Nima Sharif
Nima Sharif is a researcher and Director of Human Rights Study at Near East Policy Research and also the editor of the online publication "Stop Fundamentalism" about Iran News.
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Articles by Nima Sharif
February 21, 2012
Ashraf residents have done all possible to them to resolve the crisis peacefully and it is now time for the UNHCR, UN, US and EU and the Iraqi government to meet their obligations including preparing the situation at the new Camp for the rest of the resident to move. Obviously, if such conditions are not met, no further move should take place as it will put more lives in danger.
August 16, 2011
We hope that the Secretary Clinton will finally make her decision and make it to be the right one, not based on possible political consequences which may not come to be favorable to some parties but based on factual evidence, statutory criteria and of course humane factors.
April 25, 2011
While dialogues were ongoing on April 8 to reach a new security treaty between Iraq and the United States, Iraqi military forces stationed at Camp Ashraf in 2009 to protect the refugees initiated a deadly assault. The attack cost the lives of 35 innocent civilian residents. Most victims were directly shot in their heads or chests or were run over by heavy armored vehicles. More than 350 were wounded; some remain in critical condition.
April 19, 2011
Iranian regime state-run Fars News Agency described the attack on Camp Ashraf as "An opportunity that should not be missed," pressing the al-Maliki government to continue the attack until the camp is destroyed.
April 03, 2011
Iraqi forces under command of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki government have occupied northern part of Camp Ashraf situated in north of Baghdad, Iraq
March 26, 2011
The quarrel is not between Islam and Western Democracy but it is between freedom loving people and those who oppress them. In these circumstances the best representative of oppressed people is that country´s democratic opposition.
March 14, 2011
Recently in Washington, DC a number of former high ranked officials and public figures from both parties, made calls for the removal of the main Iranian oppositions group, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq Organisation of Iran (MEK) from the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organizations list. At the same...
October 04, 2009
National Council of Resistance of Iran, in a statement today said that Iraqi police has once again move the thirty six Mojahedin members it has in its custody to a new undisclosed location.
The members had been arrested late July after an attack by the Iraqi forces on camp Asharf north of Baghdad...
September 29, 2009
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI, released a statement today about 36 Mojahedin members who have been in captivity of the Iraqi forces for the past two month.
NCRI explained that while an Iraqi judge for the third time has vindicated them from all charges and ordered their relea...
September 18, 2009
Once again the world witnessed the Iranian peoples´ determination to achieve freedom.
September 04, 2009
36 Iranian exiles have been in captivity since Iraqis attacked Ashraf City on June 28. Many Iranians in US, Europe and Ashraf are in hunger strike demanding their freedom.
August 20, 2009
Ashraf Residents on Hunger Strike for release of 36 Captive Members
July 22, 2007
Ever since Iran’s nuclear issue has been handed to the United Nations Security Council for punitive actions, crisis in the region has been flaring up at periods, each time the case is opened or closed for review.
Crisis in Lebanon, the hostage-taking of British sailors, and nowadays the explosion...
May 30, 2007
Mr. ElBaradei, in a surprising remark, has invited the international community to accept the fact that Iran has now achieved nuclear know-how and can produce enriched uranium at industrial levels. Such remarks, from someone at ElBaradei’s position, are unconstructive and can not help in any way but...
May 18, 2007
Iranian opposition sources reported yesterday that a member of the Iranian delegation to the Sharm El-Sheick Conference in Egypt, May 3-4, had an international warrant issued to his name for taking part in 1989 assassination of Iranian Kurdish dissident leaders in Vienna, Austria.
“Mohammad Jafar...
April 13, 2007
As the row over Iran’s hostage-taking of British sailors is now officially over, once again, it seems, that this countries nuclear ambitions are taking the center stage and the new UN 1747 Resolution on Iran further pressures Ahmadinejad’s government into a self-initiated countdown to a complete int...
July 26, 2006
Just two days after Ahmadinejad, Iran’s hardliner President, announced the completion of nuclear cycle in Natanz while making mockery of the United Nations Security Council Presidential Statement, an Iranian state-run daily Sharq on April 13, stressed on the connection between Iran’s nuclear project...
July 03, 2006
After Iran’s nuclear file came out of the hands of the International Atomic Energy agency, and was referred to the United Nations Security Council, buying time in bits and pieces, seems to be Iran’s main objective in any interaction with the international community as any little bit of time is spent...
