Iran Focus

London, 7 Jul – Californian Congresswoman Judy Chu has made a video statement in which she decries the Iranian regime for its human rights abuses.

She said: “For too long Iran’s theocratic rulers have repressed their people and threaten others, already Iran is a world leader in executions second only to China, but now the leaders there are adopting increasingly cruel and inhumane punishments like blinding prisoners with acid or removing their eyes. This is an affront to the peaceful and open Iran that [the Resistance represents].”

Iran Focus – analysis

London, 7 Jul – It is now ten years since Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, presented the ten-point plan for a free Iran to the Council of Europe.

By Elaheh Azimfar

In three days’ time, the world will witness the largest annual gathering of Iranian exiles in Le Bourget, Paris, with Maryam Rajavi as the keynote speaker.

Iranians of all walks of life as well as hundreds of politicians and personalities from five continents will converge in Le Bourget to declare their support for Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance and their struggle to overthrow the regime ruling Iran and establish freedom and democracy in their country. But who is Maryam Rajavi?

Iran Focus
London, 6 Jul – Sir David Amess, a Member of Parliament from the United Kingdom, has written an op-ed piece for Forbes in which he urges Western politicians and the public not to forget about Iran.

The Conservative MP for Southend West accuses the West of inaction with regards to the brutal punishments carried out by the regime, which disproportionately affect opposition forces and minorities. He says that tales of executions, floggings, amputations, and blindings are met with “concern” rather than action by Western governments.

Iran Focus

London, 6 Jul – Bulgarian Member of the European Parliament, Svetoslav Malinov, said that he and his colleagues were “under no illusions” that there had been any positive changes in the nature of the Iranian regime.

Iran Focus
London, 6 Jul – Following the rocket attacks on Monday on a group of Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty, Iraq, their press spokesman has written a piece for The Hill decrying the so-called moderate Iranian regime.
Shahriar Kia, who is also a spokesman for Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), urged the US Congress to put forward a bipartisan message that Iran must improve its human rights record and end its support for terrorism if they want to continue their relationship with the global community.

Analysis
London, 6 Jul – After the horrific attacks by the Iranian Government earlier this week on Camp Liberty, the makeshift home of many Iranian dissidents, it is time to assess how far the last year’s nuclear pact between Iran and several Western countries has gone.

Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan, director of the graduate program in Global Affairs and Human Security in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore, wrote a piece for The Hill in which he decried the myth of a moderate Iran as “naïve”.