محدثين لـ"الإخبارية": النظام الإيراني يعمل على عدم تقارب شعوب المنطقة

Maryam Rajavi wins hearts and minds of Iranian diaspora

In three days' time, the world will witness the largest annual 

gathering of Iranian exiles in Le Bourget, Paris, with Maryam 

Rajavi as the keynote speaker.

Iranians of all walks of life as well as hundreds of politicians 

Bourget to declare their support for Maryam Rajavi, the 

uling Iran and establish freedom and democracy in their 

ountry. But who is Maryam Rajavi?

IRAN-Why July 9 Gathering?Message of Patrizia Toia, MEP from Italy

Iran-Maryam Rajavi: Nowrouz celebrates the certainty of the coming of spring, liberty and joy

Message on the New Iranian Year
Fellow compatriots,
Honorable mothers and fathers,
My dear sisters and brothers,
Passionate and energetic youths of Iran who want everything new,
Valiant women and men in political prisons who embrace Nowrouz even in captivity,
Champions of freedom in Camp Liberty who are the messengers of spring and Nowrouz for Iran,
Fellow exiled Iranians all across the world, who take your beautiful homeland, Iran, into your homes and to your families with Nowrouz and by setting up the Haft-Seen arrangement,
Happy New Year!

Women Political Prisoners Suffering Inhumane Care in Iran

As Women’s Day 2016 approaches, the Iranian government continues to be cited by international bodies over its human rights abuses, particularly regarding its female political prisoners. It is estimated that sixty-three women have been executed since Hassan Rouhani’s presidency began in 2013, although sources have noted that many executions are carried out in secret, so this figure could be much higher.

Maryam Akbari Monfared

One political prisoner, Maryam Akbari Monfared, has recently been transferred to a clinic to address her thyroid and eyes. Her family is attempting to get her treated at a rheumatology clinic as well. According to the Human Rights Activists New Agency, her conditions could allow her to have been released under article 134 of the Iranian penal code, but this application has been denied.

Iran’s elections won’t impact people’s future - NCRI’s Alireza Jafarzadeh on CNBC

Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), appeared on CNBC on Friday to discuss the elections in Iran for the regime's Parliament and Assembly of Experts.
Watch the full interview here:

Maryam Rajavi: Iran regime will end up weaker regardless of outcome of sham election

The Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, said that regardless of the outcome of the sham elections for the regime's parliament and the Assembly of Experts, which have no legitimacy whatsoever in the eyes of the Iranian people, ultimately, the regime will be weakened in its entirety, its internal crises will intensify, and the resentment and anger of the population toward the mullahs' corrupt and criminal factions will deepen even  further .....

MARYAM Rajavi

WD2016 Call 4 Change: Urge Iran regime to raise minimum age of marriage!

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Iranian women lose confidence in Rouhani, reformists as elections near

On the heels of Iran’s parliamentary elections, Iranian women are losing hope in the reformist party and current Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, according to a report by Reuters.

women in iran

Rouhani won the Iranian presidential election in 2013 as a “moderate reformist” who ran on a platform to fix economic and social problems. His supporters had hoped his victory would lead to social change in Iran, but the dial on social freedoms has barely budged in Iran since his election according to rights campaigners, who contest that Rouhani’s presidency has made little progress in regards to political and cultural freedoms.

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iran-It would be naive to think Rouhani is a ‘moderate’: Lord Clarke of Hampstead

extreme to think that Hassan Rouhani, the president of the clerical regime in Iran is a moderate, Lord Tony Clarke, member of the UK House of Lords and former Leader of the British Labor Party said in a speech during a meeting of a delegation of British parliamentarians with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, in Paris on Friday.

Lord Clarke of Hampstead

Lord Clarke told the meeting: “Rouhani and his ministers who wish to shadow their smiles and mount statements and suggestions that somehow they've become moderates. Moderates? Two recent reports from Amnesty International and United Nations' Committee on the Rights of the Child clearly expose the truth of how the mullahs treat their citizens, especially young people.”

Iran regime deploys 60,000 IRGC forces and foreign mercenaries in Syria

The Iranian regime’s massive campaign of dispatching forces to Syria from the beginning of 2016 has now gained new dimensions and the number of Revolutionary Guards and their non-Iranian mercenaries have doubled, reaching 60,000 in total. This troop deployment crusade follows the failure of the Iranian regime’s so-called “Moharram” plan executed in the final 3 months of 2015. According to this blueprint the Iranian regime, in coordination with Russia, sought to defeat the Free Syrian Army, especially in Aleppo, and occupy the city while enjoying air cover under vicious airstrikes.

