Iran Focus
London, 30 Nov – The Iranian Regime has attempted to arrest a member of their parliament who called for a report into the bank accounts of the head of the Regime’s Judiciary, Sadegh Larijani.
Mahmoud Sadeghi managed to avoid arrest by stating that he had broken no law when the Iranian police arrived at his home, but he is effectively under house arrest with police waiting outside.
Iran Focus
London, 29 Nov – In his article for The Daily Caller, Heshmat Alavi, a political and rights activist focusing on Iran, writes about the unexpected turn of events for Iran, with the election of Donald Trump as the new president of the United States. Now the Iranian regime is weighing its policy approach, foreign in particular.
The appeasement policy adopted by U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration was taken full advantage of, using its windfall to fuel the Syrian War of ally Bashar Assad. Almost half a million Syrians have been killed, and more than 10 million have been displaced inside or outside the country.
Iran Focus
London, 29 Nov – On November 28, in an article for Politico Magazine, Robert G. Torricelli, former U. S. Senator from New Jersey, and a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, wrote about the Iranian Resistance Group, Mujahidin e-Khalq (MEK). His article was written in response to an article published in Politico last week, criticizing the MEK and the U.S. politicians who support them, particularly former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Iran Focus
London, 29 Nov – Various groups of Iranian-American communities have joined together to issue a statement against the Iranian Regime’s lobbyists who have attempted to smear the democratic Resistance forces.
The letter, penned by leaders from the Northern California, South Texas and Missouri, branches of the Iranian-American Community, decried the Regime’s attempt to paint the Resistance as terrorists and murderers when the Regime is the leading state-sponsor of terrorism and the world leader in executions per capita.
Iran Focus
London, 29 Nov – A political scientist has written an op-ed for The Huffington Post decrying the attempts by a former State Department Official to smear the Iranian Resistance with allegations of terror and the murder of Americans.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, president of the International American Council on the Middle East, heavily criticised the op-ed by Daniel Benjamin, a former Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department and advised the American Public to look at the facts, the law and the politics behind this scathing attack.
Iran Focus
London, 29 Nov – Breitbart has accused Politico of left-wing bias following a publication last week which accused former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani of taking money from the Iranian opposition group, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI-MEK).
The Iranian Resistance forces vehemently oppose terrorism, which is one of the many reasons they work against the Iranian Regime in spite of the danger it puts them in. For Benjamin to state otherwise is frankly an insult to those who have died as a result of the Iranian Regime’s terrorism.
Iran Focus
London, 28 Nov – On November 27, the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported on a conference called, “Call for Justice: Ending Impunity for Perpetrators of Crimes Against Humanity in Iran and Syria”
Present at the conference was held on Saturday, November 26, in the Mutualité conference center in Paris,was the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi, as well as number of distinguished political personalities and jurists from France and Europe, representatives from Middle East countries, and a number of officials of the Syrian Opposition.
Iran Focus
London, 28 Nov – In August, it was revealed that the 1988 Iranian Massacre of 30,000 political prisoners was orchestrated by high-ranking members of the Iranian Regime.
This November, the Iranian Regime has sentenced the whistle-blower to 21 years in prison for “acting against national security and propaganda against the publication of secret documents” by the Special Clerical Court.
Iran Focus
London, 28 Nov – The Iranian Resistance has written an open letter in response to the op-ed in Politico by Daniel Benjamin which attempted to smear the Iranian Resistance as terrorists who had “killed Americans”.
The letter, written by Soona Samsami, a U.S. Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), was sent to Politico on November 23. As Politico did not publish it, the NCRI-US released it instead, and other news outlets- like Yahoo– have picked it up.
Iran Focus
London, 28 Nov – The Iranian Regime is playing a “good cop, bad cop” strategy when it comes to Donald Trump’s administration, according to a top political scientist.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, president of the International American Council and a Harvard University scholar, wrote an op-ed on Al-Arabiya in which he states that Iran is playing good cop, bad cop with the incoming Trump administration in order to achieve its geopolitical, strategic and economic objectives.
