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London, 13 Jun – The US House of Representatives has passed a bill condemning the 1988 Iranian massacre of 30,000 political prisoners,
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, is a rare example of a bill that receives bipartisan support in an increasingly partisan Congress.
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London, 13 Jun – Qatar has denied any links to terrorism or terrorist groups but their documented ties to the Iranian Regime, the leading state sponsor of terror and terrorist groups, speak for themselves.
Earlier this month, four Arab states (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) broke off economic and diplomatic ties to Qatar for its support for terrorism.
They then released a list of 59 people and several organisations who are linked to Qatar and named on a terror watch list; including the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida, and ISIS.
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London, 13 Jun – Behnam Ben Taleblu, from the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, wrote an op-ed for Track Persia in which he dissected the strange and disjointed response from members of the Iranian Regime following last week’s terrorist attacks in Iran by ISIS.
Some officials, like Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, have tried to downplay the attacks, which have so far killed 17 and injured 40, and defend the Iranian military presence in other Middle Eastern countries.
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London, 12 Jun – Two Ohio parents have shared the heartbreaking story of the loss of their son and why the Iranian Regime must be held to account.
Les and Donna Kuglics wrote an opinion piece for Cleveland, in which they call for the Iranian Regime to be held responsible for the death of their son, Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Kuglics, who was killed by a roadside bomb in 2007, in Kirkuk, northern Iraq.
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London, 12 Jun – In the run-up to the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal, the Obama administration dismantled several key units that were targeting the Iranian Regime for its links to terrorism, according to testimony from David Asher, who served as an adviser to General John Allen at the Defense and State Departments, to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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London, 12 Jun – Tehran, 12 Jun – Iranian authorities have lashed 20 people in Qazvin for eating in public in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, state media reported.
The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor in Qazvin announced the arrest of 90 people who were eating in public in the month of Ramadan, the Tasnim news agency, affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, reported on Sunday, 11 June.
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London, 11 Jun – Canada mulls putting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on its terror list
The recent barbaric events in London, Paris, and Manchester highlighted the reality that the need for peace in the world is today greater than ever. Count the number of people killed in recent terrorist attacks, and plot the curve to get a clear and horrible picture of what has happened. Wrote Hassan Mahmoudi in the ‘American Thinker’ on June 9, the article continues as follows:
A few years ago Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before a Senate committee that the world is “more dangerous than it has ever been.”
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London, 11 Jun – According to reports on June 8, 2017, after licensing for change of land use of famous vegetable oil factory of Ghou (Swan) by the municipal government and the act of the board of directors of the company to sell its assets, the plant will shut off permanently after fifty years, and more than 200 workers who have not received their wages for 5 months will be unemployed.
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London, 11 Jun – NCRI – State-run media reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Massoud Mehrdadi as the prime suspect of embezzling $13 billion was released on bail from prison. According to this report, Mehrdadi is board member of the IRGC Cooperative Foundation, while he is sitting at the boards of more than 40 other companies.
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London, 9 Jun – The 1988 Iranian massacre was a strategic attempt by the Iranian Regime to wipe out political opposition by executing those who spoke out against them, mainly members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
The Iranian Regime executed 30,000 political prisoners, including teenagers and pregnant women, over a matter of months and their death warrants were signed by high-ranking members of the current Regime.
