During this week of uprising that left 12 pro-democracy protestors dead in Iran, the sister of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, a human rights attorney and activist, was detained by the Iranian government because of her sister’s human rights work, according to Ebadi.
In a statement, the Nobel Prize winning human rights …
In this week’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Amir Taheri reports that Iran’s pro-democracy movement is “deepening and growing.”
On Monday, thousands of Iranian students risked their lives and safety to protest the rule of the mullahs in Iran. Some protestors allegedly burned photographs of Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a taboo-shattering move …
Returning tonight from London, I wanted to get down a few thoughts. Overall, I noticed a few things about media coverage across the pond: the war in Afghanistan is being reported with heavy attention to British soldiers’ fatalities and injuries, much in the way American troops’ fatalities and ghastly injuries in Iraq were heavily reported …
This week tens of thousands of green-clad Iranian protestors resumed their struggle for freedom on the streets of Teheran.
An argument can be made that in remaining silent during the initial days of June’s protests, President Obama was denying the mullahs ammunition to delegitimize the protestors. But the demonstrators disagree: just this week they shouted, …
Ilan Berman’s new book,“Winning the Long War, Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam,” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009) catalogues American successes and failures to defeat radical Islam post-9/11. In its quiet, detailed, meticulously researched way, it is a powerful call to action in the war against radical Islam—especially the war of ideas.
The book is …
Last week brought the revelation that Iran has an additional secret nuclear enrichment facility inside a mountain near the city of Qum in addition to its much larger enrichment complex at Natanz.
There is now zero doubt that Iran, a country that has pledged genocidal threat against Israel, is on the fast track towards attaining …
Yesterday thousands gathered at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside the United Nations in New York to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pledge to destroy Israel, and to show solidarity with Iranian protestors who have faced down Iran’s mad mullahs in recent months.
The plaza was awash in green worn by protestors in solidarity with Iran’s freedom-seekers as …
Tomorrow (Thursday September 24), thousands of Iranian-Americans will gather at noon outside the United Nations, in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Second Avenue and 47th Street, to protest the human rights abuses and fraudulent Presidential election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Thousands of Jewish-Americans will join them.
We will also be standing up to condemn …
Tonight Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist for The Wall Street Journal, had some fascinating comments about Iran - its race toward nuclear capability, its connections with North Korea, and the bravery of Iranian people giving their lives for freedom tonight.
“What began as a dispute about inherently corrupt elections … has become a frontal assault on …
Congratulations to the people of Lebanon who this week cast their votes against extremism and brutality.
The dynamic of extremists and elites who refuse compromise, and are inclined to seize power, imposing their will on a pliant, intimidated majority, has been repeated countless times throughout history. The extremists, the hyper-aggressive types, the …