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Tehran-based cleric Ahmad Montazeri

Tehran Jails Montazeri’s Son for Revealing Father’s Dissent

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 28, 2016 | World

London- Ahmad Montazeri, son of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who for decades was the right-hand man to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of Iran’s Islamic revolution, was sentenced to jail for 21 years for releasing a decades-old tape in which his father...

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MEK, UK House of Commons Discuss Tehran Regime Violations

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 18, 2016 | World

London- Meeting at the UK House of Commons with British high-end political figures, Iranian opposition and activist movement People’s Mujahedin of Iran, otherwise known as MEK, discussed the worsening case of human rights in Iran, especially post the 2015...

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Gulf Study Exposes Systematic Executions in Iran, a Mechanism to Protect an Oppressive Regime

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 5, 2016 | Features, Profiles

London- A Gulf-prepared paper exposed earth-shattering statistics on the systematic executions carried out in Iran since the rise of the cleric regime in 1979. Iran’s theocratic regime, founded by Ruhollah Khomeini, has long enforced law through the brutal excess of...

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An Iranian national flag flutters in Tehran April 15, 2011. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

How the Iranian Opposition can Unite and Win?

by Dr. Karim Abdian | Sep 1, 2016 | Opinion

For the past 37 years, the Iranian regime has cleverly been able to disunite, or cause the current disunity and distrust, in the opposition and redder it almost irrelevant. But this seems to becoming to an end. The rights of Iran’s non-Persian nationalities were...

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Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi talks during a news conference in Tehran, March 15, 2008. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah)

1980’s Execution Haunts Top Iranian Officials

by Adel al-Salmi | Aug 31, 2016 | World

London- Heated controversy sparked-off 20 days ago as a recording for Iran’s Deputy Supreme Leader Hussein-Ali Montazeri surfaced. The recording sounds Montazeri’s loud objection to many of the regime-carried death sentences in 1988. Montazeri’s controversial audio...