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Tina Gharavi: Die Situation wird kippen
Im Interview mit der Regisseurin von „I Am Nasrine“
Zur Zeit läuft „I Am Nasrine“, das Spielfilmdebüt der iranischstämmigen Regisseurin Tina Gharavi, auf Festivals weltweit, im Februar soll er auf DVD erscheinen. Beim Brooklyn Film Festival wurde er für das Beste Drehbuch ausgezeichnet, war außerdem für einen BAFTA Award nominiert. Ben Kingsley bezeichnete ihn als „wichtigen und sehr notwendigen Film“. Gharavi zeichnet darin das einfühlsame Portrait einer jungen Iranerin, die nach England flüchtet und dort zwischen allen Stühlen sitzt auf der Suche nach einer neuen Identität. Ein Film, der nicht nur ein Schlaglicht auf die heutigen Verhältnisse in Iran wirft, sondern auch das Dilemma von Flüchtlingen in den Mittelpunkt stellt, die sich mit einer neuen Kultur arrangieren wollen, ohne die eigene aufzugeben oder zu verleugnen. Gharavi drehte Teile des Films ohne Drehgenehmigung in Teheran – ein gefährliches Unterfangen. Auf dem Höhepunkt der Zusammenstöße zwischen Opposition und Regierungskräften nach den Wahlfälschungen im Juni 2009 schmuggelte sie das Material außer Landes…
Frau Gharavi, nach der Islamischen Revolution gingen Sie ins Exil nach England und kehrten zwei Jahrzehnte später zurück. Was war der Anlass?
Gharavi: Nach dreiundzwanzig Jahren im Exil kehrte ich nach Iran zurück, um meine Mutter zu treffen. Für den britischen Channel 4 drehte ich eine Film mit dem Titel „Mother / Country“. Das war ein besonders emotionale Erfahrung: ich dachte darüber nach, wie ich diese faszinierende Kultur verlassen hatte und dass Kinder von Migranten in gewisser Weise Kinder einer dritten Kultur sind. Diese Kinder sind weder „östlich“ noch „westlich“, sondern irgendwie beides. Ich wollte die Geschichte der ersten Migrantengeneration erzählen. 2001 lud ich Einwanderer zu mir nach Hause in England ein und sprach mit ihnen über ihre Erfahrungen. Die meisten hatten einen Flucht-Hintergrund, hatten hier Asyl gesucht. Die Exilerfahrung hat auf viele Menschen großen Einfluss, vor allem was die Themen Identität und Zugehörigkeit betrifft.
Und daraus entstand dann Ihr Film „I Am Nasrine“… Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
The Golha Project Website Launched
THE GOLHA PROJECT WEBSITE: Online Portal for Researching Persian Music and Poetry
Iran Heritage Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the Golha Project Website
Sponsored by: Iran Heritage Foundation
Supported by: PARSA Community Foundation
Project Management: Jane Lewisohn Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
ftd: US-Finanzaufsicht – Standard Chartered bei Iran-Deals ertappt
Der britische Ableger von Standard Chartered soll die Identität iranischer Geschäftspartner verschleiert und damit das US-Geldwäschegesetz gebrochen haben. Auf einen Hinweis der US-Mutter reagierten die Londoner Banker deftig.
Bericht: Exploring avenues for protected entry in Europe
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Roundup of Today’s International News 28/05/12
IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
After Talks Falter, Iran Says It Won’t Halt Uranium Work
Iran’s nuclear chief, reversing the country’s previous statements, said on state television on Sunday that the country would not halt its production of higher-grade uranium, suggesting that the Iranian government was veering back to a much harder line after talks in Baghdad with the West last week ended badly.
U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran
The IAEA report said environmental samples taken in February at Iran’s Fordow facility – buried deep beneath rock and soil to protect it from air strikes – showed the presence of particles with enrichment levels of up to 27 percent. That is above the 20 percent enrichment level Iran has declared at the site, and takes it across the line from low-enriched to high-enriched uranium.
