Iran-IAEA: Constant modifications in Parchin have undermined agency’s ability to conduct effective verification

parchin

By barring stringent inspection of Parchin, Iranian regime is planning to prevent disclosure of previous military activities and leave open the path for further clandestine activities

NCRI - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared in its most recent report to its board of governors: “at a particular location at the Parchin site, the agency has continued to observe, through satellite imagery, the presence of vehicles, equipment, and probable construction materials. In addition, a small extension to an existing building appears to have [been] constructed.”The IAEA reiterated that “The activities that have taken place at this location since February 2012 are likely to have undermined the agency's ability to conduct effective verification.”

IRAN: Relatives of 30,000 executed PMOI members prevented from remembering massacre

NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime has prevented the families of executed political prisoners from commemorating the death of their loved ones on the 27th anniversary of their massacre.

IRAN-US federal court rules in favor of victims of Iran terror attacks

US federal court system

A US federal court said the families of victims of four terrorist attacks, that court rulings have been issued for financial compensation to be paid by the Iranian regime, can receive their compensation from this regime’s Bank Meli assets, the VOA website reported on Thursday, August 27th.

NCRI Iran News-An economic constriction plan to restrain Iran's regime

 An article published in the Washington Post by Juan Zarate and Chip Poncy highlights that the U.S. needs to be fully aware of the risks surrounding the nuclear deal with the regime in Iran if it is adopted and warns: “These risks should not be accepted as an unavoidable cost of the deal.”

Iran: students of Mohammad Ali Taheri detained

Detained followers of death row political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri

Mohammad Ali Taheri

Iran- prisoner’s family attacked by intelligence agents

behroz alkhani

NCRI- The family members of Behruz Alekhani, a Kurdish political prisoner recently executed by the Iranian regime, were attacked and beaten by anti-riot guards in Urumieh Central Prison. These agents resorted to violence to bring an end to this sit-in. 

iran-Spot inspection carried out at Iran’s notorious Evin Prison

NCRI - Prison wardens on Thursday carried out yet another spot inspection in two wards of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison which houses numerous Iranian political prisoners.

The mullahs’ henchmen raided wards 7 and 8 of Evin early on Thursday, scouring through the prisoners’ personal belongings.

IRAN: IRGC battalion commander killed in Syria

NCRI - A top commander of the Iranian regime’s 

Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has been killed fighting in 

Syria’s civil war, officials of the Iranian regime announced on 

Thursday.

Iran-email hacking school linked to :report

Researchers have linked a sophisticated hacking scheme targeting Iranian dissidents back to Iran, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.

A report released Thursday by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs describes how the hackers used text message and phone-based phishing to try to get around the security of Google’s Gmail and access the accounts of their targets.

The attacks studied by the Citizen Lab were very similar to others connected to Iranian hackers, the report says.

Iran: protesting expulsion of 4 nurses in Tehran

The Nurse Society executive boards in Yazd and Khorasan Razavi provinces protested the expulsion of four nurses from Tehran’s Amir A’lam Hospital who took part in various protest rallies. Cheraghi and Ghasemi Zarnushe are two of the expelled nurses. The names of two other nurses have not been announced. 
The Yazd Province Nurse Society executive board condemned the expulsion of these four nurses as “cruel”.

iran-Photos: Iranians in Denmark, Holland stage rallies for human rights in Iran

NCRI - Iranians in Denmark and Holland have staged rallies in support of human rights and democracy in Iran.

Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin e Khalq, MEK), in the Danish capital Copenhagen and the city of Aarhus on Saturday held protests condemning the recent spike in executions in Iran.

They urged the international community to hold the mullahs’ regime to account over its atrocious human rights record in Iran.

Also on Saturday PMOI supporters in The Hague held a similar protest outside the Dutch Parliament to condemn the wave of executions by Iran’s regime.

