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Paris Conference Entitled, “Women Force for Change, Iran Uprising and the Role of Women”

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Paris Conference Entitled, “Women Force for Change, Iran Uprising and the Role of Women”

Iran Focus

London, 19 Feb – Dozens of prominent women including political personalities, lawmakers, jurists, judges, and women’s rights advocates from five continents participated in a conference entitled, “Women Force for Change, Iran Uprising and the Role of Women,” held in Paris on Saturday, February 17, 2018, in the presence of the President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. A delegation of mothers of martyrs, a delegation of Iranian women’s associations and rights activists, as well as a delegation of youth supporting the Iranian Resistance were among the speakers to the conference.

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The MEK’s Religious Beliefs

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The MEK’s Religious Beliefs

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) is a political group dedicated to bringing freedom and democracy to Iran.

They derive their political beliefs from a modern and tolerant version of Islam that is fully compatible with modern society – the exact opposite of the ruling mullahs’ Sharia Law, which is intolerant, extremist, genocidal, non-democratic, and misogynist – and the MEK believe that their interpretation is the true meaning of Islam.

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Iran’s Azerbaijan Ties Are Just a Distraction

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Iran’s Azerbaijan Ties Are Just a Distraction

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London, 18 Feb – Iran is currently facing a turbulent time. There are widespread protests in Iran calling for the removal of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – some by any means necessary – and the defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria has led to power vacuums that the Regime is desperate to fill and everyone else is desperate that they don’t.

Thus Iran has turned to its favourite method of dealing with foreign and domestic crises: misdirection.

Iran has been attempting to strengthen ties with its neighbour Azerbaijan over the past few months and there are signs that it is working.

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Former Deputy National Security Adviser Defends Iran Deal That He Manipulated Media to Get

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Former Deputy National Security Adviser Defends Iran Deal That He Manipulated Media to Get

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London, 16 Feb – Former White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, who was instrumental in helping secure media support of the 2015 Iranian Nuclear Deal through manipulation that he admitted, has now joined the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation that also helped to sell the deal by paying for favourable media coverage of it.

Back in 2015, before the Iran Deal was agreed, Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund told NPR’s All Things Considered that he believed the American security establishment was solidly behind the deal and said that opponents to the deal were merely trying to block everything that President Obama wanted to do.

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Iran Is Supplying the Houthis With Ballistic Missiles

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Iran Is Supplying the Houthis With Ballistic Missiles

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London, 16 Feb – The Houthis’ continued ballistic missiles attacks against Saudi Arabia are not simply retaliation for the Saudi-led Arab coalition seeking to restore the internationally recognised Yemeni government to power.

Instead, a Western diplomat based in the region said that this appears to be an attempt by Iran, who supplied the Houthi terrorist cell with the ballistic missiles, to start a bigger regional conflict or test their missiles against the US missile defence systems used by Saudi Arabia.

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Iran Hikes Utility Rates in Spite of Nationwide Protests

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Iran Hikes Utility Rates in Spite of Nationwide Protests

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London, 16 Feb – In spite of ongoing nationwide protests against dramatically rising costs and falling living conditions, the Iranian Regime has still seen fit to raise the prices of water, electricity and gas in their budget for the New Year, which begins on March 21 according to the Persian calendar.

The decision to increase prices in line with Iran’s Sixth Development Plan, which states that water and electricity costs could rise by between 20% and 30 % a year, comes after a long debate in the Regime’s Parliament about how best to fill the budget deficit.

The Iranian House of Representatives voted in favour of this proposal from the Ministry of Energy on Wednesday, following its approval from the Council of Ministers.

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We Need a Solution to Syria That Tackles Iran

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We Need a Solution to Syria That Tackles Iran

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London, 15 Feb – Back in 2017, many advocated for the Syrian conflict to be solved through Russian intervention because that scenario was more appealing than a Syria controlled by Iran.

The Russian Syria plan, accepted by the US and their allies, meant that Russia would devise a plan for peace in Syria while also reducing Iranian influence there.

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Iran and Hezbollah Cannot Handle All-Out War

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Iran and Hezbollah Cannot Handle All-Out War

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London, 15 Feb – When Syrian anti-aircraft missiles downed an American-made Israeli F-16 fighter jet last weekend, Iranian-proxy Hezbollah called it a turning point in the conflict.

One of the Hezbollah pundits declared on television that from now on the Syrian army, Hezbollah, Yemeni army, Iraqi army, and Iranian army must all be thought of as the “resistance axis”.

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Iran Kills Another Canadian Citizen

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Iran Kills Another Canadian Citizen

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London, 15 Feb – Professor Kavous Seyed-Emami is the latest Candian to be imprisoned and killed in an Iranian jail.

The environmentalist was working in Iran to protect the Asiatic cheetah, of which there are only 50 left in the world, when the Iranian Regime accused him of spying for the West and arrested him.

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What Happened to the MEK During the 1979 Revolution? Part 4

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What Happened to the MEK During the 1979 Revolution? Part 4

This is the fourth and final piece in a series about the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

When we left off last time, the mullahs had stolen the 1979 Revolution from the MEK and the people of Iran and were instead using it to serve their own interests. Ruhollah Khomeini had returned from exile only to appoint Supreme Leader (essentially, naming himself king) and appoint the clergy to the government against the wishes of the Iranian People.

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