Iran has enough uranium for five nuclear weapons, claims US thinktank
Iran had produced almost 6.2 tonnes of uranium enriched to a level of 3.5% since it began the work in 2007 – some of which has subsequently been further processed into higher-grade material. This equates to nearly 750 kg more than in the previous IAEA report issued in February, and the thinktank said Iran’s monthly production had risen by roughly a third. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
‘The Baghdad Conquest’: Iranian Reaction to Nuclear Talks
by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Any views expressed are the authors’ own. Please refer to the Media Guide to help put the stories in perspective. You can follow breaking news stories on our Twitter feed.
In an editorial titled “Resolution of the Problem, Stopping the Negotiations,” Kayhan’s hardline managing editor, Hossein Shariatmadari, warned that the P5+1 has pursued negotiations with Iran for political purposes, motivated by the distressed economic conditions in the West. “As far as we can tell, the West pursues the negotiations for the sake of negotiations, not for resolving the problems between the two sides and melting the ‘artificial ice’ that it has created and spread during the past decade over Iran’s nuclear program,” Shariatmadari wrote. “Thus, if this is true — and all evidence indicates that it is — then Iran’s agreeing to continue the negotiations in Moscow or any other place in the world needs serious reconsideration. There is concern that continuing the negotiations, at least without an agreed-upon modality and the commitment of both sides to move along this path, will be tantamount to playing in the enemy’s field.” Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
Iran and ‘Divided’ P5+1 Exchange Proposals to End Nuclear Standoff
by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Any views expressed are the authors’ own. Please refer to the Media Guide to help put the stories in perspective. You can follow breaking news stories on our Twitter feed.
5:45 a.m. IRDT, 4 Khordad/May 24 The first day of negotiations in Baghdad between Iran and the P5+1 group — the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany — ended Wednesday evening; the talks will resume Thursday. Saeed Jalili, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), also met separately with Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief who leads the negotiations for the P5+1. Jalili’s deputy at the SNSC, Ali Bagheri, likewise met separately with the Chinese delegation. Bagheri apparently also met with German diplomat Helga Maria Schmid, Ashton’s senior adviser. In secret negotiations in an undisclosed location last week, Bagheri and Schmid had agreed on the agenda for the Baghdad meeting.Each side has reportedly submitted a package of proposals. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, “Our understanding is that at the first session today, the EU3+3 [P5+1] side put forward a detailed proposal which includes confidence-building measures that can pave the way for Iran to demonstrate that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and for it to comply with its UNSC [United Nations Security Council] obligations. And then this approach would also include step-by-step reciprocal steps aimed at near-term action on our part if Iran takes its own steps.”
It appears that by Wednesday evening hopes for quick progress had faded. The P5+1 apparently presented Iran with a list of tough demands involving the curbing of its uranium enrichment, but offered little sanctions relief in return. The Christian Science Monitor reported that Iranian officials have said the new package by the P5+1 goes beyond the “step-by-step” and “reciprocal” process that had been agreed upon in the round of talks held in Istanbul last month. According to the Monitor, one Iranian diplomat said, “The response from the Iranian side is, ‘What you are asking for is not what we agreed to in Istanbul.’” The diplomat added, “Steps were meant to be ‘reciprocal, simultaneous, and…balanced’ in their value to each side. Instead, Iran was told Wednesday that there would be ‘consideration’ of easing sanctions ‘later,’ after Iran made concessions.”
The P5+1 package apparently requires Iran to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions and “immediately” halt enriching uranium to 19.75 percent (commonly rounded to 20 percent, though the small difference is significant), and to ship its stockpile of uranium enriched to that level out of the country. While various reports from Tehran over the past few weeks had indicated that Iran may be open to such a proposal, it also expected to receive a significant concession in return, which the P5+1 package apparently does not contain. At the same time, full compliance with Security Council would require Iran to suspend its enrichment of uranium even at the 3.5-5 percent level, which Iran is unlikely to accept, at least in the absence of major incentives or concessions.
