Professor Raymond Tanter of the University of Michigan warns today in an article publish by The Hill that, “A bad nuclear deal with Iran would jeopardize world peace.”
While Tanter agrees that people would rather that President Obama can manage to talk sense into Iranian regime’s ears to halt their nuclear program, he expresses no hope as the Iranian regime has shown no intention to “forgo its nuclear weapons program.”
Without explicit support for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the United Kingdom would never be able to truly confront the brand of Islamic fundamentalism that ISIS represents, David Jones, a Conservative Member of Parliament in the UK has argued.
“There should be no doubt in the West that Tehran is using its proxies to compete with ISIS for dominance in Iraq, Syria and the wider Middle East. Iran has absolutely no interest in defeating and degrading the Islamic fundamentalism that is threatening the region,” Mr. Jones wrote on Tuesday in the website The Diplomat.
Organizers of the June 13 grand gathering in Paris in support of democratic change in Iran announced on Monday that a total of 330 Iranian associations have been involved in the event’s ongoing mobilization effort.
The mobilization campaign is being carried out in 345 cities from 24 countries throughout Europe, North America, Australia, the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East and North Africa.
In some countries, including France, Germany, UK, Poland, Czech Republic, and Netherlands, associations of local citizens and supporters of the Iranian Resistance are playing an important role in the mobilization campaign, the event organizers said.
Lord Alex Carlile, a member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords from the Liberal Democrat Party, has called on UK Prime Minister David Cameron to endorse the resistance movement to the mullahs’ regime in Iran.
Lord Carlile’s appeal came as Cameron was meeting with other world leaders in the G7 Summit in Germany.
Whether or not the UK remains part of the EU, and whether or not Prime Minister Cameron succeeds in renegotiating the UK’s terms under a new EU Treaty, the issue of Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and Middle Eastern hegemony will remain an important issue for Europe, Lord Carlile wrote in the HUffington Post.
As more Iranian citizens are put to death in Iranian jails or subjected to long imprisonment for dissent and activism, a major rally this week in Paris can be a voice to affect U.S. policy, former U.S. Ambassador Ken Blackwell says.
“If you are paying attention to the Middle East, and thus to Iran, it would be prudent to also pay attention to France later this week. If you keep your eyes on Paris on June 13, you will witness to a powerful demonstration of opposition to Tehran’s clerical regime.”
Paulo Casaca is founder of the Brussels based international co-operation association ARCHumankind, “Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind”, and the “Euro Reform Initiative”
In April, Iranian censorship officials closed down a monthly magazine, Zanan-e Emrouz, accusing it of encouraging cohabitation among unmarried couples, an illegal practice known in Iran as “white marriage.” With a title translating to English as Today’s Women, the magazine was the only women’s interest publication in the country, and its closure reflects a worsening situation for gender politics in the Islamic Republic.
However, the purported reasons for the closure are indicative of the rising tide of domestic challenges to the repressive rule of the Iranian ayatollahs. While the regime characterized Zanan-e Emrouz’s special reports on “white marriage” as unlawful advocacy, many of its defenders claim that the articles merely reported upon and explained the existing popularity of the practice.
A young man who has lost his father to the actions of the clerical Iranian regime calls upon people all across the globe to unite against “flagrant human rights violations” taking place as we speak in Iran, particularly against the increasing executions that are taking place during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure.
In the 1.5 minute long video that was published he presents the shocking figures of some 1600 executions in less than two years in Iran that includes almost 115 hangings in just two weeks. According to his information every seven hours one person is executed in Iran and according to the UN the actual figures are much higher as many of the hangings are not made public and are carried out in secret.
More than 220 Euro MPs have called on Iran to allow unrestricted access to nuclear inspectors, and to end its widespread executions, repression and abuses of human rights.
The Brussels lawmakers from all political parties and 28 European countries made the demand in a statement sent to EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini.
By Hamid Yazdan Panah
Iran remains a focal point of controversy in the Middle East. From the nuclear talks to the unrest in Yemen and Syria, Iran presents a perplexing dilemma for policy makers. Yet little attention is paid to one of the key players in this game, namely the Iranian people and their organized resistance. On June 13th, a gathering will take place to call the world’s attention to the strategy offered by the Iranian opposition to solve these problems at their root, by promoting a policy of democratic change in Iran.
John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, and Javad Zarif, the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister are due to meet in Geneva this weekend. The talks will be part of the ongoing effort to achieve a comprehensive agreement regarding the nuclear program in Tehran.
It is essential to the deal that inspection and verification visits preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons are allowed. The Obama administration still upholds the opinion that the nuclear deal will block the path of the regime to the bomb according to the NCRI.
