Fighting to Separate Religion & State in Iran

By Elliot Friedland - Clarion project

Tayebeh Hosseini is the President of the Boroujerdi Civil Rights Group. She has been associated with Boroujerdi Civil Rights Group in the U.S.  She was a teacher, and also involved with Ayatollah Boroujerdi's Organization in Iran before she left her hometown in 2011.

Iran: Kazemeini Boroujerdi’s Critical Condition in Prison

Mr. Kazemeini Boroujerdi , an opponent Iranian Shiite Cleric who is jailed since 2006 by the Iranian regime, fell to the ground while walking in the Evin prison yard whereupon his legs injured and his glasses are broken. 

A Question from a Human Rights Activist to President Obama after Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

To the Attention of my Dear Representatives and Wonderful Attorneys

With greetings and respect and wishes of increasing success,

As you are aware, I have been at the service of religion, minus politics, since twenty years now, at the beginning of which, due to my independent religious thoughts and opinions, I was imprisoned at the secret prison of Towhid, which is located next to the central post office, and was tortured with hideous devices, destined for a physical and mental breakdown; and fourteen years before that, following a non-political monotheistic publication, I was also imprisoned for a few months in ward 209 of the Ministry of Intelligence, and was subjected to harassment and persecution. Also, during these nine years, as a defender of human rights, I have experienced all kinds of torment to the point that I have lost all of my health, and have no hope to continue my life – my legs are becoming paralyzed, my eyes are becoming blind, my lungs are in danger of failing, my heart is on a path to a heart attack, and my brain is bringing me closer to death. Nine years - every second of which has been accompanied by a mountain of excruciating pressures.