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INTV’s Pledges Drive for Finances Begins, as Iran Cracks Down on Media

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INTV’s Pledges Drive for Finances Begins, as Iran Cracks Down on Media

It is risky to be a journalist who works for a dissenting news outlet in Iran. Reportedly, arrests and imprisonment of free minded journalists has been escalating in recent years.

In fact, the Iranian regime is known to attack not only the reporters and broadcasters of independent and foreign information, but the recipients, as well. It is illegal to own satellite receiver equipment in Iran, but millions of Iranians use satellite equipment to tune into banned television networks. Equipment that has been confiscated by regime authorities is regularly replaced. Additionally, countless Iranians use virtual proxy networks (VPN) to evade restrictions on their use of the internet to gain information.

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Iran Regime Embroiled in Proxy Wars Across the Middle East and War Against Its Own People

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Iran Regime Embroiled in Proxy Wars Across the Middle East and War Against Its Own People

Iran Focus

London, 3 Nov – The Iranian Regime is taking centre stage in the shadowy world of covert proxy wars for dominance in the Middle East.

As part of Iran’s destabilisation campaign, which is meant to undermine US interests across the region and boost Iran’s power, the Regime has been fighting in support of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, and Shiite militias in Iraq.

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Damning Evidence of Iran-Al Qaeda Relationship Found in Documents Seized From Bin Laden Complex in 2011

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Damning Evidence of Iran-Al Qaeda Relationship Found in Documents Seized From Bin Laden Complex in 2011

Iran Focus

London, 2 Nov – Recently released CIA documents show a clear and complex relationship between Al Qaeda and Iran, which included threats, kidnappings, and cooperation.

As part of a Freedom of Information request by the Long War Journal, the CIA turned over a huge stack of material about the war on terror, including a 19-page report seized by Navy SEALs from the Osama Bin Laden complex in Pakistan, when they killed him.

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Iran Regime Uses Fake News to Smear MEK

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Iran Regime Uses Fake News to Smear MEK

Iran Focus

London, 2 Nov – The Iranian Regime is now using fake news to discredit a female activist and the popular people’s resistance as a whole in order to pit the people against each other and divide an activist family.

Mere days after Donald Trump delivered his speech on the Iran deal and the oppression faced by the Iranian people, the Regime’s press published a false story about lifelong activist, Somayeh Mohammadi, defecting from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK).

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Saudi Ambassador Slams Iran for Human Rights Abuses and Middle East Destabilisation

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Saudi Ambassador Slams Iran for Human Rights Abuses and Middle East Destabilisation

Iran Focus

London, 2 Nov – The Saudi Arabian ambassador to the UN has condemned the Iranian Regime for its persecution of the ethnic minorities and noted that the Regime has shown no evidence of real change.

Khalid Manzlawi, Saudi Arabia’s Acting Permanent Representative to the UN, released a statement on October 25, which states: Iran has not shown that it intends to address the oppression and persecution suffered by the Arab people of Khuzestan province, such as the outlawing of their Arab identity and their civil rights.

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Growing Anxieties of Tehran Appeasers and Apologists Targeting MEK Is Understandable

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Growing Anxieties of Tehran Appeasers and Apologists Targeting MEK Is Understandable

By Sia Rajabi

The shift in US policy on Iran has been unmistakable. After years of conciliation and appeasement – not just under the Obama administration but at various points throughout the 38-year history of the Islamic Republic – President Donald Trump is spearheading a committed strategy of confrontation and assertiveness, which serves to expose the depths of the Iranian regime’s violence and contempt for human rights.

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The U.N. Expressed Concern Over the Rising Number of Executions in Iran

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The U.N. Expressed Concern Over the Rising Number of Executions in Iran

Iran Focus

London, 1 Nov – The United Nations have expressed increased concern over the rising number of executions in Iran among other serious human rights violations.

Asma Jahangir, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, noted on October 26 that there has been no change in Iran in the past year and expressed her personal frustration about the executions, especially those of juvenile offenders and marginalised groups.

In Iran, four juneville offenders have been executed so far in 2017, while there are officially 86 teenagers on death row for crimes that they committed as children. The actual number may be much higher given the lack of transparency in the Iranian justice system.

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Is the Iranian Regime Taking Advantage of the Kurdish Referendum?

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Is the Iranian Regime Taking Advantage of the Kurdish Referendum?

Iran Focus

London, 1 Nov – The Iranian Regime is set to emerge as the big winner in the Kurdish Independence Referendum by taking advantage of the Iraq’s destabilisation.

Ever since Kurdish president Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), held the referendum on independence in September, the balance of power has changed dramatically, exposing the Kurds limited hand and Iran’s dominant role in the fate of the Kurds.

Despite the Kurdish people’s overwhelming vote for independence, Iraqi troops backed by the Iranian Regime swarmed the Kirkuk region, which the Kurds rescued from ISIS, on October 16, and forced the Kurds to flee.

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Iranian Resistance Calls on Australia to Improve Its Treatment of Refugees Fleeing Regime

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Iranian Resistance Calls on Australia to Improve Its Treatment of Refugees Fleeing Regime

Iran Focus

London, 1 Nov – The Iranian Resistance has issued a statement calling on the Australian government to end its mistreatment of refugees after the inhuman conditions has caused at least one Iranian- who fled the totalitarian Regime- to self-harm.

In their statement, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), wrote: “The Iranian Resistance strongly condemns the shocking and disgusting behaviour toward asylum seekers who have been forcibly transferred from Australia to the remote island of Manos in Papua New Guinea, and are in effect being held in detention there, and condemned it as a flagrant violation of the holy asylum principle and other international conventions and treaties.”

Back in April, the PNG Supreme Court ruled that Australia’s detention of refugees in another country was illegal and unconstitutional and this began the process to close the detention centre.

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Iran Set to Take ISIS’s Place as Chief Cause of Strife in Middle East

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Iran Set to Take ISIS’s Place as Chief Cause of Strife in Middle East

Iran Focus

London, 1 Nov – The Iranian Regime is seizing on the chance to further destabilise the Middle East- particularly Iraq and Syria- as the threat posed by ISIS is being steadily decreased by coalition forces.

In northern Iraq, Iran-backed forces seized an oil-rich region back from the Kurdish Peshmerga (who actually won it back from ISIS) following the independence referendum that the Kurds voted overwhelmingly in favour of.

There are two Kurdish groups fighting for dominance in the region; the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) who controls the majority of the Kurdish Government and is supported by the US and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), an Iranian ally.

The KDP was the group run out of Kirkuk in Iraq.

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