By Ehsan Qaraee
According to the UN reports, the war between Iran and Iraq started on September 22, 1980 when Iraqi aircrafts invaded several airfields in Iran. However, evidence exists in Iranian newspapers during from that period the war had already begun several weeks in advance. In this article we review the substance to these claims.
By Hamid Yazdan Panah
Documentary evidence often contains some simple truths with respect to policy and politics towards Iran. Recent revelations by Wikileaks with respect to CIA Director John Brennan emails offer an example of this type of documentary evidence with respect to policy on Iran. The documents reveal a policy which follows a strategy of acquiescence on Iran, and demonstrates that US policy is neither a lapse in judgement or an act of benevolence, but a calculated stance with respect to political interests.
Iran Focus
Paris, 27 Oct – Seventy French parliamentarians said that improved relations with Iran must be contingent upon improved human rights.
Maryam Rajavi, president elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Addressed a conference on Tuesday, 27 October, at the National Assembly of France.
Iran Focus
London, 27 Oct – Following text is Iranian human rights activists Nasrin Kafi’s article published in The Hill on Monday:
With the Iran nuclear agreement concluded, the world will logically turn its attention to potential cheating and misconduct by Tehran. But western countries, and
especially the U.S., must also end their silence over the abysmal human rights violations by the regime both inside Iran and in the region.
Iran Focus
Excerpts from the book: “Iran’s Democratic Opposition, A report from Ashraf City,” published in January 2009 following a visit to Camp Ashraf by a delegation of European lawmakers led by Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca, Vice-President of the European Parliament. Camp Ashraf was home to thousands of members of Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (or Mojahedin-e Khalgh, MEK). The MEK members later moved to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad.
Iran Focus
London, 20 Oct – Members of Parliament on Monday urged the United Kingdom government to pressure Iran to halt executions as a precondition to an improvement in trade ties.
Iran Focus
New York, 20 Oct – The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply saddened” by the news of the execution of two juvenile offenders last week in Iran.
London, 17 Oct – United Nations human rights experts on Friday expressed their “outrage” and “profound sadness” at the execution in Iran of Fatemeh Salbehi, a juvenile offender convicted for the death of her husband, whom she had been forced to marry at the age of 16.
Iran Focus
London, 17 Oct – The Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said it considers holding a meeting of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Tehran on Saturday and the visit by the German Foreign Minister to Iran an act against human rights in Iran and against regional and global peace and security that is to be condemned. It had called on the MSC Chairman and the German Foreign Minister to cancel their trips to Iran and call off the conference in Tehran.
