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“Stop appeasing Iran” – British lawmaker

Iran Focus

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

Iran Focus

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

Iran Focus

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.”

Fatah: the Iranian regime “strives for death and destruction”

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London, 2 Aug – Fatah responded Monday to the remarks of an Iranian Foreign Ministry official on the meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi.

Brexit and Trump are bad for business with Iran

Iran Focus

London, 1 Aug – Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the startling popularity of US Presidential nominee Donald Trump are making international banks reluctant to do business with Iran, Reuters reported.

The destabilising effect that Brexit has had on the world economy and Trump’s promise to tear up the nuclear deal if he becomes President, has made banks much less likely to invest in Iran.

Lord Alton: Support democracy in Iran to secure the Christian community

Iran Focus

London, 1 Aug – A British Parliamentarian has said that supporting the democratic plan of the Iranian Resistance is the only way to protect Christians in Iran.

Professor Lord Alton of Liverpool, a cross-bench member of the House of Lords and member of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, states that the plight of religious minorities in Iran has been a major concern of his which is why the latest Human Rights Priority Country report on Iran has caused him to write a piece on religious and democratic freedom for Independent Catholic News.