Everyone knows that the Syrian presidential ‘elections’ on 3 June 2014 are a farce. But it may be useful to remember why, and to consider the message the Iranian regime is sending to the world via these elections. First, there have never been free and fair elections […]
Read more →On the eve of the Syrian elections, Naame Shaam activists staged a mock ‘election rally’ for Gen. Qassem Soleimani in front of the Iranian embassy in London to highlight the role of Iran in fuelling the ongoing Syrian conflict. For more details, see our press release. […]
Read more →On the eve of the Syrian elections, Naame Shaam activists staged a mock ‘election rally’ in front of the Iranian embassy in London to highlight the role of Iran in fuelling the ongoing Syrian conflict. For more details, see our press release. (to download high-resolution versions of […]
Read more →Activists: “Vote for Qassem Soleimani President of Syria and his deputy Bashar al-Assad London/Tehran, 2 June 2014 – On the eve of the Syrian elections, activists from the anonymous Iranian campaign group Naame Shaam [1] today staged a mock ‘election rally’ – in front of the Iranian […]
Read more →The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs has confirmed the Iranian regime’s plans to send ‘observers’ to Syria to ‘monitor’ the country’s sham presidential election on 3 June 2014. “The Iranian parliament will dispatch a team to Syria soon to supervise the election and […]
Read more →The campaign group Naame Shaam is calling for Syria ‘election rallies’ in front of Iranian embassies and consulates worldwide on 2 June 2014, a day before the presidential elections in Syria. We call on all friends and supporters of the Syrian revolution to demonstrate peacefully on this […]
Read more →Tehran, 24 May 2014 – The campaign group Naame Shaam today launched an ‘election campaign’ to vote Iranian General Qassem Soleimani as president of Syria, and Syrian current president Bashar al-Assad to be his deputy. Gen. Soleimani is the chief of Sepah Qods, a division of Sepah […]
Read more →The elections are a masquerade, of course. Not only because the ostensible rivals are not real rivals, but also because only about half of the eligible voters could theoretically cast their vote. The other half of Syrians are either refugees in neighboring countries, incarcerated in prisons, or […]
Read more →For immediate release Vienna/Tehran, 17 May 2014 – The Iranian campaign group Naame Shaam today expressed its regret that the European Union and the United States did not focus on human rights abuses in Iran and the Iranian regime’s role in Syria during their latest round of […]
Read more →Photo(s) of Naame Shaam activists in Vienna’s Heroes Square (Heldenplatz) protesting during talks between the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and the Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. The talks are part of the latest round of negotiations in the Austrian capital (since 13.5.2014) between the Iranian […]
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