Volume: 1 - Issue:  23528 March 2012
Iran Update - ISDCI Newsletter
Iran Update

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Governor Tom Ridge -- We Can't Be Silenced
Governor Tom Ridge -- We Can't Be Silenced

 

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We are delighted to present you with the current issue of Iran Update, a publication of International Solidarity for Democratic Change in Iran (ISDCI).  You can see ISDCI's latest events on our website at: International Conferences 

Camp Liberty target of clerical regime's mortar attack
NCRI

NCRI - Around 9:30 AM, Wednesday, March 28, the sound  of a launched mortar over Camp Liberty created great anxiety and concern among the residents. The mortar landed 1,000 meters southwest of the Camp. It caused a fire and thick smoke where it landed. Read On... 

U.S. urges court to stay out of decision on Iranian group
Reuters

The Obama administration on Monday urged a U.S. appeals court not to interfere with its review and decision-making process over whether to remove the Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e Khalq from a U.S. terrorism blacklist. Read On... 

A tragic death at Iraq's Camp Liberty
Fox News

On the eve of the Persian New Year, Nowrouz, on March 20, Bardia Amir-Mostofian, a 44 year-old engineer, was praying in preparation for the celebrations, when he died of cardiac arrest in the abandoned, former US military base in Iraq known as Camp Liberty. Read On... 

Embassy Row: Clinton too busy
Washington Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is just too busy meeting foreign leaders, responding to global crises and attending international forums to be bothered with Iranian dissidents who want her to remove them from the U.S. terrorist list. Read On... 

Feds Say Court Shouldn't Interfere With MEK Terror List Review
TPM

The Obama administration said Monday that an appeals court shouldn't interfere with the government's review of its designation of an Iranian opposition group as a terrorist organization. Read On... 

DOJ to D.C. Circuit: Don't Tell The State Department What To Do
The Blog of Legal Times

U.S. Justice Department lawyers today urged an appeals court in Washington to shut down a legal dispute over the government's designation of a fringe Iranian resistance group as a foreign terrorist organization. Read On... 

State Department fights suit over Iranian group on terror list
CNN

The State Department is asking a U.S. appeals court to deny a suit that would force Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to decide, within 30 days, whether to remove an Iranian opposition group from the U.S. list of foreign terror organizations. Read On... 

Persian New Year: Time for a new approach
Huffington Post

The start of the Persian New Year on Tuesday 20 March should have been a happy occasion, but for freedom-loving Iranians in Iraq it began on a note of sadness with the death of a 44-year-old electrical expert, Amir-Mostofian. Read On... 

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