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Iran raids house church arresting 8 Christians

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Iran raids house church arresting 8 Christians

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London, 12 Aug – At least eight Iranian Christians were beaten and arrested last Friday in the Iranian city of Karaj while gathering for a prayer ceremony in a house church, the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran said on Wednesday.

“The Iranian regime’s armed plainclothes agents raided the house church, insulted and beat the worshipers, and confiscated their books and pamphlets before transferring them to a van to be taken to a prison, according to the eyewitnesses”, the NCRI reported on its website.

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IRAN: Man sells eye in desperation

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IRAN: Man sells eye in desperation

While the world congratulates itself over the Iran deal, the situation on ground is hardly worthy of celebration. According to the state-run daily Shahrara on Saturday (August 8), poverty is pushing Iranian people to the limit. The paepr published an account of a man, identified as M., who was attempting to sell his eye in the city of Mashhad.

The story is heart wrenching. M. had scribbled on a neighborhood wall: “Eye for sale,” under which he had written his contact number.

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British Peer: UK must speak up against sharp rise in hangings in Iran

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British Peer: UK must speak up against sharp rise in hangings in Iran

London, 12 Aug – The alarming recent rise in executions in Iran, especially during the weeks following the nuclear deal between Iran and world’s six major powers, is a matter of great concern, writes Alex Carlile, a United Kingdom member of the House of Lords.

“According to reliable reports from Iran, the regime’s authorities have carried out more than 60 executions, some of them through public hangings, in addition to barbaric punishments such as amputation of limbs and eye gouging, in various Iranian cities since the nuclear deal was announced on 14 July 2015”, Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE QC wrote in PoliticsHome on Wednesday.

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Iran hangs Kurdish dissident – opposition

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London, 9 Aug – Iran on Sunday hanged a Kurdish dissident in a prison in Tabriz, northwest Iran, without giving prior notice to his family, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said.

Sirvan Nezhavi had been charged with ‘Moharebeh’, or ‘waging war on God’, for membership in a Kurdish group opposed to the regime.

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Iran’s Attempts to Blame UN for its own Human Rights Abuses

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Iran’s Attempts to Blame UN for its own Human Rights Abuses

By Hamid Yazdan Panah

The regime in Iran has a long history of distorting truth, particularly in regards to its human rights record. Whether it’s Javad Zarif’s despicable claim that “We do not jail people for their opinions.” Or Ahmadinejad’s bold face lie that, “There are no political prisoners in Iran.” Or his comment about the 2009 elections stating, “The presidential election was the freest election around the globe. This regime has a tried and true method of distorting the truth in order to avoid any responsibility for their own atrocities. The latest target of these ridiculous lies is UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Ahmad Shaheed.

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Don’t empower Iran’s tyrants – GEN. HUGH SHELTON

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Don’t empower Iran’s tyrants – GEN. HUGH SHELTON

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London, 7 Aug – Retired US General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that despite the Obama administration’s attempts to reach a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear programme, the Tehran regime simply cannot be expected to show moderation. He argues in the Miami Herald on Friday that the only long-term solution to Iran’s nuclear aspirations, meddling in regional affairs and human-rights abuses, is a totally new system of governance based on democracy and secularism:

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UN rights chief urges halt to executions in Iran

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UN rights chief urges halt to executions in Iran

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Geneva, 5 Aug – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday expressed alarm at the imposition of the death penalty on Mohammad Ali Taheri, an Iranian writer and founder of a spiritual movement, and he urged authorities in Iran to “immediately impose a moratorium on all executions”.

Taheri was sentenced to death on Saturday by the Revolutionary Court on a charge of Fesad fel Arz (corruption on earth).

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John Bolton: The Iran Deal’s Dangerous Precedent

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London, 3 Aug – The Obama administration’s hopes of using “snapback sanctions” if Iran is caught transgressing the terms of the current nuclear deal are flawed, writes John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations. The following is the text of his op-ed in Monday’s edition of The New York Times:

The Iran Deal’s Dangerous Precedent

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US terror victims eye thawing with Iran – WSJ

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Washington, 3 Aug – The recent nuclear deal between the US and Iran doesn’t address a key source of tension: the billions of dollars US courts say Iran owes to terrorism victims, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Over the past two decades, terrorism victims have filed about 100 lawsuits against Iran in US courts, accusing the government of sponsoring attacks around the world, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, the journal reported on Monday. Federal judges have awarded victims a total of approximately $45 billion, including $21.6 billion in compensatory damages, according to calculations by Crowell & Moring LLP. Iran has refused to pay.

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Iran nuclear deal will not stop terrorism – Robert Morgenthau

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London, 3 Aug – Renowned former New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau is urging the US Congress not to endorse a recent nuclear agreement between the major power powers and Iran, warning that the agreement does not require Iran to stop its funding of terrorism.

Morgenthau penned a piece for Reuters’ The Great Debate:

Forgotten flaw in Iran nuclear deal: It lets killers go free

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