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Iranian Regime's Counter-Protest Fails, University Students Chant: "No to Reformists, No to Hardliners, This Is the End of the Game." Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:06 Uprising Iran - No. 12 On the third day of the latest nationwide uprising in Iran, the clerical regime’s attempt to organize a counter-demonstration ended in a dismal embarrassment. Fearing the reaction by angry protesters, the clerical regime went against its own norms and cancelled its march in Tehran and resorted to a mere gathering. Despite large scale use of state resources for the counter measure, this state sponsored protests were met with unprecedented neglect and even many of the regime’s own supporters refused to attend. The slogans aired at the regime’s counter-demonstration unveiled the mullahs’ utter fear of being overthrown. State-run TV network broadcast on Saturday showed videos of the rally in which the chants included: “The Green Movement is following Rajavi’s path.”

Iran: Regime's Officials Acknowledge Widespread Anti-Government Protests Saturday, 30 December 2017 20:53 Iran Uprising – No. 13 Following the Saturday morning demonstration of Tehran University students and protests by people and the youth in various parts of Tehran, Rouhani’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli called the gatherings unlawful and begged the people "not to participate in such unlawful gatherings because they cause trouble for themselves and other citizens.” Also, the Provincial Council of Tehran held a meeting. Mohsen Hamedani, Deputy Governor of Tehran's Provincial Security Council, said about the protests of the people of Tehran: "On Enghelab Ave, between Enghelab Sq. and Vali-e Asr intersection, some unlawful gatherings were formed. However, in cooperation with the police we are going to control them.”

Maryam Rajavi: Uprisings of Iran Cities Are Death Knell for the Corrupt Dictatorship of MullahsJubin Katiraie Blog 29 December 2017 Jubin Katiraie December 29, 2017. Reuters reported, Iranian police dispersed anti-government protesters in the western city of Kermanshah on Friday, the Fars semi-official news agency said, as protests spread to Tehran and apparently several other cities a day after rallies in the northeast. The outbreak of regional unrest reflects growing discontent over rising prices and alleged corruption, as well as concern over the Islamic Republic’s costly involvement in regional conflicts such as Syria and Iraq. An official said a few protesters were arrested in Tehran, and videos posted on social media showed demonstrations in a number of the country’s leading cities, which if verified would be the largest wave of protests in Iran since 2009.

ANALYSIS: How the tide is turning against Iran 8/28/2017 9:40:10 AM Iranian regim President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech to the parliament in Tehran on August 20, 2017, By Heshmat Alavi Al Arabiya, 28 August 2017 - As ISIS is losing ground in its two last enclaves of Raqqa and Deir el-Zor, there are many rightfully concerning reports of Iran seeking to chip further control in Syria. All the while, there are also signs of contradictory remarks heard from senior Iranian officials, parallel to indications on the ground of how international counterparts are seeking their own interests that fall completely against those of Tehran’s. Such incoherency signals nothing but troubling times ahead for Iran in losing its grasp of strategic interests across the Middle East, including Syria. ‘Not tantamount to meddling’ Similar sentiments were heard recently from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force command...

Iran: Uprising Against the High Living Expenses, People Chanting "Death to Rouhani"28 December 2017 Iran Focus London, 28 Dec - Since this morning, Thursday, December28, thousands of people in Mashhad (capital of the Northeastern Khorasan Razavi province) gathered at the Shohada square in front of the municipality's building in Mashhad to protest the daily increasing and unrestrained price of basic goods and necessities. The number of demonstrators increased every minute during the march. Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran announced in a statement on December 28, 2017. According to the statement : Before the rally started, a large number of repressive forces were stationed in the area. However, the people pushed them away and continued to demonstrate. As the demonstration continued, repressive forces opened fire in the air and fired tear gas at demonstrators. However, citizens and youths resisted and clashed and returned tear gas to the regime forc...

Iran May Be Losing Its Battle for the RegionTerrorism 28 December 2017 Iran Focus London, 28 Dec - With victories in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, you might say that Iran is strong in the region. However, though some elements applaud it, Iran’s annexation of these states is being rejected by a large segment of their populations today. Ultimately, giving up their historical identities and culture to Iran’s proxies and agents is believed by many to be too great a price. However, Yemen is a bit different. The army advancing from the south, is reportedly gaining more victories on the ground with each passing day, making the prospect of Houthi survival in Sana’a unlikely. The Yemeni army has international legitimacy on its side, and air support provided by the Alliance, tipping the balance of power toward the legitimate army.

