Author: Maryam Namazie

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION On January 3, 2006, 18-year-old Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she stabbed one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005. She was…

To the second annual secularist of the year award ceremony Dear friends I am sorry that I am unable to be with you today. I planned to attend but had to go abroad to a last minute meeting due to the pressing circumstances in Iran. I wish, however, to use this opportunity, to send my…

Run Date: 09/27/06 By Jennifer Fasulo WeNews commentator Venezuela’s Chavez has publicly embraced Iran’s reactionary President Ahmadinejad. Jennifer Fasulo says this shows how women’s lives are maneuvered on the playing board of nationalist realpolitik. Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of…

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An open letter To all noble humans, and all human right defender bodies I, Abolfazl Rahmanpour, the father of Kobra Rahmanpour pledge you to protest to the unfair sentence of my young daughter. Kobra, my young daughter, was forced to marry a man, 43 years older than herself. Kobra was a good student in her…

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee Third Camp TV Maryam Namazie: You wrote the Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism, which many people are now supporting. Why did you feel the need to write it? Hamid Taqvaee: If you have a look at the political situation of our era, it seems that…

Rights trump culture & religion Cultural relativism is not only a prescription for inaction and passivity in the face of the oppression of millions of people struggling and resisting in the Middle East and here in the west but is in fact racist in and of itself September 6, 2006 iranian.com Cultural relativism and its…

You can watch TV International, broadcast on New Channel TV today by clicking here. In this week’s programme, I interview: ● Babak Yazdi on the massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 in Iran ● Hamid Taqvaee on Khatami’s visit to the USA ● Sohaila Sharifi on the campaign to collect a million…

Interview with Asqar Karimi WPI Briefing: During 27 July 1988 (5 Mordad 1367) until the beginnings of September (Shahrivar) that year, the Islamic regime of Iran carried out one of the largest massacres of political prisoners in recent history. What happened; how many were killed and why? Asqar Karimi: In a matter of weeks an…