Category: News
Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) Condemns Iran's Brutal Attack on Political Prisoners
PR Newswire WASHINGTON, April 23, 2014 WASHINGTON, April 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) is disturbed by reports that political prisoners in Evin & Ghazal Hessar Prisons in Iran were attacked in a raid directed by Iranian Ministry of Intelligence during which agents savagely beat and tortured defenseless prisoners. This incident is the latest example of Iran’s perpetual […]
U.S. lawmakers seek to revive stalled Iran sanctions bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. senators sought to revive a bill on Tuesday that would impose new sanctions on Iran despite President Barack Obama’s insistence that the measure would endanger delicate negotiations seeking to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. Senator Mitch McConnell, the party’s leader in the Senate, told reporters Republicans wanted to include the sanctions […]
Obama administration must act to protect Iranian dissidents threatened in Iraq, says former senior U.S. officials, Iranian American community leaders
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2014, OIAC – Top American supporters of the Iranian resistance are growing increasingly critical of the Obama administration for failing to keep a U.S. promise to protect more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents in an overcrowded refugee camp in Iraq, where they have been under repeated deadly attacks by Iraqi gunmen. “It was […]
Symposium on Iran Negotations
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Six powers, Iran to begin new nuclear talks on February 18
BY ANNA MCINTOSH MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – Six world powers and Iran will begin talks in Vienna on February 18 on a long-term deal for Tehran to curb parts of its nuclear program in exchange for a gradual end to sanctions, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Friday. “We have agreed that we will […]
Nasser Sharif: Iran's president a phony 'moderate'
By NASSER SHARIF / For the Register On June 15, when Iran announced the results of its recent presidential election, the New York Times reported the news of Hassan Rouhani’s victory under the headline, “Iran Moderate Wins Presidency by a Large Margin.” In the weeks since the election, the Times has run scores of articles in […]
Rally against Iran regime’s president, Hassan Rouhani
California Society for Democracy in Iran is sponsoring rally against Iran regime’s president Rouhani. Hundreds of our community members will travel to New York on September 24 to join thousands of Iranian-Americans & human rights advocates to protest visit to the UN by Rouhani whose regime has: Executed 170 people since his election and oversaw two deadly attacks […]
UNAMI delegation witnesses 52 bodies in Camp Ashraf, majority shot in head
Baghdad, 3 September 2013 (unami.unmissions.org) – 24 hours after the tragic events that took place in Camp Ashraf, a UNAMI delegation led by the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (DSRSG), Mr. Gyorgy Busztin, and including UNAMI Chief of Human Rights and of Medical Sections, conducted a visit to the camp yesterday, where […]
September 1 massacre of Camp Ashraf Iranians
The death toll of the raid by Iraqi forces under the command of Nouri al-Maliki against the Iranian residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq has raised to 44 as of 12:00 Baghdad local time. Qassem Sulleimani, the commander of the Iranian regime’s Quds Force personally had ordered Faleh Fayyaz and Nour al-Maliki on last Tuesday to […]
OC REGISTER- More than 300 rally in Anaheim for protection of Iranian refugees
By JESSICA TERRELL ANAHEIM – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa, joined more than 300 Iranian-Americans on Saturday at a conference calling on the United States to use diplomatic efforts to intercede on behalf of 3,100 Iranian refugees housed on a former U.S. military base in Iraq. The refugees – many of them members of a […]