Iran Focus
London, 18 Jan – A bill has been introduced to Congress directing the US State Department to determine whether the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) should be added to the list of terrorist groups.
The bill, introduced to Congress on January 10, accuses the IRGC of funding and training “terrorist proxies” abroad, posing a threat to US allies in the Middle East and putting US national security at risk.
Iran Focus
London, 18 Jan – A new bill has just been introduced to Congress which could effectively kill the deal between, Iran, Airbus and Boeing, and provide a test for the Trump Administration on the future of the Iranian nuclear deal.
The bill, introduced on Friday by Peter Roskam, a Republican member of the House, asks for the incoming Director of National Intelligence to launch an investigation into the Iranian airlines to find out if they are associated with the country’s Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps or any other foreign terrorist organisations.
Iran Focus
London, 17 Jan – London, 18 Jan – Problems related to Iran are not limited to weaknesses in West’s nuclear deal with Tehran, but also extend to the persistent extraterritorial belligerence of the theocratic state and to its egregious conduct at home, argues Majid Sadeghpour of the Organization of Iranian American Communities in the U.S.
Iran Focus
London, 17 Jan – Obama’s policy on the middle east has left Iran and Hezbollah, two terrorist entities, stronger than ever before, according to a Beirut-based journalist.
Martin Jay, wrote: “Confusion is a word that easily springs to mind when many in this part of the world talk about Obama’s legacy in the Middle East. But it wasn’t just his own policies that seemed incoherent with one another, but also his own idea of how the Middle East saw him – Obama could not decide on the Machiavelli conundrum of whether it is better to be feared or loved.”
Iran Focus
London, 16 Jan – More than 20 former senior bipartisan government officials have written a letter to urge the incoming administration to work with the Iranian Resistance in order to get rid of the mullah’s regime.
They encourage Donald Trump to work with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which calls for free and fair elections, freedom of religion and gender equality.
Iran Focus
London, 16 Jan – The Bahrain Information Minister has underlined his support for the GCC’s unified stance on the rejection of Iranian interference in the matters of other sovereign Gulf states.
Ali bin Mohammed Al Romaihi gave an interview to the German Press Agency, DPA, where he expressed his views on the GCC.
Iran Focus
London, 16 Jan – The Iranian Regime has appointed a member of a terror group as their new ambassador to Iraq.
It was announced on January 11, that Iraj Masjedi, the senior adviser to Qassem Soleimani commander of the IRGC terrorist Quds Force, will succeed Hassan Danaifar as ambassador to Baghdad.
Iran Focus
London, 16 Jan – There are deep concerns for the fate of ‘missing’ political prisoner, Ali Moezzi.
There has been call on all international human rights organisations, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein and Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran Asma Jahangir, to help save Moezzi’s life.
Iran Focus
London, 16 Jan – Western leaders are ignoring their own intelligence communities regarding Iran’s destructive influence in Yemen, according to an expert in middle eastern affairs.
Baraia Alamuddin, a foreign editor at Al-Hayat, wrote and op-ed on Arab News citing that the USA was too preoccupied with appeasing Iran to listen to any of its glaring flaws.
