Latest Politics of Iran Stories
PARIS, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday April 2, a celebration on the occasion of Iranian New Year, Nowrouz, was held in the French National Assembly's Questure Hall. Members of Parliament representing various parliamentary groups participated in this celebration initiated by the French Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran (CPID). Mrs Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was the special guest of this event...
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC urged world powers to stand firm in next week's talks with Iran, after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a new report confirming that more advanced uranium enrichment machines have been installed at the Natanz facility. Iran last month notified the IAEA about its Natanz plans, a move the U.S. called "a provocative step." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) The new IAEA report comes just...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Iran Election Watch announced today the launch of its English-language news website exclusively devoted to coverage of Iran's 2013 presidential campaign. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130122/LA45459) The ongoing nuclear controversy, continuing regional instability, and the aftermath of Iran's disputed 2009 election make this election of global interest. Foreign Policy has called the vote one of eight "elections that...
BRUSSELS, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC (American Jewish Committee) is calling on members of the European Parliament to cancel their planned visit to Iran this month. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "For European lawmakers to make an official visit to Iran is shockingly absurd when the 27-member European Union has unanimously imposed ever-tightening sanctions on Iran for its reckless behavior that endangers global security," said Daniel...
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey of Jewish voters in the battleground state of Ohio reveals that 64 percent will choose President Obama, and 29 percent will vote for Governor Romney on Election Day. It is the third and last in a series of pre-election polls of American Jewish opinion. The others were a national survey and a separate poll in Florida. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "Each survey...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Iran has devised what they believe to be the most effective way to protect themselves from cyber attacks launched by terrorist hackers and outside governments: They’ll create their own version of the Internet. According to the Washington Post, the Iranian government has begun to lay out technical plans to build their own, self-contained version of the Internet, giving the country tighter control over the information and users...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, over twenty major Iranian-American organizations across the United States released a joint statement representing tens of thousands of Iranian Americans throughout the United States. They welcomed the decision by the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for notifying the US Congress that she has removed the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) under...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR), representing thousands of Iranian-Americans whose loved ones are facing a humanitarian crisis as refugees in Camp Liberty in Iraq, welcomes the reported decision by Secretary Hillary Clinton to remove the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The delisting of the MEK, which all patriotic Iranians in Iran and across...
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than two-thirds -- 69 percent -- of Jewish voters in Florida say they will choose President Obama over Governor Romney, who will win 25 percent of the state's Jewish vote, according to a new American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) Obama won 76 percent of the Florida Jewish vote in 2008. Jews comprise about four percent of the voters in Florida, which is widely...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Survivors and families who lost loved ones in the 1983 Beirut bombing will sponsor ads during the Democratic National Convention, suggesting that President Obama can stop almost 30 years of injustice by ordering the Justice Department to cease working with Iranian lawyers to keep Iran from paying court ordered judgments for its role in the bombing. Beginning Monday, the ads will appear in The Washington Post, on Politico 44 and in a shared...
