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Iran: Political prisoner not released despite court decision October 25, 2017 by IranHRM Despite a ruling against the initial ruling for political prisoner Emadodin Mullazehi by the Sistan and Baluchistan Provincial Court of Appeals, ordering his release, the interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence refuse to release this political prisoner. Emadodin Mullazehi miraculously lived through an ambush set up for him by the Revolutionary Guards Corps in 2016 for his assassination. The agents mistakenly assassinated one of his friends, Khalil Jahan Dideh, instead of him.

U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR SPEAKS ON DISMAL HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION AND 1988 MASSACRE IN IRAN   Created: 26 October 2017 Iran NCRI Human rights Political Prisoner United States IRGC NCRI - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran addressed the Seventy-second session of the General Assembly in New York on October 25, to discuss the dismal situation of human rights in Iran that has been prevalent since the Regime took over in 1979.Asma Jahangir, who was addressing the General Assembly for the first time since taking the role in November 2016, delivered a report on the first six months of 2017 which was based on sources both inside and outside of Iran. Executions Jahangir explained that she was worried about the rate of executions in Iran, as well she should be. Currently, Iran has the highest execution rate per capita and is one of the few countries to still execute juvenile offenders, in clear violation of the UN’s Right...

Iran: Two young women arrested for riding motorbike Created: 26 October 2017 Two young women were arrested in Iran for riding a motorbike and posting their pictures on the internet. “The two young women whose pictures had been published on the internet were identified and dealt with,” said the commander of the State Security Force of the city of Dezful, in southwestern Khuzistan Province. (The state-run Aftab website – October 24, 2017)

House approves bill to sanction Iran for ballistic missiles By RICHARD LARDNER, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Oct 26, 2017, 11:28 AM ET CNews.com COMING UPUS allies react to president's decision on Iran The Republican-led House overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation Thursday that would slap new sanctions on Iran for its pursuit of long-range ballistic missiles without derailing the 2015 international nuclear accord that President Donald Trump has threatened to unravel. Reps. Ed Royce and Eliot Engel sponsored the bill, which requires the Trump administration to identify for sanctions the companies and individuals inside and outside of Iran that are the main suppliers of Tehran's ballistic missile programs. Lawmakers voted 423-2 to pass the measure. Royce, a California Republican, is chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Engel, who is from New York, is the panel's top Democrat. Both opposed the nuclear agreement when it was forged two years ago, but ne...

Syrian government to blame for April sarin attack: U.N. report Rodrigo Campos UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad is to blame for a chemical attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun that killed dozens of people last April, according to a report sent to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A man breathes through an oxygen mask as another one receives treatments, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah/File Photo “The Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for the release of sarin at Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April 2017,” the report from the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) said. The attack prompted a U.S. missile strike against a Syrian air base which Washington said was used to launch the strike. “Time and again, we see independent confirmat...

No role for Assad in Syria's future: Tillerson Jonathan Landay GENEVA (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad and his family have no role in the future of Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday ahead of peace talks aiming at a political transition scheduled to resume next month. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives back at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S. October 26, 2017. REUTERS/Alex Brandon/Pool Tillerson said that the Trump administration backed the Geneva peace talks as the only way to end the more than six-year-old war and move to a political transition and elections. He was speaking after holding talks with U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, who announced that stalled peace talks between the Syrian government and still-to-be-united opposition would resume in Geneva on Nov. 28.

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.