Volume: 2 - Issue:  55
2 June 2014
Iran Update

 

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 

Iran execution a reprisal for prison unrest, says opposition

AFP

Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani was convicted of "waging war against God" (moharebeh) by helping the People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and then hanged, state media reported...Read On

Iran Executes Political Prisoner

Washington Free Beacon  

Gholamreza Khosravi, a 49-year-old Iranian political dissiden was initially sentenced to life in prison in 2008 after he contributed $3,000 to a satellite television station affiliated with the PMOI, an exiled dissident group also known as the MEK...Read On

Iran: Prison interview with Gholamreza Khosravi in September 2013

NCRI

The reason for my death penalty is that I disclosed the barbaric actions of the Intelligence Ministry and refused to cooperate by giving information or speaking against the PMOI in a TV interview...Read On

 Iran is Determined to have Nukes 

Texas GOP Vote  

In a changing world full of danger, the greatest threat to the United States and the rest of the world remains the same--the Iranian regime...Read On

AI reports on ruthless campaign of repression in Iranian universities

NCRI

The Iranian authorities have waged a ruthless campaign of repression over the past three decades against students and academics who are routinely harassed, detained or barred from studying or teaching because of their peaceful activism, views or beliefs, said Amnesty International in a report released on Monday...Read On

UK probes Briton's 20-year jailing in Iran for Facebook posts

Al Arabiya  

The Foreign Office said Saturday it was following up the case of a British woman reportedly sentenced to 20 years in jail in Iran for posting anti-regime propaganda on Facebook...Read On

Iran Nuclear Monitor Casts Doubt on Meeting July Goal

Bloomberg

United Nations nuclear monitors cast doubt on their ability to resolve allegations about past nuclear-weapons experiments in Iran before time expires on negotiations seeking a long-term resolution to the conflict...Read On

Iran Guards commander 'killed in Syria'

AFP

A commander from Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria, media said Saturday, a disclosure that runs counter to Tehran's insistence it is not fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad's forces...Read On

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