Iran Focus
London, 26 October – The expansionist goals of the Iranian Regime are not a sign of strength but of weakness and need to be dealt with, according to a Saudi columnist.
Dr. Mohammad al-Sulami, an expert on Iranian political affairs and the head of the Iranian-Arabic Studies, wrote an article in Alwatan Saudi Newspaper, accusing the mullahs of stealing the 1978 revolution from the Iranian people.
Iran Focus
London, 26 October – Iran’s Ministry of Education is in disarray, with 2.5 million (USD) embezzled from the Teachers Reserve Fund and the resignation of the Education Minister.
According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the news has been filled with damning headlines in the wake of this crisis; specifically calling for an explanation of the missing money.
Iran Focus
London, 25 October – On Monday, Wikileaks released information that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s chairman, asked her to take out a line from one of her speeches. This line suggested that fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) and the Iranian regime are “intimately related” missions. The speech was delivered at the Brookings Institute’s Saban Forum in 2015, with this line missing.
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London, 25 October – This weekend a speech by Hillary Clinton was made public on WikiLeaks. On October 28, 2013, she voiced her skepticism over Iran and attempts to portray their current president Hassan Rouhani as ‘moderate’.
Speaking to members of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, just after Obama’s historic phone call to Rouhani, she said: “I believe that Rouhani was allowed to be elected by the two major power sources in Iran, the supreme leader and the clerics and the Revolutionary Guard … in part because the sanctions were having a quite damaging effect on the economy.”
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London, 25 October – There may be no way to save Iran’s most historic lake from the drought plaguing the country.
Rouhani’s government, who have spent years ignoring the problem, recently invited environmental scientists from Europe and Asia to advise on the crisis of Lake Urmia, but there are doubts on how effective this can be following the neglect by the Regime.
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London, 25 October – The Iranian Regime is holding an American- Iranian businessman and his elderly father hostage for “many billions of dollars”, according to Blaze News.
The businessman, Siamak Namazi, and his 80-year-old father Baquer Namazi were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for spying on behalf of the US government only last week, but the Ayatollah said that he would release the pair proving a large ransom settlement was paid by the US.
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London, 24 October – The high suicide rate in Iran paints a grim picture of the true nature of this oppressive regime. Al Arabiya reported last year that back in 2013, four thousand people had chosen to take their own lives in Iran – the highest rate at the time in the Middle East. Now, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has reported the latest suicide rate statistics, conducted by WHO. According to this source, 11 people make an attempt to take their own life in Iran every single day, and 30% of them are successful.
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London, 24 October – The Iranian Nuclear Deal- and its related sanctions lifting- will only result in more Iranian attacks against the US via proxy forces, like the recent ones in Yemen, according to a retired navy captain.
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London, 24 October – The son of former leading regime member has been tried in the Special Clerical Court (SCC) on national security charges and not allowed a defence lawyer.
Ahmad Montazeri, the son of Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri (former Deputy Supreme Leader), was tried last Wednesday for publishing an audio file earlier this year which revealed that the Iranian Regime was responsible for the 1988 Iranian massacre which claimed 30,000 lives.
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London, 24 October – A Belgian mayor presided over a meeting of the Belgian Committee of Parliamentarians and Mayors for a Democratic Iran, last Friday, where he called for an investigation into Iran’s human Rights Record.