Iran: Protesters Clash With State Security Forces Over Soaring Cost of Living28 December 2017 Iran Focus London, 28 Dec - Today, anti-government protests broke out across Iran, including in Mashhad, the second largest city, and one of the holiest places in Shia Islam. The protesters clashed with state security forces over the soaring cost of living. In Mashhad, around 10.000 people joined together in major protests. People crowded the streets, and chanted “death to the dictator” in reference to President Hassan Rouhani.

Iran,S President Would Kiss the Hands of TerroristsTerrorism 12 December 2017 Iran Focus London, 12 Dec - The President of Iran has praised terrorists in an address to the mullahs’ parliament (Majlis) on Sunday, December 10. Hassan Rouhani, wrongly described as a moderate by some in the West, described the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its mercenary militias across the Middle East (Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas) as “an element of security” in the region. He said: “I kiss the hands of the combatants of Islam and the combatants of resistance… They secured Syria. They secured Lebanon. God willing in future, they will also secure Yemen. They are endeavouring full force to make the region secure… Today is the day when we must get actively engaged in the region, economically, culturally, and politically."

IRAN IS NOT THE MIDDLE EAST’S NORTH KOREA — IT IS WORSE Created: 05 October 2017 Iran Terrorism Opinion Iraq Syria IRGC BY: Dr. Majid Rafizadeh Analogies have been made that the Iranian regime is the Middle East’s North Korea. Such an analogy fails to comprehensively characterize Tehran’s role in the region, as well as identify the differences between North Korea and Iran.When it comes to their roles within their respective regions, the Iranian regime plays a much more destabilizing and destructive role than North Korea does. Through its military forces, the Islamic Republic is actively engaged in intervening in the domestic affairs of other nations in the Middle East. For example, in Syria, Iranian leaders have admitted that their Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its elite branch, the Quds Force, are fighting on the ground alongside Bashar Assad’s forces. In addition, Iran is providing financial, we...

”PASSING THROUGH BULGARIA, IRAN IS PLANTING HEZBOLLAH MEMBERS IN BALKANS” Ruslan Trad 19/12/2017 Inside Europe Ruslan Trad is a freelance analyst and the author of ‘The Murder of A Revolution’. “I am not alone here. I know of several more Lebanese and Syrian-related Hezbollah members who have lived in Bulgaria for years.” Ali, a Hezbollah sympathizer, living in Bulgaria and married to a Bulgarian tells me. At his request, his name has been changed. He fears the repercussions for his family still living in Lebanon. He is right to worry – Hezbollah has repeatedly proved adept that it can keep a careful eye on its members, observing their actions from its Lebanese fortress, more than even 2000 km away. Iran and the Balkans? Why? The Balkans are not synonymous with Iranian influence – unlike Turkey or Russia who have deep historical links in the region. Iran, however has cultivated its presence only over the last 30 years. The Balkans, for Iran, has proved to be important for at least...

ANALYSIS: Understanding Washington’s fast-evolving Iran policy The article I chose is the best in this subject and hope you like it . President Trump after speaking about the Iran deal at the White House in Washington, DC, October 13, 2017. (AFP) Heshmat Alavi, Special to Al Arabiya EnglishMonday, 18 December 2017 On the doorstep of US President Donald Trump’s first National Security Strategy speech, the administration launched an unprecedented campaign of pinpointing the crosshairs on the epicenter of all extremism causing havoc across the Middle East: Iran. This comes following a Wall Street Journal article explaining how in the post-ISIS world Washington will begin pinpointing its focus and resources on the larger and more dangerous threat posed by Tehran. ‘Hard look’

Rajavi at Paris Conference: Mullah's regime overthrow within reach December 16 2017 11:23 PM Maryam Rajavi President of National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi has strongly condemned Iranian terrorism in the Saturday Paris conference on the perils Tehran poses to the world. Here is Rajavi's speech: Distinguished guests, dear friends, Greetings to you all. I am very grateful to friends who have come from France, the United States, Canada, across Europe, and Arab countries to attend this conference in solidarity with the Iranian Resistance for freedom and democracy. We have once again come together to convey to the world the voice of the suffering people of Iran; to say that the Iranian people and Resistance are prepared to overthrow the mullahs’ religious dictatorship and replace it with a government based on freedom, equality, and democracy.

