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“It is unprecedented in living memory for a UN-assisted population to be subject to abject desperation in this way and the sheer humanitarian facts cry out for a response.” United Nations Relief and Works Agency spokesman Chris Gunness, speaking about the current situation in the Yarmouk Palestinian […]
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Barrel bomb strikes on Aleppo have intensified even further in recent days. More than 100 people died in one day on 21 April 2014. Source: Local Coordination Committees, Aleppo Media Centre COMMENT: How many more of these heart-breaking images coming from Aleppo will we need to see […]
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A group of Iranian activists and citizen-journalists met on the third anniversary of the start of the Syrian revolution (18 March 2014) to discuss the current state of the Syrian revolution and how Iranians can support it. Among other things, the meeting produced the following open letter […]
Read more →Tehran, 23 April 2014 – The Iranian campaign and media group Naame Shaam today sent an open letter to key Syrian opposition leaders, asking them to make more effort to communicate with the Iranian public and not let this gap be filled by Iranian state propaganda. Among […]
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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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Iranian president Hassan Rohani said in a speech at the Women’s Day ceremony at the National Forum on Women Shaping Economy and Culture in Tehran: “How is it possible to marginalize one half of the population? … As a jurist and head of the government, I confess […]
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Chlorine barrel bombs produce highly toxic dioxin Various well-documented reports have now confirmed that Bashar al-Assad’s forces used highly toxic gases in several attacks on civilian areas across Syria in April 2014. According to the Violations Documentation Centre, three barrel bombs loaded with chlorine were dropped on […]
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Three Lebanese journalists working for Hezbollah Lerbanon’s Al-Manar TV were killed and two others injured on 7 April 2014 after their car came under gunfire attack in the historic town of Maaloula in Syria. Reporter Hamza Haj Hassan, cameraman Mohammad Mantash and technician Halim Allaw were among […]
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“Iranian military forces will not accept any [nuclear] agreement which does not meet [their] principles.” General Masoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of staff of Sepah Pasdaran Source: http://ilna.ir/news/news.cfm?id=159333 COMMENT: This is not the first time that Sepah Pasdaran commanders have commented on the ongoing nuclear negotiations or […]
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Syrian opposition sources say it’s thousands, while Hezbollah Lebanon insists it’s only tens, or a couple of hundred at most. The group has been doing all it can to keep this information hidden from the public because it could be damaging to the supporters’ morales. A recent, […]
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