Michael Mann, Ashton’s chief spokesman, said, “We are getting into the substance of the matter…. We hope the Iranians will respond positively. We’re going to make solid progress if things go well.” While the Western powers are “hopeful” that Iran will have a positive response to their set of proposals, according to Mann, he indicated that sanctions would not be eliminated as an immediate consequence of the Baghdad talks. IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, quoted one of its correspondents as saying, “The problem with the P5+1 package is that there is no balance, and there is nothing [for Iran] to get in return for what they [Iran] give.”
In response to a question about the mechanism for reciprocal steps by both sides, the State Department’s Nuland said, “This is a package of first steps, so Iran would take some steps and then we would take some steps [emphasis mine]. We will see how Iran reacts to that proposal. But [the negotiators] are in the middle of it now, so I think we will let them finish, and then I’m sure there’ll be some press statements after they’re finished.”Iran has announced that it offered a comprehensive package of five basic points to the P5+1 after the first session of talks wrapped up. It is said to involve both nuclear and unspecified nonnuclear issues, which may concern regional security matters, in particular the crisis in Syria. Various sources have reported that Iran has not changed it principal position, namely, that it is entitled to the use of nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment, for peaceful purposes. Iran’s package reportedly envisages a step-by-step approach to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program, and the practical steps the Western governments should take in parallel. Press TV, the English-language subsidiary of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, reported that the members of the P5+1 are divided over how to respond to the Iranian package. IRNA similarly reported that there is no consensus among the P5+1 members, reflected by the fact that a member of the U.S. delegation said that Washington would still pursue new sanctions, to which Russia has announced its opposition.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said that “no negative signals have been exchanged between the two sides.” He added, “The Iran and P5+1 negotiations have entered a sensitive phase…. The P5+1 conveyed its offers to the Iranian representatives and is waiting for a response.” In the United States, aboard Air Force One en route to Colorado Springs, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said,
The talks are underway in Baghdad, as scheduled, and the fact that they are taking place as a continuance of the initial round [in Istanbul] is a sign of progress. The initial round was important because the Iranians focused on their nuclear program, and that will continue to be the case, we hope. I don’t have any readout of today’s meetings, but I can say that we want to see this effort succeed. Any process has to have as part of it reciprocal actions and Iran must demonstrate it is serious about moving forward with addressing the concerns of the international community. As I said yesterday when asked about the announcement by the IAEA director [Yukiya Amano], the fact that there are positive steps forward is absolutely worth noting, but we judge Iran by its actions, not by its promises. And so we will continue to press forward with our allies and partners with the unprecedented sanctions regime as we, on a separate track, work with our P5-plus-1 partners to pursue an effort to resolve this conflict diplomatically.
Source: Tehran Bureau
Iran Begins Talks with World Powers
Source: VOA
Talks between world powers and Iran have started in Baghdad in an effort to negotiate an agreement over disputes involving Iran’s controversial nuclear program.
Wednesday’s meeting brings together Iran’s nuclear negotiator with representatives of the so-called P5+1: Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States plus Germany.
At issue is Iran’s production of highly-enriched uranium that Western nations fear could ultimately be used to make a nuclear bomb. Iran says its nuclear program is being developed for peaceful means.
The talks are being held in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. It is the second meeting since diplomacy resumed in April after more than a year of delays. Amid increased hopes for a breakthrough, diplomats expect talks could go into a second, unscheduled day. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
NATO: Missile Defense Shield for Europe is Up and Running
Source: VOA
NATO says its U.S.-led missile defense shield for Europe is up and running.
Iran’s Nuclear Impasse: Breaking the Deadlock
Oxford Research Group analysis suggests Western “pendulum may have swung too far” toward “punitive measures.”
