Iran
IRAN ACCOUNTABILITY WEEK TO BE HELD MAY 8-15
May 8, 2014PARLIAMENTARIANS SOUND THE ALARM ON IRANIAN DOMESTIC REPRESSION Ottawa – May 8th, 2014 – Canadian MPs James Bezan, Paul Dewar, and Irwin Cotler are co-sponsoring “Iran […] More »
Rouhani Is No “Moderate” When it Comes to Human Rights
May 7, 2014Iranian President Hassan Rouhani repeatedly touts his commitment to "constructive engagement" with the international community, particularly as he negotiates a comprehensive nuclear agreement. Yet, as nuclear talks resume this week, the systematic and widespread violations of human rights in Iran continue unabated, overshadowed -- if not sanitized -- by the myopic international focus on the nuclear issue. More »
The Camp Ashraf Massacres: A Failure to Protect
December 20, 2013In a recent encounter I had in Paris with families of those murdered at Camp Ashraf on September 1 the cri de coeur related not only to the horror of the massacre, and the continuing plight of the survivors, but also to the silence of the international community in the wake of such atrocity. More »
What Iran must bring to the table
October 17, 2013The soothing rhetoric of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is at odds with Iran’s insistence on its “inalienable right to enrich.” More »
