Iran Focus
London, 6 November – On November 4, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reports on the growing number of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who are killed during the conflicts in Syria; the death toll is increasing.
On November 1, 2016, the Turkish Anatolia News Agency reported that the number of the Iranian senior military dying in the Syrian civil war has reached fifteen. These were commanders of s of the IRGC, who were fighting in Syria since 2013.
Iran Focus
London, 5 November – Maryam Akbari-Monfared, arrested in December 2009 for alleged involvement in the Green Movement street protests, and later charged with being connected to the PMOI/MEK was sentenced to 15 years in prison for “waging war against God” in June 2010.
Four of her siblings were executed in the 1980s for their affiliations with the MEK, and in 2009 she was also accused of making phone calls to her remaining bother and sister who were at the time based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
Iran Focus
London, 5 November – In his November 4 article for the Washington Examiner, Amir Basiri writes about the incentive that the Iranian regime now has to take hostages for ransom.
Basiri asks what brought us to a situation where Foreign nationals and people of dual nationalities have reason to fear being arrested and incarcerated in Iran now. He blames a policy of appeasement and concessions to the Iranian regime.
Iran Focus
London, 4 November – A political prisoner in Iran had a visit from her mother for the first time since her imprisonment on October 24.
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was imprisoned for writing an unpublished story about the brutal act of stoning in Iran.
Iran Focus
London, 4 November – Their aim: to bolster the Iranian Regime and thwart plots against the dictatorship.
Salar Abnoush, deputy coordinator of Iran’s Khatam-al-Anbia Garrison, an IRGC command front, said: “The whole world should know that the IRGC will be in the U.S. and Europe very soon.”
Iran Focus
London, 4 November – A member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front has acknowledged the failings of the mullah’s regime in Syria.
Mostafa Tajzadeh, a so-called reformist member, called the Iranian Regime’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War a “disaster” and said that Iran is stuck in “Syria’s Swamp”.
Iran Focus
London, 4 November – A protest was held outside of Iran’s Parliament on Tuesday over the “plundering” of the treasury by state officials.
The protesters gathered outside of the Parliament when President Rouhani was inside defending three new ministers.
Iran Focus
London, 4 November – The Iranian Regime has expressed doubts about dealing with the unstable economy and the rise in unemployment but the situation might be about to get a whole lot worse.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have declared that the unemployment crisis is a security threat and that it will set up organisations in the provinces to deal with unemployment.
By Hamid Yazdan Panah
On October 30th, 2012, Sattar Beheshti was arrested by the Iranian cyber police. His crime alleged crime was posting his political opinions on social media, which included a harsh rebuke of the regime in Iran. Beheshti would never see home again. Prison authorities would contact his family on November 6th and asking them to collect his body. Four years after his death, Beheshti has come to embody the spirit of resistance in Iran, in an ongoing struggle against censorship and governmental repression.
Iran Focus
London, 2 November – In an article published on November 1, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reports on a maneuver that underscore the fact that death penalty cannot be ignored.
Minister of Justice, Mullah Pour Mohammadi said, according to ILNA, state news agency, on October 29, 2016, “the number of death penalties and its application should be reviewed…. However, death penalty continues to be in the agenda but not as much as it is being done nowadays”. As the General Assembly session was being held, he made this pledge while the regime sent 77 people to the gallows 77 in September.
