Iran Focus
London, 27 Jun – Last week, the Saudi Security Forces arrested five members of a terrorist cell who were planning to attack the area surrounding the Grand Mosque or Great Kaaba in Mecca.
But who would profit from such an attack?
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi, a Saudi journalist, wrote an op-ed for Al-Arabiya in which he questioned who would target the Holy Kaaba, during Ramadan, and target the most devout people from the Muslim faith.
Iran Focus
London, 27 Jun – A US lawmaker has gone on record supporting Regime Change in Iran and stated that he wants official US foreign policy to support it as well, a change being debated by those high up in the Donald Trump administration.
Tom Cotton, the Republican Senator from Arkansas and a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, told Politico: “The policy of the United States should be regime change in Iran. I don’t see how anyone can say America can be safe as long as you have in power a theocratic despotism.”
Iran Focus
London, 27 Jun – The Iranian Regime has mocked reports that their ballistic missile attacks on ISIS in Syria didn’t work out, by claiming that the missiles were supposed to break apart over the Iraqi desert.
General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the airspace division chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said: “we had coordinated the fall of the engines in the desert in Iraq [in advance].”
Iran Focus
London, 27 Jun – The number of people suffering from drug addiction in Iran has more than doubled since 2011, according to a survey by a drug control group.
This figure is based on a survey by Iran’s Drug Control Organisation, which found that around 2.8 million Iranians are regularly consuming drugs.
However, the real figures could be much higher according to an expert on addiction in Iran.
Iran Focus
London, 27 Jun – What happened 29 years ago in Iran, and why after all these years, we are witnessing a crisis and a rising conflict among rival factions in the ruling class over that in Iran?
Throughout the summer of 1988 in Iran, some 30,000 political prisoners, the bulk of whom were MEK members or sympathizers, were executed. This year marks the 29th anniversary of that horrible Crime Against Humanity.
By Jubin Katiraie
A major gathering is being held at the Villepinte Exhibition Center outside of Paris, France. The gathering is focused on Iran policy and at the center of the case is the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran. The People’s Mojahedin is also known by its Persian name, Mojahedin-e Khalq or MEK and it is the main constituent group in the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the leading coalition advocating for the cause of regime change driven by the Iranian people and their expatriate allies.
Iran Focus
London, 26 Jun – The Iranian Regime has the capability to create nuclear weapons at very short notice according to a report by a major international security institute.
The Institute for Science and International Security was concerned by remarks made by Ali Akbar Salehi, the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Iran Focus
London, 26 Jun – With the days of ISIS numbered, as coalition forces have them on the run, many people are now questioning what is next for the Middle East.
The US and Iran both have footholds in Syria and vested interests in the outcome of the civil war, but Iran has also been maintaining a destructive influence across the Middle East, including in Iraq and Yemen.
Iran Focus
London, 26 Jun – The Iranian Regime is still the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world according to the CIA director.
Mike Pompeo, who has been the Director of the CIA since January, warned on Saturday that not only is Iran still the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism, its support for terror groups has in fact increased over the past few years.
By Jubin Katiraie
On May 19, the Islamic Republic of Iran held hotly anticipated elections for the presidency and a number of local offices. Particularly optimistic international observers viewed it as another possible jumping-off point for internal moderation of the Iranian regime. Meanwhile, staunch critics of that regime viewed the elections as inconsequential, with the banned opposition group the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) even organizing a boycott of the polls in order to call attention to the absence of an actual reformist voice on the national stage.
