“The Iranian regime is more dangerous than ISIS and should never be allowed to acquire a nuclear bomb or nuclear power” said former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, in a conference in Paris. Giuliani has joined the group of leaders that have recently voiced their opinions about Iran’s nuclear assets; ones they think are a threat to global security.
The world has once again; found a reason to look at Iran in contempt, where it has become the center of another incident, one that highlights its oppression and extremism.
Saman Naseem is due to executed on February 19, after being arrested on July 17, 2011, after a gun battle between Revolutionary Guards and an armed opposition group. After his arrest he was held in a Ministry of Intelligence detention center, without any access to his family or a lawyer. Amnesty International here, is appealing to halt the execution of this 17 year old, who was tortured for 97 days in a bid to force a confession for being part of an opposition group, one that was resisting the Iranian regime.
A top aide to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of the Iranian regime, has been taken to jail to serve his prison term for corruption, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.
Mohammad Reza Rahimi, was convicted by supreme court in Iran last month and sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a 10 billion rial ($300,000) fine.
In the latest of a series of military scandals behind which is the hand of the clergy of Tehran, a secretive Iranian military unit has been smuggling weapons to extremist groups in the Middle East and North Africa according to Fox News.
This secret unity is called Unit 190, and is made up of 24 soldiers. The leader of the unit is 46-year-old Benham Shahariyari, who reportedly runs a network of front companies which skirt sanctions by smuggling RPG’s, night-vision equipment and long-range rockets in powdered milk, cement and spare vehicle parts.
After having spent around a decade investigating the AMIA Jewish center bombing that took place in 1994, the Argentine Prosecutor, Alberto Nisman died a mysterious death last month. Recently, however, a member of the Argentinean parliament has accused Iran of having a hand in the death of Alberto Nisman.
Sergio Bergman, openly accused Iran of having a role in the death of Alberto Nisman and stated that there was ‘absolutely no doubt’ about this fact.
European Union governments agreed on Thursday to put the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), Iran’s biggest tanker firm, back on a list of sanctioned firms.
The move follows a failed legal attempt by the Iranian regime in a London Court on Monday, February 10, to stop the European Union from re-imposing the sanctions over its nuclear programme.
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.
This past week, Reuters reported an exclusive story, entitled “Iran tells West President Rouhani at risk if talks fail: Iranian officials” Javad Zarif, Iran’s crafty Foreign Minister, has continued to sell the idea that the United States must make a quick deal with Iran, or else lose risk losing the “moderation” offered by Rouhani. This report comes amid a strong push by Tehran to finalize a nuclear deal, “or else”. These remarks show just how desperate Iran is for a nuclear deal, and that reform in Iran is a facade used to achieve political ends.
On Friday, 13 February 2015, in Phoenix, Arizona, Mayor Rudy Giuliani and General Hugh Shelton, 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discuss ways to counter Islamic Fundamentalism and prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.
They will be joined by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, at a symposium, from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel.
At an international conference to discuss “Islamic Fundamentalism, Roots, Solutions; Role of Iranian Regime” held in Paris on the 36th anniversary of the February 1979 revolution in Iran, a major conclusion reached was that the first and step in confronting extremism under veneer of Islam was to evict mullahs from the region. Iran must become a democratic state, and there must be a separation of religion and state. There is no other way to provide the citizens of Iran with rights, and protect them form tyranny and repression.
Paulo Casaca is founder of the Brussels based international co-operation association ARCHumankind, “Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind”, and the “Euro Reform Initiative”
As the Iranian Islamic Republic marks its thirty sixth anniversary, the US administration makes ever more clear its will to reach a nuclear deal with Iran at any cost.
According to the Washington Post editorial board, in spite of the fact it habitually defends the talks and shuts down objections to them, the latest proposal from US negotiators “raises major concerns” about the probable consequences of inking an agreement along those lines.
