Iran Focus
London, 14 Jan – The replacement for the notorious Iranian politician Rafsanjani may be even worse, according to a British politician.
In an op-ed on The Hill, Struan Stevenson, the President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA), wrote that Ebrahim Raisi may take power as the head of the Expediency Council.
Iran Focus
London, 14 Jan – The Iranian Regime and its support for the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad is the greatest threat to peace in Syria and the Middle East as a whole, according to a British politician.
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, a member of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF), wrote an op-ed on Politics Home accusing the Iranian Regime of propping up a failing regime, violating an internationally-agreed ceasefire and preventing civilians from leaving a war zone, all so that the mullahs could keep their stranglehold of the Gulf Region.
Iran Focus
London, 13 Jan – In a recent report, the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence made some interesting confessions regarding the power and progress of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK). This detailed report admitted that young people are attracted toward Mojahedin (MEK) as well as the high status of Mojahedin at home and at the international level.
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London, 13 Jan – Much sooner than expected, in fact, during his funeral, the consequences of Rafsanjani’s death appeared, turning the memorial into a fight between the rival bands.
The Rafsanjani-Rouhani band chanted, “these too many people are here for their love for Akbar”, while Khamenei’s responded, “these too many people are here for their love for leader”.
Iran Focus
London, 13 Jan – In an article for The Natonal Interest, published January 12, Alireza Nader, senior international policy analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, writes about the alliance between Russia and Iran in the Middle East. She calls this alliance unprecedented, but fragile.
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London, 13 Jan – In an opinion piece contributed by Majid Sadeghpour, political director of the Organization of Iranian American Communities in the U.S. (OIACUS) on January 12 in The Hill, he writes about the affect of Donald Trump’s election, and the death on Sunday, of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, on the Iranian regime.
Iran Focus
London, 13 Jan – Essential human rights, and particularly the right to free speech, were under attack in Iran in 2016, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday in its World Report 2017.
Unelected bodies, including Iran’s Guardian Council and the judiciary, undermined a number of government officials and members of parliament’s minimal efforts to defend citizens’ rights, and they regularly overstepped their legal mandates in committing these violations, the group said.
Iran Focus
Washington, 13 Jan – Donald Trump’s election as the next president of the United States presents the Islamic Republic of Iran with tremendous uncertainty and, perhaps, anxiety, writes the political director of the Organization of Iranian American Communities in the U.S.
Mr. Trump’s platform included a promise to initiate dramatic shifts in American policies.
Iranian-American dissident Majid Sadeghpour, representing the OIACUS, wrote on Thursday for The Hill:
Iran Focus
London, 12 Jan – President Obama claimed that the Iran nuclear deal (his biggest foreign-policy achievement) would moderate the Iranian regime. Well, it didn’t. And now that the U.S. is in the transition period between two presidents, Iran is becoming more and more aggressive.
Iran Focus
London, 12 Jan – Golrokh Ebrahimi hit the headlines after being temporarily released from prison in Iran at the beginning of January. She was imprisoned because during a raid at her home officers found a short story she had written. Although the story was fictional and unpublished, it was deemed as having dissident sentiments.
