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PRESS RELEASE IHRDC Calls on the World to Prevent Iran from Executing Prisoners Arrested in Connection with the June 12 Presidential Election FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2009 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – Today, ILNA, an official Iranian news outlet, announced the creation of a special commission to “determine the fate of recent arrestees.” If history is any barometer, the creation of this commission and the men appointed to it, are ominous signs that the regime intends to severely punish, and execute, demonstrators and other human rights activists. The world cannot stand by and watch. Ayatollah Shahroudi, the Head of the...

Axis Of Evil: Far from complying with United Nations demands, Tehran announces it is building a second nuclear plant. The Iranians need help ousting the fanatics who rule them before the regime obtains the bomb.The world was treated this week to the television image of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the Muslim pilgrimage Hajj. That sight can't help but bring to mind his denial of the Nazis' genocide of the Jews, his call for Israel to be wiped off the map and his belief in the 12th imam's return as prelude to an apocalyptic holy war....