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Saudi Official Declares Iran as Biggest Cyberattack Threat

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Saudi Official Declares Iran as Biggest Cyberattack Threat

Iran Focus

London, 20 Feb – Adel Al-Jubeir, the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, said that when it comes to the threat of cyberattacks, Iran is the most dangerous nation. He said that Iran is becoming more and more capable of sophisticated attacks including cyber-espionage.

His comments came during an interview on Sunday with CNBC. He spoke about how Iran had made numerous attempts on the kingdom and stated that Iran attempts to launch cyberattacks on the kingdom on a weekly basis.

He said: “The most dangerous nation behind cyberattacks? Iran. Iran is the only country that has attacked us repeatedly and tried to attack us repeatedly. In fact, they tried to do it on a virtually weekly basis.”

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Iran: Criticism of Syrian War Costs Prompts Justification From Military Leaders

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Iran: Criticism of Syrian War Costs Prompts Justification From Military Leaders

Iran Focus

London, 20 Feb – According to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami said on February 19, that Iran’s enemies focus on the Islamic Republic’s military expenditures in Syria merely to “sow discord in Iranian society.”

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Iranian People Desperate Due to Pervasive Unemployment and Dire Economic Conditions

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Iranian People Desperate Due to Pervasive Unemployment and Dire Economic Conditions

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London, 20 Feb – In an effort to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment, The United Nations General Assembly has decided to annually observe February 20th as the World Day of Social Justice. However, in Iran, unemployment continues to increase.

With oil and gas and other natural resources, 33% of Iran’s population (26.4 million) still lives below the poverty line. In order to support their households, many are forced to engage in menial jobs with low wages, or dangerous jobs where they risk their lives.

State-run Young Journalist Club quoted regime economist Gholamreza Kiamehr as saying, “in light of the high price of goods and services, a family who earns less than 3.5 million toumans is considered to be below the poverty line.”

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Iran Must Be Expelled From Syria

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Iran Must Be Expelled From Syria

Iran Focus

London, 19 Feb – The international community’s negligence has allowed the Syrian Civil War to go on for far too long and cost far too many lives. Now the war, which many predicted to be winding down, has spread to four different fronts and had become a proxy war for many actors in the Middle East, not least Iran.

The Iranian Regime’s proxy forces have used the Syrian conflict to deploy Hezbollah troops to the border of Israel, to expand Iran’s Shiite Crescent, and to prop up the Bashar Assad dictatorship, fearing that if he fell, then the Iranian mullahs would be next.

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Paris Conference Entitled, “Women Force for Change, Iran Uprising and the Role of Women”

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Paris Conference Entitled, “Women Force for Change, Iran Uprising and the Role of Women”

Iran Focus

London, 19 Feb – Dozens of prominent women including political personalities, lawmakers, jurists, judges, and women’s rights advocates from five continents participated in a conference entitled, “Women Force for Change, Iran Uprising and the Role of Women,” held in Paris on Saturday, February 17, 2018, in the presence of the President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. A delegation of mothers of martyrs, a delegation of Iranian women’s associations and rights activists, as well as a delegation of youth supporting the Iranian Resistance were among the speakers to the conference.

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The MEK’s Religious Beliefs

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The MEK’s Religious Beliefs

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) is a political group dedicated to bringing freedom and democracy to Iran.

They derive their political beliefs from a modern and tolerant version of Islam that is fully compatible with modern society – the exact opposite of the ruling mullahs’ Sharia Law, which is intolerant, extremist, genocidal, non-democratic, and misogynist – and the MEK believe that their interpretation is the true meaning of Islam.

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Iran’s Azerbaijan Ties Are Just a Distraction

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Iran’s Azerbaijan Ties Are Just a Distraction

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London, 18 Feb – Iran is currently facing a turbulent time. There are widespread protests in Iran calling for the removal of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – some by any means necessary – and the defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria has led to power vacuums that the Regime is desperate to fill and everyone else is desperate that they don’t.

Thus Iran has turned to its favourite method of dealing with foreign and domestic crises: misdirection.

Iran has been attempting to strengthen ties with its neighbour Azerbaijan over the past few months and there are signs that it is working.

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Former Deputy National Security Adviser Defends Iran Deal That He Manipulated Media to Get

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Former Deputy National Security Adviser Defends Iran Deal That He Manipulated Media to Get

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London, 16 Feb – Former White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, who was instrumental in helping secure media support of the 2015 Iranian Nuclear Deal through manipulation that he admitted, has now joined the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation that also helped to sell the deal by paying for favourable media coverage of it.

Back in 2015, before the Iran Deal was agreed, Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund told NPR’s All Things Considered that he believed the American security establishment was solidly behind the deal and said that opponents to the deal were merely trying to block everything that President Obama wanted to do.

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Iran Is Supplying the Houthis With Ballistic Missiles

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Iran Is Supplying the Houthis With Ballistic Missiles

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London, 16 Feb – The Houthis’ continued ballistic missiles attacks against Saudi Arabia are not simply retaliation for the Saudi-led Arab coalition seeking to restore the internationally recognised Yemeni government to power.

Instead, a Western diplomat based in the region said that this appears to be an attempt by Iran, who supplied the Houthi terrorist cell with the ballistic missiles, to start a bigger regional conflict or test their missiles against the US missile defence systems used by Saudi Arabia.

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Iran Hikes Utility Rates in Spite of Nationwide Protests

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Iran Hikes Utility Rates in Spite of Nationwide Protests

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London, 16 Feb – In spite of ongoing nationwide protests against dramatically rising costs and falling living conditions, the Iranian Regime has still seen fit to raise the prices of water, electricity and gas in their budget for the New Year, which begins on March 21 according to the Persian calendar.

The decision to increase prices in line with Iran’s Sixth Development Plan, which states that water and electricity costs could rise by between 20% and 30 % a year, comes after a long debate in the Regime’s Parliament about how best to fill the budget deficit.

The Iranian House of Representatives voted in favour of this proposal from the Ministry of Energy on Wednesday, following its approval from the Council of Ministers.

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