Iranians in Denmark

Iran regime executes Kurdish political prisoner Behrouz Alkhani

NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Wednesday (August 26) hanged Kurdish political prisoner Behrouz Alkhani in the central prison of Orumieh, western Iran.He was charged with "moharebeh", or waging war on God, by the mullahs' regime.According to received reports, Behrouz Alkhani's relatives were told by authorities to obtain an approval letter from the mullahs' courts in order to receive his body.On Tuesday, Mr. Alkhani had telephoned his relatives from prison asking them to visit him for the last time

iran-Hold Iran's regime to account for its egregious behavior

Logo of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC-US)

Although the U.S. administration insists that the recent Iran nuclear deal is not based on trust but on verification, the regime's supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his underlings have already rejected inspections of military sites, a critical part of the inspections regime envisioned in the comprehensive long-term deal with Tehran, Majid Sadeghpour, political director of the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC-US), wrote on Monday in The Hill.

iran-45 percent of prisoners in Iran have not been convicted – official

NCRI – Some 45 percent of inmates in Iran’s prisons have not been convicted of a crime, an official of the Tehran regime has acknowledged.

“I think 45 percent of those who enter prison have not been convicted,” the former head of prisons in Gilan Province, northern Iran, and the former advisor to the head of the state Prison Organization said. His remarks were published by the state-run news agency Tasnim on Sunday.

UN expected cost on Iran nuke monitoring: $10.5 million per year

The United Nation's nuclear agency tasked with monitoring the Iranian regime's compliance with last month's nuclear deal says the work will cost nearly $10.5 million each year, with the final tab amounting to nearly $160 million over the life of the pact, according to a confidential document obtained by The Associated Press.

IRAN: Homeless pregnant women forced to sell unborn babies at $585 out of poverty

NCRI – Some pregnant women living rough on the streets of Tehran are forced to sell their unborn babies in advance out of sheer poverty and destitution, an officialofthe mullahs’ regime in Iran has acknowledged

Poverty among homeless people in 13 neighborhoods of District 12 of the Iranian capital has reached unbearable levels, university professor Dr. Chit Chian, who is a member of the 30-member Society Workgroup of the Tehran Municipality, said.

“Unfortunately in these neighborhoods we have witnessed the sale of children,” he said, adding that he had spent several nights among the homeless people in the capital to get a true picture.

ایران-خاورمیانه-ورود صدها تانک و خودرو زرهی و ۲۵هزار رزمنده مقاومت از عربستان به استان مأرب یمن

بله این ائتلاف عربی  به رهبری عربستان است که اجازه نداد رژیم ایران که پدرخوانده تروریسم درجهان است ومنطقه خاورمیانه را با گروه های شبه نظامی ازجمله حوثی ها به آتش کشیده بیشترازاین پیشروی کند
سخنرانی مریم رجوی در کنفرانس خاورميانه در آتش افراطي گراي ديني- نقش مخرب رژيم ايران، ريشه‌ها و راه‌حلها 

تلویزیون العربیه 1شهریور 94 خبر داد
ستونهای نظامی و ارسال تجهیزات و تسلیحات سنگین به استان مأرب در مجاورت شرقی صنعاء پایتخت یمن، ادامه دارد. صدها خودرو زرهی و نزدیک به 25هزار رزمنده به مأرب رسیدند زیرا این استان نزدیکترین جبهه نبرد به پایتخت است.

Iran- planning ballistic missile war games

Iran is preparing to hold massive “ballistic missiles war games,” The Washington Times reported on Friday, August 21st citing a top commander in the Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. This follows an announcement that Tehran plans to begin phasing in a new generation of such missiles.
“The IRGC Aerospace Force will hold a large-scale ballistic missiles war-games soon,” Brigadier Gen. Hajizadeh said, addressing a ceremony in the northern Iranian city of Qaemshahr, according to a report by the Islamic republic’s state controlled Fars News Service.

