Iran Focus
London, 5 Jan – In an interview with regime’s TV, Iranian regime’s president Hassan Rouhani tried to misrepresent regime’s deep economic crisis and overwhelming pressures on people by putting together some economic facts and figures. But, fearing the dimensions of youth unemployment, he inevitably described it as the regime’s big dilemma.
Iran Focus
London, 3 Jan – According to economic analysts, the budget bill that is currently being debated in the Regime’s Parliament regards military and security budgets for 2017-18 and will provide funding for terrorist groups and repressive security forces.
The Iranian Ministry of Defence is due to get $5.75 billion and whilst that might not sound huge compared to a country like Saudi Arabia, Iran’s GDP is a lot lower than that of its Gulf neighbour.
Iran Focus
London, 3 Jan – Hundreds of people gathered in front of the notorious Evin Prison in Iran on January 2, to show support for Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner on hunger strike.
The demonstrators have called for the immediate release of Arash and his wife Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraie, and all other political prisoners.
Iran Focus
London, 2 Jan – last week, by launching violent attacks in Wadi Barada, northwest of Damascus, in an attempt to restart the fighting.
Why? Because the truce is harming Iranian interests in the middle east.
Iran Focus
London, 2 Jan – Iran has announced a new ambassador to Syria after three months of the role going unfilled due to reports of disagreements on who should fill the role, AlArabiya.net reported on Sunday.
Javad Turk Abadi was named to the role after the previous ambassador completed his mission three months ago.
Iran Focus
London, 2 Jan – Turkmenistan stopped gas exports to Iran on Sunday in a long-running dispute over arrears, the Iranian state gas company said, days after Tehran said the issue had been temporarily resolved.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Jan – In Act of Support, the father of the political prisoner also went on hunger strike.
Hossein Sadeghi said: “my son Arash has gone on hunger strike for 67 days and he is struggling with death now. On Monday 26th December 2016, Arash was transferred to Taleghani Hospital of Tehran for treatment due to the critical health condition.
Iran Focus
London, 30 Dec – An article in the Guardian, published December 29 reports on the renewed investigation by an Argentinian court on Thursday into a prosecutor’s accusation that former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner covered up the alleged involvement of Iranians in a bombing that killed 85 people.
The attack was perpetrated on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 wounding hundreds.
Iran Focus
London, 30 Dec – Russia and Turkey brokered a nationwide ceasefire in Syria that effect at midnight (2200 GMT) This is a potentially major breakthrough in the conflict.
The deal was announced hours earlier by Russian President Vladimir Putin and confirmed by the Syrian army and opposition, but does not include designated “terrorists” like the Islamic State group,Yahoo News reports.
Iran Focus
London, 29 Dec – On Tuesday, Shahrvand Daily, part of the Tehran Times, first reported on the struggles that force many of the poorest Iranian people, the homeless, to spend their nights in empty graves. Shahrvand Daily published the shocking footage, shot by Saeed Gholamhoseini in Shahriar, some 20 kilometers west of Tehran, which showed some 50 men, women, and children, living in the cemetery.
