The National Council of Resistance of Iran reports that that 40 state-run media outlets have jointly offered a new $600,000 bounty for the head of British author Salman Rushdie. The announcement was made to coincide with the anniversary of the fatwa issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. At the centre of this is Fars News Agency, one of the main funders of the terror plan in Iran
Iran’s Forgotten Prisoners: The Case of Hossein Ronaghi
By Hamid Yazdan Panah
As the world applauds the release of prisoners by Iran, political dissidents within the country continue to suffer unjust persecution, repression and death. The truth surrounding their charges, arrests and the breadth of their continued struggle continues to be lost in the mainstream narrative on Iran.
The Iraq-Iran Connection
In a press release on 12 February 2016, the President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA), Struan Stevenson, has declared that the EU should treat with great caution pleas for aid by the Iraqi Prime Minister.
Struan Stevenson was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014 and was President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009 to 2014.
Rouhani’s visit to EU shows reality of Iran
By Hamid Yazdan Panah
On January 28th, the President of the Iranian regime, Hassan Rouhani traveled to the EU to pursue a supposed new era of relations with the West. Rouhani has been dubbed a moderate by the West, and has been accommodated in every way possible by those who seek to profit from a new relationship with the regime. Despite this climate of appeasement, protesters were out in full force to confront Rouhani and condemn those who sought to make deals with a brutal dictatorship. Rouhani’s trip was noteworthy, not because of his diplomatic accomplishments, but as an indication of the true nature of this regime.
Welcoming Iran: Greed over prudence
On Thursday, Chatham House will be hosting an event in London entitled “Overcoming Regional Challenges in the Middle East” and “perversely” the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, is scheduled to address that conference, writes Lord Maginnis of Drumglass. He says, “Worse still, it is further planned that he will address the UK Parliament earlier that day.”
Lord Maginnis is an independent member of the UK House of Lords and prominent member of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF), www.iran-freedom.org.
European politicians protest Rouhani visit
The visit by the Iranian regime’s president, Hassan Rouhani, to France ended with many industrial contracts but also by a deafening silence on the issue of human rights. In response, there were many protests and speeches that condemned the Iranian regime.
U.S. Warns: Americans who travel to Iran risk arrest
U.S. citizens traveling to Iran, especially Iranian-Americans, are at a high risk of being arrested and detained in that country, the U.S. State Department warned Friday.
The official warning by the U.S. State Department seeks to “reiterate and highlight the risk of arrest and detention of U.S. citizens, particularly dual national Iranian-Americans, in Iran.”
Rouhani’s presence in Paris is protested by thousands
The leader of the clerical regime, President Hassan Rouhani, arrived in Paris to a wave of protests. Rouhani is one of the most senior officials responsible for the extreme and plentiful human rights violations in Iran. The protesters were Iranians, French citizens, human rights organizations, human rights activists and French and European political figures.
At the gathering, starting at noon at Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, the protesters called for French officials to denounce Rouhani for his grave human rights abuses. They called for Rouhani’s policy of export of terrorism and fundamentalism and for his involvement in the destructive conflicts in the region to be acknowledged.
Relations with Iran should be contingent upon a halt to executions
The National Council of Resistance of Iran on January 28, said that welcoming Hassan Rouhani to France and Italy is a mistake on the part of the western nations.
Regarding the visit by Hassan Rouhani, the President of the clerical regime, to Italy and France, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, stated that, “As a mullah, Hassan Rouhani is a defender of the ruling theocracy and has sworn allegiance to the velayat-e faqih (absolute rule of the supreme leader). Rouhani has been among the most senior officials of the religious fascism ruling Iran throughout the past 37 years and has been involved in all its atrocities. He should face justice for crimes against humanity.”
Pressuring Tehran
In an article published in the French daily Le Monde, writer Tahar Boumedra writes that Iran has a human rights problem that the regime refuses to acknowledge and address.
Boumedra is the author of “The human rights situation in Iran: a challenge for international law”, and is also the former director of the human rights office of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