Iran-Arasteh Gholivand -If I had 100 children, I would have encouraged them to do the same

Arasteh Gholivand was toiling woman from Azerbaijan. During the Iranian revolution against the Shah, Mrs. Gholivand took part along with her children in all the demonstrations and popular activities that demanded freedom of Iranian nation.

Arasteh Gholivand

After the victory of the Iranian people in toppling the Shah, Mrs. Gholivand supported the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and was an outspoken opponent of the backward policies and views of the ruling mullahs who had seized power in her neighborhood and among relatives.

iran-A woman, executed with her unborn child

Soraya Abolfathi was a brave woman who was slain by the Iranian regime in the city of Tabriz (northwestern Iran) while she was pregnant.
 

Soraya Abolfathi

Soraya was majoring in biology at Tabriz University when she was sentenced to death by Moussavi, a cleric, immediately after she slapped him for making an absurd request from her.
 The majority of women and girls who survived Tabriz Prison have written and documented the many atrocities they witnessed and emphasized the kinds of torture and violations of human rights that were carried out against them in this prison.
 Moussavi Tabrizi, the notorious henchman who was previously in charge of a so-called religious court in Tabriz, would suggest to temporarily marry any girl or woman for 3 hours before proceeding with their trials. Most of the women who were sentenced in 1988 received heavy sentences, including execution for not succumbing to his evil propositions despite having not committed any offenses or any charges filed against them.

"Firm Policy on Iran, Supporting Iranian Resistance" conference with a number of British MPs and dignitaries attending

Maryam Rajavi: Rouhani is not a moderate; revenues from deals with Iranian regime are spent by the IRGC on terrorism and war in the Middle East, insecurity in Europe
Friday, February 12, 2016, a conference entitled, "Firm Policyon Iran, Supporting Iranian Resistance", was held at the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, north of Paris with a number of British MPs, officials and dignitariesparticipating.

Maryam Rajavi

Rt. Honorable David Jones, former senior secretary, President of the International Parliamentary Campaign in Defense of Ashraf and President of the Parliamentary group for a Free and Democratic Iran, presented a declaration signed by 200 members of British Houses of Parliament to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. 

Maryam Rajavi: Terrorism under the name of Islam owes its existence to Iran regime

In a meeting on Friday with Members of Parliament from the United Kingdom in Paris, Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that so long as the mullahs are in power in Iran, terrorism under the banner of Islam will continue to owe its existence to the regime.Maryam Rajavi said the Iranian Resistance is warning yet again of the dangers posed by Iran’s ruling theocracy that inside Iran manifest themselves in the form of flagrant violations of human rights, and in the region work against stability by warmongering, terrorism and genocide in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.

200 UK lawmakers announce new Iran policy

More than 200 cross-Party MPs and Peers today called on the UK government to adopt a firm policy towards Iran and make any improvement in bilateral relations conditioned on an end to human rights abuses and regional meddling. The announcement was unveiled at a meeting attended by a delegation of eight MPs and one member of the House of Lords with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, north of Paris at the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Maryam Rajavi

US intelligence chief: Iran regime is the “foremost state sponsor of terrorism”

The U.S. faces terror threats from across the globe, and Iran continues to be the foremost state sponsor of terrorism, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in testimony in a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
Clapper noted, even after implementation of the nuclear deal this year, the regime in Iran also poses a “continuing terrorist threat to U.S. interests and partners worldwide”.
“Iran continues to be the foremost state sponsor of terrorism and exerts its influence in regional crises in the Mideast, through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Qods Force, its terrorist partner Lebanese Hezbollah, and proxy groups,” he said, reading from his submitted assessment.

Iran: Mothers, families of martyrs and political prisoner on trial

The trial of 10 men and women, mothers, fathers and relatives of martyrs and political prisoners, was held on Tuesday February 9.
These people were mostly arrested during a peaceful gathering outside Evin Prison on January 20, 2016, and charged with “disrupting public order”.
Simin Eivaz Zadeh (mother of ex-political prisoner Omid Alishenas), Hashem Zeinali (father of missing student Saeed Zeinali thought to be murdered in 1999 uprising) and a number of Mohammad Ali Taheri’s followers were present before the court.

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Iran: Medical leave for female prisoner conditioned on televised confession!