The London-based Oxford Research Group (ORG), founded in 1982 by Dr. Scilla Elworthy, is a nongovernmental organization devoted to the advocacy of “alternatives to global conflict.” It defines its goal as to “encourage and promote a deep shift in the way that people think about security, based on the understanding that lasting security is not attainable through military means. Developing long-term ‘sustainable security’ for everyone means understanding the root causes of conflict, and promoting dialogue rather than confrontation as the means to a truly secure world.” Elworthy was honored with the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003.
Tehran Bureau here co-presents ORG’s new analysis of how further negotiations between Iran and the West concerning the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program could yield positive results if certain modifications of approach are adopted. A round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the five U.N. Security Council members plus Germany — referred to in the following document as the E3+3) is scheduled for this Wednesday in Baghdad. The report was written by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, a researcher with ORG’s Iran project as part of its Middle East program (and frequent Tehran Bureau contributor); Paul Ingram, executive director of the British American Security Information Council; and Gabrielle Rifkind, director of ORG’s Middle East program. More detailed biographies of the authors follow the report, which is available for download (complete with citations) here. – The Editors Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
Obama hopes for mutually agreeable resolution with Iran
The U.S. president says world powers are looking for a resolution to the nuclear disputes with Iran that respects its sovereignty and its rights as well as its responsibilities.
Barack Obama told reporters at the presidential retreat Camp David, where he is hosting the G8 summit, that the world powers are “firmly committed to continuing with the approach of sanctions and pressure in combination with diplomatic discussions.”
He added: “And our hope is that we can resolve this issue in a peaceful fashion that respects Iran’s sovereignty and its rights in the international community, but also recognizes its responsibilities.”
Ali Akbar Velayati, the Iranian Supreme Leader’s advisor on international affairs, has been quoted as saying: “The Islamic Republic of Iran will not bow down to any pressure and it will decide upon its fate regarding the nuclear issue with complete freedom.”
The West is concerned that Iran may be using its nuclear program as a front for developing nuclear weapons but Iran insists that all its nuclear ambitions are peaceful.
The G5+1 will meet with Iranian nuclear negotiators on March 23 in Baghdad.
In the meantime, the head of the UN’s atomic watchdog will travel to Iran on Sunday in order to set up a mutually acceptable framework for the inspection of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Source: Radiozamaneh
Negative Pulses from Vienna to Israel: Has the Green Light Been Given on Iran Attack?
By Ali Qaderi, Asriran News Website; translated by Iran Review
Representatives of the European Union’s member states at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have called on Iran in their latest statement to totally stop its uranium enrichment program as well as all activities at Fordow nuclear site.
Meanwhile, the US Ambassador to the IAEA has expressed concern over what he called Iran’s noncompliance with its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He also called on Iran to take immediate and rapid steps to build confidence with the international community. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
EIL! Ahmadinejad will Olympische Spiele in London besuchen EIL!
Irans Präsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad möchte im Sommer die Sportler seines Landes bei den Olympischen Spielen in London besuchen. Großbritannien habe damit jedoch Schwierigkeiten, berichtete die staatliche iranische Nachrichtenagentur IRNA am Donnerstag.
„Ich möchte die Olympischen Spiele besuchen und das iranische Team unterstützen”, wird Ahmadinedschad zitiert. „Aber die haben ein Problem damit”, heißt es weiter mit Bezug auf britische Funktionäre. Details wurden nicht genannt. Die Spiele in London dauern vom 27. Juli bis 12. August.
Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Iran und vielen westlichen Staaten sind aus unterschiedlichen Gründen schwierig. Seit die britische Botschaft in Teheran im vergangenen November gestürmt wurde, haben beide Länder ihre Diplomaten abgezogen. Vor der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 in Deutschland hatte Ahmadinedschad Pläne für einen Besuch des Turniers wieder fallen gelassen.
