Iran Focus
London, 31 May – Almost 16 years on from the devastating attack in New York that cost 2,996 people their lives, there are still many questions about the attacks, and while some conspiracy theorists will tell you that “jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams” and claim that it was an inside job, it’s less easy to debunk their claims when the US Government doesn’t seem to know who to blame.
Iran Focus
London, 31 May – Syrian rebels have said that the US and its allies are sending them more weapons in order to counter the growing threat from Iranian-backed militias in Syria.
The weapons are being shipped through two channels; one from the Pentagon and one from a collaboration of the CIA and regional allies like Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Iran Focus
London, 31 May – Following Donald Trump’s visit to the middle east earlier this month and his speech to the Arab American Summit in Saudi Arabia, in which he labelled Iran as the most destructive country in the region, there has been a great deal of debate about how long the international community will continue to tolerate the Iranian Regime.
Iran Focus
London, 30 May – On Monday, May 29, looted depositors of Caspian, Development and Ideals financial institutions gathered and held a protest in front of the central bank in Tehran, and clashed with police. The protesters at this massive rally blocked Mir-Damad Street in Tehran. Angry protesters also smashed the North gate glass doors of Iran’s central bank, and they aimed to enter the bank.
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London, 30 May – In a recent hearing to discuss Iran’s destabilising influence on the Middle East, the US Foreign Affairs Committee were told that the US must be assertive towards Iran.
The witnesses explained that Iranian policy had sowed the seeds of discord throughout the Middle East for the past 40 years, which has led to the global terror threat we all now face.
Iran Focus
London, 30 May – Memorial Day weekend is always punctuated with celebrations and ceremonies designed to honour those who gave their lives in defence of the American values of freedom and democracy. However, wouldn’t it also be good to remember and commemorate all those who fought for these most sacred of ideals? No matter if the person wore a uniform or not.
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London, 30 May – It is an open secret that the Iranian Regime has placed tens of thousands of fighters inside Syria to fight on behalf of the Bashar Assad dictatorship, but Track Persia has compiled a comprehensive report on the troops, detailing where they come from and their roles in propping up the brutal Syrian government.
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London, 30 May – The Iran Lobby, a group of Regime puppets in the West, are trying yet again to portray the divides with the Regime’s top leaders as a case of moderates versus hardliners and downplay the role of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the recent so-called elections.
Iran Focus
London, 30 May – In yet another example of the deep divides within the Iranian Regime, the Iranian Judiciary Chief has criticised President Hassan Rouhani for his campaign pledges to free political activists.
On the campaign trail, Rouhani promised that during his second term in office he would free opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who were put under house arrest in 2011, following the 2009 Green Movement protests that sprung up in response to the Regime’s election fraud.
Iran Focus
London, 29 May – Heshmat Alavi, a political activist specializing in human rights in Iran, wrote an analytical piece for Al Arabiya called: “How to define Iran’s Hassan Rouhani as a ‘moderate’”, in which he addressed the troubling myth of hardliners v moderates in the Iranian Regime and the Western news coverage surrounding the sham elections.
