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Iranians Ponder Future U.S.-Iranian Relations in an Obama Administration

Note from the Editor:  Col. Ann Wright is  a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran  and a former US diplomat, who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq.  She recently spent two weeks in Iran meeting with Iranian officials and civilians with two other CODEPINK women, Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans. [...]

Iran attempts to silence human rights activists (VIDEO, PETITION)

TAKE ACTION HERE In our recent visit to Iran, we saw among the young university women what an important role model Shirin Ebadi is to them. As a female law student told us, “Shirin is our hero. That’s why many of us decided to study law. We want to be like her and help the women [...]

Official release: CODEPINK creates petition to Iranian president, calls for human rights centers to reopen

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     CONTACT Women’s peace group creates petition to Iranian president Calls for safe reopening of Iranian human rights centers, commitment to human rights work WASHINGTON, D.C. — After learning of the shutdown of two renowned Iranian human rights organizations Sunday, CODEPINK Women for Peace have created a letter of petition to Iranian President Ahmadinejad calling for [...]

Interviews with Iranians- NEW Video!

“Yes We Can-Can start talking with Iran-ran….” Aside from our snappy new song to be debuted at the Inauguration (with some hot dance moves) we just launched our “Let’s Talk” campaign with a citizen-diplomacy trip to Iran in November 2008, where we held meetings with officials and the people of Iran to make human connections [...]

Week Two in Iran: Rae’s diary!

I’m CODEPINK’s local groups coordinator, and I just returned Tuesday from a 10-day interfaith Fellowship of Reconciliation peace delegation to Iran, a group of 14 Americans. Here’s my diary of the last days of the trip!

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 [...]