Iran Focus
London, 30 May – In a recent hearing to discuss Iran’s destabilising influence on the Middle East, the US Foreign Affairs Committee were told that the US must be assertive towards Iran.
The witnesses explained that Iranian policy had sowed the seeds of discord throughout the Middle East for the past 40 years, which has led to the global terror threat we all now face.
Iran Focus
London, 30 May – Memorial Day weekend is always punctuated with celebrations and ceremonies designed to honour those who gave their lives in defence of the American values of freedom and democracy. However, wouldn’t it also be good to remember and commemorate all those who fought for these most sacred of ideals? No matter if the person wore a uniform or not.
Iran Focus
London, 30 May – It is an open secret that the Iranian Regime has placed tens of thousands of fighters inside Syria to fight on behalf of the Bashar Assad dictatorship, but Track Persia has compiled a comprehensive report on the troops, detailing where they come from and their roles in propping up the brutal Syrian government.
Iran Focus
London, 30 May – The Iran Lobby, a group of Regime puppets in the West, are trying yet again to portray the divides with the Regime’s top leaders as a case of moderates versus hardliners and downplay the role of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the recent so-called elections.
Iran Focus
London, 30 May – In yet another example of the deep divides within the Iranian Regime, the Iranian Judiciary Chief has criticised President Hassan Rouhani for his campaign pledges to free political activists.
On the campaign trail, Rouhani promised that during his second term in office he would free opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who were put under house arrest in 2011, following the 2009 Green Movement protests that sprung up in response to the Regime’s election fraud.
Iran Focus
London, 29 May – Heshmat Alavi, a political activist specializing in human rights in Iran, wrote an analytical piece for Al Arabiya called: “How to define Iran’s Hassan Rouhani as a ‘moderate’”, in which he addressed the troubling myth of hardliners v moderates in the Iranian Regime and the Western news coverage surrounding the sham elections.
Iran Focus
London, 29 May – Huda al-Saleh wrote an analysis on Al-Arabiya comparing the Iranian Regime to Qatar. Through his analysis, he found that the two nations have incredibly similar political outlooks, especially with regard to support for terrorism and extremist leaders.
The Iranian Regime supplies money, arms, training and troops to various terrorist cells in the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and al-Qaeda under the pretence of helping the “vulnerable”.
Iran Focus
London, 29 May – Christopher Booker wrote an op-ed for The Telegraph, entitled: “If you think a ‘moderate’ has won in Iran, think again”, in which he made clear that the Iranian Regime is, and will always be, comprised of the hardest of hardliners, no matter who is President, because they are under the control of their Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
Iran Focus
London, 29 May – The Italian Parliament held a press conference, last week, in which they agreed that they need to find a decisive policy to counter the Iranian Regime.
The conference, which was chaired by the former Italian Foreign Minister, Giulio Terzi, and attended by both Italian senators and MPs, reviewed the consequences of the sham elections in Iran and the Regime’s link to terrorism.
Iran Focus
London, 29 May – Over the past six years, the US and Iran have maintained an uneasy peace in Syria but this may be about to end as their forces draw closer in the east and south of the country.
The unspoken truce was broken on May 18, when the US-led coalition, which supports the Syrian Opposition forces, carried out an air strike against an Iranian proxy group near the base of Al-Tanf (close to the Syrian border with Iraq and Jordon).
