Washington - Since her youth, Shirin Nariman has been going to demonstrations.
But while with 16, the Iranian woman was sent to prison because of her political activism, today, more than 20 years later, she can speak freely. Her concerns have remained the same: the overthrow of the Iranian government in favour of a secular democracy.
On Friday, she attended a small rally in front of the White House in Washington, with a few dozen others to protest the planned closure of a refugee camp in Iraq for refugees of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
For the Iranians in exile, it was a shock when in January Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki announced he intended to close Camp Ashraf within two months.
Najaf, Iraq - Followers of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday suggested that they may be willing to rejoin the largest coalition in the Iraqi parliament, in a possible indication of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's increasingly strong position.
"We support the idea of renewing the former coalition, in what should be called the United Iraqi National Alliance," al-Sadr's office said in a press release Friday.
Najaf, Iraq - Followers of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday suggested that they may be willing to rejoin the largest coalition in the Iraqi parliament, in a possible indication of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's increasingly strong position.
"We support the idea of renewing the former coalition, in what should be called the United Iraqi National Alliance," al-Sadr's office said in a press release Friday.
Iskandiriyah (Iraq), Feb. 13 : Thirty-two Shiite pilgrims were blown up by a woman suicide bomber on Friday in the southern town of Iskandiriyah.
Agency reports said that women and children were among those killed. Sixty-five people were also injured in the incident, officials said.
Police said that the town falls in Iraq''s Babil province and added that the suicide bomber had hidden her explosives under an abaya, the traditional Muslim head-to-toe black garment for women.
London, Feb. 13 : The cost of Britain''s military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has gone up to 4.5 billion pounds over the last year, the Ministry of Defense said.
Last year, the military mission in Afghanistan cost Britain 1.5 billion pounds, which has risen to 2.6 billion pounds this year.
In a bid to ensure more protection to its army personnel from advanced explosive devices and suicide bombers, Britain deployed many armoured vehicles. This was the main reason for the cost amplification.
Baghdad - Twin blasts on Saturday killed at least two people and injured five in the northern Ira
Najaf, Iraq - Followers of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday suggested that they may be willing to rejoin the largest coalition in the Iraqi parliament, in a possible indication of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's increasingly strong position.
Najaf, Iraq - Followers of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday suggested that they may be willing to rejoin the largest coalition in the Iraqi parliament, in a possible indication of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's increasingly strong position.
Iskandiriyah (Iraq), Feb. 13 : Thirty-two Shiite pilgrims were blown up by a woman suicide bomber on Friday in the southern town of Iskandiriyah.
London, Feb. 13 : The cost of Britain''s military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has gone up to 4.5 billion pounds over the last year, the Ministry of Defense said.
