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Cheese! Rae in Iran photos

Rae Abileah, a CODEPINK organizer in Iran for an interfaith citizen’s diplomacy trip, has sent some great new photos of some members of her group visiting the city of Ishafan. Enjoy!

OFFICIAL RELEASE: As Obama moves right, CODEPINK returns from Iran, calls for direct talks with Iran

WASHINGTON, D.C — As President-Elect Obama continues to shift toward the right with Cabinet appointments, three American women returned from a ground-breaking citizen diplomacy trip to Iran this week calling for real policy change, including direct talks without preconditions and the lifting of economic sanctions. In the seven-day trip, Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and Col. (retired) [...]

Day 7 in Iran: Medea’s diary

Day 6 in Iran: Medea’s diary

Rae in Iran!

Two young Jewish-American women, including CODEPINK organizer extraordinaire Rae Abileah, are currently on a two-week citizen diplomacy trip in Iran  working for political and religious peace. Abileah, 26, of California’s Bay Area and Ariel Vegosen, 28, of New York City, are two of a handful of Americans visiting there in an interfaith group to meet [...]

Day 3 in Iran: Jodie’s Diary

Medea and I (CODEPINK co-founders) are spending the week in Iran on a citizen’s diplomacy visit, engaging with Iranian women’s groups and officials to build bridges and create peace from the ground up. We arrived Friday. Here’s a bit of our experience Monday (bit of time delay in getting this up…sorry!) It is our third day [...]