Sharif Behruz's personal blog

By Darren Lum Tears welled up and silence prevailed among the audience members while a Kurdish author described the cultural genocide of her people. Ava Homa, author of critically acclaimed [...]

Foreign Reports Bulletin Nathaniel Kern, Matthew M. Reed April 16, 2012 If you believe state media in Iran, the Islamic Republic is now preemptively boycotting some states in the European Union, [...]

Slogans: Death to Dictator Zealous army, embrace the nation Hashemi (Hashemi-Rafsanjani) have decency and leave the dictator

The Ahwazi Arab ‘Day of Rage’ proceeded under a complete media black-out and brutal state repression, leaving at least nine dead, scores injured and hundreds detained by security services. During [...]

Kurdish Human Rights Watch, Inc. (KHRW) Leadership Council for Human Rights (LC4HR) Cordially invite you to Iran’s Ethno-Religious Minorities Under Siege on Monday May 23rd 2011 12:00 – 1:00 PM [...]

May 25, 2011 (AP) OROUMIEH LAKE, Iran — From a hillside, Kamal Saadat looked forlornly at hundreds of potential customers, knowing he could not take them for trips in his [...]

A very remarkable testimony by Dr Satloff on the situation in Syria as it relates to Iran and an urgently needed US policy…Could not have expressed it any better… — Featuring [...]

Pdki.org staff writer July 12, 2011 (pdki.org) The authorities in Iran have electronically jammed the Kurdish language television TISHK TV over its coverage of the planned mass strike for July [...]

 President Ahmadinejad is the leader of a criminal regime that flouts international law by pursuing an illegal nuclear weapons program, sponsoring terrorism, and abusing its own citizens.  We strongly believe [...]

The Iranian regime is one of the few remaining allies of the embattled Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad. For years, the United States has tried to sever the ties between the [...]

Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 September 2011 13.13 BST Turkey’s noisy championing of Palestinian rights, a source of growing friction with the US and Israel, jars uncomfortably with Ankara’s treatment of [...]

There is a lot that could be said about this staged and planned episode; however this Editorial (below) lays out the ordeal of these three hikers in Iran eloquently.  Congratulations on [...]

FrontPage Magazine – The U.S. is calling on Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to step down and is increasingly persuaded that the uprising against his rule will be victorious. As the [...]

The Islamic Republic is becoming more dangerous, not less, as it ages. By REUEL MARC GERECHT There is still much to learn about the Iranian-directed plot to blow up the Saudi [...]

In the course of its existence, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has conducted extensive research into gross human right violation in Iran compiling valuable documents such as Murder at Mykonos: [...]

By Dennis Ross Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2011 President Barack Obama, like President George W. Bush before him, has stated that it would be unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear [...]

by John Thompson and Sara Akrami ↓ on Feb 1st, 2012 The deaths of the Iranian defence scientists have allowed the regime in Tehran to weep copious tears and sputter [...]

Emanuele Ottolenghi March 30, 2012 National Times OPINION As prospects of an Israeli attack against Iran’s nuclear program mount, the concerns of many are understandable – an Iranian response, some [...]

Ruwayda Mustafah British-Kurdish activist, feminist, writer, and law student The palestinian cause has become internalised within Human rights discourse, and Muslim movements, the Kurdish cause in contrast has been marginalised, [...]

The Atlantic The New York Times quotes one anonymous Western diplomat as saying, in reference to the just-completed P5 + 1 talks over Iran’s nuclear program — talks in which the only [...]

BY PATRICK CLAWSON | APRIL 13, 2012 You wouldn’t know it from following the news, but the nuclear impasse is not the only issue dividing Iran and the United States. In his latest [...]