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Upcoming Protests in Iran13 March 2018 Iran Focus London, 13 Mar - The fire festival of Chaharshanbe Suri is a celebration that takes place every year just before Iranian New Year, or Nowruz. Its origins are pre-Islamic and it is a tradition that Iranian government has tried to stop the people from celebrating. Iranian people jump over fires which symbolises purification. The tradition is to prepare the people for the new year. Activists in Iran have chosen to hold anti-government demonstrations on the same day. At the end of December last year and the beginning of January this year, millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest against the government corruption that is having profound consequences on the country’s economy and social conditions. Iranian government, unsurprisingly, supressed the people and used violence to extinguish the protests. This is the regime’s way of dealing with any form of dissent or public gatherings that threaten the regime. Peaceful and unarmed p...

Iranian Government's Mismanagement of EconomyEconomy 13 March 2018 Iran Focus London, 13 Mar - The Tehran Stock Exchange was set to close the current fiscal year at the end of the month with a gain of approximately 25% in local index terms. In February, there was a record plunge in the commercial currency market which is used as an alternative to popular investment. The rate plummeted to 50,000 rial per $1 USD and officials were obliged to shut down scores of dealers. In an attempt to divert remaining liquidity, the monetary authority issued high-interest bonds. Its own activity was criticised in the banking world for its lack of consistency with regards to intervention that resulted in months of difficulties in accessing foreign exchange. Valiollah Seif, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran, was in Paris last month for the Euromoney Iran conference where Iran’s economic situation and its reintegration into the global economy were discussed. The economic situation in Iran is ...

French FM Visits Iran to Talk Ballistic Missiles and Syria05 March 2018 Iran Focus London, 05 Mar - The French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, has arrived in Iran to talk with the country's president Hassan Rouhani, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, according to Iranian state TV. Talks are expected to focus on Iran’s involvement in the Syrian Civil war and Iran's ballistic missile program, which both Le Drian and French President Emmanuel Macron have criticized Iran's missile program in recent weeks, with Le Drian stating that Iran's ballistic missile capacity worried France “enormously". In response to Iranian claims that their ballistic missile program is peaceful, Le Drian said: "Having such tools is not uniquely defensive, given the distance they can reach." The French Foreign Ministry even issued a statement ahead of the trip, which said Le Drian ...

Iran: Maryam Rajavi Commemorates Dr. Mosaddegh Monday, 05 March 2018 18:55 NCRI Staff NCRI - The President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi,, pledged to continue the fight for freedom in Iran in a speech marking the anniversary of the death of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh, leader of Iran’s Nationalist Movement. Mosaddegh, who died in March 1967, was a bold advocate for the rights of the Iranian people and Iranian national interests. His government not only represented an unwavering struggle for freedom and independence, but it was also free from corruption and tyranny. All in all, a far cry from the rulers of Iran today. Indeed, when Ruhollah Khomeini took over as Supreme Leader, the mullahs reversed Mosaddegh’s good work; especially his nationalisation on Iran’s Oil Industry, which had ended Iran’s dependence on oil revenues. After Khomeini stole power, he said: “Our path is not the path of oil… Oil nationalization is not an issue for us. It is wrong...

President Trump urged to speak with Iranian people in bid to overthrow warmongering regime PRESIDENT Trump will be urged to make a direct appeal to the people of Iran to demonstrate the US’ commitment to regime change, as protests across the country continue. By MARCO GIANNANGELI, DIPLOMATIC EDITOR PUBLISHED: 20:52, Wed, Feb 28, 2018 | UPDATED: 21:58, Wed, Feb 28, 2018 Donald Trump: US will stand with people of Iran It comes as senior US congressman attended talks with opposition leaders in Paris to discuss tangible ways in which the US can help Iranian citizens to overthrow the “weakened regime”. “The uprising is not over in Iran. It is an ongoing effort to wipe away these fanatic islamisists and their corrupt regime,” said Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman of the Congressional Sub-Committee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, last night. Last week Iran’s Islamic police warned that women who continued to protest against wearing the hijab could face up to 10 years in prison...

