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This is a cross-post from the Ahwaz Solidarity Network.
Ahwazi activists have voiced their outrage against a documentary broadcast by Iran’s Press TV that used televised forced confessions by political prisoners to construct an outlandish conspiracy theory.
The Iranian government’s propaganda mouthpiece Press TV broadcast a documentary on 14 March claiming Ahwazi Arabs were “simple people with [...]

I thought readers might be interested in the latest edition of BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze, which focused on the morality of a preemptive strike against Iran.  You can listen to it here, at least in the UK. The panellists were regulars: Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Clifford Longley and Melanie Phillips.
The first witness, [...]

I’m passing on details of one of LabourStart’s campaigns – I’m sure many of you will want to express your support for this Iranian teacher:
Today we are once again being asked to mobilize tens of thousands of trade unionists around the world in defense of an Iranian teacher who has been sentenced to [...]

Brian or Lord? You may well ask.  Certainly the crazy ‘troofer’ style conspiracy theorising in this clip is reminiscent of the late Brain Haw, and playing the toady for a hostile foreign regime isn’t far from Lord Haw-Haw.
Here’s the clip (extracted from the longer video, which featured Livingstone tag-teaming with George Galloway in support of [...]

This is a guest post by Professor Alan Johnson, Senior Research Fellow at BICOM
Writing at the Economist blog on March 6 ‘MS’ put Israel on the couch.  The result was what Sigmund Freud called ‘wild analysis’: the dangerous misapplication of psychological theory due to the analyst not knowing the person being analyzed well enough, or [...]

This photo, of a young Iranian voting in the country’s parliamentary election today, appeared on the website of the semi-official Mehr New Agency.

The farcical election, which amounts to a murky power struggle among Iran’s ruling elite, is being boycotted by the Green movement. More than a thousand would-be candidates were excluded by the Guardians Council, [...]

Archbishop Cranmer reports that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani will soon be hanged for his faith, having refused to “revert” four times to Islam:
Sources in Iran are reporting that the execution order for Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani may have been issued. An Iranian Court has convicted him of apostasy (despite never having been a Muslim: background here, here and here), and [...]

This is a cross post from Potkin’s blog

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam’s article in the Guardian’s Comment is free section, which argues that the Islamic Republic was unlikely to be the culprit behind the assassination attempt on Israeli diplomats in Thailand, may appeal to most StWC members and other Western tyranophile readers of the Guardian newspaper, but anyone who [...]

First there were the botched attacks in New Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok.
Now this photo has emerged from a pro-Iranian regime demonstration in Tehran:

Potkin Azarmehr notes:
The state sponsored slogan is Ayatollah Khomeini’s famous saying “America can not do a damn thing” but on the 33rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, the slogan is translated as [...]

When US officials last year revealed an alleged plot by the Iranian regime to assassinate the Saudi ambassador and blow up the Israeli embassy in Washington, I was one of the many skeptics.
Did agents of Iran’s fearsome and elite Quds Force really persuade an Iranian-American failed businessman living in Corpus Christi, Texas, to seek out [...]