Calais – Letzte Station vor der Insel (England)
Die nordfranzösische Hafenstadt Calais liegt an der engsten Stelle des Ärmelkanals und somit nur 30 km von Großbritannien entfernt. Deshalb dient diese Stadt als Transitstation vieler Hundert Flüchtlinge, die sich quer durch Europa mit dem Ziel Großbritannien bewegen. Sie halten sich “illegal” in Europa auf und müssen sich deswegen durch das Sicherheitsnetz der britischen Grenzkontrollen schmuggeln. So schleichen sie sich Nacht für Nacht auf LKWs und Züge, in der Hoffnung nicht entdeckt zu werden. Bis dieser Versuch jedoch gelingt vergehen oft mehrere Monate, während denen die Flüchtenden starker Polizeirepression ausgesetzt sind.
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Iran Special: The Inside Story of the Nuclear Talks in Istanbul (Rozen)
Europe’s Catherine Ashton and Iran’s Saeed JaliliOver the last three days, we have put out the analysis that 1) sanctions played a role in bringing Iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme; 2) Tehran’s strategy is to get an easing of those sanctions before it makes any commitment on enrichment of uranium; and 3) the Islamic Republic is concentrating on the European representatives, especially the European Union’s Catherine Ashton, to achieve this by splitting them from any “hard line” of the US.
In the most detailed account of last weekend’s Istanbul talks so far, Laura Rozen of Al Monitor narrates the story of how the discussions almost collapsed while supporting our interpretation of the Iran’s hopes, fears, and manoeuvres:
New details on the Iran nuclear talks in Istanbul this weekend, which were largely touted as being “positive“, now show the meeting had, in fact, deteriorated.
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili kicked off the first international nuclear talks in over a year with a three-hour dinner at the Iranian consulate in Istanbul Friday night. The mood at the informal dinner—meant to build rapport between the two chief negotiators ahead of the formal talks getting underway the next day—was described by aides as “good and friendly.” Conversation deliberately steered away from specific discussion of the Iran nuclear issue. (What did they discuss? “Political party funding in the U.S.,” a European diplomat apprised of the conversation told me Monday, among other topics, including the Arab spring.) Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
BBC: Iran accused of intimidating BBC Persian staff
BBC
Feb. 3, 2012
The BBC’s director general has accused the Iranian authorities of intimidating those working for its Persian service.
Mark Thompson wrote in a blog that the BBC had seen “disturbing new tactics”, including the targeting of family members of those working outside Iran.
Last week, the sister of a BBC Persian staff member was detained and held in solitary confinement at a Tehran jail.
Iran accused the BBC of inciting unrest after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.
BBC Persian broadcast online videos and interviewed protesters, who described deaths, injuries and arbitrary arrests carried out by security forces. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
EU beschließt „noch nie dagewesene Sanktionen“ gegen Iran
Brüssel - Die EU-Außenminister wollen das Öl-Embargo gegen den Iran und Sanktionen gegen die Zentralbank in Teheran am Montag absegnen, um so die Finanzquellen für das iranische Atomprogramm auszutrocknen.
EU-Diplomaten einigten sich vor dem Treffen der EU-Außenminister am Montag auf ein Öl-Embargo. Es soll für neue Verträge sofort und für bestehende ab 1. Juli gelten, hieß es in EU-Ratskreisen. Offen sei noch die Frage, wie Griechenland, das besonders günstige Lieferverträge mit dem Iran hat, kompensiert werden kann. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
Foreign Office Minister condemns Iran human rights abuses
“I am deeply concerned by a new wave of executions and arrests in Iran.
“There are reports that Iran has already executed around 50 people this year, some of them in grotesque public displays. This continues a shocking trend of excessive use of the death penalty that has been condemned by the United Nations.
“There has been a wave of arrests and persecution of researchers and journalists. Journalists Saeed Madani, Parastoo Dokouhaki, Marizeh Rassouli, Mohammad Soleymaninia, Sahameddin Bourghani, Fatemeh Kheradmand, Arash Sadeghi, Ehsan Houshmand and Hassan Fathi have all been detained in the last month. This raises further, serious questions about Iran’s stated commitment to freedom of expression. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
Debate highlights dangerous escalation of religious persecution in Iran
LONDON, 13 January 2011 (BWNS) – Members of Parliament here have sharply criticized Iran for its human rights violations, focusing especially on the “steep rise” in the persecution of religious minorities.