Iran-Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani warns Iran

When the Marjaiya (Shiite religious leadership) in the southern Iraq city of Najaf held the government of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki responsible for corruption and ended their support for Maliki, Al Jazeera TV reported citing an editorial published in al-Quds al-Arabi daily.
The Marjaiya warned if reform measures are not completed it will lead to the complete crumbling and separation in Iraq.
This daily added various analysts view this position by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as a warning to Iran regarding the consequences of continuing to support Maliki and standing against the will of the people. Popular rallies and demonstrations are emphasizing for the criminal and political prosecution of corrupt officials and those responsible for the fall of Mosul, anyone they may be and at any position.

New Jersey House Democrat Donald Norcross opposes Iran deal

The latest member of Congress to oppose the Iran nuclear agreement is Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.), a freshman lawmaker from New Jersey, The Hill reported on Thursday, August 20th. 
Norcross came out against the deal late Tuesday, the same day fellow Democrat and New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez came out against the agreement. 

Iran’s past nuclear record provokes Congressional ire yet again

Lawmakers opposed to the deal say the arrangement amounts to Tehran inspecting itself
An arrangement that allows Tehran to control and manage inspections of a military site believed to have been used for nuclear weapons development have raised extreme anger amongst Congressional critics of the Iran nuclear deal, The Wall Street Journal reported from Washington, Wednesday, August 19th. 

Iran-United Nations human rights experts call on Iran to release Washington Post’s correspondent in Tehran

GENEVA - United Nations
United Nations human rights experts on 14 August urged the Iranian Government to immediately release the Washington Post’s correspondent in Tehranwho now awaits verdict after his fourth and possible final hearing earlier this week.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, reminded the Iranian Government of its responsibility to ensure that journalists do not face prosecution for exercising their professional activities. Journalists must be protected, not harassed, detained or prosecuted,” he stressed.
“We urge the Iranian Government to release all those exercising their rights to expression who have been arbitrarily arrested, detained and prosecuted,” the human rights experts said.

Forensics: Iran ranked 189th amongst 190 countries in road accidents

97,272 people have lost their lives in road accidents in Iran between the years of 2010 to 2014, the regime’s Forensics Organization said in a report on Thursday, August 20th. From 190 countries Iran is ranked 189th in road accidents and only the country of Sierra Leone has conditions worse than Iran.

Iran-The alarming increase in the number of execution in Iran is proof of the mullahs’ political and social stalemate

Executions has intensified during Rouhani tenure

More international human rights organizations are sounding alarm over the vicious increase of number of executions in Iran. Rights’ violations have become an everyday practice by the mullahs’ regime to play down the rattling effects of the nuclear deal amongst the elite inside the country.
To put down any decent and prevent another popular uprising in Iran, the clerical regime has resorted to the 'policy of death.'

Iran: judiciary commission evaluates women’s punishment!

 

Mohammad Ali Esfanani, a member of Iran’s so-called parliament referred to a bill under review in the judiciary commission on actions against women under the pretext improper veiling.
“Article 1 and 2 of the Protection of Virtue and Hijab were confirmed. Article 1 states if a vehicle is seen with a passenger with improper veiling, the driver will be fined 1 million rials (around $30). Article 2 refers to government offices and organizations where if government employees are seen without proper hijab, their salaries will be lowered. These two articles were passed by the commission. They must be confirmed by the parliament to have them informed to the public and implemented,” he said. (State-run Fars news agency – August 17, 2015)

Iraq-The Grand Shiite religiou leader welcomes reforms, demands more

AFP, Baghdad, 14 August 2015 - Iraq’s top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Friday welcomed proposed reforms aimed at curbing corruption and streamlining the government, but said more were needed, especially for the judiciary.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday announced a reform programme in response to weeks of protests and a call from Sistani, and parliament approved the plan along with additional measures two days later.

