Naame Shaam activists protest at EU-Iran meeting in Vienna Activists: ‘Link nuclear talks with Iranian regime’s role in Syria’ Vienna/Tehran, 13 May 2014 – Activists from the Iranian campaign group Naame Shaam [1] staged a protest in Vienna today appealing to the P5+1 group of nations to […]
Read more →Pictures of Naame Shaam’s protest against the role of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Sepah Pasdaran) in Syria on 13 May 2014 at the Austria Centre in Vienna, where the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and the Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif held a press conference following […]
Read more →Protesters: “Don’t trade Syria for Iranian nuclear bomb” Vienna/Tehran, 12 May 2014 – Activists from the Iranian campaign group Naame Shaam [1] today staged a protest in front of the Iranian embassy in Vienna against the role of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Sepah Pasdaran) in Syria. […]
Read more →130,000 Iranian fighters ‘ready to be deployed in Syria’ A senior Sepah Pasdaran commander has made yet another humiliating and revealing remark about the Syrian president. Bashar al-Assad is “fighting this war [in Syria] as our deputy,” said Brig. Gen. Hossein Hamedani, implying that the Iranian regime […]
Read more →May 3rd marked the World Press Freedom Day. As the world celebrated this important day for journalism, tens of Syrian media workers and citizen-journalists continued to be incarcerated in Syrian regime prisons, almost forgotten by the rest of the world. Since the early days of the Syrian […]
Read more →2,500 trained Shia ‘volunteers’ ready to join ISIS and other ‘Sunni’ terrorist groups Internal Syrian state security documents leaked to the media have provided further proof that some Islamist terrorist groups fighting in Syria, particularly the Al-Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS), […]
Read more →Hezbollah fighter: ‘We lead the way in battle and train Syrian soldiers’ A recent report by the news agency AFP, based on interviews with Hezbollah Lebanon members, reveals details of the training programmes that the group’s fighters undergo before going to fight in Syria: “Initial training for […]
Read more →As the Syrian regime announced its plans to hold presidential elections in June 2014, the Huffington Post published a good summary of why this is “another cruel joke played on Syria’s suffering population.” The five reasons listed by Eline Gordts’ article, which was published on 21 April […]
Read more →Evin prisoners brutally assaulted by intelligence officers to put pressure on Rouhani Iranian opposition media reported on 17 April 2014 that a number of political prisoners held in Tehran’s Evin prison had been violently attacked by the prison ‘inspectors’. While the assault itself should obviously be condemned […]
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