Anyone who watched the recent interview with Sara Afzali, an Iranian artist who has been living in Slovenia with her family for seven years, on the public broadcaster Radio-Television Slovenia – RTVS, would have easily concluded that the situation of women in Iran has visibly improved. But the truth is that women are still treated …
We spoke to the former Slovenian Ambassador to Washington, Tone Kajzer, about the US military intervention in Iran and the reaction of the Slovenian left to the intervention. He explained that what is happening in the Middle East is part of a broader geopolitical storm, and one of the goals of the US military intervention …
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“MEP Milan Zver has signed an appeal against the killing of two Iranians facing immediate execution. The regime of the Islamic mullahs is convulsing in its death throes and becoming increasingly violent,” the Institute of Dr Jože Pučnik recently wrote. Member of the European Parliament Milan Zver of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka …
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The tough legislation on the “culture of chastity and hijab” adopted in Iran in December, which imposes harsh penalties, including up to 15 years in prison and even the death penalty, has rightly been upsetting the public. As the legislation is expected to come into force in the coming days, one would have expected a …
“We regret that the missiles that fell on Israel were paid for with money laundered by the Iranian regime in the Slovenian state-owned NLB bank at the time when the government was led by the party of Tanja Fajon. No one responsible for the IranNLBGate affair has been charged,” the leader of the Slovenian opposition …
“Following Iran’s request for assistance, we have activated the Copernicus programme to rapidly test the ground of the crash site of the helicopter carrying the President and Foreign Minister of Iran,” said the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, in response to the recent helicopter crash. Among others, Russia has also …
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When Tanja Fajon said that foreign policy would now be “feminist” at the beginning of her term as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, we could not help but wonder what that meant. Almost two years later, we know exactly what it means. It is Tito’s policy of non-alignment, where the real friends are those …
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Former ministers and senior officials from Europe, Canada and the United States, including five former Prime Ministers, have expressed their support for the nationwide uprising in Iran for the establishment of a democratic republic. The statement points out that “as evident in the chants of “Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the …
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“Tens of thousands of protesters have been imprisoned and hundreds killed. I felt so bad for them because of that, and so I helped them in every way I could, including by organising events in the European Parliament and so on. I was just helping the Freedom Movement of Iran to be able to tell …
The President of the largest opposition party, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), wrote a letter to the Iranian rebels, who are fighting a similar battle to the one Slovenia fought 31 years ago. Janša is known as a great defender of the freedom of the oppressed Iranian people – he also …
Iran is seething with frustration over the death of Mahsa Amini, who was just 22 years old and died in the custody of Iran’s “Guidance Patrol”- the country’s morality police. The authorities are continuously trying to crush the protests at any cost, and human rights groups are reporting that more than 75 people have already …
This year’s Free Iran Summit was also attended by Janez Janša, who addressed the participants via a screen. He called on the West to support the Iranian opposition, which he said was “committed to democracy”. Janša was also critical of Belgium’s prisoner swap deal with Iran. He stressed that such deals will only encourage terrorist …
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