Iran Submits Information on Past Nuclear Work to U.N. Agency, Long Work Ahead

IAEA to analyze documents, material over next month

The Wall Street Journal, 15 August 2015

Iran has submitted documents and material about its past nuclear work on time, the United Nations ’ nuclear oversight agency said Saturday, but it provided no assessment of how much clarity the new information shed on Tehran’s past activities.
Iran’s past nuclear work, which the U.S. and many other Western countries believe was aimed at gaining nuclear weapons know-how, has become one of the key issues in the political fight in Washington over July’s nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers.

Iran: political prisoner Taheri sentenced to death

Mohammad Ali Taheri

Seyed Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaie, the lawyer representing Mohammad Ali Taheri said the following about the latest status of his client’s case in court.
“Mohammad Ali Taheri’s death sentence was issued and we were informed about it on July 29. We have until August 19 to protest and file an appeal.”
Mohammad Ali Taheri, the founder of the ‘Erfan Halghe’ sect, was arrested 2010 on charges of apostasy, insulting religious sanctities, ‘corruption on earth’ and insulting Prophet Mohamed of Islam. He was released on bail 67 days later, yet arrested and thrown to jail again in 2011.

 (State-run Reporters Club – August 12, 2015)

Iran spent 65 per cent of defence budget ‘on financing militant groups’

Iran funding terrorist activities

GD Online, Manama, 13 August 2015 - Alarm has been expressed after a study found that Iran allocates 65 per cent of its defence budget to fund terrorist activities in the region.
BDF chief of staff Major General Shaikh Daij bin Salman Al Khalifa voiced concern at the figure  yesterday and called for the full picture about Tehran’s destabilising role to be revealed.
The figure originates from a study conducted by the American Action Forum, which said the nuclear agreement between Iran and the West could increase Iran’s defence budget by 5pc – and that of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) by 50pc.

Iran: more Christian converts arrested in city west of Tehran

Christians under immense pressure in Iran under mullahs

Following the harassment and pressures imposed on Christian converts in Iran, at least 8 other members of a house church in Karaj, west of Tehran, were arrested by security agents, reports indicate. The status of Pastor Saeed Abedini in Gohardasht Prison remains concerning.
Hayede Shadnia, Shahin Bashiri, Mona Chahardoli, Ismaeel Falahati, Ne’matollah Yousefi and an individual by the name of Razmik, along with at least two other Christian converts, were arrested by plainclothes security agents on Friday, August 7 while taking part in a praying ceremony.
The detention of these individuals came with disrespectful conduct and even beatings by the security agents, along with a number of books and pamphlets confiscated and transferred to a van. Security agents equipped with radio transmitters and pistols also rounded up satellite TV dishes on the same building, reports indicate. 

Opponents of Iran Deal Try to Reach Young Voters on Snap chat

Reaching young voters to fight Obama Iran deal

The New York Times, 13 August 2015

Speaking in favor of the international arms control agreement with Iran last week in Washington, President Obama warned that opponents of the deal would flood the airwaves with “tens of millions of dollars in advertising,” ahead of a congressional vote in September. He failed, however, to advise citizens who want to tune out the debate entirely to avoid not just their televisions but also Snapchat, the social messaging service popular with teenagers. During the Republican debate in Ohio last week, as the candidates denounced the agreement, Snapchat users who opened the app in that state were offered the chance to weigh in by adding a filter to an image of themselves which would express “How I Feel About the Bad Iran Deal.”

New details of Iran-linked busted terror network in Kuwait

Ordinance belonging to Iran’s busted terror cell in Kuwait

The arrested members of a terrorist network in Kuwait were in contact with the Lebanese Hezbollah, al-Bawaba website reported on Saturday, August 15th.
Reuters had previously reported Kuwait authorities had discovered a large amount of weapons and ammunition under a house near the Iraqi border, all belonging to this network. This network was planning and plotting to carry out attacks to destabilize Kuwait. 