Pressures and threats against Zeinab Jalalian by the Iranian regime’s security apparatus has escalated to a new level.
Officials in Khoy Central Prison, located in West Azerbaijan Province in northwestern Iran, are refusing to allow a medical leave for this Kurdish political prisoner. Jalalian’s lawyer said disagreement with medical leave for this prisoner is very much related to the regime's demand that she agrees to a televised confession....

Zeinab Jalalian

IRAN-Protests greet 'executioner' Rouhani's visit to France

At a rally to kick off the march, speaker after speaker condemned Rouhani's human rights record, noting that some 2,000 people have been executed in Iran since he came to power three years ago, as well as Tehran's alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Maryam Radjavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (CNRI), condemned Rouhani's "facade of moderation".
"As a top official for 37 years in the religious dictatorship in Iran, Rouhani is implicated in all the atrocities of this regime and as a result should be brought to justice for crimes against humanity," she told the crowd....

IRAN - Photos: Dozens arrested in peaceful protest in Tehran

At least over two dozens people were arrested on Sunday in Tehran during a raid by Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (Police) against those who had gathered outside Tehran’s Evin prison and the home of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri demanding his release.

Mohammad Ali Taheri, founder of a new spiritual group in Iran called Erfan-e-Halgheh, was arrested on 4 May 2011 by officials linked to the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards.


Mr. Taheri, had been condemned to five years in ...

Iran: Soaring divorce rate alarms officials

Divorce rate has had an increasing trend over the past year with 38 of every 100 marriages ending up in divorce.
The statistics on divorce indicate an 8.93 per cent increase in the number of divorces in the first nine months of the Iranian year compared to the same period last year, according to a Justice Ministry advisor whose remarks were published in the state-run Mehr news agency.

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Iran: Number of single-mother families reaches 3 million

According to a new research done by the Center of Cultural Studies and Future Research, the increasing number of divorces which this center puts at 22 per cent is one of the main causes adding to the number of single-mother families

Iran-Many Iranian Women and Youth Feel Failed by Rouhani Ahead of Vote

Many Iranian women and young people are disillusioned about the upcoming elections, desperate for reform but losing hope in Hassan Rouhani and his promise of a freer society, Reuters reports.

ROUHANI

'I am not going to make the same mistake twice. I have decided not to vote,' said Setareh, a university graduate in the northern city of Rasht. 'I voted for Rouhani - was he able to improve my situation? No.

“Rouhani’s supporters hoped that his election victory would lead to social change in country where women have lesser rights than men in areas including inheritance, divorce and child custody and are subject to travel and dress restrictions, and strict Islamic law is enforced by a 'morality police'.”....

Iran-63 women executed in Iran under Rouhani

According to the data collected on the executions carried out during Rouhani's tenure,
the Iranian regime has executed a total of 2166 persons from August 2013 to January 15, 2016. Sixty-three of the victims have been women .....

Reyhaneh Jabari

Iran-Visite d'Hassan Rohani à Paris : le témoignage choc d'une opposante iranienne

La barbarie qui s'abat sur le monde sous le nom de l'islam, sévit en Iran depuis 37 ans.
Aujourd'hui, mon pays l'Iran affiche le taux d'exécutions par habitants le plus élevé au monde. Au mois de décembre, l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU a exprimé sa préoccupation devant la recrudescence des pendaisons en Iran. Elle a demandé que soit mis fin dans «la loi et la pratique» aux restrictions de la liberté d'expression et de convictions, aux discriminations et aux violations des droits des femmes et des minorités.

Iran-Rouhani’s record: 2200 executions

Rouhani’s record: 2200 executions, 80 dissidents murdered outside Iran, more political repression, No2Rouhani Iran 

Rouhani’s record: 2200 executions

Iran-French Elected Representatives declare solidarity with Iranian Resistance

On Sunday, January 24, 2016, a conference was held at the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Auvers-sur-Oise (north of Paris) with political personalities and elected representatives of France participating. The conference was entitled, "Solidarity of France's Elected Representatives with the Iranian Resistance against Extremism under the Banner of Islam."

Maryam Rajavi

Iran-Rally in Paris

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Iran-UK Bishops meet Maryam Rajavi, support Camp Liberty residents

prominent leaders of Christian churches in Britain, the Right Reverend John Pritchard, former Bishop of Oxford and the Right Reverend Adrian Newman, the Bishop of Stepney, have met with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) at her residence in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, and discussed the events and recent developments in Iran and the region and the right policy approach by the British and US governments as well as the Europe Union. During the meeting, the British religious leaders were warmly welcomed by supporters of the Iranian Resistance.

