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Acquiescence as a Strategy on Iran

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Acquiescence as a Strategy on Iran

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.

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Rajavi: Democracy and regime change in Iran is key to crisis in Middle East

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Rajavi: Democracy and regime change in Iran is key to crisis in Middle East

Maryam Rajavi in FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONFERENCE

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.

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After Iran nuke deal, US must keep its word

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After Iran nuke deal, US must keep its word

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.

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BOOK: Camp Ashraf, home to the PMOI (MEK) in Iraq – A short word

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BOOK: Camp Ashraf, home to the PMOI (MEK) in Iraq – A short word

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.

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MPs seek focus on human rights in UK’s Iran policy

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MPs seek focus on human rights in UK’s Iran policy

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.

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UN’s Ban Ki-moon denounces juvenile executions in Iran

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UN’s Ban Ki-moon denounces juvenile executions in Iran

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.

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Stop appeasing Iran’s ayatollahs

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Stop appeasing Iran’s ayatollahs

Iran Focus

Washington, 20 Oct – The U.S. administration’s policy of “appeasing” Iran’s Ayatollahs is emboldening the authorities in Iran to step up suppression of Iranian dissidents, writes Ken Blackwell in Townhall:

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Iran: Outrage of UN human rights experts at execution of two juvenile offenders

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Iran: Outrage of UN human rights experts at execution of two juvenile offenders

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.

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NCRI denounces trip to Iran by Germany’s FM

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NCRI denounces trip to Iran by Germany’s FM

Munich security conference

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.

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Maryam Rajavi: Our plan is an Iran without executions

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Maryam Rajavi: Our plan is an Iran without executions

Iran Focus

Paris, 14 Oct – Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi told a conference on the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty that her movement seeks to abolish capital punishment in a future “democratic” Iran.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement that Rajavi made the remarks at a conference in Paris on Saturday:

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