Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – Nearly 70 members of the Iranian terror squad, the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been recently killed in Syria according to reports from the democratic Iranian Resistance Forces.
Iran’s deputy president, Mullah Seyyed Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahallati, claimed that the number of IRGC forces killed in the Syrian civil war exceeded 1,000.
Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – Iran has granted permission for Russia to use one of its airbases to attack the Syrian Resistance forces if its aircraft carrier has to leave the Syrian coastline for another mission.
Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defence committee in the Federation Council, said: “The necessity to use the airfield of the airbase in Hamadan could emerge if Admiral Kuznetsov carries out another operation and [Russia] will not be able to use it for airstrikes against terrorists [read: the democratic opposition to Assad’s dictatorship] in Syria.”
Iran Focus
London, 2 Dec – Two Iranians and their Kenyan driver, who worked for the Iranian embassy in Nairobi, were charged on Thursday with collecting information for a terrorist act after filming the Israeli embassy, Reuters quoted lawyers as saying.
Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi, Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe and driver Moses Keyah Mmboga “were found taking video clips of the Israeli embassy … for the use in the commission of a terrorist act”, according to a charge sheet produced in court.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – In his article for Town Hall on November 30, Ivan Sheehan, Professor of Public and International Affairs, co-Director of the Global Affairs and Human Security graduate program in the School of Public and International Affairs, and Director of the graduate program Negotiation and Conflict Management at the University of Baltimore, discusses the attacks on Iranian dissidents by Tehran’s well-organized Washington lobby.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – Recent raids on arms smugglers in the Arabian Sea shows a link between Iran and Yemen.
The weapons shipments uncovered by British-based activists in the Arabian Sea show that Iran is funding Houthi rebels in Yemen
The shipments included guns made in Iran, Russia and perhaps even North Korea.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – An Iranian-American Christian and human rights activist has written an op-ed for The Hill about the plight of Iranian Christians who are crying out for freedom this December.
Donya Jam, the daughter of Iranian Christians, explains that Iranian Christians have existed for centuries and that people with different religions used to accept each other.
Iran Focus
London, 1 Dec – The election of Donald Trump provides the opportunity to restore US credibility in the Middle East, according to a human rights advocate who leads an international organisation fighting for justice for the oppressed.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras , the president of the International Committee in Search of Justice, wrote that by vehemently opposing the nuclear deal, Trump has cast himself as an enemy of the Iranian Regime.
Iran Focus
London, 30 Nov – Oppression by the Iranian Regime has only increased since the 2015 nuclear deal according to recently escaped political dissidents; this notion is supported by U.N. General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon.
The dissidents revealed that the money paid to Iran by the US and the release of bank assets that had been frozen since 1979 has only increased the Regime’s terrorist activities in the middle east.
Iran Focus
London, 30 Nov – The Iranian Regime has attempted to arrest a member of their parliament who called for a report into the bank accounts of the head of the Regime’s Judiciary, Sadegh Larijani.
Mahmoud Sadeghi managed to avoid arrest by stating that he had broken no law when the Iranian police arrived at his home, but he is effectively under house arrest with police waiting outside.
