Iran Focus
London, 19 October – The seventy-five-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran for almost twenty-five years. As The Guardian reports, his time in office will expire only on the day he dies. Recent news concerning his health has sparked debates over who will succeed his place in office.
Iran’s Center for Statistics states that unemployment is roughly 25% among young people; an increase of 2.5% in the past year.
The Iranian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Ali Rabiei, warned back in 2014 that if the economic growth did not reach at least 7% per year, that Iran would not be able to “curb unemployment”.
The Mayor of Montreal is revealed to have secretly visited Iran to meet the Mayor of Tehran.
This trip was not revealed via the website of Montreal Mayor, Denis Coderre, which details his trips to Iraq and South America, but via the Iranian Press.
Canadian-Iranians are reported to be furious that Coderre has met with a member of a regime that Canada designates a state sponsor of terrorism.
The Iranian Regime has tortured and killed one of its own Revolutionary Guards because he refused to fight in the Syrian Civil War.
Mohammad Reza Hamidavi, a 27-year-old married father-of-one, refused an order from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to fight in the Syrian Civil War.
American sources said the missiles fired at the US Navy destroyer USS Mason by Houthis rebels in the Gulf of Aden, were probably provided by Iran.
This failed missile attack occurred at the same time that Iranian news reports revealed that Iranian-made ballistic missile, Zalzal 3, were launched by the rebels in Yemen in order to hit Saudi targets.
A couple in Iran are being forced to sell their new-born triplets because they cannot afford the hospital costs.
The triplets were being sold for 40 million Tomans each (around $1264) but the father has been haggled down to around 20 million.
Iran Focus
London, 16 October – A group of U.S. senators are concerned that Iran has been sponsoring attacks on the U.S. Navy by supporting Houthi rebels with the money from The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). They have requested that an official inquiry is carried out by the Pentagon to establish whether Iran has engaged in more military dealings since the deal was made.
Iran Focus
London, 16 October – A group of U.S. senators are concerned that Iran has been sponsoring attacks on the U.S. Navy by supporting Houthi rebels with the money from The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). They have requested that an official inquiry is carried out by the Pentagon to establish whether Iran has engaged in more military dealings since the deal was made.
Iran Focus
London, 14 October – On October 12, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reports a shocking measure. In Mokhtarabad village in South Roodbar, school authorities gave at least eight lashes of the whip to 10 schoolgirls, and expelled them from school, because their parents did not pay 30,000 toumans (approx. $8.5) to the school’s principal, in an attempt to force impoverished families to pay money demanded by the school.
Iran Focus
London, 14 October – October 10 marked The World Day Against the Death Penalty. In Paris, it was celebrated at the mayor’s office of Paris’ 1st district, where an exposition Organized by the Support Committee for Human Rights in Iran (SCHRI) was held. The exposition emphasized the execution of political prisoners in Iran, and was interspersed with speeches from elected officials, human rights defenders, and witnesses of human rights violations from Iran, where executions often take place en masse and have been denounced by the U.N. Secretary General’s most recent report on Iran submitted to the General Assembly. As reported by the National Council of Resistance (NCRI) on October 11, Maryam Ravaji, their President-elect, had this to say:
