Iran Focus
London, 15 Jun – Many women in Iran are getting on their bikes in deliberate defiance of the fatwa that bans them from cycling in public.
In order to protest the ban, which was introduced because high-ranking members of the Iranian Regime believe that female cyclists are a threat to morality, many women are not only cycling through Iran, they are posting it on social media using the hashtag #IranianWomenLoveCycling.
Iran Focus
London, 14 Jun – Human rights groups plead for the safety of tens of thousands of civilians trapped in Raqqa, Syria, as the US-backed forces fight ISIS.
Human Rights watch issued a statement asking the troops to do all they can to protect innocent civilians.
Iran Focus
London, 14 Jun – Donald Trump has backed several Gulf nation who cut ties with Qatar over its links to the Iranian Regime and terrorist groups but a foreign policy expert argues that this may be a proxy war over the US-Iran Deal.
Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have all cut diplomatic and economic ties with the kingdom of Qatar over its support for Iran and Iranian-backed terror groups, like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Iran Focus
London, 14 Jun – Donald Trump could very well drop a bomb on Iran by 2019 and no one in the Middle East would so much as bat an eyelid, according to a former UN diplomat.
Andrew MacLeod, who is currently a Visiting Professor at Kings College London, wrote an op-ed for the Independent in which he stated that Trump could drop a bomb on Iran without inciting any backlash from many in the Middle East.
Iran Focus
London, 14 Jun – The Hezbollah terror group, which is back financially by the Iranian Regime, has threated to launch strikes on US forces in Syria, which according to experts is yet another example of the Iranian Regime trying to take direct action against the US.
Hezbollah announced this via an official statement, which experts say is further proof that Iran is willing to attack the US in order to support the Syrian dictator, Bashar Assad.
By Jubin Katiraie
As the May 19 Iranian presidential elections drew close, reports continually surfaced of rising levels of political activity on the streets of major cities, which was aimed not at encouraging the election of any candidate but at boycotting the election and declaring the clerical regime as illegitimate. The leading Iranian resistance group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, spent several weeks contributing to the public discourse both online and on the ground, with an eye toward demonstrating the lack of serious differences between the supposedly moderate incumbent Hassan Rouhani and his hardline challenger Ebrahim Raisi.
Iran Focus
London, 13 Jun – The Iranian Regime has been receiving a lot of criticism over a proposed ban on the exercise class Zumba by a local sports federation.
The Iran Sport for All Federation wrote a letter to the Regime’s Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, calling for the exercise class and others like it to be banned because it contravenes “Islamic ideology”.
Iran Focus
London, 13 Jun – The Obama administration hampered investigations by law enforcement in the funding of Iranian terrorism in order to get the nuclear deal passed and free American prisoners in Iran, according to a hearing on Thursday.
Jim Kouri CPP, vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, wrote an opinion column for Accuracy in Media, in which he discussed the issue.
Iran Focus
London, 13 Jun – The twin terror attacks in Iran earlier this month, show that you really do reap what you sow, according to a former advisor on a presidential campaign.
Armstrong Williams, who served as an adviser and spokesman for Dr. Ben Carson’s 2016 presidential campaign, wrote an op-ed for The Hill, in which he claimed that the terror attacks were “karma” for the Iranian Regime’s sponsorship of terrorism.
Williams acknowledged that ISIS’s attacks were a human tragedy in which at least 17 innocent people died, but advised the world to recognise the role that the Regime has played in other terror attacks around the world.
Iran Focus
London, 13 Jun – A Michigan man was arrested for taking part in missions and military training on behalf of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based terrorist organisation.
Samer El Debek, 37, who was arrested on June 1, first became involved with the terrorist group in 2006, when he sent an email expressing his support for Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