Maryam Rajavi with leaders of Christian churches

Sanctions Relief Won’t Revive Iran’s Economy While Also Enriching The Revolutionary Guards

The Revolutionary Guards will get rich with the loosening of US sanctions at the expense of the Iranian economy – former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Ken Blackwell, has written in Wednesday’s edition of Investor’s Business Daily .....

Blackwell

My sister Gity was 24 when she was executed in Iran

The second and third sequel in the Al Arabiya TV program “Hellish Era” was devoted to an interview with Mr. Behzad Naziri, member of NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee. He talks about the martyrdom of his sister itei and his escape from regime’s prison and the arrest of his father.

Guity  naziri

Al Arabiya: Behzad has kept a few pictures of him and his sister Giti who was executed 40 days before the arrest of Behzad at age 24. Despite the passage of 30 years and his escape from Iran, the hardship in the prison and the sadness in his eyes looking at his sister are still with him. The story of revolution in Iran, before all else, is the story of Behzad and Guity ....

Women’s rights activists in Iran increasingly face jail time amid cultural crackdown

Atena Farghadani told advocates she was beaten, held in solitary confinement, verbally abused and forced to strip naked by prison guards. (Atena Farghadani/Facebook)

Twenty-eight year-old Atena Farghadani felt a sense of outrage when her government, the conservative legislators of Iran, tried to criminalize voluntary sterilization in 2014. It was the latest move to restrict women’s reproductive choices, and Farghadani, a talented painter and budding activist, decided to speak out.....

Iran-Implementation of JCPOA and intensification of regime’s internal crises on the verge of elections

The adoption of the JCPOA by the Iranian regime and its hasty implementation by transgressing Khamenei’s declared redlines and guidelines, before all else, indicate the explosive state of the Iranian society, especially on the verge of the elections for the parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the eroding effect of the sanctions, and apprehension for the imposition of further sanctions by the U.S. Congress.....

Iran-Young woman’s death still in a halo of mystery

Three years ago in early January, a 25-year-old woman, a graduate of political sciences from Kermanshah’s Razi University, Shiler Farhadi ended her own life by her father’s hunting rifle.
Shiler Farhadi was from the renowned Sanjabi tribe famous for their courage. She practiced martial arts and was preparing to pursue her master’s degree when she disappeared in the autumn of 2011....

Shiler Farhadi

http://www.women.ncr-iran.org/index.php/articles/2132-iran-young-woman-s-death-still-in-a-halo-of-mystery

Iran-Rouhani is a murderer Why did you meet with a killer

Iran-In a new year meeting with French supporters of Iranian resistancee, Maryam Rajavi called on international community to expel Iranian regime from region

World can be free of fundamentalism only when the clerical regime in Iran as the epicenter of fundamentalism is overthrown

Maryam Rajavi

In a gathering of French supporters of the Iranian Resistance celebrating the New Year, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi expressed her regrets over bitter incidents of 2015 which made the world suffer especially in France and in the Middle East.
She pointed out: The more France and the world focus on the source of fundamentalism, i.e. the Tehran regime and its allies, the closer they would get to peace and security. 

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Iran-Maryam Rajavi meets with French supporters of Iran ian Resistance at Auvers-sur-Oise

Maryam  Rajavi

I hope 2016 will be a year of progress, prosperity&security4  France,&D year of freedom4my people in Iran
2015 was a painful year bc of terrorist attacks in D world, bloodbaths in Syria& Iraq, & displacement&repression of ppl in Mid East
Mrs. Rajavi said:
2015 was a harsh year 4Iran bc of suppression, poverty &1000 executions under Rouhani & bc of rocket attack on CampLiberty
Rouhani seeks 2 conceal detestable image of Iran ian regime; this duplicity affronts world conscience

Mrs. Rajavi said:
We see Dflame of struggle against fundamentalism in protests by French ppl 2rights abuses in Iran onD eve of Rouhani’s visit2 Paris
It was a great achievement last year when D world united against extremism under D name of Islam D epicenter of extremism is in Tehran
As D world focuses more on source of fundamentalism, i.e.

Mrs. Rajavi said:
Iran ian regime & its allies, D closer it would get 2 peace &security
DAESH can be defeated but D1st step is 2defeat Assad dictatorship that fosters DAESH w/ backing of IRGC
We call on D world community & esp France 2adopt a firm policy 2 expel Iran regime from Syria Iraq Lebanon&Yemen
Fundamentalists provoke enmity towards followers of other religions But U&we have demonstrated an exemplary coexistence&friendship
It was a great achievement last year when Dworld united against extremism under Dname of Islam 

After Iran regime's retreat, encourage democratic change

Sona Samsami

The U.S. continues to lack a broad, coherent, and effective strategy on Iran; one that affords the nuclear issue the weight it deserves, but does so in conjunction with – not in isolation from - Iran’s other threatening facets as well as the percolating desire of millions of Iranians who earnestly seek regime change.
The nuclear agreement may have dire unintended consequences: an emboldened regime that will channel gains into other threat generators, such as the financing of Islamic extremism. As a result, the perceived mitigation of one threat actually bolsters another.