The US Must Act on Iran's Human Rights Abuses01 March 2018 Iran Focus London, 01 Mar - The United Nations Human Rights Council has invited the Iranian Justice Minister Alireza Avayi to speak at its latest session, which began this week, and that sets a very low bar for human rights. Avayi has been sanctioned by the European Union for many reasons, but the worst is his long record of human rights violations, including his role in the mass execution of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988. The massacre, described as one of the worst crimes against humanity since World War II, was ordered in a fatwa by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Political prisoners, mainly members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), were hauled before death commissions, interrogated about their political affiliations, and then sentenced to death after a so-called trial that lasted less than five minutes. They killed children, the elderly, those who had already been sentenced, those w...

European MP ties to Islamic Republic of IranFriday, 2 March 2018, 3:29 pm Article: David N Neumann European MP ties to Islamic Republic of Iran By David N. Neumann After lashing out against opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran in several parliamentary debates, a member of the European Parliament has admitted to doing the bidding of Tehran. In a meeting in Brussels, Portuguese socialist MEP Ana Gomes acknowledged that she had been instructed in Tehran to bash the Iranian opposition. “I met with relatives of the victims of a terrorist organisation called MEK,” she said on her visit to Tehran in a meeting of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on 22 February 2018. After making a number of allegations about the Iranian opposition movement PMOI or MEK, she added: “We cannot continue to allow some members of this parliament, possibly out of naiveté, to continue to abet some of the members of this organization.” Her claims are particularly surprising, given that competen...

Iran: Demonstration of 500 Looted Creditors, Chanting Death to Rouhani Sunday, 04 March 2018 11:42 Iran Uprising -No. 97 On Saturday March 3, 500 looted creditors of the Caspian, the Iranian Alborz, Samen Al-Hojaj, Arman Vahdat and the looterd people who came from Mashhad to Tehran, gathered in front of the regime’s parliament. The protesters chanted: Death to Rouhani, death to Ali Larijani (speaker of the regime's Parliament); Is this the house of the nation, or the thieves’ center; Victory is from God, down with this deceitful government; they stepped on Islam, they slammed the people; Larijani is a judge (head of the judiciary), he is playmate with the thieves. The protesters demanded in their handwritten notes and banners that the performance of thise institutions, which were fully dependent on the Revolutionary Guards, the Judiciary and other repressive organs of the regime, be clearly stated. At the end, they began a march.

Bahrain Says Raids Shut Down Militant Network Created by Iran and Arrests 116 Terrorists Sunday, 04 March 2018 12:52 March 03, 2018. Authorities in the kingdom of Bahrain say they have arrested 116 members of an armed militant network that was established and supported by Iranian regime. The Interior Ministry said the alleged militants planned to “target Bahraini officials, members of the security authorities, and vital oil installations with the objective of disturbing public security and harming the national economy.” "Comprehensive investigations revealed the suspected terrorists were members of a network formed and supported by” Iran regime’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the ministry said in a statement. It said 48 of those detained had received training in camps belonging to Iran's IRGC and its armed wings in Iraq and Lebanon. It said the IRGC and its affiliates, the Shi’ite militias Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq in Iraq and Hizballah in Lebanon, supported and financed th...

Iran Regime, Scared of Protests, Sentenced Its Notorious 'Butcher' Prosecutor to Two Years Sunday, 04 March 2018 12:59 The former prosecutor-general of Tehran, Said Mortazavi, was officially sentenced February 28 to two years in prison for his role in the 2009 deaths of student protestors while at a detention center near the capital. Mohsen Rouholamini, 25, a computer engineering graduate, was one of the many students arrested while protesting the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. Rouholamini died as a result of severe beatings at the Kahrizak detention center. Two more young protesters, Mohammad Kamrani and Amir Javadifar, also died after being beaten while in detention at Kahrizak. Javadifar died on July 14, 2009 as he was being transferred from Kahrizak to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Kamrani died two days later in the hospital. All three died from injuries resulting from severe beating, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) report...

