International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran

The two-minutes-hate dreamed up by the Iranian Revolution to divert public hostility at its repression over to Israel isn’t working this year. The New York Times reports on how the Iranian opposition, again under tremendous threat of repression, chooses its own destiny:
Conservatives had warned against using the annual pro-Palestinian march, known as Quds Day, as [...]

Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said he has a hard time taking a strong stance one way or the other about the Berman-Pence Iran resolution currently being debated on the House floor. But it’s wading awfully close into a “political act” for his taste “The text is not objectionable,” [...]

Very little is clear in the Iranian election, aside from the fact that the opposition does not credit for a moment the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning more than 60 percent of the vote to Mir Hossein Moussavi’s 30 percent. Juan Cole has a sober and detailed post giving reasons to disbelieve the official results. [...]