General Odierno: Iran spending unfrozen money in Iraq, Yemen & Syria

US Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno said in response to a question on Iran that the US cannot act weak and must understand that Iran is carrying out operations in numerous countries, be it Yemen, Syria or Iraq, the Department of Defense website reported on Friday, August 14th.
We must be very aware and take into consideration that a portion of the money they will be receiving from unfrozen assets will be used for these activities, Odierno emphasized.
The three-star general added the US must be on high alert about this matter and continue its surveillance up close.

Iran: three executed on drug-related charges

Three inmates in Rajaie Shahr Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, were executed on drug-related charges, Hrana news agency reported on Wednesday, August 12th.
These three inmates were charged with launching narcotics “cooking houses” for the past three years in southern Tehran. They were arrested by the police and handed over to judiciary officials. These three individuals were aged from 24 to 37. It is worth noting that the names and specifications of these individuals have not been announced by judiciary officials.

Kerry complains to Moscow about Iran general’s visit

AFP, Washington, 13 August 2015 - US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday to express concern about a visit to Moscow by the commander of Iran’s covert forces, a senior State Department official said.
General Qassem Suleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ foreign operations, reportedly visited Russia late last month despite being subject to UN-backed international sanctions.

Sir David Amess MP: We must back regime change in Iran

 Thursday, 13 August 2015 22:06

The international community ought to help facilitate the demise of the mullahs’ regime in Iran in order to guarantee that Tehran does not become a nuclear weapons state, Sir David Amess, a Member of Parliament from the United Kingdom, wrote on Thursday.

“The undeniably weak nuclear deal is a step backward with respect to the type of concessions we could have gotten from Tehran if we had stuck to our guns. In that sense, it is a failure. But you can fail one test and still pass the entire course, and I remain hopeful that that will be the situation when Western policy, toward Iran, in particular that of American enters into new phases, especially after the end of the Obama presidency,” Mr. Amess wrote for Business Insider.

Youth around the world can make a difference the fight for freedom in Iran

A panel of young people on August 12, International Youth Day, participated in an online conference on the subject of the problems in Iran and the region. They participated from Canada, Sweden, UK, France and Holland and spoke about the suppression in Iran and how the youth deal with this.

Nikou Kalbali Iranian student in Canada, highlighted the situation in Iran in general. She said there is no gender equality, no freedom of speech and the youth are particularly repressed (they don’t have the freedom to choose what to wear, for example).

Iran regime intensifies suppression of women and gender apartheid

 Thursday, 13 August 2015 23:35

NCRI - The Iranian regime parliament is deliberating on a scheme dubbed “protecting hijab and chastity” in order to ramp up the atmosphere of terror in the society and to intensify suppression of women in particular. Most of the articles of this 13-article legislation that was in general ratified by regime’s parliament last October aims at limiting women’s employment and imposing still further pressure and suppression of women on the mullahs-fabricated pretext of “mal-veiling”.

According to one of the ratified articles of this legislation, if the driver or passenger of a vehicle takes off her veil… she will be fined one million rials and the driving license of the driver will get 10 negative points.

Bahrain: Arrested terror suspects were trained in Iran

 Friday, 14 August 2015 15:40

Bahrain’s chief of police says five suspects with links to Iran have been arrested in connection with a bombing last month that killed two police and wounded six others, the Associated Press reported.

Maj Gen Tariq Al Hassan says investigators have connected the suspects to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), as well as Hezbollah, the Iranian-armed and funded group in Lebanon.

The statement by Bahrain’s interior ministry was carried by the state-run news agency on Thursday. The July 28 bombing targeted a bus carrying policemen near a primary school south of the capital in an area called Sitra.

