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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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Iran closes foreign-based networks over ‘sedition’ fears

Mehdi Hosseini
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Iran closes foreign-based networks over ‘sedition’ fears

Source: WORLD BULLETIN

The Iranian government has closed 17 foreign-based satellite networks’ offices on account of trying to create “sedition” among Muslims in Iran, a senior Iranian intelligence official announced on Sunday.

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America’s most bitter adversaries.

Mehdi Hosseini
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America’s most bitter adversaries.

Source: The Augusta Chronicle, Editorial

He certainly has shown himself more as a sheep among wolves. First there was the Russian “reset,” then the

Cuban détente. Now – coming soon to a foreign-policy playhouse near you – the Iranian appeasement.

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Corker warns of possible sanctions on Iran

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Corker warns of possible sanctions on Iran

Source: THE HILL

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) signaled Sunday that lawmakers could increase sanctions against Iran if nuclear negotiations do not yield an agreement.

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Iraq violence killed more than 12,000 civilians in 2014, the U.N. says

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Iraq violence killed more than 12,000 civilians in 2014, the U.N. says

Source: Los Angeles Times

Violence in Iraq killed at least 12,282 civilians last year, the deadliest since the sectarian strife of 2007, United Nations officials said.
lRelated Kurdish fighters enter Islamic State-occupied town of Sinjar.

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The ‘Divergent’ World of 2015

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The ‘Divergent’ World of 2015

Source:THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

By: NIALL FERGUSON

in Veronica Roth ’s “Divergent”—a 2011 “young adult” novel set in a dystopian future not a thousand miles removed from “The Hunger Games”—humanity is divided into five factions according to their dominant character traits: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite. This being a post-apocalyptic Chicago, the last faction turns out to be the bad guys. People who fail the initiation tests are consigned to poverty as “factionless.” People with multiple traits are classified as “divergent” and persecuted.

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