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IPW Needs You!

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Iran Press Watch (IPW) is deeply gratified by the enormous support and readership that we are receiving.  Everyday, thousands of readers from all walks of life, including government officials, civil rights activists, diplomats, Baha’i agencies,…

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From New Zealand

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Editor’s Note:  Iran Press Watch was happy to receive a copy of the following blog entry by Keith Locke, a Member of Parliament in New Zealand.  This posting was made on September 6, 2009 and…

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They Hanged Her for Teaching Love

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Editor’s Note:  The following essay is reprinted from American Thinker and is by Amil Imani, a pro-democracy activist in the United States.  Mr. Imani is a columist, literary traslator, novelist and essayist, who has been writing…

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Deadly Fatwa: Iran’s 1988 Massacre

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 Press Release Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Releases Report on Iran’s 1988 Massacre of Thousands of Political Prisoners August 27, 2009 New Haven, Connecticut – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) today released a…

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Montazeri Condemns Iranian Regime

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Editor’s Note:  Yesterday, August 26, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri issued a proclamation in response to a letter dated August 23 by some 293 Iranian intellectuals, journalists, human rights activists and other concerned citizens.  Iran Press Watch…

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The Forgotten Child

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Editor’s Note:  For the last 30 years, the Baha’i community of Iran has been deprived of access to institutions of higher education and forced to develop an open university known as BIHE.  However, it now appears…

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Baha’i Identity in Islamic Iran

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Editor’s Note:  Alexandra Leavy is a senior at University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Political Science & Modern Middle East Studies.  The following essay was initially published in JCSMENA: Penn’s Journal of Cultural Studies of the…

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