Naghmeh Rajabi
From: Hoffington Post

It was an early Friday morning. I woke up with the sound of the radio in our living room and the worried voice of my father who was trying to get a hold on an important news through the statics that the Iranian regime was throwing in to block the opposition broadcast. I had never seen my parents that distraught and devastated.

After some time went by, I went in and asked what had happened. I was told that my aunt, Zahra Rajabi, 39, one of the leading women in the struggle against the Iranian regime was brutally assassinated in Istanbul, Turkey. Iranian agents had tracked down her whereabouts and broke into her apartment, and shortly after killed her and one of her bodyguards by gunshots. That was the 20th February 1996.

President Obama is in a quandary over what to do about Iran. News headlines over the last few weeks illustrate this:

• “IAEA: Increasing concerns about Iran’s warheads designed to deliver nuclear payloads.”

• “U.S. Treasury Department: Iran is aiding Al Qaeda.”

• “Top al-Qaeda ranks keep footholds in Iran.”

• “Iran continues to harbor and refuses to hand over bombers of Argentine Jewish charities.”

• “Senior U.S. officials: Iran transferred lethal new munitions to Iraq and Afghanistan for attacks on U.S. troops.”

The Iranian regime has become brazen in its defiance of multiple UN resolutions and continues to thumb its proverbial nose at the entire international community.

 By Louis Freeh, Lord Corbett of Castle Vale and Lord Waddington, Special to CNN

Congressional leaders and former top U.S. officials are pressing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to remove Iran's main opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, from the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations. So what should Clinton do?

Let's consider the background. The People's Mujahedeen, also known as the MEK, is the Iranian mullahs' worst nightmare. Since 1981 it has waged a costly and deadly battle to unseat the ayatollahs' regime, but it is a battle for the soul of Iran of which it can be immensely proud.

Britain will push the United Nations for a strong resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran, the foreign secretary has said.
William Hague said Iran's refusal to respond to its people's demands for greater freedom was isolating the country from the rest of the world.