Iran Focus
London, 11 Aug – Many in the West have described Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as a ‘reformer’ or ‘moderate’ within the Iranian Regime and even cheered his victory in the sham elections this May.
The academics, media personalities, and even diplomats who like to make this false distinction between moderates and hardliners within the despotic Regime have made the ultimate mistake of judging a politician on his campaign promises rather than his actions once in office.
Iran Focus
London, 10 Aug – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has remained silent about the recent sanctions specifically targeting the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) that were ratified by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
President Hassan Rouhani, however, has stated, “…first, the Majlis (parliament) will take steps in this regard. If they have the Congress, we have the Majlis.”
Iran Focus
London, 10 Aug – Hassan Rouhani’s second presidential term began this week. Rouhani described his plans to have high level relationships with world in his inauguration speech. Rouhani claims that he is pursuing a detente policy with US and Arab countries.
However, following this speech, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called for standing against America. In Iran, it is the Supreme Leader who makes all final decisions.
Pooya Stone
The regime in Iran has come under immense domestic and international pressure recently. Most vivid are the sweeping sanctions imposed by US Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
These developments are sparking an endless stream of reactions from Iran’s senior officials and various media outlets. Over 500 interviews, reports, posts, sessions, book introductions and others events have been discussed in this regime’s official outlets, all regarding the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Iran Focus
London, 10 Aug – The Iranian Regime is yet again seeking to slander the good name of the Iranian Resistance for bringing to light the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Regime once more.
The Iranian regime’s Council for Coordinating Propaganda (CCP) has recently announced that smearing the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) with (long disproved) accusations of terror links and murder, will be at the top of their agenda.
Iran Focus
London, 9 Aug – Saudi journalist Mashari Althaydi wrote an op-ed for Al Arabiya in which he decried minorities in Lebanon for their support of the Iranian-backed terror cell Hezbollah, who are attacking the Syrian opposition groups near to the border between the two countries.
In the piece, titled “Lebanon and the unfortunate alliance of minorities”, Althaydi assesses that it is strange how many Lebanese Christians are throwing their support behind a Shiite Muslim terrorist group who are funded by another county.
Iran Focus
London, 9 Aug – The Iranian Regime wields a lot of power in the Middle East thanks to poor decisions on behalf of the US, according to an international security expert.
Dr Azeem Ibrahim, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Policy, wrote an op-ed for Al Arabiya, in which he assesses that the Iranian Regime has always been able to wield power over its neighbouring states but that it has gotten considerably worse since the mullahs took over in 1979.
Iran Focus
London, 9 Aug – Young people in Iran are using apps to fight oppression by the Regime; from a voting app which helps you decide which candidate is right for you to a period tracker which provides sex-ed to young women.
Firuzeh Mahmoudi, co-founder of United 4 Iran (U4I), a US-based non-profit that is working to advance civil liberties in Iran through technology, said that more Iranians than ever before are embracing the technical revolution and explained that many such apps are built by Iranians both at home and abroad.
Iran Focus
London, 9 Aug – An Iranian drone flew around an American Super Hornet fighter jet as it circled an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, according to US Defense Department officials on Tuesday.
The unarmed drone came within 100 feet of the fighter jet, which then had to swerve to avoid a collision, despite repeated radio calls from the US, demanding that the Iranian vehicle stay clear of the aircraft carrier Nimitz and the fighter jet accompanying it.
Iran Focus
London, 9 Aug – Henry Kissinger has warned that destroying ISIS could lead to a radical Iranian empire, if we aren’t careful.
The former US diplomat has speculated that once ISIS has been defeated, the Iranian Regime will seize the free territory- rather than handing it back to the rightful state- and use this to further their sectarian dreams of a new empire.
In an article for CapX, the former Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, wrote: “If the ISIS territory is occupied by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards or Shia forces trained and directed by it, the result could be a territorial belt reaching from Tehran to Beirut, which could mark the emergence of an Iranian radical empire.”
