere of influence in the
Middle East and beyond. It is no different in Iraq today...
(More)
EU Lets Iran
Off The Hook In Geneva
American Daily,
April 23, 2004
By David Johnson, a
co-founder of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
Once again, the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights has let Iran off the
hook. As the UN body is holding its annual session in Geneva,
the EU-led Western block chose not to table a resolution
censuring flagrant human rights violations by Iran’s ruling
theocracy...
(More)
Iranian Prisoners Need Treatment
United Press
International,
April 21, 2004
Washington, DC,
Apr. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S.-based advocacy group urged the Bush
administration Wednesday to use its influence to get medical
treatment for two political prisoners in Iran. The U.S. Alliance
for Democratic Iran said the prisoners -- Manuchehr Mohammadi
and his brother Akbar Mohammadi -- need urgent treatment...(More)
Tehran
Determined To Hijack Iraq’s Democratization
American Daily,
April 16, 2004
By David Johnson, a
co-founder of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
Notwithstanding
the obvious differences between 1979 Iran and 2004 Iraq, there
are striking similarities in today’s Iraq. A nation just gone
through a regime change after a major war is on its way to
establish a pluralistic and democratic system of governance. But
the same dark forces which rubbed Iranians from a bright and
democratic future are now bent on repeating their feat in
Iraq...
(More)
System fuels world problems for Iran
Islamic clerics hold ultimate political
authority
The Kansas
City Star, April 15, 2004
By BILL TAMMEUS
A controversial
system of rule by Iran's religious leaders underlies that
nation's many disputes with its neighbors and with much of the
rest of the world, scholars say... “The Velayat-e faqih is the
root cause of the calamity devouring Iran,” said the
U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran,
a Washington-based group that seeks to bring democratic reform
to the country... The
U.S. Alliance for Democratic
Iran
declared that American “policy toward Iran must focus on full
support for the democracy movement” without any compromise with
the Velayat system...
(More)
Time to Confront Iran’s Theocracy On all Fronts
Intellectual
Conservative, April 5, 2004
By David Johnson, co-founder of the US
Alliance for Democratic Iran and its Director of Operations
As long as Iran
is ruled by a theocratic regime there will be no specter of
freedom and popular governance for Iranians, no end to the
meddling in Iraq, and no relief from Iran’s nuclear and
terrorist threats...
(More)
The Victory of an Iranian Choice
In the National Interest, March 31,
2004
By Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi
Nir Boms is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies and at the Council for Democracy and Tolerance. Reza
Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the US Alliance for
Democratic Iran.
If doubts
remained as to the extent that last month’s rigged Iranian
elections were boycotted by Iranian citizens, they were put to
rest Tuesday, March 16. That evening, on a walk through Tehran’s
residential neighborhoods, one could see just how loathed Iran’s
ruling theocracy is among the Iranian people...
(More)
Ultimately A Regime Change Will Defuse Iran’s Nuclear Threat
IntellectualConservative.com,
March 11, 2004
By David Johnson, a co-founder of the US
Alliance for Democratic Iran and its Director of Operations
What does it
take for the European Union’s Big-3 (Britain, France, and
Germany) to conclude that Iran indeed possesses a nuclear
weapons program? Given their lucrative trade relations and
regional geopolitical rivalries with the United States, the EU-3
may believe they have legitimate reasons for leniency towards
Tehran, but the specter of an Iran – the most active state
sponsor of terrorism – armed with nuclear weapons is too
frightening and too destabilizing to let appeasers in the EU to
take the lead. The US must demonstrate firm leadership to
prevent mullahs’ from reaching the nuclear point of no return...
(More)
Iran: Long live the reformers!!!
Asia Times Online, February 3, 2004
By Nir Boms and Reza
Bulorchi
Reza Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the
US Alliance for Democratic Iran, and Nir Boms, is a fellow at
the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Evidenced by
Iran's ongoing political turmoil, under the current structure a
metamorphosis of the Islamic Republic from within is an
impossible task, as the real struggle for democracy and change
is actually between the Iranian people and the ruling theocracy
as a whole. United States policy towards Tehran must be based on
this reality....
(More)
Myth of the Moderate Mullahs
The Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2004
By REZA BULORCHI & NIR
BOMS
Reza Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the
US Alliance for Democratic Iran, and Nir Boms, is a fellow at
the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Defying
conventional wisdom, fresh voices of freedom appear to be coming
from the Middle East of late. There is only one problem: What
Iranians have seen from Khatami and his faction over the past
seven years has been nothing more than the rhetoric of reform.
Iran's theocracy is based on a theory of government called the
Velayat-e faqih, or the absolute clerical rule. This concept is
at the core of the complex structure of the Iranian political
system in which immense religious and political authority rests
with the vali-e faqih...
(More)
Viva la Reformers!
In the National Interest, January 28,
2004
By Reza Bulorchi and Nir Boms
Reza Bulorchi is the Executive Director of the
US Alliance for Democratic Iran, and Nir Boms, is a fellow at
the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Evident by
Iran's ongoing political turmoil, under the current structure a
metamorphosis of the Islamic Republic from within is an
impossible task, as the real struggle for democracy and change
is actually between the Iranian people and the ruling theocracy
as a whole, and United States policy toward Tehran must be based
on this reality...
(More)
Iran's Indifference to Its People's Welfare
Wall Street Journal (Letters to
Editor), January 5, 2004
By Karen Ramus, President of the
US Alliance for Democratic Iran
Your Dec. 29
editorial "Saving Lives in Bam" correctly points to the
responsibility of Iran's ruling theocracy for the staggering
level of death and destruction in the earthquake-stricken city
of Bam. While most media attention was appropriately focused on
the urgent humanitarian crisis in Bam, a few commentators made
the sordid suggestion that this tragedy could provide an
"opening" for normalizing relations between Washington and
Tehran...
(More)
Iranian Futures
Khatami's doublespeak and a hot
potato.
National Review Online,
December 30, 2003
By Nir Boms,
the vice president of the
Foundation for the
Defense of Democracies.
... Iranian
president Khatami has accumulated a long list of public lies and
deceptions since he became the president in 1997. "The biggest
lie," says Reza Bulorchi, the executive director of the U.S.
Alliance for a Democratic Iran, "was Khatami himself, the
so-called 'moderate reformer.'" During the week-long
anti-government student demonstrations in Tehran last June, the
most popular slogan was "Khatami resign, resign."...
(More)
Dealing with Iran's nuclear breaches decisively
The Chicago
Tribune, November 28, 2003
By
Karen Ramus, President of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
Imagine this: An armed
robber is caught red-handed. He confesses to many of his crimes
short of several robberies that included murders, with the
intention to buy time and evade the murder charges. The
prosecutor has the details on an 18-year crime spree--including
the murders. But the judge, praising the felon's "honesty,"
releases him saying he must be given a second chance. Will this
serve as justice or
deterrence?
That's exactly how the European Union's big three--Britain,
France and Germany--are treating Iran's 18 years of lies and
deception about its nuclear program...
(More)