Iran: Forcible hair-cut for girls who do not properly cover their hair Created: 17 December 2017 Officials of a girls’ school in Islam Abad Village in Orumiyeh, northwestern Iran, cut the students’ hair to force them to observe the compulsory veil. To force the girls to wear headbands beneath their scarves to cover their forehead hair, the school’s principal and master went to the court yard in the company of several State Security forces. Using scissors, they personally cut the hair of those girls whose hair stuck out of their scarves. This inhuman treatment provoked the girls’ protest.

Time for the Trump administration to encourage others to counter Iranian expansion 12/25/2017 11:09:39 AM An Iranian Shahab-3 missile launched during military exercises outside the city of Qom Important News BY AMBASSADOR DENNIS ROSS AND NORMAN T. ROULE, THE HILL, 23 Dec, 2017-- Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, is certainly an eloquent spokesman for the Iranian regime. His many articles in western media emphasize Iran’s moderation even as he admits nothing, denies everything, and makes counteraccusations. He will not admit that the nuclear deal was achieved only after years of international pressure on Iran for pursuing a nuclear weapons program that violated the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and UN Security Council resolutions. He denies Iran’s intervenes in other countries until the lie becomes so apparent that he resorts to the claim that Iran is fighting terrorists. And, of course, he blames all the sorrows and troubles of the Middle East on the U.S. and its allie...

Iran May Well Be a Bigger Problem Than North KoreaNuclear 26 December 2017 Iran Focus London, 26 Dec - Iran is on the march within the Middle East following the P5 + 1 nuclear agreement that brought billions in sanctions relief, which implies the Iranian regime is currently the most important threat to regional stability. Iranian proxies, that embrace Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and also the Houthis in Yemen, permit the Iranian regime to project force on an unexampled scale within the Middle East and emboldens different dangerous actors on the world stage. The Middle East is in a shambles, as Iranian proxy wars and different wars dominate Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, mali and Egypt, at the side of a Palestinian war probably being around the corner. Now that the u. s. has recognized jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Turkish prime minister Erdogan has called Israel “a terrorist state,” passions are on the increase, which has allowed Iran to intensify its attacks on Israel and Sunn...

STABILIZING LEBANON IS IRAN'S WAY OF HELPING HEZBOLLAH TAKE OVER Created: 26 December 2017 Iran LEBANON Hezbollah violation of UN Security Council Resolution Asaib Ahl al-Haqq Qais al-Khazali Saad Hariri Despite issuing threats through its proxies, Iran shares the international community's interest in Lebanon's near-term stability, but its motivations are hardly benevolent. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy- December 20, 2017 - Earlier this month, Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Asaib Ahl al-Haqq, showed up in southern Lebanon to issue threats against Israel alongside fellow Shia militants from Hezbollah. At first glance, highly publicized video of the incident seemed to signal that Tehran might expand its military activities from Syria into Lebanon. As he gazed along the border, Khazali announced that his militia was "fully prepared and ready to stand as one with the Lebanese people and with the Palestinian cause." In rhet...

HALT EXECUTION OF ACADEMIC 'IMMEDIATELY', UN EXPERTS TELL IRAN Created: 24 December 2017 Iran Human rights Execution Ahmadreza Djalali UN experts AFP - 20 December 2017- Four UN rights experts on Wednesday called on Iran to "immediately" annul the death sentence against an academic accused of espionage during nuclear talks with world powers, warning his trial had been marred by violations. Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian emergency medicine specialist resident in Sweden, was sentenced to death in the Islamic republic in October for spying for Israel. The academic was a visiting professor at Belgium's Vrije Universiteit Brussel when he was arrested during a trip to Iran in April 2016. He was accused of passing information to Israel's Mossad intelligence service during the negotiations that led to Iran's nuclear deal with world powers in 2015. Djalali has said he is being punished for refusing to spy for Iran while working in Europe. In a statement, the four i...

NO DECISION YET ON BRITISH-IRANIAN AID WORKER, IRAN JUSTICE MINISTRY SAYS Created: 26 December 2017 Iran Human rights Nazanin Zaghari Iran Justice Ministry LONDON (Reuters)- Dec. 22, 2017 - The head of Iran's justice ministry was quoted on Friday as saying Tehran would decide the fate of a detained British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to five years in jail and that he could not confirm Western media reports relating to her case. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she was heading back to Britain with her two-year-old daughter after a family visit. She was convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran’s clerical establishment, a charge denied by her family and the Foundation, a charity organization that is independent of Thomson Reuters and operates independently of Reuters News. Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard Ratcliffe told the Guardian newspaper and other British media on Thursday t...

