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Suspicious Deaths of Jailed Iranian Protesters Deserve Investigation

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Suspicious Deaths of Jailed Iranian Protesters Deserve Investigation

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.

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Iran’s Protests Won’t Be Silenced for Long

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Iran’s Protests Won’t Be Silenced for Long

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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.”

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The Syrian Druze and Their Uneasy Alliance With Iran

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The Syrian Druze and Their Uneasy Alliance With Iran

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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.

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Trump’s New Approach to Iran

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Trump’s New Approach to Iran

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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.

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Iran’s Foreign Wars Are Fuelling the People’s Dissent

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Iran’s Foreign Wars Are Fuelling the People’s Dissent

Iran Focus

London, 18 Jan – The problems facing the Iranian Regime right now are not unique- an angry populace driven to the streets is actually fairly common in dictatorships- and it foretells the end of the mullahs’ rule.

The Iranian Regime has been content to ignore the plight of its people and spend its money on costly foreign wars to spread the ‘Islamic’ revolution abroad, its private police force (the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)) to keep the people in line, and to fill its own pockets. Now, the people who are left unemployed and starving by the Regime’s greed are going to take them down.

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Trump’s New Plans for Iran Deal

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Trump’s New Plans for Iran Deal

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London, 18 Jan – Donald Trump reopened the debate on the Iranian nuclear deal, last week, when he announced that he would waive the sanctions until May, but after that something would need to change.

As of yet, Trump isn’t pulling the US out of the 2015 pact between six world powers and Iran, but he is demanding that Congress produce legislation to fix the deal and ensure that if the US remains a party to it, Iran will not be able to create a nuclear weapon.

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Iran Regime’s Weakness and Its Fear From Pmoi/Mek Exposed During the Uprising

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Iran Regime’s Weakness and Its Fear From Pmoi/Mek Exposed During the Uprising

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London, 18 Jan – At the beginning of 2018, Citing Iran’s “state television”, AFP reported that while making a clear allusion to the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), Rouhani told President Macron, “We criticize the fact that a group has a base in France and acts against the Iranian people and encourages violence. We expect the French government to act against this terrorist group “.

These remarks reflected above all the anxiety of the mullahs’ regime in the face of the expansion of the uprising against the religious dictatorship and the growing popularity of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).and the Iranian Resistance. Rouhani accused the MEK of violence, while the European Union, its member countries, as well as the United States, strongly criticized the Iranian regime for the repression of demonstrations, killing and seriously injuring many people and President Macron has expressed concern on the death of the protestors. To date, dozens of unarmed protesters have been killed by Revolutionary Guards and thousands more arrested.

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Iran Regime’s Embassy in Germany Being Used as Base for Terrorism

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Iran Regime’s Embassy in Germany Being Used as Base for Terrorism

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London, 17 Jan – The Iranian Resistance has urged Germany to shut down the Iranian Regime’s embassy for its role in terror and espionage and praised the German police for raids on Iranian spies.

The German office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) released a statement early Wednesday morning praising German authorities for their Tuesday raids on the homes and workplaces of 10 people who are suspected of spying on behalf of the Iranian Regime and its secret services.

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Un Report Finds Iran-Made Missile Was Fired by Houthis

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Un Report Finds Iran-Made Missile Was Fired by Houthis

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London, 17 Jan – A leaked United Nations report states that the ballistic missiles fired by the terrorist Houthis in Yemen were indeed made by Iran, which may give the US additional reasons to crack down on Iran and pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal.

The weapons fragments inspected by the UN appear to include debris from a ballistic missile attack on Saudi Arabia in November, which was fired by the Houthis.

The report appears to confirm the US’s long-held suspicions that the Iranian Regime has breached two UN resolutions about the launching of ballistic missiles (which enshrines the nuclear deal) and supplying weapons to the Houthis.

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Human Rights Are Systematically Ignored by Iran Regime

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Human Rights Are Systematically Ignored by Iran Regime

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London, 17 Jan – Human rights abuses are systematic under the repressive Iranian regime, with even the right to life being routinely ignored.

As a result, the so-called justice system often executes people for crimes (sometimes minor offences or made up crimes) based on circumstantial evidence or confessions extracted through torture.

In December, for example, a 22-year-old prisoner was executed in Mashhad Central Prison for murder, but there is little chance that he received a fair trial with access to legal representation. Another two people were hanged in front of a judge in a retribution killing.

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