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Political Prisoners in Iran Decry Human Rights Abuses in Letter to newly-elected UN Officials

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Political Prisoners in Iran Decry Human Rights Abuses in Letter to newly-elected UN Officials

Iran Focus

London, 29 October – On October 27, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) published an article about a group of political prisoners in Iran’s Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, who have written to António Guterres, the newly-elected next United Nations Secretary General, and Asma Jahangir, the new UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran.

In this letter, the political prisoners tell of the appalling human rights abuses and political violence by the regime in Iran.

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Iran: Teachers’ Unionist: Regime Has less than One Percent of Popular Vote.

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Iran: Teachers’ Unionist: Regime Has less than One Percent of Popular Vote.

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London, 28 October – The Iranian Regime doesn’t have even one percent of the popular vote, according to a representative from a teacher’s union.

Hashem Khastar, a representative of the Teacher’s Trade Association in Khorasan, said in an interview that the only people who support the Regime are those who benefit from it, i.e. the very rich.

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Iran Regime now has more American Hostages and Wants more Money

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Iran Regime now has more American Hostages and Wants more Money

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London, 28 October – The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives has said that news of Iran’s $4 million ransom demand for the safe return of US hostages has confirmed his worst fears about the huge cash settlement paid to the Regime earlier this year.

Ed Royce, a Republican Representative from California told the Washington Examiner: “Just as I feared, the Iranian regime now has more American hostages and wants more money. The Obama administration’s $1.7 billion cash payment to Iran wasn’t just bad policy — it put additional lives at risk. … Iran should release all American hostages immediately and unconditionally.”

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Iran Regime Should be punished for its Destabilizing Behaviour in the Middle-East

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Iran Regime Should be punished for its Destabilizing Behaviour in the Middle-East

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London, 28 October – A senior advisor to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has recommended going to war with Iran in order to aid Saudi Arabia interests in Yemen.

Michael Morell, a former acting director of the CIA, is currently acting as a national security adviser to Hillary Clinton and widely expected to be offered a senior position in her administration if she gets elected.

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Iran Regime Suppresses one more Peaceful Demonstration

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Iran Regime Suppresses one more Peaceful Demonstration

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London, 27 October – The Iranian Regime has finally named some of the people they arrested earlier this week for protesting the imprisonment of a political prisoner.

They have released the names of three women; Baharak Azarnia, Zahra Shafii, and Nahid Babazazeh.

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Iran Regime, the Creator of Weirdest Misogynist laws on Earth

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Iran Regime, the Creator of Weirdest Misogynist laws on Earth

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London, 27 October – No one would describe the situation for women living under the Iranian Regime as progressive or empowering. In fact, even the word misogynist may not be strong enough, because women living under the Iranian Regime are not just subject to sexist laws about the way they dress or what jobs they can have or whether they should be allowed any kind of autonomy; they are also subject to the kind of bizarre, medieval laws that confuse everyone else in the world.

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Why Iran Regime is Afraid of Internet?

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Why Iran Regime is Afraid of Internet?

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London, 27 October – The Iranian Regime is making plans to further censor and control their citizens access to the internet.

Mullah Jafar Sobhani claims that it is the “religious duty” of the government to set up “an independent internet which can be controlled by the government”.

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Iran Regime’s same old Ransom Taking Tactic

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Iran Regime’s same old Ransom Taking Tactic

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London, 27 October – Iran has jailed yet another Iranian-American for collaboration with a “hostile government” (i.e. The US).

Gholamrez Reza Shahini, who is nicknamed Robin, was sentenced to 18 years in prison during a secret trial last Saturday.

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Iran Regime’s impasse in Syria

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Iran Regime’s impasse in Syria

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London, 27 October – Iran has yet again tried to defend its actions in Syria, where it props up the Bashar al-Assad Regime and helps to slaughter the Syrian Resistance forces.

At a ceremony to commemorate the members of Iranian military force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), who have died in the Syrian Civil War, Mohmmad Ali Jaafari, head of the IRGC described the murder of innocent civilians as “defending the sanctity of the leader and revolution”.

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British MP’s Call on Iran’s Human Rights violations, and 1988 Massacre

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British MP’s Call on Iran’s Human Rights violations, and 1988 Massacre

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London, 26 October – On October 24, in an article about a conference set up by the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF), which highlighted the on-going human rights violations in Iran and also commemorated of the victims of the 1988 executions, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) writes that Matthew Offord, MP for Hendon is leading calls for the UK to condemn human rights violations in Iran.

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