Iran Focus
London, 15 Nov – The Iranian Regime has made its first gain in its attack against the Kurdish people’s legitimate struggle for independence – Kirkuk oil.
In the aftermath of the referendum on Kurdistan’s independence on September 25, the Iranian Regime and its Popular Mobilisation Unit (PMU) proxies helped the Iraqi government to invade Kirkuk province driving the Kurdish people from the area that they took back from ISIS.
Iran Focus
London, 15 Nov – The Iranian Regime has presented their costly list of ransom demands in order to secure the release of wrongfully-jailed British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to Foreign Office ministers.
If the UK government wishes to secure the release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested by the Regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) militia group in April 2016 on her way back from a family holiday, they will have to:
• pay a £400 million bill for breaking a deal to sell Chieftan tanks to Iran in 1979 (because after the Regime took over, Britain didn’t want to supply them with military equipment)
Iran Focus
London, 15 Nov – The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has called on Iran to remove its militias from Syria as part of a resolution against serious human rights violations in the country on Tuesday, November 14.
The UN resolution condemned the systematic violations of human rights and abuses against Syrian civilians since the start of the civil war in 2011.
The UN also holds Iran accountable for the violence perpetrated by their government forces and proxy groups, i.e. the Quds Force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, and demanded that foreign fighters leave Syria immediately.
Iran Focus
London, 14 Nov – Back in January, a highly-sophisticated radio-detonated bomb exploded at a Kandahar government building where United Arab Emirates (UAE) diplomats were meeting to discuss their proposed humanitarian projects in Afghanistan, killing 12 and injuring 14.
Among the dead, was Kandahar’s deputy governor, Abdul Ali Shamsi, Afghan diplomat Yama Quraishi, and five UAE humanitarian workers.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for three other suicide bombings that day but fervently denied responsibility for this one, even sending a delegation to mourn the diplomats and explain that they were not involved. So who was?
Iran Focus
London, 14 Nov – The Iranian Regime is a grave threat to international security, according to one of the most decorated British intelligence officers.
Colonel Richard Kemp, former head of the international terrorism team at the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee, gave an interview in which he explained that the Iranian Regime and its destabilising actions were not just a threat to the Middle East but to the entire world.
Iran Focus
London, 14 Nov – Thousands of Iranians have been forced to spend a second night exposed to the elements following the earthquake that killed over 540.
On Sunday, the 7.3-magnitude quake struck at the Iran-Iraq border, in a mountainous region spanning Iran’s Kermanshah province and Iraqi Kurdistan, causing many occupants to flee their homes.
However, humanitarian aid has since struggled to get to the quake zone, leaving many without the most basic of necessities including water, food, medicine, and shelter.
Iran Focus
London, 14 Nov – In January 2016, it was announced that the Iranian Regime had met its obligations under the 2015 nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the P5+1 countries and would be receiving its first round of sanctions relief.
This meant that hundreds of Iranian entities were removed from blacklists maintained by the United Nations, European Union, and the United States, from ‘private’ companies to individuals to government organizations.
We now know that Iran was in fact not meeting its obligations, which has led to Donald Trump’s decertification on the nuclear deal and a tougher policy on Iran.
by Jubin Katiraie
An earthquake, 7.3 magnitude near the Iraq-Iran border has killed more than 400 people and sent residents escaping their homes into the night, authorities said.
Iran’s western Kermanshah province bore the impact of the quake on Sunday night, with authorities saying the quake killed more than 407 people in the country and injured 6,700 up to know.
The quake was centred 19 miles (31km) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja, according to the most recent measurements from the US Geological Survey.
Iran Focus
London, 13 Nov – The malign actions of the Iranian Regime deserve to be scrutinised by the international community and punished accordingly.
In the past two months alone, the Iranian Regime has:
• Plotted the assassination of Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, and forced him to leave office through their Hezbollah proxy.
• Provided weapons to their Houthi proxies in Yemen to fire on Saudi Arabia
Iran Focus
London, 13 Nov – The Iranian Regime is using its terrorist proxy Hezbollah to control Lebanon through destabilisation, according to the recently resigned prime minister, Saad Hariri.
In an emotional TV interview on Sunday night, Hariri said: “I am not against Hezbollah as a political party but it should not be the cause of the destruction of Lebanon.”
He resigned on November 4, in a live conference from Riyadh, because of Iran’s malign influence in Lebanon, stating that he feared that he would be assassinated by Iran and Hezbollah, as his father, Rafiq Hariri, was in 2005.
