Iran Focus
London, 24 Jun – The people launching credit institutions in Iran have political power and special backing but they don’t care about the law, according to a financial expert within the Iranian Regime.
Ahmad Hatami-Yazd, former director of Bank Saderat, revealed this in an interview with the Regime’s TV News Channel.
Iran Focus
London, 24 Jun – Earlier this month, the US Senate voted overwhelmingly for new sanctions against the Iranian Regime for its support of terrorism, ballistic missiles programme and its human rights violations.
The bill, titled The Countering Iran’s Destabilising Activities Act of 2017, is expected to pass the House of Representatives and get signed into law later this summer.
Amir Basiri, an expert on the Iranian Regime, wrote an op-ed for American Thinker explaining why the new sanctions are significant.
Iran Focus
London, 24 Jun – There is a growing divide between the Iranian Regime officials and their personal terror squad, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) over what really happened when Iran launched a ballistic missile towards Syria last weekend.
The most important difference is the role of the regime’s intelligence ministry in identifying the targets of these attacks.
Iran Focus
London, 23 Jun – That 1,000 missiles were launched to target the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) bases in Iraq back in 2001 has been acknowledged by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
The IRGC also admitted that due to specific reservations this measure was not acknowledged publicly for many years.
According to a June 19th report by Fars news agency, “Eighteen years ago the IRGC launched a retaliatory attack and fired 1,000 missiles and long range artillery targeting PMOI/MEK bases deep inside Iraq. This included Camp Ashraf and a base in the city of al-Emara. However, this was a strategic act and sent a message.”
Iran Focus
London, 23 Jun – Reports of the divide between the regime factions, which is based only on a struggle for power and not the moderates v hardliners myth that is so often cited, mean that Hassan Rouhani’s “election” may well spell the end of the Iranian Regime.
When incumbent President Rouhani was announced as the winner in the recent Iranian “elections”, it caused quite a stir around the world.
Op-ed
By Jubin Katiraie
Following the death of another Kurdish piggybacker, 250 civil activists in a letter called for an end to such encounters.
A number of Iranian political and civil activists in an open letter referred to the condition of the poor suburban people of Kurdistan Province. The letter reads, “What turned the issue into a tragedy is that the disciplinary police have shot blind fire for several times and by that some defenseless piggybackers died or left crippled.”
Iran Focus
London, 22 Jun – There are further reports of a widening rift between the opposing factions in the Iranian Regime, which could spell the mullahs’ downfall.
The Guardian reports that Supreme Leader Alii Khamenei has become increasingly critical of President Hassan Rouhani, probably in response to Rouhani’s criticism of him on the campaign trail, with Khamenei even going so far as to humiliate him during a meeting of top officials.
Iran Focus
London, 22 Jun – The Iranian Resistance group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held a press conference in Washington on Tuesday, to expose the real threat of the Iranian Regime’s ballistic weapons programme.
It appears that in the wake of the nuclear deal, which severely limited the research and development of nuclear weapons in Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordered the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to focus on their ballistic missiles instead.
Iran Focus
London, 22 Jun – Forty-Six US Congressmen and women have sponsored a resolution which calls on the US Government and its allies across the world to publically condemn the 1988 massacre of Iranian political prisoners and calls on the UN to launch an investigation into this crime against humanity.
Unlike much in Congress nowadays, Resolution 188 (officially titled: The condemnation of the Iranian government for the massacre of political prisoners in 1988 and the invitation to call for justice for the victims) receives wide bipartisan support.
Iran Focus
London, 22 Jun – The mother of a young woman executed by the Iranian Regime for defending herself against a rapist has published an open letter, calling for justice for other murdered prisoners of the Regime.
Sholeh Pakrava, the mother of Rayhaneh Jabbari, published her letter on June 20, the day of remembrance for the 30,000 political prisoners who were massacred by the Regime in 1988.