Strike and Clashes at Iran's Major Sugarcane Factory Sunday, 04 March 2018 16:25 Iran uprising Iran-No. 98 Workers from various sections of Haft-Tapeh Sugarcane Factory have gone on strike since Saturday morning, March 3, in protest against the failure to pay their salary and annual bonus, and the return of the corrupt managers to their previous posts. The factory's retired workers also participated in this protest move. In their protest to the management’s inattention and not being responsible, the workers of the factory prevented company's major shareholders, Rostami and Seifouri, from leaving the premises and transferred them to the management building. Following the talks between the workers and Rostami and Seifouri, they finally announced that they would only pay two million and five hundred thousand tomans out of 50 to 70 million tomans of their debt to the workers and they would pay the rest in November 2018. This answer, which had no meaning but to dodge the probl...

French Foreign Minister Says Iran Needs to Address Concerns Over Missile Program Sunday, 04 March 2018 16:32 Ahead of a visit to Tehran on Monday, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Iran needed to address international concerns over its ballistic missile program or it risked new sanctions. "There are programs for missiles that can travel several thousand kilometers, which are not compatible with UN Security Council resolutions and which exceed the needs of defending Iran's borders," Jean-Yves Le Drian told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. "If not tackled head on, this country risks new sanctions," he added. The foreign ministry said in a statement that France also wants Iran to start contributing in a “positive” manner to resolving the crises in the Middle East. “In this regard, the crisis in Syria and the humanitarian situation there will particularly be discussed, along with other regional issues where Iran is involved (such as Yemen, Li...

Iranian Regime Officials Fear Regime's Bleak Outlook Sunday, 04 March 2018 20:21 NCRI Staff NCRI - As protest rallies continue to spread across Iran, state officials and media warn over regime’s dark future. “The country is faced with a lot of super-challenges”, acknowledges Eshaq Jahangiri, first vice-president of Hassan Rouhani’s government, for the nth time, adding”we have challenges in different economic, social, cultural and political areas, both domestically and internationally. Restoring social assets is a crucial issue for us. But unfortunately, dialogue has been taken off the agenda and replaced by conflict instead, which is going to apply a heavy pressure on the society.” (State-run Khabaronline website, February 26, 2018) Meanwhile, Mohammad Maljoo, an economist close to Rouhani, points to a “huge volume of interactions raised by people’s daily lives” as the driving force and underlying layer of recent protests, which by no means could be harnessed. “And if the politic...

Iran’s Regime Is Moving From One Crisis to Another BY RAMIN JAHANBEGLOO ON 02/03/2018 • he level of trust the Iranian public has towards the regime has never been so low. A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2017. Credit: Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi/TIMA via Reuters/Files Early in February 2018, the Euromoney Iran Conference was held in Paris with the aim of bringing together Iranian bankers and industrial leaders with their international counterparts to discuss and debate the key issues around the country’s economy. Participating in the event, Iranian Central Bank governor Valiollah Seif underlined the possibility of Iran’s full cooperation with the international community to implement standards set forth by the Financial Action Task Force. However, some parties are now calling for the countermeasures to be re-imposed given Iran’s financing some radical Islamist (terrori...

A Close Look At Iran's Budget Heshmat Alavi , CONTRIBUTOR Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech to muslims leaders and scholars at a meeting in Hyderabad on February 15, 2018. The Iranian president in on a three-day official visit to India. / AFP PHOTO / NOAH SEELAM (NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images) A country’s budget is the government’s fiscal plan for that state for a period of 12 months. All the country’s revenue and resources to provide credit are forecasted, placed alongside anticipated costs and expenses. The intention of this piece is to provide a much-needed close examination of Iran’s budget. Iran’s next fiscal budget (from March 2018 to March 2019) is equal to around $350 billion. How is this money provided for? In general, Iran’s budget is funded through oil, taxes, increasing bonds and eliminating cash handouts or subsidies. Oil, a natural resource belonging to the Iranian people, is currently being plu...