In a debate held at Westminster Hall on Wednesday 11 January, MPs highlighted the fact that virtually every religious minority in Iran is now facing oppression.
Some 19 MPs, representing the UK’s three major parties, participated in the debate.
Watch video coverage of the debate: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=9743
Read a transcript of the debate: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2012-01-11a.109.1
In the opening speech, Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside, described the persecution of Baha’is as “pervasive and escalating dangerously.” Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
Europa: Asylrecht: EuGH-Urteil stellt Dublin-II-Verordnung in Frage
Asylbewerber dürfen nicht in ein EU-Land überstellt werden, wenn dort die Unionsgrundrechte von Asylbewerbern missachtet werden. Foto: dpa
Schutz der Grundrechte hat Vorrang
Asylbewerber dürfen nicht in einen EU-Mitgliedstaat überstellt werden, wenn dort die Einhaltung ihrer Grundrechte nicht gewährleistet werden kann. Die Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH) Ende Dezember war ein weiterer Schlag gegen das europäische Asylzuständigkeitsystem, die “Dublin II-Verordnung”.
Die “Dublin-II-Verordnung”, die festlegt, welcher Mitgliedsstaat für die Prüfung eines Asylantrags zuständig ist, darf nicht so angewendet werden, dass die Unionsgrundrechte von Asylbewerbern missachtet werden. Das 
entschied der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) am 21. Dezember 2011.
Dreizehn Mitgliedsstaaten, die Schweiz, das UN-Flüchtlingskommissariat, Amnesty International und AIRE (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) Irland und Großbritannien beteiligten sich an dem Verfahren, in dem es um die Rechte von Asylbewerbern ging. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
Eye on Iran: Iranian Currency Slides Under Latest U.S. Sanctions
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WashPost: ”Iran’s ailing currency took a steep slide Monday, losing 12 percent against foreign currencies after President Obama on Saturday signed a bill that places the Islamic republic’s central bank under unilateral sanctions. The currency, which economists say was held artificially high for years against the dollar and the euro, has lost about 35 percent of its value since September. Its exchange rate hovered at 16,800 rials to the dollar, marking a record low. The currency was trading at about 10,500 rials to the U.S. dollar in late December 2010… But in Tehran, people said they were bleeding money. Currency traders stopped writing exchange rates on the whiteboards propped against their shop windows as residents were trying to buy foreign currency.”http://t.uani.com/vLPQzG Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
The Latest from Iran (2 January): The Currency is Falling
Cartoon: Nikahang Kowsar0955 GMT: Bank Fraud Watch. MP Ahmad Tavakoli has used the $2.6 billion bank fraud to challenge the Central Bank and the Ahmadinejad Government. He claimed that Aria Bank, at the centre of the embezzlement, failed to get a permit for operations on 15 occasions but succeeded on the 16th with the help of Bank personnel.
2010 GMT: Political Prisoner Watch. Fatemeh Alvandi, the mother of detained journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian, arrested earlier today (see 1440 GMT), has been released.
Alvandi, detained for an interview about her son, has been ordered not to speak to the media. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
URGENT: Execution of Sakineh Ashtiani Believed to be Imminent: 5 Things You Should Do NOW
According to recent media reports, the Islamic Republic is once again preparing to execute Sakineh Ashtiani.
We ask all concerned individuals to take the following urgent actions:
1) Contact your State Department or Foreign Ministry (addresses below) with the following message:
I demand that this government exert the utmost diplomatic pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran to:
a) prevent the execution of Sakineh Ashtiani, and
b) secure the immediate and unconditional freedom of Sakineh Ashtiani and her lawyer, Houtan Kian.
I specifically request direct economic sanctions against the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran regime. They are are all – from the executives, lawmakers, judiciary, to the IRGC and beyond – criminals and murderers. They should be dealt with as such.
