Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – Now that the end is in sight for the Obama administration, the Iranian regime, Iran apologists and Iranian regime lobbies are concerned about the continuation of the appeasement policy. Amir Basiri, an Iranian human rights activist, said in the Washington Examiner that those wanting rapprochement with Tehran are setting propaganda in motion.
Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – Iran wants to establish naval bases in Yemen and/or Syria according to a high ranking military official.
Iranian General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri told a crowd of Iranian naval commanders that they needed distant bases on the shores of other foreign countries like Syria and Yemen, or even “floating” bases.
Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – They are the most vicious part of the Iranian terror squad; attacking peaceful protesters in the streets and shooting the protest leaders on sight.
The Basij – Basij Mostazafan is part of the terrorist Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who are fiercely loyal to the mullahs’ Regime and will do anything to keep them in control.
Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – Nearly 70 members of the Iranian terror squad, the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been recently killed in Syria according to reports from the democratic Iranian Resistance Forces.
Iran’s deputy president, Mullah Seyyed Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahallati, claimed that the number of IRGC forces killed in the Syrian civil war exceeded 1,000.
Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – Iran has granted permission for Russia to use one of its airbases to attack the Syrian Resistance forces if its aircraft carrier has to leave the Syrian coastline for another mission.
Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defence committee in the Federation Council, said: “The necessity to use the airfield of the airbase in Hamadan could emerge if Admiral Kuznetsov carries out another operation and [Russia] will not be able to use it for airstrikes against terrorists [read: the democratic opposition to Assad’s dictatorship] in Syria.”
Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – Two Iranians and their Kenyan driver, who worked for the Iranian embassy in Nairobi, were charged on Thursday with collecting information for a terrorist act after filming the Israeli embassy, Reuters quoted lawyers as saying.
Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi, Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe and driver Moses Keyah Mmboga “were found taking video clips of the Israeli embassy … for the use in the commission of a terrorist act”, according to a charge sheet produced in court.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – In his article for Town Hall on November 30, Ivan Sheehan, Professor of Public and International Affairs, co-Director of the Global Affairs and Human Security graduate program in the School of Public and International Affairs, and Director of the graduate program Negotiation and Conflict Management at the University of Baltimore, discusses the attacks on Iranian dissidents by Tehran’s well-organized Washington lobby.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – Recent raids on arms smugglers in the Arabian Sea shows a link between Iran and Yemen.
The weapons shipments uncovered by British-based activists in the Arabian Sea show that Iran is funding Houthi rebels in Yemen
The shipments included guns made in Iran, Russia and perhaps even North Korea.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – An Iranian-American Christian and human rights activist has written an op-ed for The Hill about the plight of Iranian Christians who are crying out for freedom this December.
Donya Jam, the daughter of Iranian Christians, explains that Iranian Christians have existed for centuries and that people with different religions used to accept each other.
