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Iranian Political Prisoner Condemns Judiciary in Open Letter

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Iranian Political Prisoner Condemns Judiciary in Open Letter

Iran Focus

London, 23 Feb – Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has penned an open letter to judiciary chief Sadegh Larijani to condemn the Judiciary for bowing down to Iran’s security agencies and denying prisoners their rights.

Mohammadi, who is serving 16 years for her human rights activism, wrote: “[You have] repeatedly claimed that the Judiciary is an independent institution. However, such claims do not match reality. They are only deceitful words that make a mockery of justice when a judicial system detains, convicts and punishes people according to the biased and malicious opinions of security-military agencies and denies prisoners their legal rights.”

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World Can’t Trust Iran on Nuclear Deal

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World Can’t Trust Iran on Nuclear Deal

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London, 23 Feb – The Saudi foreign minister has said that the Iran nuclear deal is “unacceptable” because the world could not trust Iran to not produce a nuclear bomb in the future.

On Thursday, Adel Al-Jubeir told the foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament that the expiration deates on certain restrictions in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) mean that in eight to ten years’ time Iran could manufacture a nuclear bomb “within weeks”.

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Why Maryam Rajavi Believes That Compulsory Veiling Is Wrong

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Why Maryam Rajavi Believes That Compulsory Veiling Is Wrong

by Jubin Katiraie

In a previous piece on the Iranian Resistance’s commitment to gender equality, we highlighted the ten areas that Maryam Rajavi and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) believe are essential to achieving equality of men and women in Iran.

One of those areas was clothing, specifically the right of women to choose their own attire without interference from the government, and we want to explain why Maryam Rajavi believes it is essential to gender equality in Iran.

Mandatory hijab introduction

Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian Regime introduced mandatory hijab in Iran, which meant that women needed to be veiled in public. At the time, Iranian women rallied against the introduction of the law and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), a member group of the NCRI, organised demonstrations against it.

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Husband of British Aid Worker Taken Hostage by Iran Desperately Tries to Meet With Iranian Officials

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Husband of British Aid Worker Taken Hostage by Iran Desperately Tries to Meet With Iranian Officials

Iran Focus

London, 22 Feb – The husband of the British-Iranian charity worker held on bogus spying charges in Iran has written to the Iranian embassy in London to try to arrange a meeting with a visiting Iranian official.

Richard Ratcliffe, who has not seen his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and their baby daughter, Gabriella, since the pair visited family in Iran in 2016, wants to meet with Abbas Araghchi, the deputy for legal and international affairs in Iran’s foreign ministry, in order to bring his family home.

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Ahmadinejad Calls For “Free” Elections in Iran

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Ahmadinejad Calls For “Free” Elections in Iran

Iran Focus

London, 22 Feb – Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose 2009 re-election caused the people to protest a rigged vote, has written an open letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections.

Ahmadinejad wrote: “An immediate and essential need is the holding of quick and free elections for the presidency and the parliament, of course without the engineering of the Guardian Council and interference of military and security institutions, so the people have the right to choose.”

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Iran: Sufi Clashes With Government Lead to 300 Arrests

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Iran: Sufi Clashes With Government Lead to 300 Arrests

Iran Focus

London, 22 Feb – Over 300 Sufi protesters were arrested during overnight clashes with the police in Tehran on Monday night.

The Sufi group Gonabadi, known locally as Gonabadi dervishes, held their protest in front of a police station in northern Tehran to demand the release of the members of their faith and the removal of security checkpoints around the house of their leader, Noor Ali Tabandeh.

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U.N. Uncovers Iran Supplying Weapons to Houthis

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U.N. Uncovers Iran Supplying Weapons to Houthis

Iran Focus

London, 21 Feb – The United Nations is now confirming that Iran supplied the ballistic missiles used by the Yemeni Houthis to attack Saudi Arabia in November.

The recently released UN report states that the “identified missile remnants, related military equipment and military unmanned aerial vehicles [are] of Iranian origin and were brought into Yemen after the imposition of the targeted arms embargo”.

In response to this report, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, who has long believed that Iran supplied the Houthis with the ballistic missiles, demanded that the U.N. Security Council act now to stop further violence.

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US Must Keep up Pressure on EU Over Iran Nuclear Deal

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US Must Keep up Pressure on EU Over Iran Nuclear Deal

Iran Focus

London, 21 Feb – The Trump administration must keep threatening to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal unless the EU agrees to help fix the flaws of the deal, according to a leading Iran expert, or the EU will not confront Iran about changes to the deal.

On Tuesday, Emily Landau, INSS Arms Control Director, told attendees at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations that the May 12 deadline given by Trump in January, for the EU to agree on how to improve the accord, “might not be as strict a date as we thought”.

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Wreckage of Iran’s Plane Crash Found

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Wreckage of Iran’s Plane Crash Found

Iran Focus

London, 21 Feb – Iran announced on Tuesday that it had located the passenger jet that disappeared from radar signal over the weekend and confirmed that it had crashed into a mountain.

According to Revolutionary Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif, the wreckage was spotted by a military drone and Russia helped Iran to locate the crash site.

He told the state-run news: “Two helicopters were sent to the coordinates that the drone had located, and found the wreckage. The plane had hit the top of the mountain before crashing 30 meters (yards) further down.”

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Iran-Back Hezbollah Controls Lebanon

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Iran-Back Hezbollah Controls Lebanon

Iran Focus

London, 21 Feb – In recent years, when the US has made statements against Iran-backed Hezbollah, they have often followed this up with support for the Lebanese army and security forces, but it is becoming increasingly clear that there is little, if any, distinction between the Lebanese state and the Iran-backed terrorist group.

When US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Beirut, last Thursday, Hezbollah had created two new problems with Israel: a southern border wall and the debates over oil and gas extraction.

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