The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee could vote as soon as next week on a bill requiring U.S. President to submit any possible nuclear agreement with the Iranian regime to the U.S. Congress for approval. This was stated by Senator Bob Corker on Monday.
State held the 134th session of the GCC Ministerial Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The kingdom’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Saud al-Faisal, led the delegation from On Thursday, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for Arab Saudi Arabia.
On Thursday, the United Nations special rapporteur on Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaeed, revealed that no less than 753 people were executed in Iran last year, which is the highest number since 2002. This news is especially concerning as it points towards the reality of Iran under Rouhani’ presidency, who some still consider a moderate in Western countries while the evidence proves otherwise.
Commitments offered by Iran in nuclear talks with 5+1 powers, do not go far enough and more work needs to be done, was the opinion of the French Foreign Minister last Friday.
He said that, “We are in favour of a solid agreement … for now there remain difficulties.” The Foreign Minister was in Riga where he was taking part in a European Union foreign ministers’ meeting. Talking to reporters he said, “There has been progress but as far as the volume, checks and duration of the envisaged commitments are concerned, the situation is still insufficient, so there is more work to be done.”
Hamid Azimi is the Communications Director for the Iranian American Community of Northern California. Azimi has been actively promoting Human Rights and democratic change in Iran, exposing and combating the Iranian Ayatollahs’ Islamic Fundamentalism. His writings and interviews have been covered by many California based news outlets as well as major national news agencies
It was only a few weeks back when Mr. Henry Kissinger pointed to the basic flaw in the nuclear negotiations with Iranian regime in a senate hearing. The negotiations had drifted from denying Iran status of a nuclear state to one extending the breakout period for Ayatollahs to acquire nuclear weapons to one year. He pointed to the repercussions of such a deal in the region and beyond that would transfer our world from what we know it today to one where people have to live in fear of the ultimate weapon.
On Saturday, March 7, a grand event was held in Berlin titled “For Tolerance and Equality against Fundamentalism and Misogyny” in the light of International Women’s Day and the serious issues concerning women rights throughout the world. The gathering discussed, in detail, the danger posed by Islamic Fundamentalism to human rights in general and women rights particularly.
Hamid Yazdan Panah is an attorney focused on asylum and immigration in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a human rights activist focused on the Middle East and Iran.
On Tuesday, February 24th, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), revealed crucial new information on Iran’s nuclear program by exposing the details of a site in Tehran known as “Lavizan-3”.
Iranian regime’s assassination plots and sanction dodging has been exposed by South African Intelligence Agencies. Middle East News channel Al-Jazeera revealed to the world how Tehran is seeking to dodge trade restrictions imposed on them by the International Community in response to their horrifying human rights record, sponsorship of terrorist factions and their undying quest to attain nuclear warheads. According to leaked documents acquired from the South African intelligence the Iranian Regime is using fake company fronts and secretive unofficial channels to bypass the sanctions and acquire material for the manufacture of weapons and other industries. The document which is a 128 page “Operational Target Analysis” written by South African intelligence reveals the names, addresses, phone numbers and cover stories used by dozens of alleged Iranian operatives in South Africa. The detailed document even goes on to name gardeners and drivers at Irans embassy, and the well planned and organized network of individuals , businesses and cultural groups which it says are being used by the Iranian regime to pursue its interests and expand its influence.
Britain’s former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has been suspended from the Labour Party in a “case for access” scandal. Mr Straw has been accused of being a politician for hire. He was one the MPs who were secretly filmed by the Daily Telegraph in a joint investigation with Channel 4’s Dispatches programme.
Undercover reporters posing as representatives of a communications agency called PMR based in Honk Kong made contact with MPs Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind and offered to pay in exchange of assistance in hiring senior British politicians to join the company’s advisory board. During one of the meetings, Mr Straw allegedly described how he operated “under the radar” to exercise his influence to change EU rules for a commodity company, which paid him £60,000 annually. According to the newspaper, he claimed to have used “charm and menace” to persuade the Ukrainian prime minister to mend the rules to facilitate the same company.
A helicopter belonging to Iranian air force has crashed north of Tehran on Thursday, killing all three crew members on board, according to state-run news outlets.
The reports quoted a district governor as saying that rescue teams have rushed to the crash site in the mountains north of the Iranian capital.
