Iran Focus
London, 29 October – In an article for Forbes, Amir Basiri, a Iranian human rights activist, writes about the new financial sanctions that the Obama administration has added to supplement the nuclear deal that came into effect early this year. These new sanctions allow for non-U.S. persons to deal with Iranian entities that are minority owned or controlled by sanctioned individuals or bodies.
Iran Focus
London, 29 October – In a letter addressing the Iranian regime’s Attorney General, Narges Mohammadi writes, “I will not be silent until my rights are respected and justice is served.”
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), on October 27, writes about the impassioned controversy between Narges Mohammadi and the Iranian regime’s Attorney General, cleric Jafar Montazeri, who addressed her as one side of a sinister triangle and a despicable element.
Iran Focus
London, 29 October – In an October 27 article by Courtney Kube for NBC News she writes that U.S. officials believe Iran has supplied weapons to the Houthis in Yemen — including coastal defense cruise missiles, as told to NBC News.
Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan said, ”We believe that Iran is connected to this.”
Iran Focus
London, 29 October – In an article published in Al-Arabiya by Saleh Hamid on October 27, sources told that publication that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, and the companies affiliated with them, have acquired a percentage of new oil contracts signed between the Iranian oil ministry and International companies.
Iran’s military force, the Revolutionary Guards, command an industrial empire with huge political influence, and have now won sanctions relief under a nuclear deal agreed with world powers.
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.
Iran Focus
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.
Iran Focus
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.”
Iran Focus
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.
Iran Focus
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.
