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U.S. Report Says Iran Responsible for More Attacks and Deaths Than Any Other Group in 2016

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U.S. Report Says Iran Responsible for More Attacks and Deaths Than Any Other Group in 2016

Iran Focus

London, 20 Jul – In a new report on Wednesday, the Trump administration said that Iran continues to be the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The report also noted that between 2015 and 2016 the number of terrorist attacks has declined, globally.

The State Department’s annual “Country Reports on Terrorism” said that Iran was firm in its backing of anti-Israel groups as well as proxies that have destabilized conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Additionally, Iran continues to recruit in Afghanistan and Pakistan for Shiite militia members to fight in Syria and Iraq, and Iranian support for Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement remains unchanged.

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Parliament Votes on Halt to Drug-Related Executions in Iran

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Parliament Votes on Halt to Drug-Related Executions in Iran

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London, 20 Jul – Human Rights Watch said today that the Iranian government should immediately halt all executions for drug-related offenses while parliament debates amendments to reform the country’s drug law. In two weeks Parliament is expected to vote on an amendment to the drug law that will drastically raise the bar for a mandatory death penalty sentence.

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Wife of Princeton Student Held Hostage in Iran Speaks out Against “Unjust Imprisonment”

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Wife of Princeton Student Held Hostage in Iran Speaks out Against “Unjust Imprisonment”

Iran Focus

London, 20 Jul – The wife of the Princeton graduate student who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for espionage has called on authorities to release him as he is “unjustly imprisoned”.

Xiyue Wang was arrested in August 2016, while on a research trip to Iran for his PhD in late 19th and early 20th-century Eurasian history, but his imprisonment was only reported on Sunday following his sentencing.

Wang’s wife Hua Qu described the 36-year-old as “one of the kindest, most thoughtful, and most loving men I have ever known.”

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Trump Wanted to Find Iran Non-Compliant With Nuclear but Was Talked out of It

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Trump Wanted to Find Iran Non-Compliant With Nuclear but Was Talked out of It

Iran Focus

London, 20 Jul – Donald Trump wanted to declare Iran as noncompliant with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal but was talked out of it by national security aides shortly ahead of the midnight deadline, according to administration officials.

Trump agreed to drop the issue of Iranian breaches to the international agreement, after taking advice from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, but only for a few more months and only after a solution was found to distance Trump from the deal.

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Lebanese Man Imprisoned in Iran Has Failing Health

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Lebanese Man Imprisoned in Iran Has Failing Health

Iran Focus

London, 19 Jul – The health of a Lebanese man held prisoner in Iran for almost two years in rapidly deteriorating after three weeks on hunger strike, according to his family.

Nizar Zakka, 50, was rushed to hospital on Sunday, but refused an IV.

His brother Ziad said that Zakka is prepared to die unless he is released from Iranian custody and is refusing to sign documents in Farsi, a language he does not speak.

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Don’t Let Iran Take a Further Hold on Iraq

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Don’t Let Iran Take a Further Hold on Iraq

Iran Focus

London, 19 Jul – A British politician has written an op-ed for Al Arabiya to explain why the Iranian Regime should have no part in the rebuilding of Mosul after the expulsion of ISIS.

Struan Stevenson, president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA), advised that although Western governments will be wary of sending foreign aid into a country with a weak and corrupt government, they should know that without Western help the government may only help the Shia community and leave the Sunnis to rot.

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Why Trump Must Stop Boeing- Iran Deal

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Why Trump Must Stop Boeing- Iran Deal

Iran Focus

London, 19 Jul – John Hannah and Saeed Ghasseminejad wrote an op-ed for Foreign Policy on why Donald Trump should kill the Boeing Deal if he really wanted to stop the Iranian Regime from posing a threat to US national security.

The pair assess that every business dealing with the Iranian Regime grows the Iranian economy, which might sound good until you realise that the extra money is funnelled almost entirely into strengthening their military might, including funding conflicts in foreign countries, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and the ballistic missiles programme, rather than the welfare of the ordinary Iranians.

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Iranian Regime Divided

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Iranian Regime Divided

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London, 19 Jul – The power struggle between the different factions in the Iranian Regime may have come to a head this weekend after the arrest of the President’s brother and the conviction of an American student for espionage.

According to the Washington Post, both of these events were timed to embarrass Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani at home and abroad.

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Iran’s Supreme Leader and Anti-MEK Movie

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Iran’s Supreme Leader and Anti-MEK Movie

By Jubin Katiraie

On July 15th state media in Iran fully covered the remarks of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei about a movie called, “The Adventure of Midday”.

Following the ignominy of this movie which was produced against the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK), the news agency of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) released the news about the meeting of Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with film producers which depicts Khamenei’s role in the production of this movie. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was also involved in the production of the movie in February/March 2017.

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British MP Criticises Foreign Office for Not Working Hard Enough to Obtain Release of Dual National Held Hostage in Iran

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British MP Criticises Foreign Office for Not Working Hard Enough to Obtain Release of Dual National Held Hostage in Iran

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London, 18 Jul – A British MP has criticised the Foreign Office over its reluctance to help the British-Iranian charity worker who has been held hostage in an Iranian jail for over a year.

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq revealed that there is effectively a two-tier system within the Foreign Office, which means that dual nationals like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe are given less priority than solely British nationals like her three-year-old daughter Gabriella, who is also stuck in Iran after her passport was confiscated.

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