Widely viewed as Khatami supporters and not outright opponents of clerical rule, those arrested included Ahmad Zeid-Abadi, a prominent journalist already facing charges for his writing, Ali Reza Rajaei, a Majlis candidate who was barred from the elections last year by the fundamentalist Council of Guardians, Dr. Habibollah Peiman and his wife, Marzieh Mortazi, leaders of the Militant Islamic Fighters party and Fatemeh Govaraei and Taghi Rahmani, both journalists. FDI Director Kenneth R. Timmerman served as an expert witness for the Elahi family during the trial, and described the orchestrated MOIS campaign to assassinate political dissidents living overseas. FDI Director Timmerman urges President-elect Bush to promote freedom and the rule of law in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Wall Street Journal details the record of secret U.S.-Russia deals on Iran in a lead editorial, Gore's Secret Pact, quoting FDI Executive Director Kenneth Timmerman. Read Ken's oped from today's Washington Times, exposing the Clinton-Gore record of weakness in the Middle East.
Wobbly policies invite terror.
The bill was sparked by the family of 20-year old Brandeis University student Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in Gaza in April 1995 when a Palestinian suicide bomber rammed into a public bus. In its original form, it would have taken Iranian government assets frozen in the United States and distributed them to the families of the victims . As amended, it puts a cap on payments, and only allows for certain of Iran's frozen assets to be garnished. Click here to read the Conference report on the final bill. Learn more about the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal .