Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – In his article for Town Hall on November 30, Ivan Sheehan, Professor of Public and International Affairs, co-Director of the Global Affairs and Human Security graduate program in the School of Public and International Affairs, and Director of the graduate program Negotiation and Conflict Management at the University of Baltimore, discusses the attacks on Iranian dissidents by Tehran’s well-organized Washington lobby.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – Recent raids on arms smugglers in the Arabian Sea shows a link between Iran and Yemen.
The weapons shipments uncovered by British-based activists in the Arabian Sea show that Iran is funding Houthi rebels in Yemen
The shipments included guns made in Iran, Russia and perhaps even North Korea.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – An Iranian-American Christian and human rights activist has written an op-ed for The Hill about the plight of Iranian Christians who are crying out for freedom this December.
Donya Jam, the daughter of Iranian Christians, explains that Iranian Christians have existed for centuries and that people with different religions used to accept each other.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – The election of Donald Trump provides the opportunity to restore US credibility in the Middle East, according to a human rights advocate who leads an international organisation fighting for justice for the oppressed.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras , the president of the International Committee in Search of Justice, wrote that by vehemently opposing the nuclear deal, Trump has cast himself as an enemy of the Iranian Regime.
Iran Focus
London, 30 Nov – Oppression by the Iranian Regime has only increased since the 2015 nuclear deal according to recently escaped political dissidents; this notion is supported by U.N. General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon.
The dissidents revealed that the money paid to Iran by the US and the release of bank assets that had been frozen since 1979 has only increased the Regime’s terrorist activities in the middle east.
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.