Sincerely,
[your name]
Contact information for Foreign Ministries and the US State Department:
kab.bz@diplobel.fed.be;info@mvp.gov.ba;iprd@mfa.government.bg;
imprensa@itamaraty.gov.br;ministar@mvpei.hr;minforeign1@mfa.gov.cy;
michael.spindelegger@bmeia.gv.at;udenrigsministeren@um.dk;vminfo@vm.ee;umi@formin.fi;
bernard.kouchner@diplomatie.gouv.fr;inform@mfa.gov.ge;
guido.westerwelle@auswaertiges-amt.de;gpapandreou@parliament.gr;titkarsag.konz@kum.hu;
external@utn.stjr.is;minister@dfa.ie;gabinetto@cert.esteri.it;podatelna@mzv.cz;
segreteria.frattini@esteri.it;mfa.cha@mfa.gov.lv;tonio.borg@gov.mt;secdep@mfa.md;
post@mfa.no;DNZPC.Sekretariat@msz.gov.pl;ministro@mne.gov.pt;senec@mne.gov.pt;
pm@pm.gov.pt;miguel.moratinos@maec.es;registrator@foreign.ministry.se;info@eda.admin.ch;
msp@mfa.rs
Netherlands Foreign Ministry – web form to contact Uri Rosenthal is currently down; please call or fax: Telephone: +31 70 3486486
Fax: + 31 70 3484848
CONTACT FORM: US Department of State
2) Contact Bernard Kouchner, the Foreign Minister of France(bernard.kouchner@diplomatie.gouv.fr), with the following message asking France to be the first to close the doors to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic in France:
Dear Mr. Kouchner,
It has come to my attention that the Islamic Republic once again is threatening to execute Sakineh Ashtiani. If the Islamic Republic executes Sakineh Ashtiani, I urge the French government to close the doors to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in France. The honorable people of France, and in particular the women of France, have shown their broad and consistent support for Sakineh Ashtiani and her family; Carla Bruni Sarkozy has publicly advocated in Sakineh’s defense, and drawn a slanderous response from the Islamic regime for doing so; and France’s President Sarkozy has taken it as his personal duty to defend Sakineh Ashtiani. France should take the international lead in closing the regime’s embassy in Paris. It is the only appropriate diplomatic response to the Islamic Republic regime’s ongoing perpetration of human rights atrocities.
Sincerely,
[your name]
3) Send this sample letter (available in ENG, DE & FR) to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, and encourage everyone you know to do the same. [ SAMPLE LETTER ] Contact addresses to send to: inquiries@un.org, npillay@ohchr.org, urgent-action@ohchr.org
4) Fill out the contact form for UN Women to
a) demand a UN resolution to criminalize stoning, and
b) to demand immediate expulsion from the UN Commission on the Status of Women of the Islamic Republic of Iran and all other states whose authority is dependent on gender apartheid and violence against women.
If Sakineh is executed, the UN will be held responsible for its refusal to act or even issue a strong statement against the execution of Sakineh Ashtiani.
5) If the Islamic Republic executes Sakineh Ashtiani, regardless of how they implement the murder (stoning or hanging), people living near offices and embassies of the Islamic Republic should immediately deposit a pile of stones (painted red if possible) in front of the door or gate to the regime’s office or embassy. If feasible, tape photos and/or posters of Sakineh to the doors, windows, gates, etc.
We and all humanity thank you for your urgent action in this matter.
AP: Iran blocks UK website in new diplomatic spat
LONDON (AP) — Iran has blocked access to a British government website aimed at Iranian audiences in a new act of aggression against the U.K., Britain’s Foreign Secretary said Thursday.
William Hague claimed that the website — the online presence of Britain’s now shuttered embassy in Tehran — had been deliberately targeted by the Iranian regime.
The decision to disrupt access to the site follows the violent storming of Britain’s embassy by demonstrators last month, when a mob trashed rooms, damaged furniture, scrawled graffiti and tore up a portrait of Queen Victoria, as staff took shelter.
