Iran Focus
London, 22 Jan – The Iranian Regime is continuing to smuggle weapons and rockets to the Houthi militias in Yemen with the intention of them being used against Saudi Arabia according to Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir.
Jubeir made these comments while addressing an emergency meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah on Sunday, January 21.
by Pooya Stone
The recent widespread protests in Iran destabilised the Regime’s shaky grasp on power and no matter what the leading mullahs claim publically, this uprising is far from over and the Regime leaders should be very scared.
Iran Focus
London, 20 Jan – Paris Friday, January 19, 2018: A conference was held, entitled, “Change in Iran with 1000 Ashrafs (1000 centre of rebellions through Iran)”, featuring the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, Mr. Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and Senator Robert Torricelli, also a group of representatives of Iranian communities in Europe spoke of their personal experience while in Iran.
Below is the excerpt of the statement issued by NCRI secretariat on Friday 19, January 2018:
Iran Focus
London, 20 Jan – According to remarks her to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said that the Islamic Republic of Iran has illegally shipped ballistic missiles to regional proxies that have in turn targeted civilians. In a scathing broadside against Iran during a discussion on nuclear proliferation, Haley said, “[Iran] provides ballistic missiles in violation of U.N. arms embargoes. Its proxies launch them at civilian targets, as we saw when Houthi militias in Yemen fired an Iranian-supplied missile at an airport in Riyadh.” She called the regime in Tehran “the leading cause of instability in an unstable part of the world.”
by Jubin Katiraie
After a fatal and long-lasting muteness, Khamenei spoke on the thirteenth day of the uprising and showed his panic and fear over the people’s fury, with an inverse tone, he reiterated the fact that the Iranian Resistance and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) are the alternative to his regime.
Khamenei stated: the MEK “had been ready since months ago … since several months ago (they were ready) to organize, and meet this person and that one; and to select some people inside the country, find them and help them, so they would come and call on the people. They (MEK) announced their call, and made the slogan “No to high prices”. Well, this is a slogan that everyone likes. They (MEKO managed to attract some people with this slogan. And then, they(MEK) could come to the scene and pursue their goals, and make the people follow them”.
Iran Focus
London, 19 Jan – The names of six young Iranians, who were killed under torture by the Regime authorities during the recent protests, have been released.
The body of Seyed Shahab Abtahi, 20, was left on his father’s doorstep with signs of baton blows clearly visible, just 10 days after his arrest in the city of Arak.
Shortly before that, street vendor Vahid Heidari, 22, who the Markazi police falsely claimed had been arrested on drugs possession charges, was also killed by baton blows while detained.
Iran Focus
London, 19 Jan – The family of an Iranian protester who died in custody said that the Regime authorities forced him- and other prisoners- to take pills that made him sick.
This case was publicised by Iranian MP Mahmoud Sadeghi who tweeted on Tuesday: “According to the relatives of one of the detainees who died in jail, he had told his family during a phone conversation [prior to his death] that the authorities had forced him and other prisoners to take pills that made them sick.”
The organisation in charge of Iranian prisons denied the accusation on Thursday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
Iran Focus
London, 19 Jan – The current protests in Iran may have been suppressed by the Regime, but that won’t last.
The problems that caused the protests remain and it won’t be long before the people take to the streets again, particularly the Iranian youth who are especially angry about the lack of freedom their people experience.
Ahmad Majidyar, a South Asia and Middle East expert for the Washington-based Middle East Institute, said: “Young Iranians hold higher expectations, have greater access to information and exposure to the outside world, and aspire to more freedoms and opportunities.”
Iran Focus
London, 18 Jan – The Druze, one of Syria’s most significant minority ethnic and religious groups, have remained on the sidelines of the contry’s seven year civil war. They have managed to keep their own survival their biggest priority, and have navigated a path that stayed between the regime and its op¬ponents.
The Druze have interests that appear to have gradually aligned with those of the regime and its allies, but remain uneasy with Iran, one of Damascus’s principal allies.
According to Syrian journalist Talal el- Atrache, there are three Druze areas in Syria: Sweida province in the south-east; Mount Hermon, in the south-west; and Jaramana and Sahnaya, which are two large suburbs south of Damascus. Pro-government militias made up mostly of Druze have waged battles when their territo¬ries were attacked.
Iran Focus
London, 18 Jan – Even if the Iranian Regime was correct in its assessment that the popular people’s protest was waning, the US’s reaction is just getting started.
Last Friday, Donald Trump decided to continue to waive broad sanctions on the Iranian Regime until May, when he would pull the US out of the 2015 nuclear deal if improvements could not be made.
However, just to make it clear that he wasn’t playing softball with the Regime at a time when its own people were taking to the streets to call for the heads of their rulers, Trump also issued new targeted human rights sanctions against key people and institutions in Iran.
