Threatened by al-Qaeda affiliated extremists, a community in the northern city of Raqqa chooses ‘dhimmitude’ over conversion or death. By Elhanan Miller, February 27, 2014, TOI (Framegrab: AP) ~ Christian leaders in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, captured by an organization formerly affiliated with al-Qaeda, have signed a submission document this week banning them from…
Video link to speech starts at 20 minute mark: http://t.co/6E2ld7PWMs ~ Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of jailed Iranian-American Pastor Saeed Abedini speaking at [UN] human rights conference in Geneva, Switzerland on February 25, 2014. Photo: Ecumenical News / Peter Kenny ~ by Peter Kenny, February 25, 2014, Ecumenical News ~ Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of jailed Iranian-American…
NY Times Op-Ed By Michael Kassen and Lee Rosenberg 2/21/14 [NYT print version 2/22/14] (Drawing by Anthony Russo) FreeAllThree.com: While politicians debate Iran’s nuclear program in Washington and Geneva, Americans need to continually raise the plight of 3 U.S. Citizens unjustly held in Iran today. Don’t let them forget Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Robert Levinson. Bring them…
FreeAllThree.com sifts through weekly dispatches, recaps the items related to Middle East developments that may be of interest to readers. Articles are from an Israeli perspective, but in most cases are objectively written. Israel lives in a tough neighborhood and these items reflect that tension. The long reach of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRG) often results in that country’s fingerprints on…
FreeAllThree.com is in the camp that there should be more direct dialog, cultural exchanges and student exchanges with Iranian counterparts. The U.S. already has over 6000 Iranian students currently in its universities by some reports. Iran’s current Foreign Minister Javid Zarif is a former student at the University of Denver. Further, look how, in the 1990’s especially, Americans…
Many Americans struggle with history. I love it. Since I haven’t been in school for many years, I’m not sure what they teach anymore. But I do occasionally see Jimmy Kimmel show’s “Lie Witness News” where people on the streets of L.A. respond to a certain question of the day. Like on Presidents Day, the JK crew asked how…
CNN’s Jim Sciutto commented on his video report with Wolf Blitzer recently. This video (YouTube link below) deserves some extra attention for its content. It would not have been seen six months ago. 1. It shows the tireless efforts of Rep. Dan Kildee (MI-D) on behalf of Amir Hekmati and his family. The Hekmatis are his constituents. Amir…
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Art Protest at the United Nations for Iranian prisoners “It’s a vivid and commanding statement of those being unjustly silenced at a time when significant diplomatic focus is being placed on Iran and its renewed engagement with the world.” On a snowy Tuesday morning the street artist and…
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Eduardo Verastegui, Actor By Eduardo Verastegui —At this very moment in Iran, an America pastor named Saeed Abedini sits in a prison cell: his crime: refusing to be quiet about his faith in Jesus Christ. Across the globe in North Korea, another America named Kenneth Bae also a devout Christian languishes in a North Korean…
Robert Malley, the Administration’s hope for saving US-Persian Gulf relations, will first have to win over his domestic detractors, Israel supporters By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil, TOI, February 19, 2014 WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama’s latest National Security Council appointment, Robert Malley, is a man about whom few in Middle East policy circles in Washington can…
Israeli version of F-4E Phantom jet, which Iran also flies. By Ilan Ben Zion, TOI, February 20, 2014 Two Israeli arms dealers were arrested on suspicion of selling military aircraft parts to Iran, Channel 2 reported. Avihai Weinstein and Eli Cohen were said to be under investigation by the Israel Police and the Defense Ministry’s security …
By RICK GLADSTONE NY Times, Feb. 18, 2014 Amir Hekmati, a former Marine incarcerated in Iran on spying charges, has retained a prominent Iranian lawyer to represent him in a new effort to gain his release after nearly two and a half years in Tehran’s Evin Prison, Mr. Hekmati’s family reported on Tuesday. The lawyer, Mahmoud…
Header photo: Mass rally for the Grand Ayatollah in Tehran circa 1980. Photo above left is Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in exile in France with his followers, circa 1978. Behind him in the 2nd row, 2nd from left wearing white is Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s current President. Photo right is the Ayatollah returning from exile to Tehran on February 1, 1979 via…
FreeAllThree.com sifts through weekly dispatches, recaps the items related to Middle East developments that may be of interest to readers. Articles are from an Israeli perspective, but in most cases are objectively written. Israel lives in a tough neighborhood and these items reflect that tension. The long reach of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRG) often results in that country’s fingerprints on…
Iran: Release ALL Americans Now! 