Mostafa Tajzadeh

• Amnesty International Believes Detained Political Leaders at Risk of Torture, Possibly to Force 'Confessions' in Iran

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... Aminzadeh, Abdollah Ramazanadeh and Mostafa Tajzadeh were taken away from their homes in the e...

• U.S. Newswire
• June 29, 2009

• The Islamic Republic and the "green movement": coming full circle.

.... (46) Mostafa Tajzadeh made this remark during an interview in T...

• Middle East Policy
• Vol. 16 Nbr. 4, December 2009

• Iran Now Tightening Clamps On Reformists

BEIRUT -- The Iranian authorities on Monday suspended two prominent opposition political parties, banned a newspaper and handed down prison sentences to three reformist political figures, in the latest sign that the country's hard-line rulers aim to crush any official political representation by the reformist movement. The opposition parties, the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Mujahedeen of the Islamic Revolution, were told to suspend all activities until a final decision was made about their status, according to the official IRNA news agency. The move was widely understood as a precursor to a full legal ban.

...The three politicians, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Davood Soleimani and Mohsen Mirdamadi, e...

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• April 20, 2010

• Iranian options: pragmatic Mullahs and America's interests.

...As the reformist politician Mostafa Tajzadeh noted, "It's basically a matter of equili...

• The National Interest
• Nbr. 2003, June 2003

• Unbridled Mullahocracy

The European Union's big three - Britain, France and Germany - recently persuaded President Bush to let them offer bigger carrots in their negotiations to coax Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. The new carrot ending U.S. objections to Iran's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), a long process probably requiring the best part of a decade. Understandably, this has elicited more yawns than yelps among the bearded turbans of Tehran and Qum. The other U.S.-approved carrot for the EU3 to serve the Iranians was spare parts for their U.S.-made civilian airliners. Not a deal- maker either. Iran gets whatever it needs from friendly third countries in the Gulf (e.g., Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and other Gulf emirates).

...U.S. pressure, says Mostafa Tajzadeh of the reformist Mosharekat Party, "only ...

• The Washington Times
• March 29, 2005