Iran warship trained weapons on US helicopter, Navy says

 

An Iranian warship trained its weapons on a U.S. Navy helicopter in the Arabian Sea last month, a Navy spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Wednesday -- the latest in a spate of rogue moves in recent months by the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian frigate aimed manned weapons at a U.S. helicopter practicing landings on a coalition vessel being accompanied by the USS Farragut in the Gulf of Aden on July 25, Navy spokesman Lt. Timothy Hawkins told Fox News. The Gulf is located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen and Somalia.
“We characterize this interaction as unsafe and unprofessional,” Hawkins told Fox News.

Iran: Holding concerts in universities is prohibited

Increasing crackdown in Iran

Mohammad Farhadi, minister of science, research and technology, said about staging concerts in universities: in no way will the staging of concerts in universities be approved by the ministry of science and we never have and never will allow concerts to be held in universities. We will confront any case in which such ceremonies are held in universities, he added.
(State-run Fars news agency – August 8, 2015)

Single mothers in Iran on the rise

Shahindokht Molavardi, Hassan Rouhani ’s vice president in women and family affairs said the number of single mothers is on the rise in Iran.
“Currently 12% of all families are run by single mothers, and 7% have no parents at all. Furthermore, 82% of single mothers are unemployed and 16% are less than 40 years of age,” she said.
 ( NCRI Women’s Committee – August 6, 2015)

Iran-House GOP Leader Sees Chance to Override Obama Veto on Iran Vote

House Republican Majority leader Kevin McCarthy

Bloomberg, 11 August 2015 - HouseRepublican Majority leader Kevin McCarthy says there’s a chance Congress can muster enough Democratic votes to override a presidential veto in support of the Iran nuclear deal.
“I’m basing that on what I hear from the other side of the aisle, from individual members who talk to me,” McCarthy, who is leading a visit of 36 GOP House members to Israel, said Tuesday in an interview in Jerusalem.
Obama has threatened to override Congress if it votes against the accord world powers reached with Iran last month. If the Republican majorities in Congress vote as a bloc against it, they will need 44 Democrats in the House of Representatives and 13 in the Senate to knock down the veto. At least seven House Democrats, including New York Representative Eliot Engel, and that state’s senior Democratic senator, Charles Schumer, have announced they will oppose the agreement.

Maryam Rajavi’s message commemorating victims of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran-12August2015

My fellow compatriots, Families of martyrs and political prisoners,
On the 27th anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, let us commemorate the heroes and heroines who are the shining symbols of perseverance against religious fascism.
In 1988, following his acceptance of the ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq war, Khomeini issued a fatwa to massacre groups after groups of PMOI and other political prisoners, because they refused to surrender to the religious dictatorship. They remained steadfast and dedicated a remarkable chapter to the annals of Iran’s history.
Today, images of atrocities perpetrated by ISIS arouse outrage among people around the world over the brutality of religious fundamentalists. Three decades ago, however, it was Khomeini who laid the foundations of this type of barbarism by massacring thousands upon thousands of Iranian youths after issuing fanatical fatwas.
At that time, the current Supreme Leader of the regime, Ali Khamenei, was the president and he publicly condoned the 1988 massacre by saying, “We execute prisoners and have no quarrels about it.” The regime's current President, Hassan Rouhani, was at the time the deputy to the acting commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and a senior regime official.
The reality is that both factions of the regime were involved in the massacre of political prisoners.

Iran teachers: we will return outside Parliament next Sunday

 

Kindergarten teachers who had gathered outside the Parliament in Tehran to protest the violation of their rights stressed that they will return next Sunday if their demands are not met. Reports show that the 9 August gathering of teachers outside the Parliament building reached up to 2000 teachers. These teachers had come to Tehran from all across Iran.

Short video: Camp Liberty resident’s torment due to medical siege

NCRI - Watch a short video report about the passing away of Mohammad Hadi Taali, a member of Iran's principle opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK).
While at Camp Liberty, in Iraq, Mr. Taali was diagnosed with lung cancer, and doctors in Baghdad advised that he be transferred to Europe or the Iraqi city of Erbil for treatment. But the Iraqi government at the time prevented his temporary transfer to Erbil, and his condition deteriorated due to delays in his treatment caused by the Iraqi government's inhumane medical blockade on Camp Liberty.

