Charlie Rose on Iranian Reform

(click image to watch video) Watch Charlie Rose’s interview with Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Haleh Esfandiari, Director of the Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, & Ervand Abrahamian of Baruch College on the current climate of reform in Iran.

Shocking Confidential Report Admits to Iranian TV’s Provocation of Post-Election Uprising

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained an exclusive copy of a confidential report prepared by a sub-division of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), in which the IRIB’s performance following the 2009 presidential election is seriously criticized and the network is held responsible for widespread protests arising from the announcement of the election results. The confidential report is dated 9 August 2009.

Detained Protesters Threatened with Execution

(3 January 2010) In apparently coordinated messages, pro-government clerics have publicly called for detained protesters to be executed, placing intense political pressure on the Islamic Republic’s supposedly-independent judiciary to act as judicial authorities did in the early days of the Revolution, and attempting to intimidate Iranians from demonstrating for their rights, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran stated today.

The ayatollahs were quoted, from speeches during pro-government demonstrations and during Friday Prayers, by Fars News Agency.

Protesters Resist Violence by Militia and Security Forces

(27 December 2009) Widespread protests began early in numerous Iranian cities today, and have resulted in the death of at least four civilians in Tehran, including the nephew of Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported.

The website of the reformist faction in the Parliament, www.parlemannews.ir, reported that the 35 year old nephew of Moussavi, the opposition leader, was killed. Seyd Ali Moussavi died from a gun-shot to his heart at noon in Enqelab Square in Tehran, the website said.

Hundreds of thousands of protestors gathered in Tehran and other major cities, including Mashhad, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz, and Qom.