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...often without charge, and many of the convicted are placed in solitary confinement or given prison terms in exile. Some of the most well known include Ronak Safazadeh, who disseminated information and collected signatures and was thus charged with the capital crime of armed activity against the state. Parvin Ardalan, co-founder of the “One Million Signatures Campaign” who was awarded Sweden’s illustrious Olaf Palme human rights award in March, was jailed last month along with three others for the crime of threatening national security. While the women’s movement...
...editor of the Iranian Feminist Tribune, a website devoted to women's issues, Parvin Ardalan used to sit at her home computer each night, posting news articles on the site that the country's print press would never carry. She spread the word about sit-ins and seminars. At its busiest, the site attracted 70,000 visitors a day. But late last year, Ardalan received a text message from a friend informing her that the site had disappeared. Along with thousands of other websites--including opposition blogs like regimechange.blogspot.com and online retailers like Bloomingdales.com--the Feminist Tribune was blocked...
...Western governments as much as for activists like Ardalan, the aims of the Iranian regime grow more alarming every day. Led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's elected government--whose powers are circumscribed by the country's ruling ayatullahs--has made confrontation the guiding tenet of its policies at home and in the world. The regime made its most provocative move yet last week, resuming work on its uranium-enrichment program, which the U.S. and some of its allies believe is a critical step toward the eventual production of nuclear weapons. The resumption touched off a flurry of international condemnation...
...Ayatullah will not be on hand to view the latest round in this protracted conflict, but his Finance Minister, Ali Ardalan, will sit down in Geneva on Tuesday with his opposite numbers from the other twelve nations in the OPEC cartel...
Criticizing Tehranian for "exaggerations, misrepresentations, and flights of ambitious fantasy," Madjd and Ardalan added that there were not 6000 Iranians in the United States for Tehranian to represent...