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Regime change is possible in Iran, says Obama a
A top Obama Administration official has said that tougher sanctions against Iran over its
defiance on its nuclear programme could trigger regime change in Tehran.
Pakistan the oppressor- Peter Tatchell, The Guardian
It is little surprise that Baloch nationalist leaders have rejected the latest peace package proposed by Islamabad A series of massacres of peaceful protesters by [Read More…]
California seeks full divestment of insurers from Iran
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s insurance regulator plans to take steps Wednesday to
pressure insurance companies into ending any financial relationship they have with Iran.
A state law that took effect last year outlaws direct investments in Iran by California-based
Treasury targets Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp
The US Department of the Treasury today took further action to implement existing sanctions against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by designating a general and four companies affiliated with the IRGC, pursuant to Executive Order 13382. This Executive
Order freezes the assets of designated proliferators of weapons of mass destruction
Week Review in Action: Show of Force in Washington
Iran being one of the most discussed topic in 2009 and likely 2010 as well, its international
defiance and its internal disarray, has prompted a number of prominent centres and scholars to
An Obama achievement on Iran?
Vice President Biden — who was for the Iraq war before he was against it, and who then argued that the surge could never work before he decided (in retrospect) that it did — said this to Larry King on Wednesday night: 
Time is Up to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Bomb
It’s not that unusual to hear hostile remarks directed at the United States from the Iranian
regime — but lately, it’s been getting not only personal but frankly contemptuous. Iranian 
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki recently let it be known that “we do not take
Iran arrests activists before expected protests
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities have conducted a series of arrests against
alleged opposition activists before expected protest rallies during events to mark the
anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the country’s top police official said Wednesday.
The fight for power in northern Iraq
As Scene from the Rugged Kurdistan Mountains
Whether Gorran can succeed in cleaning up government is unclear as the Kurdish security forces
are still ruled over by the two old-line parties and Gorran activists have already come under
Kemal Kirkuki: “We don’t finance the Iranian Kurdish opposition”
Present Speaker of Parliament, Kemal Kirkuki
“Rojnama,” a weekly Kurdish newspaper based in Suleimaniya city that is associated with the