Iran Focus
London, 19 May – Mutual threats have made Trump’s move towards Saudi Arabia as a trusted partner something that was certain to happen.
That Trump chose Saudi Arabia as his first foreign visit is his attempt to dispel worries which claim America is attacking Muslims. Saudi Arabia, where Islam emerged and which embraces the Two Holy Mosques, is the best podium to address 1.5 billion people.
Iran Focus
London, 19 May – As a result of Iran regime’s Revolutionary Guards’ (IRGC) interference, Demands by the family of a political prisoner for transferring him to hospital in order to receive medical care has proved useless.
The transfer has been conditioned on several terms, including accompaniment of IRGC soldiers from Thar-allah headquarters during the treatment process, and medical care being exclusively undertaken at Baghiatallah hospital affiliated to IRGC with no visits in the hospital.
Iran Focus
London, 19 May – In the final day or so before the so-called presidential “election” in Iran between incumbent President Hassan Rouhani and Ebrahim Raisi, a cleric with close ties to the Supreme Leader, the scene on the ground is far different from the portrait painted by the regime’s state-run media and some western outlets.
The vast network of dissidents supporting the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has come alive in unprecedented scale to voice the true feelings of the Iranian people about the candidates and the regime in its entirety.
Iran Focus
London, 18 May – A prominent US lawmaker said that there are no elections in Iran because the Regime decides the victor, not the people.
Joseph Lieberman, who was a Democratic Senator from Connecticut between 1989 and 2013, compared the Iranian process to that used by the US and France and assessed that the Iranian election was not a democratic one.
Iran Focus
London, 18 May – A lot has been said about the Iranian elections but far too many think-pieces and op-eds are focusing on the differences between the two main candidates without identifying that that real power lies not with the President, but with the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
Iran Focus
London, 18 May – The Trump administration imposed a new set of sanctions on Iran and its ballistic missiles programme, on Wednesday, but for now, the 2015 nuclear agreement remains intact.
The White House has also increased other sanctions against Iran that were still in place but relaxed.
Iran Focus
London, 18 May – The Iranian Regime is preparing to enforce repressive measures against any citizens who protest this Friday’s presidential elections.
Some reports indicate that security service personnel have been doubled in the past few weeks, as the Regime fear a protest on the scale on the 2009 Green Revolution, when the election result was said to be faked.
Iran Focus
London, 17 May – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invited global investors to Iran, in an effort to secure some major deals, which he believes will give him the edge in this Friday’s elections.
The much-touted rewards from the sanctions relief secured in the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations, has not been seen by the ordinary Iranians for two reasons: low investment and greed of the elites. So, it is not surprising that Rouhani wants to promise future wealth if he is re-elected.
Iran Focus
London, 17 May – Some political commentators in the US have been floating the idea that it would be better for the West if Iran ‘elects’ a so-called hard-line candidate in this Friday’s election because Western Governments could no longer deceive themselves about Iran’s true nature.
Iran Focus
London, 17 May – Right now, we are in the final days before the Iranian elections and as such, there has been quite a lot of debate over the future President in Western media. The analysts and journalists have asked what this will mean for Iran and the world as a whole; far too many have peddled the false narrative of moderates and hardliners, while far too few have gone so far as to say that it doesn’t matter who the President is because the Regime will not allow change.
