Iran Focus
London, 12 Jan – After a tense year of relations between the two countries, the Lebanese President announced that he wished to seek better cooperation with Saudi Arabia.
President Michel Aoun, who is backed by the terrorist group Hezbollah, made this announcement on Saudi television on Tuesday.
Iran Focus
London, 12 Jan – The arms shipments seized off the coast of Yemen in 2016, appear to be Iranian-made according to arms experts.
Iran Focus
London, 12 Jan – As the Iranian sham elections draw closer, infighting within the Regime intensifies and it is revealed that nearly all of the top Regime officials were involved with the epic embezzlement by Babak Zanjani.
Iran Focus
London, 11 Jan – An Iranian member of Parliament has expressed disbelief that Iran has 15 million judicial cases.
Mohammad Javad Fathi made a speech in the Iranian Parliament on January 9, where he lamented that “the lands of the unbelievers” (Western countries) were closing prisons each year and had fewer crimes than the “House of Islam”.
Iran Focus
London, 11 Jan – A European Parliamentary Committee has urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to press for information on a missing political prisoner in Iran.
Iran Focus
London, 11 Jan – The future of Iraq is being threatened by Iranian- backed Shiite militias, known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), who carry out war crimes and revenge attacks on the Sunni population under the guise of fighting ISIS, according to Amnesty International.
Iran Focus
London, 11 Jan – Hunger strikers within Iran appear to be causing the totalitarian regime there to reconsider the conditions of political prisoners.
Just last week, Arash Sadeghi ended his 71-day hunger strike following the temporary release of his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee.
Iran Focus
London, 11 Jan – Activist and political prisoner Ali Moezzi has been missing for six days; now the world is watching Iran.
Moezzi was last seen on January 4 when his family visited him in Gohardasht Prison. Following this visit, he was not taken back to his cells and neither his family nor other inmates have heard from him since.
Iran Focus
London, 10 Jan – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran has expressed alarm over the health of several Iranian political prisoners on hunger strike.
Asma Jahangir noted that at least eight prisoners of conscience are currently on prolonged hunger strike in Iran, who are suffering from life-threatening health complications.
Iran Focus
London, 10 Jan – An American Navy warship fired warning shots at Iranian ships that were hurtling towards it in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Defence Department officials on Monday.
