Iranian regime’s assassination plots and sanction dodging has been exposed by South African Intelligence Agencies. Middle East News channel Al-Jazeera revealed to the world how Tehran is seeking to dodge trade restrictions imposed on them by the International Community in response to their horrifying human rights record, sponsorship of terrorist factions and their undying quest to attain nuclear warheads. According to leaked documents acquired from the South African intelligence the Iranian Regime is using fake company fronts and secretive unofficial channels to bypass the sanctions and acquire material for the manufacture of weapons and other industries. The document which is a 128 page “Operational Target Analysis” written by South African intelligence reveals the names, addresses, phone numbers and cover stories used by dozens of alleged Iranian operatives in South Africa. The detailed document even goes on to name gardeners and drivers at Irans embassy, and the well planned and organized network of individuals , businesses and cultural groups which it says are being used by the Iranian regime to pursue its interests and expand its influence.
Iranian regime lobbyist Jack Straw suspended
Britain’s former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has been suspended from the Labour Party in a “case for access” scandal. Mr Straw has been accused of being a politician for hire. He was one the MPs who were secretly filmed by the Daily Telegraph in a joint investigation with Channel 4’s Dispatches programme.
Undercover reporters posing as representatives of a communications agency called PMR based in Honk Kong made contact with MPs Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind and offered to pay in exchange of assistance in hiring senior British politicians to join the company’s advisory board. During one of the meetings, Mr Straw allegedly described how he operated “under the radar” to exercise his influence to change EU rules for a commodity company, which paid him £60,000 annually. According to the newspaper, he claimed to have used “charm and menace” to persuade the Ukrainian prime minister to mend the rules to facilitate the same company.
IRAN: Three killed in air force helicopter crash north of Tehran
A helicopter belonging to Iranian air force has crashed north of Tehran on Thursday, killing all three crew members on board, according to state-run news outlets.
The reports quoted a district governor as saying that rescue teams have rushed to the crash site in the mountains north of the Iranian capital.
Prominent Iranian opposition group reveals secret nuclear site
At a news conference in Washington, the representatives of the NCRI described a 62-acre site named Lavizan-3, which they said included four underground tunnels below a building used by Iran’s intelligence agency (MOIS).
Iran’s Repression Targets Kurds, Other Minorities
Hamid Yazdan Panah is an attorney focused on asylum and immigration in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a human rights activist focused on the Middle East and Iran.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Iran has secretly executed Kurdish political prisoner Saman Naseem, despite a global campaign to save his life. Naseem, was a member of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), a Kurdish resistance organization in Iran, and arrested when he was still a minor. He was convicted of moharebe, or, “enmity with God” and sentenced to death. Although there has been no official announcement by the Iranian government, reports indicate that the regime informed Naseem’s family that he had been hanged on Friday, and ordered them not to hold a funeral. The execution serves as another example of the Iranian regime’s willingness to flout international law during its ongoing war against Kurds and other ethnic minorities in Iran.
Former UN official urges action to end humanitarian crisis for Iranians in Camp Liberty
The former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Iraq, Ad Melkert, expressed his concerns regarding the violation of the rights of Iranians in Camp Liberty by Iraqis and presented a set of recommendations in his report on the humanitarian crisis at Camp Liberty.
Tuesday in Washington: NCRI reveals Iran secret parallel nuclear program
The U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US) will hold a press conference on Tuesday (24 February 2015) in National Press Building, in Washington DC to expose ‘highly critical and reliable intelligence on the existence of an active and secret parallel nuclear program in Iran.’
Syria War Crime Suspects to Be Named
February 20th, saw a radical change in the change of strategy by war crime investigators .The United Nations war crimes investigators announced that they were planning to publish names of suspects involved in Syria’s four-year war, where this would ultimately cause uproar amongst the countries closely associated with it.
Poverty in Iran reaches new heights
When the workers belonging to the middle and low economic class go home in Iran the majority of them cannot even get respite from a hard day’s work, with food in their belly since a majority of them (estimated 70%) are surviving under the poverty line.
Rahmatollah Poormoussa, who is the head of Iran’s state labor organization, says that, “Many workers cannot even afford the basic products they need for survival, and many of these items are now considered luxuries”. The economic crisis that Iran faces has drowned a majority of the population in poverty; even those with two jobs cannot stay afloat.
New wave of executions in Iran
As Iran engages in negotiations with P5+1 countries over its controversial nuclear program, it continues to commit human rights violations with impunity at home.
Two Iranian Kurdish political prisoners were executed in the central prison in the city of Orumiyeh at the dawn on Thursday.