Iran Regime's Dismal Human Rights Record Highlighted by UN Secretary General Saturday, 03 March 2018 15:16 The UN Secretary General’s report on human rights in Iran was published, including his concern over the harassment of families of victims of the 1988 mass executions for their quest to uncover the truth. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres submitted the report on February 26 to the 37th Session of the Human Rights Council, currently meeting in Geneva. The report noted that the families of the victims of the 1988 mass killings in Iran continue to face harassment in their quest to find out the truth, and that human rights defenders working on their behalf face harassment, intimidation and prosecution. The report also emphasized the climate of fear cultivated in Iran by the Judiciary and the government’s various security apparatus. It noted violation of basic freedoms, including freedom of opinion, expression, and peaceful assembly, as well as prosecutions of individuals for ...

Iran Regime Behind Car Bomb in Kuristan, 2 Peshmerga of PDKI Killed and Injured Saturday, 03 March 2018 14:38 NCRI Staff NCRI - March 02 2018, the Kurdistan Democratic Party inside Iran has accused the regime's apparatuses of orchestrating the terror bombing. Mohammed Saleh Qaderi, one of the party's cadres, said the Iranian intelligence is behind the Thursday bombing, which targeted two of the members of the party in the district of Binslawa near Erbil. "The Iranian intelligence has been sending threats to the leaders of the party, saying they will target them and their relatives," he added. Qaderi said the bombing bears the fingerprints of the regime, affirming the party expected these attacks would be carried out by the regime after the mass protests that swept across the Kurdish regions in Iran. On Friday Mar. 2, 2018 around 4:00 pm local time the bomb was placed under the chassis of a car belonging to two Peshmerga from PDKI (Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdist...

Iran Regime Lies About Arming Houthis Saturday, 03 March 2018 09:46 NCRI Staff NCRI - The Iranian Regime is once again lying about its involvement in the Yemeni war, which has caused thousands of deaths and triggered a humanitarian crisis; just days after Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Iran for supplying the Yemeni Houthis with weapons and missiles, in violation of an arms embargo. Bahram Qassemi, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, outright denied that Iran sent weapons to Yemen and accused the UK of “dishonest behaviour” for drafting the resolution. He said: "We don’t send weapons to Yemen. Such allegations and attempts are made to project the blame on others by those who want to use the existing situation against Iran. We are witnessing a [sic] dishonest behaviour from the British government that uses the international mechanisms to defend the aggressor despite its slogans about a peaceful settlement of the Yemen crisis....

Iran Regime's New Budget Benefits the Mullahs and the Military Above All Else Saturday, 03 March 2018 09:36 NCRI Staff NCRI - Iranian regime’s latest budget is roughly $350 billion for the financial year 2018/2019. It is currently most well known for a highly unpopular draft that sparked nationwide anti-regime protests in Iran at the turn of the year. Let’s look at it now. How is it funded? • oil: a natural resource that belongs to the Iranian people and is being stolen by the mullahs, which amounted to $50 billion in the last fiscal year • taxes: President Hassan Rouhani will raise taxes by 11% or $55 billion, which means they’ll be taking more in taxes than in oil • increasing bonds: Rouhani wants to increase its bonds to $45 billion, but this is only appropriate under a popular government, not one where the people are openly calling for your death • eliminating cash handouts or subsidies: this will hurt at least 30 million people living in poverty, in order to raise another $5...

European MP Ties to Islamic Republic of Iran Saturday, 03 March 2018 08:29 Ana Gomes, MEP and Josef Weidenholzer By David N. Neumann After lashing out against opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran in several parliamentary debates, a member of the European Parliament has admitted to doing the bidding of Tehran. In a meeting in Brussels, Portuguese socialist MEP Ana Gomes acknowledged that she had been instructed in Tehran to bash the Iranian opposition. “I met with relatives of the victims of a terrorist organisation called MEK,” she said on her visit to Tehran in a meeting of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on 22 February 2018. After making a number of allegations about the Iranian opposition movement PMOI or MEK, she added: “We cannot continue to allow some members of this parliament, possibly out of naiveté, to continue to abet some of the members of this organization.” Her claims are particularly surprising, given that competent European and American court...