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Iran’s New Missiles Looks an Awful Lot Like North Korea’s

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Iran’s New Missiles Looks an Awful Lot Like North Korea’s

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London, 25 Sep – Over the weekend, the Iranian Regime revealed a never before seen video showing a successful test of their new Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile.

The missile, revealed during a military parade on September 22, bears remarkable similarities to the North Korean BM-25 Musudan / Hwasong-10 missile, sparking fresh rumours that the two countries are collaborating.

Though Iran claims that this missile is a domestic effort, it has made the same claims about many other weapon systems that appear derived from foreign designs like its Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles (based on North Korea’s Hwasong-7).

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Iran Regime Is Not a Leader in the Muslim World and Will Not Be Until They Abandon Extremism

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Iran Regime Is Not a Leader in the Muslim World and Will Not Be Until They Abandon Extremism

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London, 25 Sep – Following some absurd comments by the Supreme Leader of Iran about his and the Regime’s status in the Muslim world, one political scientist is telling the Regime to take their cues on peaceful co-existence from Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, a leading expert on Iran and US foreign policy, wrote an op-ed for Arab News in which he dismissed claims on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website in which he is described as the “leader of the Islamic World”.

Rafizadeh highlights that a leader of the Islamic world should at least show some qualities of Islam, like uniting the Shiite and Sunni worlds and building bridges between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

He said that nothing in the Iranian Regime suggests that religion has been used to unify but everything suggests that it has been corrupted to divide.

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Iran Holds World Record in Workplace Accidents

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Iran Holds World Record in Workplace Accidents

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London, 25 Sep – Iran now holds the dubious record for most deaths and injuries in the workplace thanks to lax workplace safety laws and inaction by the Iranian Regime.

Even injured workers may find that they are no longer able to earn money, which devastates their families as the Regime does not provide financial support to them and denies them access to things like accidental death and critical injury insurance.

The Regime has refused to release the actual workplace casualty figures, for fear of inciting widespread protests, but the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) noted that even the level of officially reported accidents presents a shocking problem.

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Iran Regime Tests Missile, Sparking Fresh Suspicions of Collaboration With North Korea

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Iran Regime Tests Missile, Sparking Fresh Suspicions of Collaboration With North Korea

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London, 25 Sep – Over the weekend, Donald Trump tweeted that Iran is collaborating with North Korea on missile technology and criticised the 2015 nuclear agreement between the US, Iran, and five other world powers.

He wrote: “Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel. They are also working with North Korea. Not much of an agreement we have!”

This tweet was posted just hours after the Iranian Regime claimed to have tested the Khoramshahr, a new ballistic missile that is capable of reaching targets across the Middle East, including Israel.

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Change in Iran Will Come From the People Says UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights

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Change in Iran Will Come From the People Says UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights

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London, 25 Sep – Asma Jahangir, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, gave an interview with Al Arabiya in which she described how the human rights situation in Iran as appalling across the board and that although she welcomed the Regime’s “tiny steps” on improvement, it has not gone far enough.

She said: “In every sector, starting from rule of law, starting from defective prosecution, denial of due process, to laws that are also discriminatory to people being discriminated against on religious and ethnic grounds, to torture, there are serious human rights violations in Iran that the Iranian government is beginning to look into and is beginning to take very tiny steps-very tiny- to address them. The fact that there is a charter for rights is an acknowledgement by the government that these problems do need to be addressed but they can’t drag them on for so long because people’s awareness in every part of the world is rising. You cannot tell people that you are not violating their rights when they can read, they can see and they can listen for themselves [to how things are done elsewhere].”

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What Happens If Trump Decertifies Iran Compliance With the Nuclear Deal?

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What Happens If Trump Decertifies Iran Compliance With the Nuclear Deal?

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London, 23 Sep – When President Obama was negotiating the nuclear deal with Iran and other world powers, he assured critics that it was the only way to curb the nuclear threat from Iran. He said it was the only way to prevent Iran from pursuing its nuclear program.

He gave the Iranian regime numerous concessions and failed to address some peripheral issues such as the oppression of people at home and its spread of terrorism across the Middle East.

Obama’s years in office, with reference to this treatment of Iran, have been named by some as the “golden years”. The regime knew that it could get away with anything and the Obama administration would not dare to so much as comment.

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At UNGA, Trump Dashes Iran’s Hopes Regarding US Policy and Nuclear Deal

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At UNGA, Trump Dashes Iran’s Hopes Regarding US Policy and Nuclear Deal

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London, 22 Sep – As US President Trump is known for being an unpredictable political leader, the eyes of the world were on his first speech at the UN General Assembly, especially when he said, “We cannot abide by an agreement if it provides cover for eventual construction of a nuclear program.”

He spoke about such subjects such as the threats from North Korea, the refugee crisis, and Iran’s activities in the Middle East. In fact, he mentioned Iran 11 times during his speech, indicating that Tehran’s destabilizing actions in the region will be one of the most crucial issues for the US foreign policy.

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Trump: People of Iran Are the First Victims of Iranian Regime

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Trump: People of Iran Are the First Victims of Iranian Regime

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London, 22 Sep – On Thursday, H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, said that the administration is very concerned about Iran’s destabilising behaviour. He also said that the Iran nuclear deal is “fundamentally flawed” because it is so one-sided. Iran was the one that got all the benefits. Furthermore, the deal did not address fundamental issues leaving the regime free to advance with its nuclear program.

McMaster pointed out that there are various ways in which the US can deal with the Iranian regime and emphasised that Trump is looking at the full situation in the Islamic Republic rather than focusing on just the nuclear aspect.

He also said that Trump is ensuring that American interests are protected including American citizens and allies.

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Trump Has Made up His Mind on Iran Nuclear Deal but Refuses to Elaborate

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Trump Has Made up His Mind on Iran Nuclear Deal but Refuses to Elaborate

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London, 21 Sep – Donald Trump has said that he’s made up his mind on the future of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, but has refused to elaborate.

He said: “I have decided. I’ll let you know.”

His latest comments come one day after a meeting between US and Iranian officials on Tuesday and one day after Trump addressed the UN and criticised the nuclear deal as “an embarrassment to the United States” and “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions” that the US has agreed to.

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Iranian Translator Criticised for Downplaying Trump Speech at UN

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Iranian Translator Criticised for Downplaying Trump Speech at UN

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London, 21 Sep – An Iranian translator has been forced to defend himself after coming under fire for altering Donald Trump’s address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, in order to downplay Trump’s criticism of Iran.

Nima Chitsaz, a translator for Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, said that he wanted to spare his Persian-speaking viewers from Trump’s verbal attacks.

He said: “I don’t think it would be nice for me to speak on national TV against my own country.”

However, if Chitsaz’s goal was to protect the people of Iran, it is unclear why he mistranslated a comment by Trump that spoke of the power that the Iranian people had to overthrow the Regime.

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