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The Truth About Zahra Kazemi - Setareh Kaviyan An Iranian-Canadian journalist named Zahra Kazemi was beaten to death by the Islamic Republic’s State agents on July 10th 2003 for taking pictures outside the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran. The regime denied requests from her family and the Canadian government to examine the body. They buried her hastily with no autopsy and claimed that she had fallen in her prison cell and died of injuries to her head. New developments have come to surface regarding Zahra Kazemi’s death with the arrival of Dr. Shahram Azam to Canada. Dr. Azam was...

Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic and the Islamic state May 11, 2005 The Marze Por Gohar Party is deeply disappointed by a recent event in Afghanistan, whereby 29 year-old woman was stoned to death for committing adultery. One has to wonder what the difference is between the Taliban regime and that of Hamid Karzai's rule on whose watch the barbaric stoning was executed? The people of Afghanistan had to endure atrocities during the rein of Taliban regime and many hardships during the time that the American government dismantled the Taliban regime. Certainly the United States' goal to remove the Taliban regime...

Source: LA Times Date 20-03-2005 L.A. Is a Den of Iranian Intrigue and Ambition U.S. agents tap an incongruous mix of exiles for intelligence on Tehran. The jockeying for influence is intense, as is the skepticism. By Anne-Marie O'Connor, Greg Krikorian and H.G. Reza, Times Staff Writers Roozbeh Farahanipour was jailed and beaten during student protests in Iran in 1999. Today, he sits in a cramped office above a Persian-language bookstore on Westwood Boulevard, speaking in low tones about the pro-Tehran "agents" he says still dog him. Two years ago, after hostile men confronted his Iranian activist group at public...