* Iran at the centre of political changes (Part I) - A look at the political situation in Iran and the region, By Hamid Taghvaie. This is a first part of the speech given at the 18th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran in September 2003.

* Let's put an end to this unimaginable barbarity - Fariborz Pooya interviews Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee against Stoning On Amina Lawal's stay of execution by stoning.

* On the Noble Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi - This is a Press release by the WPI. The awarding of the 2003 Noble Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi has become a hot issue in the international as well as domestic political circles in Iran. Everyone knows that the decision of the Noble Peace Committee is political in the same way that giving the award to Henry Kissinger, Yitzhak Rabin and others was based on political calculations. The award to Shirin Ebadi is linked more to the policy of European governments towards political developments in Iran than to Shirin Ebadi herself...

13 October 2003

Editors: Maryam Namazie & Fariborz Pooya

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