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Fatah blasts Iranian insults

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London, 4 Aug – Iran is trying “to ease tension” with the Palestinians following derogatory remarks made by Iranian officials about the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi, reported Asharq Al-Awsat, the influential Arabic newspaper.

Struan Stevenson: Iranian insults against Abbas reflect Iranian’s lies about supporting the Palestinian cause.

A former European politician has applauded the meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Maryam Rajavi.

Struan Stevenson, a former Conservative MEP from the UK, released a video via the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)’s YouTube channel in which he states that he thinks the meeting was incredibly important and showed bravery on both sides.

Palestinians demand an apology from Iran after their President is insulted for meeting with Iranian opposition leader

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London, 4 Aug – Palestinians want an apology from Iran after Regime officials insulted President Mahmoud Abbas over a meeting with Iranian Resistance leader, Maryam Rajavi, according to an official from the Fatah Movement.

A top adviser to the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, said the Palestinian leader “has been a collaborator with the Central Intelligence Agency for a long time.”

“Stop appeasing Iran” – British lawmaker

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London, 4 Aug – A British Parliamentarian has written an op-ed for US News encouraging Western governments to stop appeasing the brutal Iranian Regime and support the democratic option offered by the Resistance Forces instead.

Sir David Amess, a Conservative MP for Southend West, assessed the Iran nuclear agreement after its one-year mark and found that it has provided very few benefits for anyone who is not part of the Iranian Regime.

Iran executes more than 20 Sunni prisoners before families can pay final visit

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London, 3 Aug – Iranian prison authorities invited prisoners families to pay one final visit to their loved one before Iran executed them.

However, Iran had already executed the prisoners before the first of the families had arrived, according to The Express. The families were instructed to go to the coroner’s office to retrieve their relative’s bodies.

Iranian political prisoners on hunger strike to protest the mass execution of Sunni prisoners

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London, 3 Aug -Sunni political prisoners have been on hunger strike since Tuesday to protest the mass execution of Iranian prisoners.

Twenty Sunni political prisoners were executed in the early hours of Tuesday morning before their families had arrived to say goodbye.

Maryam Rajavi: Iran’s mass execution of Sunni prisoners is a crime against humanity

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London, 3 Aug -Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, has condemned Iran’s mass execution of Sunni prisoners as “an appalling crime against humanity.”

Twenty Sunni prisoners were executed in Gohardasht Prison, in Karaj, Iran on Tuesday. Their families had been told they could visit one final time, as long as they arrived before 3pm.

Mass Execution of Sunni Prisoners Believed Carried Out in Iran

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London, 3 Aug – When special Revolutionary Guards raided hall 10 of ward 4 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj (west of Tehran) on the afternoon of Monday, August 1, apprehending dozens of Sunni prisoners, and transferring them to an undisclosed location, the Iranian Resistance called forurgent intervention by the United Nations Security Council and Member States, and international human rights organizations, and the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and Special Rapporteur.

Iranian opposition Supports Palestinian Effort Toward Peace.

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London, 3 Aug – In an article on 1 August in New Europe, Violetta Rusheva reports that Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council for Resistance of Iran (NCRI), met with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday, in Paris.  The two politicians discussed means to combat terrorism and fundamentalism in the region, as well as the French initiative to revitalize the peace process between Israel and Palestine.

Former US Governor: Iran hijacked by “thugs and murderers”

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London, 3 Aug – Former Vermont Governor and Yale professor, Howard Dean, told Breitbart News that Iran has been hijacked by “thugs and murderers,” and should not be considered “a Muslim country.”