By MARGALIT FOX October 16, 2010 Marzieh, the great diva of Persian traditional song, who was silenced after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 but who re-emerged years later outside Iran as a singer and a highly public supporter of the resistance, died on Wednesday in Paris. She was 86 and had defected to France in […]

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Monday, the Americans For A Free Iran (AFAFI) held a briefing on the occasion of the anniversary of the Iranian people’s June 2009 uprising to express solidarity with the pro-democracy movement in Iran. A number of prominent Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks religious figures and human rights […]

The Huffington Post February 10, 2010 By Ali Safavi, Member of Iran’s Parliament in Exile; President of the Near East Policy Research http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-safavi/refocusing-washingtons-po_b_457070.html On a chilly October day in 1981, after returning home from the University of Michigan campus, I answered a phone call. On the other side of the line was my step mother […]

A deadly clash after Iraqi forces stormed the camp has sparked protests and calls for better protection for the 3,500 Iranian dissidents living at Camp Ashraf. A Times Staff Writer August 19, 2009 The Obama administration downplayed international fears about the safety of Iranian dissidents living at a camp in Iraq as recently as mid-July, […]

San Jose Mercury News August 5, 2009 Ken McLaughlin http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_12993041?nclick_check=1 When Iraqi police raided a remote refugee camp in the desert last week, hundreds of Iranian-Americans in the Bay Area feared for the lives of loved ones in the camp. The 3,500 residents of Camp Ashraf are members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or People’s Mujahedeen of […]

For Immediate Release July 10, 2009 Contact: Nasser Sharif Tel: 562-221-8000 Iran Uprising Following 30 years of brutality against the Iranian people and especially since the post-election nationwide protests, both the purported pragmatists and conservatives in the Iranian government are tarnished. Iranian people, informed politicians, and progressive leaders here in the United States have long […]

By Phillip Zonkel, Staff Writer Posted: 06/25/2009 08:38:10 PM PDT LONG BEACH – Nasser Sharif fled his home country of Iran to save his life, he says. In 1982, the Long Beach resident was a first-year college student and member of a student group demonstrating against the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini. After a fellow student […]

Bock: Lost in the crowd With the eyes of the world turned to protests in Iran, seven Iranian-Americans face prison in the U.S. for raising money for a resistance group in their homeland. By ALAN W. BOCK / Senior Editorial Writer, the Orange County Register I don’t suppose anybody with a drop of red blood […]

By Paul M. Krawzak U-T WASHINGTON BUREAU September 9, 2008 Iranian immigrants from San Diego County joined others from across the nation yesterday, taking to the streets of Washington, D.C., to warn of a humanitarian catastrophe if the United States gives up protection of Iranian dissidents in Iraq. San Diego residents such as Amir Emadi […]