By Pooya Stone
The US sanctioned Chinese state-run energy company Zhuhai Zhenrong Co Ltd for violating US sanctions on Iran, according to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday.
Pompeo said in a foreign policy speech at a veterans’ convention in Florida: “We’ve said that we will sanction any sanctionable behaviour, and we mean it.”
By Jubin Katiraie
On Monday, 22 July 2019, due to the lack of safety of working conditions, seven workers in the Iranian cities of Rasht, Qazvin, Gorgan and Tehran suffered accidents. In these incidents, six workers lost their lives and one was injured.
According to another report, the general director of the Mazandaran Province coroner’s office reported 25 deaths and 212 injuries in the province during the first three months of the Iranian calendar year.
By Pooya Stone
At least 5,000 supporters of the Iranian people and their resistance took part in a major demonstration in Stockholm, Sweden, on Saturday.
The crowd, which gathered in Kungtärgården Square to listen to speeches from allies and activists, urged Europe to adopt a solid policy on the regime, institute comprehensive sanctions, designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), Intelligence Ministry (MOIS) and Khamenei’s Beyt (House) as terrorist groups, and recognised the Iranian people’s right to overthrow the clerical regime.
By Jubin Katiraie
The UK could face attacks from Iran-backed terror cells if tensions continue to rise between the two countries, according to British intelligence sources.
Iran is considered by MI5 and MI6 experts to be the third great threat to British security from a state actor and fears have only intensified since the British flagged Stena Impero oil tanker was seized in the Persian Gulf on Friday.
By Pooya Stone
Social media company Twitter has suspended several accounts belonging to Iranian news agencies for their alleged harassment of people who follow the Baha’i faith; a persecuted religious minority in Iran.
On Saturday, state-run news agencies IRNA and Mehr, as well as Young Journalists Club (YJC), run by state broadcaster IRIB, were just some of the Farsi-language accounts suspended on Saturday, while Fars agency and English-language Press TV remain active.
By Jubin Katiraie
British Prime Minister Theresa May will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee COBRA today following Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf, where she will receive updates from ministers and officials, as well as discuss how to maintain the security of shipping in the area.
By Pooya Stone
Irish senator John Perry urged the Swedish government to distance itself from the regime in power in Iran by supporting the democratic alternative to the regime.
Mr. Perry was addressing a 5000 strong rally by Iranian expatriates in Stockholm in support of democratic change in Iran by the Iranian resistance movement.
By Jubin Katiraie
The situation for political prisoners in Iran is worsening. The Iranian authorities are under immense pressure – both on the international and domestic fronts – and it is trying desperately to keep a lid on the palpable discontent at home.
Political prisoners have been systematically mistreated over the course of the past four decades under the clerical authorities’ rule and despite international calls for prison regulations to be reformed, they are continuing to be tortured and assaulted in prison.
By Pooya Stone
In spite of the summer vacation, the Iranian diaspora in northern Europe is preparing for another show of solidarity with the social movement inside Iran.
A big demonstration is scheduled for tomorrow Saturday in Stockholm’s Kungstradgarden early in the afternoon. This is the fourth such event to take place during less than a month, with the last such big gathering in Berlin having grouped more than 15000 people on July 6. Although organizers in Stockholm admit not awaiting such a huge number of participants given the size of Iranian presence in Sweden compared to that in Germany, nonetheless they expect no less than 5000 people attending as the community is well mobilized in whole Scandinavia for the event.
By Pooya Stone
A state-run news agency in Iran has reported that a 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to 100 lashes for a crime he allegedly did not commit. The ROKNA news agency said that he was sentenced to the lashes on 15th July, accused of abusing an 11-year-old boy in the city of Tehran. But the boy’s parents had retracted the complaint against the boy, but the Iranian Judiciary refused to cancel the sentence.
