Iran Focus
London, 7 Mar – Dozens more young people have been arrested in Iran this weekend for attending mixed-gender parties.
One party held on Saturday, March 4, in the Southwestern province of Khuzestan, was raided by police who arrested 14 girls and 20 boys.
The previous day, Mohsen Khancharli, the Chief of Police in Western Tehran, announced that they had raided a hen party and arrested the organisers.
Iran Focus
London, 7 Mar – The UN has released a report into human rights in Iran, written by Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
From the outset, it is clear that there has been no marked improvement in human rights in the Gulf nation, despite President Hassan Rouhani signing a Citizens’ Rights Charter in December 2016.
Iran Focus
London, 7 Mar – Iran has been creating proxy militias all over the middle east in order to facilitate its expansionist dreams for decades now but how have they been able to move so many troops with so little attention for so long?
Shahriar Kia, a political analyst and member of Iranian opposition group, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), answered these questions on The Hill.
Iran Focus
London, 7 Mar – Iran owes over $50 billion to Americans who have been injured or lost family members as a result of terror attacks orchestrated by the Gulf county.
These judgements, made in the past twenty years since Congress first allowed US citizens to sue Iran through American courts, are largely symbolic. Although Iran does not contest the rulings, they are unlikely to pay up.
Iran Focus
London, 7 Mar – Donald Trump is under pressure to get information about a missing ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in March 2007.
Robert Levinson, a private investigator, a former agent for the FBI and a part-time consultant for the CIA, was on a rogue mission to recruit an intelligence source to the CIA when he went missing.
While on the campaign trail, Trump vowed to bring Levinson home again; the Levinson family have requested to meet with him and discuss the fate of their husband and father.
Iran Focus
London, 7 Mar – The Trump administration’s aggressive policy towards Iran, seeks to establish a unified front against Iranian expansionism but how will Egypt’s ever growing closeness to the Regime affect the coalition?
Haisam Hassanein, a Glazer Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Wesam Hassanein, a master’s candidate at the School of International Service at American University, explore this in an op-ed for The Hill.
Iran Focus
London, 6 Mar – Iran continues to defy international laws and norms, even as the Trump administration is deciding whether to put the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) on the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
In the past few weeks, Iran has test fired several nuclear-capable ballistic weapons.
Iran Focus
London, 6 Mar – In 2017 alone, at least two women who were taken into the Regime’s prisons and sexually abused have committed suicide.
Mahdis Mir Ghavami, a Kurdish engineer from Kermanshah in Western Iran, killed herself on January 24, after two days in prison, while Hananeh Shalir Farhadi, a 23-year-old political science student, killed herself after four months of imprisonment.
Iran Focus
London, 6 Mar – Iran has taken advantage of the crisis in Yemen in order to test its new weapons.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is providing the Houthi rebels, who have already taken over Northern Yemen cities including the capital Sana’a, with weapons like missiles, rockets, drones, and explosive devices.
This was revealed by the Houthi Supreme Political Council (SPS) at the end of last month.
Iran Focus
London, 6 Mar – Amnesty International has released a statement about the human rights abuses inflicted on a critically-ill political prisoner.
Arash Sadeghi, a human rights activist imprisoned in Evin Prison, is suffering from respiratory problems and a stomach ulcer which has caused internal bleeding, abdominal pain and digestive complications.