Iran: Continuing to Attack the Judiciary, Ahmadinejad Criticizes Rouhani Too Tuesday, 26 December 2017 09:10 Former Iran regime’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed on Monday his criticism of senior officials, attacking the policies of current President Hassan Rouhani over the recently unveiled state budget, while also demanding the restructuring of the judiciary. He said before a student gathering that the budget had deprived some 40 million Iranians from government-approved aid. During his failed presidential bid earlier this year, he had vowed to double this aid and defended on Monday his decision in 2014 to raise the funds by 120 percent. He also accused the government and parliament of raising prices in the country and abandoning their commitment to provide financial aid to the people. Rouhani had presented the new state budget two weeks ago. Parliament has six weeks to deliberate on it before putting it to a final vote.

الحشد يحرج العبادي: مستشارون إيرانيون يشاركون في تلعفر انشأ بتاريخ: 21 آب/أغسطس 2017 دبي: في اعتراف أقل ما يمكن وصفه بأنه استباقي لموقف الحكومة العراقية الرسمي، أكدت ميليشيات الحشد الشعبي على لسان أحمد الأسدي الناطق باسمها أن مستشارين إيرانيين وآخرين من حزب الله سيشاركون في معركة تلعفر، وبمعرفة الحكومة. وأتى هذا التصريح قبيل إعلان رئيس الحكومة حيدرالعبادي فجر الأحد انطلاق معركة "قادمون يا تلعفر". وقال الأسدي، في شريط مصور نشره السبت على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي إن "مستشارين من إيران وحزب الله سيقدمون الدعم في عملية تحرير تلعفر". وأوضح أن "المستشارين سيتواجدون في معركة تحرير تلعفر كما كانوا إلى جانبنا في جميع العمليات السابقة، لتقديم المشورة في وضع خطط العمليات العسكرية وتحريك القطعات". أما اللافت فهو تأكيده أن حضورهم "كان بعلم الحكومة العراقية وموافقتها". وكان الأسدي أعلن الجمعة، أن 20 ألف عنصر من ميليشيات الحشد سيشاركون في عمليات استعادة قضاء تلعفر (غرب الموصل) التي قد تستغرق أسابيع. وتأتي تلك التصريحات لتحرج ا...

Iran: Judiciary Spokesman and Former President's Circle Dispute Over 'Mental Health' Tuesday, 26 December 2017 20:36 NCRI Staff NCRI - In response to judiciary spokesman’s allegations of mental disorder against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president’s advisor Ali-Akbar Javanfekr alleges that Gholamhosein Ejei is also suffering a mental illness. Meanwhile, Hamid Baghaei, vice-president for executive affairs during Ahmadinejad’s presidency, has gone even further to compare Ejei to Nazis’ SS Commander. In his December-24th press conference, regime’s judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei implicitly alleged that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lacks mental health, adding that his case would be referred to medical jurisprudence if necessary. A few hours later, Ali-Akbar Javanfekr responded to judiciary spokesman’s comments in his Telegram Channel, writing “if someone with more than 60 years of age and a white beard, who’s dressed as a clergy and has experience holding key positions...

Iran: Suicide Catastrophe in Iran, the Ominous Outcome of the Clerical Dictatorship Tuesday, 26 December 2017 20:41 Shocking suicide of mother along with her infant and young daughter The increasing trend of suicide among different classes and in all age groups and Increase in group suicides, has become a humanitarian catastrophe in Iran. The victims of most of these suicides are in the country’s deprived western and southern provinces, such as Ilam, Kermanshah, Lorestan, Hamedan and Khuzestan, and mostly being women and the young, including even 13 year olds. Suicide in Iran has strangely increase,” according to the state-run Khabar Online website. “From 2011 to 2015 suicides have increased 66% amongst women and 71% amongst men. For years suicide statistics have not been provided to the media as they should and the entities involved mostly refuse to do so. Suicides amongst the youths are also very high.”