Hague pulled British diplomats out of Iran for their own safety and made the rare decision to expel all Iranian diplomats from U.K. soil.
The British website contained information for Iranian hoping to visit Britain and details on U.K. government policies. Those trying to access the pages are now directed to a list of Iranian government approved websites, including Iran’s English-language Press TV.
“This action is counterproductive and ill-judged. It will confirm to the Iranian people that their government is determined to block their access to information, and to conceal from them the international community’s legitimate concerns about Iran’s policies and behavior. It will also make it harder for Iranian nationals to access information about visiting the U.K.,” Hague said.
He said the action provided further proof of “the Iranian government’s dire record on freedom of speech and human rights in general.”
Protestaktion gegen Allot communications, Israel, wegen der Lieferung von Spy-Technologie in den Iran
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Eye on Iran: Nokia Siemens Reduces Iran Ties
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WSJ: ”The board of Nokia Siemens Networks said it decided to not take on any new business in Iran and will reduce its existing business starting next year, the Wall Street Journal reported. A letter from board members obtained by the Journal cited increasingly tough global sanctions against Iran as the reason for the pullback, saying they ‘make it almost impossible for Nokia Siemens Networks to do business with Iranian customers.’ … It follows a similar announcement last week from China’s Huawei Technologies Corp., which said it was scaling back its Iran business. Activists, like they did for the Huawei decision, hailed the Nokia Siemens Networks announcement. Mark Wallace, president of United Against Nuclear Iran, said in a statement it’s ‘particularly significant’ that sanctions were cited as the reason for pulling back. ‘The sanctions the U.S. and its allies have implemented are clearly working, and Iran is becoming more and more isolated from the world economy,’ he said.” http://t.uani.com/sKCoFr Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
Iran Feature: The EA Story That Made It Big in Iranian Media
Picturing EA’s Story on Gerdab: Bahrain’s King Hamad & Britain’s David Cameron
We have been informed in the past that EA WorldView is not necessarily the favourite site of those in the Iranian establishment. Although many officials read our coverage, they deny this to others in Iran, blocking the website.
So imagine our surprise when we learned this morning that one of EA’s stories — Josh Shahryar’s “Bahrain Opinion: ‘Loonies’ and The Sins of Bell Pottinger” — is racing across the Iranian media. Apparently, for all the dislike of EA’s coverage of Iran, the regime can reconcile with us on a story which is about the Bahraini monarchy, not particularly liked by Tehran, and about a company based in Britain, also not liked very much. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
The Latest from Iran (6 December): The Drone Mystery
0923 GMT: Rumour of the Day. The website of a faction of the National-Religious Coalition claims that an Iranian security official visited opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi, under strict house arrest since mid-February, and told him to be conciliatory, given “rising foreign threats”.
Mousavi reportedly reported that it is the regime that has to recognise that he won the most votes in the 2009 Presidential election, rigged in favour of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
An EA correspondent assesses, “If true, this report underscores the real need felt by at least some parts of the Supreme Leader’s camp to ensure maximum participation in the upcoming Parliamentary elections. It also rings true with Ayatollah Khamenei’s call for reformists to be let back into the fray if they make amends for past errors.”
0824 GMT: Picture of the Day. Iranian authorities may be quite hostile toward Britain these days, but that did not stop a marcher in Boroujerd dressing up in the imagined uniform of a 19th-century British soldier. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
Iran News Round Up (Dec. 5)
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Versicherungsverbot für „iranische Personen“
Die Sanktionen gegen den Iran (EU-Verordnung 961/2010 vom 27. Oktober 2010) betreffen seit kurzem auch die Assekuranz.So wurde neben den bereits bestehenden zahlreichen Einzelverboten beispielsweise beim Export von Gütern, die der Nuklearrüstung dienen könnten, ein klares Versicherungsverbot ausgesprochen. Dies teilt der Verband Deutscher Versicherungsmakler e.V. mit. Lies den Rest dieses Artikels
