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Iranian Prisoners Write Letter in Support of Fellow Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike

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Iranian Prisoners Write Letter in Support of Fellow Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike

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London, 19 Aug – In Ardebil prison, Northwest Iran, a group of political prisoners wrote a letter of support for the political prisoners who are on hunger strike in Gohardasht prison near Tehran. This letter urges the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, as well as the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, to take immediate action to save the lives of these prisoners.

Following an indefinite hunger strike, special guards raided Ward 4, Hall 12, and forced transfer of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience to Hall 10 after beating them, according to an article published by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on August 1st.

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Negotiations Between Iraq and Saudis RE: Alliance to Rebuild Iraq

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Negotiations Between Iraq and Saudis RE: Alliance to Rebuild Iraq

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London, 19 Aug – Meetings to negotiate a new alliance have been taking place between senior officials from both Iraq and Saudi Arabia over the past six months. The discussions have focused on leading Iraq away from Iran, whose influence has grown in that country since the 2003 ousting of Saddam Hussein. This alliance would give Riyadh a leading role in rebuilding war-torn Iraq, and boost Baghdad’s credentials across the region. In fact, Riyadh may play a significant role in the reconstruction of the predominantly Sunni cities of Mosul, Fallujah, Ramadi and Tikrit.

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Iranian President Fails to Keep Promises Made During Election Campaign About Appointment of Females to His Government

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Iranian President Fails to Keep Promises Made During Election Campaign About Appointment of Females to His Government

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London, 18 Aug – During the presidential campaign, newly-elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed to appoint female ministers to his Cabinet. However, he has failed to do so and is facing harsh criticism from critics and supporters alike.

Earlier this week, he encouraged support for his list of proposed members of Parliament. He said that he wanted women and young people to occupy high-level position and had kept a place for at least three female ministers. However, he said that this “didn’t happen” without providing further explanation.

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Rouhani Acknowledges Iran Is Maintaining Nuclear Bomb Facilities

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Rouhani Acknowledges Iran Is Maintaining Nuclear Bomb Facilities

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London, 18 Aug – As Iranian President Rouhani introduced his new cabinet to parliament on Tuesday, he made remarks that showed his concern over the consequences of new sanctions for human rights abuses, export of terrorism, and ballistic missile development. However, his remarks also revealed that regime has not abandoned the nuclear weapons program.

He warned, “If Americans want to return to those experiences, Iran certainly in a short time – not weeks and months but hours and days – will return to a more advanced situation than the start of negotiations.”

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Iran-Backed Houthi-Saleh Forces Indiscriminately Fire on Civilians in Taiz

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Iran-Backed Houthi-Saleh Forces Indiscriminately Fire on Civilians in Taiz

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London, 18 Aug – A rights group said on Wednesday that the repeated and indiscriminate shelling of populated neighborhoods of Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city, was perpetrated by Houthi militia and forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and were in violation of the laws of war.

During the artillery bombardment over a 10-day period in May, at least 30 civilians were killed, and more than 160 were injured, in the shelling by Houthi-Saleh forces. This attack on the populated areas of Taiz “has taken a terrible toll on civilians,” according to Sarah Leah Whitson, the rights group’s Middle East director, who demanded, “Their commanders should immediately halt these indiscriminate attacks.”

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Iran-Backed Taliban Beg Trump to Pull the US out of Afghanistan

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Iran-Backed Taliban Beg Trump to Pull the US out of Afghanistan

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London, 17 Aug – The Taliban wrote an open letter to Donald Trump advising him against sending more troops into Afghanistan would be self-destructive as the military situation is “far worse than [he] realizes”.

A senior Taliban official told Reuters that they had chosen to directly address Trump on Tuesday to coincide with the White House debates on American policy towards Afghanistan.

In the letter to Trump, the Taliban wrote: “Previous experiences have shown that sending more troops to Afghanistan will not result in anything other than the further destruction of American military and economic might.”

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Human Rights Activist Warns: Stop Appeasing Iran Regime

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Human Rights Activist Warns: Stop Appeasing Iran Regime

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London, 17 Aug – A prominent human rights activist has written an op-ed for Forbes in which he warned the international community against appeasing the Iranian Regime

Heshmat Alavi, an activist who specialises in Iran and the Middle East, advised the Donald Trump administration against listening to the Iran Lobby who are still trying to protect the 2015 nuclear deal.

In Alavi’s opinion, that deal is not worth saving and he advises Trump to find Iran in violation of the deal.

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Saudi Arabia: We Never Asked for Mediation With Iran

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Saudi Arabia: We Never Asked for Mediation With Iran

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London, 17 Aug – A Saudi official announced that they have never requested Iraqi mediation in its affairs with the Iranian Regime and that any claim to the contrary was just fake news.

In a statement on Wednesday, the SPA official said: “Saudi Arabia affirms its strong stance which rejects any association in any shape or form with the Iranian regime which spreads terrorism and extremism in the region and internationally, and interferes in other countries’ matters.”

Earlier this month, comments attributed to the Iraqi Minister of Interior, Qassem al-Aaragi, suggested that during the recent visit of Iraqi Prime Minister, Haydar al-Aabadi, to Saudi Arabia, Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, had asked Aabadi to mediate with the Iranian Regime for them.

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Iran’s Sectarianism Poses Grave Threat to the Middle East

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Iran’s Sectarianism Poses Grave Threat to the Middle East

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London, 17 Aug – The extremist ideology exhibited by the Iranian Regime is medieval and poses a threat to nation states in the Middle East, according to a Saudi Journalist.

Mohammed Al Shaikh wrote an op-ed for Al Arabiya, entitled “Extremist ideologies bane for nation states”, in which he assesses that prior to the 1979 Iranian revolution the countries in the Middle East lived in relative harmony.

He wrote: “Since the advent of this clerical regime, sectarian strife among members of the same religious community, both in the Arab and Islamic countries, has increased. The ongoing sectarian conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen prove my statement… It is a historical fact that before Khomeini’s revolution in Iran, Arab societies lived in peace and harmony.”

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Iran and Russia Colluded to Violate UN Sanctions Related to Nuclear Deal

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Iran and Russia Colluded to Violate UN Sanctions Related to Nuclear Deal

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London, 17 Aug – The Iranian Regime colluded with Russia in order to violate UN sanctions with regard to the 2015 nuclear deal, according to reports by German media and state intelligence agencies.

Iran and Russia used a secret smuggling route to transfer illegal weapons in violation of UN Resolution 2231, according to German’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

Their report, published on Sunday, read: “In June, two aeroplanes from Iran flew directly to the Khmeimim Air Base [southeast of Latakia] – the most important Russian military base in Syria – in order to bring the military equipment for transport to Russia.”

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