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Open letter by the Network of Homosexual University Students of Iran to the International Community
Distress and Despair in the Streets of Iran today:Open letter By the Network of Homosexual University Students of Iran To The International CommunityWe know that our realities can sound like passages from an Eastern tale. For this reason, queer stude...
Looking for their Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University and the author of, among other books, “Iran: A People Interrupted.”From the New York Times Though the violent events of the past week ...
Neda: An Angel of Freedom
By Amil ImaniI am so restless, I cannot cease thinking! It seems like the world we live in reveals to us incessantly, at certain moments or in certain circumstances, just how little we are and how vast the universe is. This world of ours is a very co...
Today everyone is an Iranian
Photo: Mt. DamavandBy Amil Imani"Those who make peaceful revolution impossiblewill make violent revolution inevitable." John F. KennedyToday, all Iranian expatriates are united in solidarity with the Iranian people in Iran. Today, we are all standin...
Urgent appeal to the LGBT community and leadership about the crisis in Iran
Dear LGBT family,We should all temporarily pause our work for our own civil rights, and orient our hearts and activity toward doing everything possible to help the Iranian people who are in dire need of worldwide support. Today, members of our human...
Jami: Khamenei has effectively removed himself from the guardianship of the people
"We are standing against radicalism - We, the Green Movement … its time for the people of the World to see what we are standing against…and join.”By Mehdi JamiThis is the end of Khamenei and the beginning of a new era. He doesn’t hear our vo...
Wolfowitz: Obama must step forward and support Iranian demonstrators
"[...T]he reform the Iranian demonstrators seek is something that we should be supporting. In such a situation, the United States does not have a "no comment" option. Coming from America, silence is itself a comment -- a comment in support of those ...
Open Letter to the World from Iranian Artists in Exile
“Human beings are members of a whole,In creation of one essence and soul.If one member is afflicted with pain,Other members uneasy will remain.If you have no sympathy for human pain,The name of human you cannot retain.”- SaadiThis week Iranians t...
Mousavi's Letter to the Iranian People
From Al-JazeeraFellow countrymen, I am receiving news about objections to the declared results of the latest elections, from all over the country. I am certain that these reactions are not for my personal sake, but it's due to concern about a new way...
