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Bahrain Court Strips 115 of Nationality Over ‘Terrorism’ in Mass Trials

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Bahrain Court Strips 115 of Nationality Over ‘Terrorism’ in Mass Trials

Bahrain Court Strips 115 of Nationality over ‘Terrorism’ in Mass Trials

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London, 18 May – In one of the most severe rulings yet in the Gulf island kingdom, a Bahrain court on Tuesday revoked the citizenship of 115 people at a mass terrorism trial — the most to lose their nationality at any one time, amid a year’s long crackdown on dissent. Increasingly, Bahrain’s wields denaturalization as a hammer to beat back dissent on the Shiite-majority island off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf.

The public prosecutor also said on Tuesday that the court also gave 53 people life sentences on terrorism charges.

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UN Investigating Turkey’s Illegal Shipment to Iran

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UN Investigating Turkey’s Illegal Shipment to Iran

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London, 17 May – The United Nations is said to be investigating a shipment of electronic components from Turkey to Iran in 2017, which violated international sanctions.

In July 2017, inspectors in the United Arab Emirates checked a shipment that was headed to Iran and found the electronic parts, which are banned from being exported to Iran under the UN Security Council Resolution that enshrines the 2015 nuclear deal.

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A New Deal on Iran to Address All Its Flaws

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A New Deal on Iran to Address All Its Flaws

A new deal on Iran to address all its flaws

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London, 17 May – One of the main problems of the deal, was that it did not include the nations of the Middle East who are most affected by Iran’s nuclear weapons programme as well as Iranian belligerence not mentioned in the deal, like their interference in the affairs of neighbouring states and their ballistic missiles programme.

This meant that Iran, a nation known as the leading state sponsor of terrorism, was stretched at the expense of key US allies, like Saudi Arabia.

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Human Rights Watch Calls on Iran to Halt Death Sentence of Protester

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Human Rights Watch Calls on Iran to Halt Death Sentence of Protester

Human Rights Watch calls on Iran to halt death sentence of protester

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London, 16 May – Human Rights Watch has said that the Iranian judiciary should halt the execution of a member of the Gonabadi Dervish community and release all Dervish members who have been arbitrarily detained since February 2018.

On February 20, the Iranian authorities arrested over 300 Dervishes (by some counts as many as 430) after clashes between the Shia religious order and the Iranian police, during which Mohammad Sallas was accused of killing three police officers by driving a bus into a crowd of security officers.

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Trade Is the Only Reason Europe Wants to Keep the Iran Deal Alive

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Trade Is the Only Reason Europe Wants to Keep the Iran Deal Alive

Trade is the only reason Europe wants to keep the Iran deal alive

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London, 16 May – One week after Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, citing numerous issues including that it did not stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the European signatories are scrambling to keep Iran in the deal.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have all agreed to abide by their obligations and keep the deal going, stating that it remains important for their “shared security”.

They’ve even called on the US not to take action that would prevent them from fulfilling their obligations.

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Chairman of Assembly of Experts Calls on Rouhani to Apologize for Nuclear Deal

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Chairman of Assembly of Experts Calls on Rouhani to Apologize for Nuclear Deal

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London, 15 May – The Assembly of Experts of the Leadership (AEL), also known as the Assembly of Experts (AoE), is the deliberative body empowered to designate and dismiss the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader and supervise his performance. The chairman of the influential body, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, has called upon President Hassan Rouhani to apologize to the people of Iran for not respecting conditions laid out by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for negotiating the nuclear deal.

He accused Rouhani in the statement for disregarding red lines set by Ali Khamenei for the government’s nuclear talks with the U.S. and world powers, and said that Rouhani should “present his apologies to the Iranian nation for the damage it has caused.”

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British Charity Worker Faces New Charges in Iran

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British Charity Worker Faces New Charges in Iran

British charity worker faces new charges in Iran

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London, 15 May – A British charity worker who was wrongfully imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges is facing fresh charges from the mullahs, according to her husband.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested two years ago after taking her baby daughter Gabriella to visit family in Iran, will be returning to court in the next week or two to face resurrected charges of spreading propaganda against the ruling system; a charge usually levied by Iran when they don’t have anything concrete to charge a person with.

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How to Precipitate a Collapse of the Iranian Dictatorship?

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How to Precipitate a Collapse of the Iranian Dictatorship?

How to precipitate a collapse of the Iranian dictatorship?

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London, 15 May – The UK, France, and Germany all claim that they can continue with the Iran nuclear deal following Donald Trump’s withdrawal last week, but can they really?

According to Sandeep Gopalan on The Hill, past evidence suggests that would be “virtually impossible”; especially once Trump’s new sanctions are put into place.

On May 8, Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying that it has failed to “prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb”.

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World Should Listen to Maryam Rajavi

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World Should Listen to Maryam Rajavi

World Should Listen to Maryam Rajavi

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London, 15 May – On May 5, Iranian-American community leaders gathered in Washington DC for a convention to promote democracy and human rights in Iran.

The convention featured a speech from the President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Maryam Rajavi, which most believe was a preview of the message that she will deliver at the Iran Freedom gathering on June 30 in front of 100,000 supporters of a Free Iran.

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Iran Risks Destabilizing Iraq via International Narco-Trafficking

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Iran Risks Destabilizing Iraq via International Narco-Trafficking

Iran Risks Destabilizing Iraq via International Narco-trafficking

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London, 14 May – Iraq is currently facing many obstacles, including unemployment, ethnic conflict, and religious intolerance, but one important issue that needs to be immediately addressed is the extent of its illegal drug trade, and Iran’s role in it.

The Saudi television channel al-Arabiya reported in April 2017, that Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Iranian-linked elements of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) were smuggling drugs from Afghanistan through Iran, Iraq, and Turkey to Europe. The report alleged further that Italian law enforcement agencies had dismantled a nine-member Iraqi PMF cell working as part of a wider operation headed by IRGC general Gholamreza Baghbani.

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