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Articles of Interest

Letter to His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of The United Nations

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Friday, May 28th, 2010

Topic: Another round of executions in Iran Your Excellency: My compatriots and I are greatly concerned about the continued violation of human rights in Iran. The clerical regime continues to repress citizens, arresting activists and dissidents, and threatening them with executions, in an attempt to intimidate our compatriots. On numerous occasions I have issued statements to the press and sent urgent letters to your esteemed office stressing the dire conditions of my compatriots who have been maimed and tortured in prisons. I wish to draw your attention in particular to the case of ...

Iran: From Theocracy to Democracy

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Monday, April 26th, 2010 - The Huffington Post

These are very troubling times for my country. The searing images on YouTube, Facebook and other media have brought the misery of the Iranian people and the brutality of the clerical regime into vivid perspective. The events surrounding the fraudulent election in June 2009 caused the people of Iran to reach their point of no return, and the regime to abandon all pretenses of faith, national pride, and humanity. The people of Iran achieved something unprecedented in the history of the 31-year-old Islamic Republic: for the first time, they coordinated mass-scale demonstrations against this to...

Son of former Iranian leader touts democracy

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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 - The George Washington University Hatchet

Audience members greeted Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah of Iran, with a standing ovation when he spoke of the relentless pursuit for democracy and human rights in Iran at an event Tuesday night at the Elliott School of International Affairs. Pahlavi - who has lived in exile in the U.S. since the ousting of his father at the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution - expressed his support for the protests following the disputed 2009 elections and said that it was up to the Iranian people to move toward democracy. "For those of us who have devoted our entire lives to the cause of democrac...

Envisioning the Next Iran: The Indispensable Interplay of Human Rights and Democracy

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 - The Huffington Post

New York Times: Reza Pahlavi Wants UN Probe in Iran

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 - The Associated Press

Shah's son backs civil disobedience in Iran

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 - Agence France Presse

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi in exile: 'I can't sit and say nothing as Iran suffers'

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 - UK Daily Telegraph

Iran: With Whom to Engage?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - The Huffington Post

Cries for Democracy in Iran

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 - The Huffington Post

The clever way to impose sanctions on Iran: Supporting the people is the best route to blocking Iran's Bomb

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 - UK Daily Telegraph

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