LONDON, England (CNN)-- The beatings, the broken bones, the squalid conditions -- it was "nothing," former prisoner Amir Fakhravar has told CNN, compared to the pain that he suffered under "white ...

Fakhravar has become the darling of the Fox News crowd, while opposition activists denounce him for peddling misinformation On 26 June, an event billed as the fifth “Iran Democratic Transition ...

If the money dries up, according to Fakhravar’s logic, the regime would lack the means to pay its foot soldiers to crack down on unarmed demonstrators. Fakhravar is in Israel along with CIS ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This past summer, an op-ed appeared in the Washington Post under the byline of ...

(WiPC/IFEX) – The WiPC of International PEN is seriously concerned about reports that journalist Amir Abbas Fakhravar is being ill-treated in jail. International PEN seeks immediate details about his ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This past summer, an op-ed appeared in the Washington Post under the byline of ...

Since a wave of protests broke out in Iran last weekend following its presidential election, the American media has promoted the Obama administration’s view that it could do more to help demonstrators ...

Less than 24 hours after one of Iran’s leading dissidents and authors escaped to a neighboring state, the former chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle, interrupted his trip to ...

WASHINGTON – Akbar Ganji’s 36-day hunger strike has nearly cost the Iranian dissident his life, according to a writer recently released from the Tehran prison that holds Mr. Ganji, whom President Bush ...

Fakhravar has become the darling of the Fox News crowd, while opposition activists denounce him for peddling misinformation On 26 June, an event billed as the fifth “Iran Democratic Transition ...

Laura Rozen has a great article about new superstar Iranian dissident Amir Abbas Fakhravar. He's not the opposition figure with the most credibility or the most support inside Iran. He is, however, ...