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Détente with Iran not an option

Hamid Azimi
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Hamid Azimi is the Communications Director for the Iranian American Community of Northern California. Azimi
has been actively promoting Human Rights and democratic change in Iran, exposing and combating the Iranian 
Ayatollahs’ Islamic Fundamentalism. His writings and interviews have been covered by many California based news  outlets as well as major national news agencies

President Obama’s recent interview with NPR suggest that the US government is trying to get Iran by a soft policy of nudging and negotiation, but analyst like Jonathan Keller call this “detente” bragging and wishful thinking, it wont be possible to outwit the Iranian mullahs. 

The strategy of the US government till now has been ineffectual. It contains a policy of rapprochement with Iran. The standoff with Iran prevents application of American power in the “Indo-Pacific”, and this seems to be the only reason why the administration is not playing hardball with Iran. This precludes only marginal reallocation of some naval resources.

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In Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo

Mehdi Hosseini
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In Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo

This was bound to happen and no one was surprised by it. . The savage religious war being waged in Iraq and Syria now affects the entire world, and nobody’s freedom of speech and right to life is owed any respect by Islamist extremists. Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people, including the paper’s editor and a cartoonist, before escaping in a getaway car.

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U.S. lawmakers to reintroduce Iran sanctions legislation

Mehdi Hosseini
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U.S. lawmakers to reintroduce Iran sanctions legislation

Source : Reuters 

Republican lawmakers said on Thursday they are close to reintroducing legislation seeking a voice in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program and to impose tougher sanctions against Iran, now that they control both houses of the U.S. Congress.

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Iran-Backed Militias Are Getting U.S. Weapons

Mehdi Hosseini
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Source: Bloomberg

By: josh Rogin and Eli lake

U.S. weapons intended for Iraq’s beleaguered military are winding up in the possession of the country’s Shiite militias, according to U.S. lawmakers and senior officials in the Barack Obama administration. These sources say that the Baghdad government, which was granted $1.2 billion in training and equipment aid in the omnibus spending bill passed last month,  is turning hardware over to Shiite militias that are heavily influenced by Iran and have been guilty of gross human-rights violations.

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Siege gunman connected to Iranian spy agencies, says lawyer

Mehdi Hosseini
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Source: THE AUSTRALIAN

bY: Paul Maley
MAN Haron Monis, the gunman behind last month’s deadly Sydney siege, would have been closely connected to Iran’s sprawling ­intelligence establishment before his arrival in Australia, his former lawyer claims.

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The Human Cost of Business with Iran

Hamid Yazdan Panah
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The Human Cost of Business with Iran

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.

The Iran question has dominated policy discussions for nearly a decade. How to prevent the mullahs from obtaining nuclear weapons is no doubt a hot button issue. The general consensus remains that there is no viable military solution to this problem. What we are left with are sanctions and continual dialogue with an undemocratic and barbaric regime, with the hopes of getting them to “behave.” Yet even this is too harsh for some, who object to sanctions against Iran on humanitarian grounds. The question then becomes, what exactly is the humanitarian cost of doing business with Iran?

There are poignant examples which can be cited as a basis to oppose sanctions on humanitarian grounds. For example the a UN report noted that more than 500,000 Iraqi children died due to sanctions in the 1990’s. However, many who adamantly oppose sanctions appear to have a more complicated agenda in mind.

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Iranian opposition leader condemns Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack

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Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance ‘strongly condemned the ruthless terrorist attack’ that killed 12 people including a number of staff and reporters of a weekly newspaper in Paris.

Maryam Rajavi “offered her condolences to the bereaved families of the victims of this tragedy and to the people and the Government of France,” according to a statement published by the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

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Shi’ite militias expand their influence in Central Iraq

Mehdi Hosseini
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Shi’ite militias expand their influence in Central Iraq

The Iranian regime’s involvement in Iraq is expanding and it is redrawing the map of central Iraq. This was reported by the Nation Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and later also confirmed by other news sources like Reuters. The NCRI reports that the Iranian regime is not present in Iraq to fight ISIS. Its aim is to compensate for the loss of Maliki’s ousting.

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Mullahs’ key figure in terrorist apparatus in Iraq remerges after longtime hiding

Mehdi Hosseini
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Mullahs’ key figure in terrorist apparatus in Iraq remerges after longtime hiding

Jamal Jafar Ibrahim, known as Abu Mehdi Mohandes, who is wanted by the judiciaries of Kuwait and the United States, as well as Interpol, for blowing up the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait in December 1983, has recently been introduced as Deputy President of the Popular Basij Organization.
The December 1983 explosions killed six and injured 80 including western citizens.

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Iran is a dangerous ‘ally’ in Syria and Iraq

Mehdi Hosseini
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Iran is a dangerous ‘ally’ in Syria and Iraq

Source: Los Angles Times 

By Hugh Shelton

At the dawn of 2015, the U.S. has yet to articulate a comprehensive foreign-policy strategy to counter the influence and territorial gains of Islamic State, the terrorist group that emerged last year — and poses a dangerous and vexing threat to stability across the Middle East and North Africa. By the Pentagon’s admission, we neither understand the underlying ideology of the merciless group nor have a grasp of all the players in the region who have aggravated the crisis.
Aiding and abetting Iran’s destructive role in Iraq or Syria would be a strategic mistake for the U.S. that only exacerbates a profound crisis. –

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