Iran Regime Summons a 10-Year-Old Gymnast Girl to the Disciplinary Committee Tuesday, 26 December 2017 11:24 NCRI Staff NCRI - A 10-year-old girl has been summoned to disciplinary committee because of her photos of being published in gymnastics costumes! She has allegedly participated in a gymnastic match in Malaysia with a ‘non-Islamic’ costume, during a family trip to Armenia. Iran regime’s Tasnime news agency, reported on Monday December 25: recently the images of an Iranian gymnast girl have been published, showing her participating in competitions hosted by Kuala Lumpur city in Malaysia, in which hijab cover and appropriate Costume are not seen by this young girl and her costume is just like the ones non Moslems wear during the matches. Following the release of the alleged photos, Zahra Incheh Daragahi, chairwoman of the gymnasium federation of the Iranian regime, said: "This dispatch was not from the federation. The trip was conducted by his family and his father accompani...

Trump Placing Heavy Focus on Yemen in the Campaign to Counter Iran October 26, 2017 Trump Placing Heavy Focus on Yemen in the Campaign to Counter IranOctober 24 2017 10:48 PM Jay Solomon The Trump administration is eyeing Yemen as a critical theater in its stepped-up campaign to roll back Iranian influence in the Arab world. Washington is particularly concerned about Tehran gaining the ability to choke off shipping lanes in the Red Sea that are vital to the global energy trade. According to administration officials, ramping up efforts to end the Yemen conflict presents both opportunities and risks for the White House, especially as the war of words with Iran escalates. The heavy deployment of allied forces in Yemen, largely from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, could underpin a successful campaign against Iranian-backed militias with only minimal American involvement. So far, the administration has increased U.S. intelligence and logistical support to this coalition and laun...

A REASONABLE APPROACH TO THE IRAN DEAL Created: 05 October 2017 Iran NCRI United States Yemen Iraq Syria IRGC BY: Jennifer Rubin Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last year at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Oslo. (State Department/European Pressphoto Agency)I vigorously opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) because I believed then — as I believe now — that the Obama administration, in its desperation for a legacy-creating deal, negotiated a weaker deal than we could have obtained. The JCPOA did not deliver anywhere/anytime inspections as promised or constrain Iran’s ballistic missile program. The JCPOA provided sanctions relief up-front and contains a highly troubling sunset clause. Nevertheless, the agreement is in place now, and the question is whether to stay in or exit. Circumstances have undeniably changed, both because of the new president and the operation of the deal itself. Here I part company wit...

French President Condemns Iran Regime's Destructive Role Monday, 25 December 2017 10:33 December 24, 2017 Reuters: President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron condemned the attempt by the Houthi militias to target Riyadh in a telephone call with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz. The French president expressed the solidarity and support of the French Republic with the Kingdom against any threat to its security after Houthi militias targeted the city of Riyadh with a ballistic missile. President Macron also stressed the necessity of working to confront Iran’s destabilizing activities in the region.

Iran Regime's Foreign Minister Issues Christmas Greetings While Christians Bitterly Persecuted Monday, 25 December 2017 13:22 Iran’s foreign minister encountered an angry response on Sunday when he took to Twitter on Christmas Eve to wish a “happy and peaceful Christmas to all.” Citing a verse from the Quran, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif – a key architect, with former US Secretary of State John Kerry, of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal – declared: “May Christ’s universal message of peace be embraced in the coming year.” Dozens of responses to Zarif’s message emphasized Iran’s long record of persecuting Christians. Many of them highlighted the arrest of four Iranian converts to Christianity in the city of Karaj on December 12. Javad Zarif’s Tweet: "The angels said, Mary, God gives you glad-tidings of a Word from Him whose name is Christ, Jesus, son of Mary; highly honored in this world and the next" Quran 3:45 A very happy and peaceful Christmas to all. May Christ...

TERRORIST COMMANDER IS BEHIND IRAN'S MEDDLING IN IRAQ Created: 24 October 2017 Iran Yemen Iraq Syria IRGC Qasem Soleimani, commander of Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, orchestrated the reoccupation of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia By: Struan Stevenson Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The interference of the Iranian terrorist commander Qasem Soleimani in the internal affairs of Iraq has reached scandalous proportions that should sound alarm bells in the West.It has emerged that the general, who commands the terrorist Quds Force, responsible for foreign operations by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , orchestrated the reoccupation of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and many other Kurdish regions in Northern Iraq. Kirkuk and other disputed areas bordering Kurdistan had been held by the Iraqi Kurds for the past two years after the Kurdish Peshmerga military force successfully ousted the Islamic State . The Americans recently li...

