Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

July 9, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran’s War On Women

Co-authored by Saba Farzan As the world powers meet with representatives of the Iranian regime in Vienna in an effort to end its illicit nuclear program, the plight of strugglin...

June 24, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Don’t Forget Sexual Minorities In Iran

Co-authored by Arsham Parsi While the world powers prepare for a July negotiation session with Iran over its illicit nuclear program, the deteriorating situation for sexual mino...

February 28, 2011 | Jerusalem Post |

Deciphering German Foreign Policy Toward Israel and Iran

BERLIN – In the span of 48 hours last week, the German Foreign Ministry supported a Lebanese sponsored UN Security Council resolution which condemned Israeli settlement construction as "illegal,"...

February 10, 2011 |

Mythical Sharia Strikes Again

 Read it and weep — and you will want to weep. In Bangladesh a 14-year-old girl named Hena was raped by a 40-year-old man, Mahbub, who is described in a report as her “relative.&...

January 20, 2011 | Gay City News |

Sanctions Must Respond to Iran’s Anti-Gay Genocide

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's lethal homophobia requires strong medicine. The international campaign to stop the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was sentenced to...

January 17, 2011 | Commentary |

Iranian Woman Not Stoned for Alleged Adultery

Iran’s pariah regime said today that it plans to drop the death-by-stoning penalty against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was sentenced to death for alleged adultery. All this mean...

January 17, 2011 | Jerusalem Post

Germany is Encouraging Trade with Teheran’

BERLIN – Emmanuel Nahshon, the deputy chief of mission for the Israeli Embassy in Germany, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that two seminars jointly sponsored by the German Economic Ministry...

January 17, 2011 | Commentary Magazine

Iranian Woman Not Stoned for Alleged Adultery

Iran's pariah regime said today that it plans to drop the death-by-stoning penalty against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was sentenced to death for alleged adultery. All this means is tha...

January 4, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

100 Prominent Germans Call on Iran to Free Reporters

The mass circulation Bild am Sonntag newspaper jump-started a solidarity media campaign on Sunday to call for the release of two German journalists imprisoned in Iran. “Let both re...

December 17, 2010 | Benjamin Weinthal Weekly Standard |

Germany’s Hostages in Iran, and “Critical Dialogue” with the Mullahs

Germany's journalists, human rights activists, and taxpayers are paying a painful price for its country's woefully flawed "critical dialogue" policy with the Iranian regime. La...

November 15, 2010 | Wall Street Journal Europe

That Treasured German-Iranian Friendship

Germany has a bizarre way of working through its history. While the government, rhetorically at least, opposes Iran's nuclear weapons program as a threat to Israel's security, members of its parlia...