Elevate Our Demands to “Free Elections”

MPG Statement to the People of Iran

June 17th 2009

Greetings to our courageous people who have risen up to defend their rights, demanding freedom and filling the streets with life and hope, making history.

Honor to the memories of those who gave their lives, strengthening the resolve of this movement and the perseverance of this resistance.

On Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and via text messages: An inside look on how the Iranian political struggle is really being fought

Niv Lilien, Nir Boms
Published: 06.16.09, 15:15 / Israel Culture

The name Ahmed Maher may not mean much to the average Iranian, but there is a direct link between the 25-year-old Egyptian engineer and the events of the last 48 hours in Iran. Maher was one of the organizers of the 80,000 people-strong rally in Cairo last April that also became know as "the bread riots." This protest was organized mainly through Facebook.

uesday, June 16, 2009

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

More than 1.5 million protesters took to the streets of Tehran on Monday, marking the largest anti-regime demonstration Iran has seen since the final days of the shah in early 1979.

Seven people were killed by anti-riot police and roving bands of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporters. Many of those supporters shielded their faces from surveillance videos that plainclothes police were shooting.

By Karmel Melamed

he ties that bind Los Angeles’ Iranian community to its roots a half-world away have been in full view this week, as protesters cried out in reaction to the June 12 Iranian presidential election, calling it fraudulent and a sham. Within the Iranian Jewish community in particular, the belief remains that none of the candidates can be expected to effect real change in Iran — not the rabidly anti-Israel, Holocaust-denying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nor the so-called moderate candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Congressman Dana Rohrbacher of California praises and supports Iranian demands for democracy Iran.

Jewish Journal
by Karmel Melamed

By: Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, June 15, 2009

FrontPage Interview’s guest today is Roozbeh Farahanipour, an Iranian journalist, democracy activist, former political prisoner in Iran and head of Marze Por Gohar Party (MPG), an Iranian opposition party seeking the establishment of an secular republic in Iran. He was a student leader in the 1999 uprising, just one year after creating MPG.

FP: Roozbeh Farahanipour, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

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WESTWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- Many members of the large Iranian community in Los Angeles own businesses in Westwood.

Saturday's news of hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election came as a crushing blow for Iranians in the U.S. who voted against him.

We're all so sad and we cannot believe the result," said L.A. resident Avishan. "All my friends in Tehran are crying, and everyone is so sad. But who is there to hear our voice?"

A small group of demonstrators outside a Westside hotel condemns expatriates casting ballots within.
By Ann M. Simmons
June 13, 2009
As scores of expatriates showed up at a designated West Los Angeles polling station Friday to cast ballots in Iran's presidential election, a small group of demonstrators protested outside and denounced them for helping to legitimize "a fascist regime."