N. Korea says it’s a ‘pipe dream’ that it will give up nukes SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said it is a “pipe dream” for the United States to think it will give up its nuclear weapons, and called the latest U.N. sanctions to target the country “an act of war” that violates its sovereignty. The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions against North Korea on Friday in response to its latest launch of a ballistic missile that Pyongyang says can reach anywhere on the U.S. mainland. The resolution was drafted by the United States and negotiated with the North’s closest ally, China. “We define this ‘sanctions resolution’ rigged up by the U.S. and its followers as a grave infringement upon the sovereignty of our Republic, as an act of war violating peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the region and categorically reject the ’resolution,’” North Korea’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

Under threat? Iran's quiet infiltration over Iraqi Christian communities By Hollie McKay | Fox News Christians in Iraq fear the increasing Iranian influence in their already dwindling communities. (Fox News) Christians who have called northern Iraq their homeland since the first century are recovering from ISIS’ carnage only to face an emerging threat that they fear could be just as challenging: the growing influence from Iran. That influence comes in an array of shapes and forms, and even an infiltration within the Christian community itself. Most flagrantly, it includes the direct arming and funding of a prominent militia of Iraqi Christians. The real intentions of the militia, known as the Babylon Brigade, worry those Christians who remain in or want to return to their ancient homeland, known as the Ninevah Plains.

Houthi militias fail to launch missile from Sanaa, falls into populated area Staff writer, Al Arabiya EnglishMonday, 25 December 2017 Houthi militias have failed to launch another missile toward liberated areas from their base camp Sanaa, with reports suggesting the rocket has landed into a populated area near the capital. (Developing) Last Update: Monday, 25 December 2017 KSA 20:38 - GMT 17:38

Executions, Flogging, and Torture: An Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Iran Home / Articles / Executions, Flogging, and Torture: An Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Iran Donya Jam Human Rights Activist https://twitter.com/FreeeIran?lang=en Articles , Opinions Leave a comment December 10th 2017, marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; a human rights charter adopted in 1948, seeking to foster and protect the fundamental rights every citizen of the world is entitled to such as freedom, equality, and justice. This document was established during the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, also aiming to prevent genocide, massacres, and crimes against humanity from reoccurring. This charter has never been abided by Iran’s theocratic dictatorship since taking power in 1979. Iran systematically violates the human rights of its own people; in fact, the regime leads the world in executions, as it is known to hang the most prisoners per capita.

ANALYSIS: How to tackle Obama’s ‘cover up’ of the Hezbollah drug scandal. The article I chose is the best in this subject and hope you like it . Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in Tehran on June 4, 2017. (Reuters) By Heshmat AlaviSpecial to Al Arabiya EnglishMonday, 25 December 2017 Long ago I wrote explaining how Congress is taking the lead on Iran policy . Recently, major developments involving the United States, Iran and the entire Middle East have placed the powerful US legislative body before obligations in the face of arguably the world’s most dangerous regime. At a time when Iran’s foreign meddling and ballistic missile drive continues to raise eyebrows out of deep concern, important spotlight is being focused on a shadowy aspect of Tehran’s notorious schemes. Politico released what has been described as a bombshell, exposing how Iran literally demanded the Obama administration facilitate a major drug trafficking/money-laundering campaign across four ...

IRAN'S PEOPLE AND THE NUCLEAR DEAL Created: 30 September 2017 Iran NCRI Iranian Opposition Human rights United States Nuclear JCPOA Yemen Iraq Syria IRGC Demonstrators shout slogans against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani near the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. / JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty ImagesDiscussions are continuing as we speak over the fate of the highly controversial Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Trump Placing Heavy Focus on Yemen in the Campaign to Counter Iran October 24 2017 10:48 PM Jay Solomon The Trump administration is eyeing Yemen as a critical theater in its stepped-up campaign to roll back Iranian influence in the Arab world. Washington is particularly concerned about Tehran gaining the ability to choke off shipping lanes in the Red Sea that are vital to the global energy trade. According to administration officials, ramping up efforts to end the Yemen conflict presents both opportunities and risks for the White House, especially as the war of words with Iran escalates. The heavy deployment of allied forces in Yemen, largely from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, could underpin a successful campaign against Iranian-backed militias with only minimal American involvement. So far, the administration has increased U.S. intelligence and logistical support to this coalition and launched missile strikes on al-Qaeda fighters in Yemen. It may continue expanding bot...