Iraq: EIFA welcomes Abadi Reform Package but demands more

 

Struan Stevenson

The European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA) welcomes Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s 7-point plan for reforms in Iraq and congratulates him on these courageous and long-overdue measures, but emphasizes four additional key actions that must accompany any such reforms:

1.  Prosecution of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for crimes against humanity, torture, murder and corruption.
2.  Eviction of Iran from all areas in which it has interfered in Iraq. ISIS cannot be defeated, nor order restored in Iraq until the Iranian ‘occupation’ is ended.
3. Confronting and neutralizing the brutal, sectarian Iranian-led Shi’ite militias. No armed forces should be tolerated in Iraq apart from the Iraqi military and the police.
4. Early free and fair elections under UN supervision.

Sen. Lindsey Graham plans to block IAEA funding over Iran ‘side deals’

 

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said Monday he plans to block funding to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) until the U.S. Congress gets access to alleged side deals that are related to the Iranian nuclear agreement.
Sen. Graham intends to block $88 million in U.S. funds to the UN nuclear watchdog until lawmakers get the documents, according to a Roll Call report. Sen. Graham is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees that funding.

Iran regime hangs 39-year-old mother while telling her cellmates she was taken to infirmary

NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Monday hanged a young Iranian mother in a notorious prison in Karaj, north-west of the capital Tehran.

Fatemeh Haddadi, 39, had been imprisoned in the notorious Qarchak Prison for Women in Varamin, south-east of Tehran.
On Sunday (August 9) wardens took Ms. Haddadi from Hall 6 of Qarchak Prison under the guise of transferring her to the medical center. She was transferred to solitary confinement in Gohardasht (Rajaishahr) Prison in Karaj and was executed there the following day, according to the website of the

Iranian man decides to sell his eye for $2000 out of poverty

 

NCRI – Unbearable poverty has led one Iranian man in his thirties in north-east Iran to decide to sell one of his eyes in order to earn enough to be able to feed his children.

While many struggling Iranians each day put up one of their kidneys for sale as a source of income in what has become a dark habitual practice in Iranian society, this shocking case involves a 34-year-old father of three who had already sold a kidney six months ago for the equivalent of $2000 in Tehran.
In a rare admission of the level of poverty and destitution among the Iranian population, the state-run daily Shahrara on Saturday (August 8) published the account of the man, which it only identified as M., who was attempting to sell his eye in the city of Mashhad.

 

IRAN-Rubio vows to end Iran agreement if elected

 


The Hill - August 09, 2015 - Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) said in an interview broadcast Sunday that, if elected president, he would bring the nuclear weapons agreement with Iran to an end and reestablish current economic sanctions.
“Well, that agreement would come to an end,” Rubio said of the accord on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Iran-Call for international condemnation of the execution of a Kurdish political prisoner in Tabriz Central Prison

On the morning of Sunday August 9, in a brutal crime, Kurdish political prisoner Sirvan Najavi, was hanged by the regime’s agents in Tabriz Central Prison. The henchmen did not notify his lawyer about the execution and deprived his family from having a last visit to their his son. The Iranian Resistance and human rights organizations had already called to save this political prisoner.
 

Iran-Democrats Under Pressure to Stay Silent on Iran Deal

 

President Barack Obama and other top officials have been in near constant communication with House and Senate Democrats, through group and one-on-one interactions, to urge them to support the P5+1 deal with Iran and vote against the resolution of disapproval put forth Tuesday by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce.
Bob Corker, Royce’s opposite number in the Senate, said he will introduce a companion version of the disapproval measure later this week.
Members of Congress and their staffers tell us that the White House has asked Democrats who are expected to oppose the deal to hold off on announcing their position until September, when Congress will be focused on the agreement.