June 06, 2006
Apparently, the State Department has come up with a suggestion to join its European allies in talks with Iran in order to rectify the “nuclear situation diplomatically.”
The Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, in her statement suggested that US would join the talks provided Iran “stopped enric...
May 04, 2006
There is a lot of talk and concern expressed recently in the news media about a possible war against Iran. While the concerns are real, and I share in those concerns; there is one important aspect that should not be ignored. It is important that in avoiding war we be careful not to fall for the pl...
April 18, 2006
While no more than two weeks remains from the deadline by the United Nations Security Council for Iran to stop its nuclear activities, the mullahs are trying to cover-up their wicked intentions by masquerading shows around the country.
Hatred, derision, and criticism of the West’s hesitation to re...
April 01, 2006
Last week, the nuclear dossier of Iran’s theocratic regime was officially brought before the United Nations Security Council and a Presidential Statement was released calling on Tehran to abandon its all enrichment-related activity.
Although the statement was watered down to accommodate Russia and...
March 25, 2006
In the past few weeks, many European and American officials have acknowledged that the path to a free Middle East passes through Tehran. In another words, the only way to see peace and freedom prevail in the Middle East and especially in Iraq, is to see a democratic government taking power in Iran....
March 14, 2006
Iran’s nuclear dossier is finally out of the hands of the IAEA and on March 13, the UN Security Council will meet to set the direction for the future of this matter.
From unofficial meetings last Thursday and Friday, and what some anonymous diplomats, have said, it seems that the Unites States has...
February 26, 2006
In the early hours of Wednesday, a massive explosion completely devastated a revered Shiite shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra, the burial ground of Shiite Islam’s 10th and 11th Imams. The religious monument dated back to more than 1,000 years ago.
In the current complicated state that Iraq is in...
February 25, 2006
In the aftermath of the execution of a prominent political prisoner, Hojjat Zamani, the Iranian officials in Gohardasht prison have started rumors that political prisoners are planning to commit suicide.
According to reports from internal sources, political prisoners in Gohardasht and Evin priso...
February 18, 2006
On February 16, Amnesty International released a new report about Iran under the new government of Ahmadinejad. In this report Amnesty expresses concerns that the standoff between Iran and the West may distract attention from this country’s human rights abuse record.
"The Iranian government should...
February 15, 2006
Last week while the international community was busy reprimanding Iran for trying to acquire nuclear weapons, by referring it to the UN Security Council; demonstrations erupted throughout Middle East and Europe condemning the publication of cartoons of prophet Mohammad 4 months earlier in a Danish n...
February 01, 2006
As an Iranian-American, I was surprised to see Rotella’s comments about Maryam Rajavi and the MEK. If you have little background information about Iran, you will notice that these comments were simply a repeat of the same old list of allegations against the group offered by a propaganda campaign ru...
January 27, 2006
As we get closer to the scheduled 6 nation meeting in London on Monday, January 30th, that is supposed to discuss a draft resolution to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for its secret nuclear weapons program at the next meeting of IAEA board of governors on February 2nd, Tehran Mullahs anxiousl...
January 21, 2006
In almost any meeting that takes place between the leaders of the world these days, Iran is the first issue on the table and maybe the last. That is not surprising. Who doubts for a second about the danger a fundamentalist super power would pose on humanity?
That is why all countries, even those...
January 16, 2006
As Iran continues to defy international concerns about its nuclear weapons program by resuming uranium enrichment at the Natanz nuclear site, the internal human rights situation keeps on deteriorating further as the number of executions handed down to prisoners keep on rising. Disturbing is the news...
January 06, 2006
As Iran fails to show at the Vienna meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency to explain about the announced resumption of its nuclear activities at a site previously sealed by the IAEA, immediate referral to the U.N. Security Council becomes inevitable and necessary.
France, Britain and...
January 06, 2006
It is little over two weeks after the elections in Iraq and now anyone with smallest familiarity with this region agrees that Iran staged “the biggest cheat in an election” that has ever happened in the history.
Iran Mullahs spent millions of dollars in order to achieve what their big leader Khome...
January 06, 2006
Contrary to what Iranian state media presents showing a “positive atmosphere” in nuclear talks between Tehran and the west, leaked details by international media speak of “final confrontation” between two sides, with one assertion that this confrontation is by Iran’s choice. An analyst from London S...