Just this week, after the deadliest bombing in months in Bahrain, state media said the explosives used in the attack were similar to those smuggled in from Iran and seized days earlier.

Indeed, despite all the fanfare by Tehran’s apologists inside the Beltway, the agreement does not provide much cause for celebration in a region already embroiled in sectarian strife, for the most part encouraged by the mullahs....Samsami is the representative in the United States for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which seeks to establish a democratic, secular and non-nuclear republic in Iran

Iran-A deal to reinvigorate the ayatollahs?

How does one deal with terrorism, repeated deception and widespread abuse of justice? If you’re the P5+1, the perverse solution appears to be that one ignores the multiplicity of past violations and simply reinstates past failures. Trusting a partner guilty of all of the above, apparently writing off their persistent violations and rewarding them with a windfall of cash, may sound like a mistake! In the case of the Iranian regime one may be logical in concluding that it may be a mistake with truly awful international consequences.
The Iranian regime’s nuclear ambition has been in existence since the late 80’s, sometimes hindered, but steadily moving forward. Methods towards attaining a nuclear weapon may have varied outwardly depending on the regime’s policy but, covertly, their resolution has remained unchanged and they have consistently driven towards creation of the world’s deadliest weapon. While the regime has been caught red-handed numerous times, their covert, underground facilities were largely discovered not by western inspections, or intelligence, but by the Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) with its biggest constituent the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).

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With or without deal, US must uphold commitments to Iranian dissidents

The U.S. and other key world powers concluded a controversial nuclear agreement with Iran in mid-July, which left the regime’s nuclear infrastructure in place but conceded to lifting crippling sanctions.

The administration has been widely criticized for failing to negotiate the release of American hostages held by the regime, including an American pastor, a former Marine and a journalist. The administration has claimed that this demand was a separate issue from the nuclear deal. Still, when it came to Iranian demands, it agreed to lift conventional weapons embargo and sanctions on Tehran’s missile program, which was also a non-nuclear issue.

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Iran-Victory of Iraqi army and Sunni tribes in Ramadi

The need for extensive training and arming of Sunnis by U.S.

European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA)

Although the battle for Ramadi and the Anbar Province has not been conclusively decided and heavy clashes continue, there is little doubt that the terrorist Daesh (ISIS) group has been dealt a crushing defeat in this region and the Iraqi army and the armed Sunni tribes have scored a great victory, especially in the city of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, liberating many districts of the city from the clutches of Daesh.

Iran-Factsheet: Rouhani’s record

Hassan Rouhani is a killer

Who is Hassan Rouhani and what does he stand for? And more importantly what has been the conduct of the Iranian regime during his tenure?
The following review on some of the key issues is telling.
Human rights
The human rights situation in Iran has been dreadfu

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Human rights situation in Iran

Iran-Sen. Toomey and Gov. Ridge: Don’t suspend Iran sanctions

Sen. Toomey and Gov. Ridge

On Dec. 16, Secretary of State John Kerry certified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Iran is in full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and that the "suspension of sanctions related to Iran pursuant to the agreement is appropriate . . . and is vital to the national security interests of the United States."

Call by Iranian Resistance to save lives of 16 prisoners on verge of execution

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31 executions in less than two weeks
Sunday morning, January 3, the Iranian regime transferred 16 prisoners in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in the city of Karaj to solitary confinement in preparation for their execution. The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights bodies to save the lives of these prisoners who are about to be executed. While these prisoners are placed for imminent execution, from December 23 to January 4, thirty-one executions have been registered as follows:

UN Security Council condemns attack on Saudi embassy in Iran

اجلاس شورای امنیت علیه رژیم ایران

The United Nations Security Council on Monday strongly condemned an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Saudi Arabia cut off diplomatic ties with Iran’s regime on Sunday after protesters ransacked and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and the consulate in Mashhad.

Iran regime plans to forcibly turn Tehran church grounds into mosque

NCRI – Authorities in Tehran are planning to transform illegally-confiscated church grounds into an ‘Islamic prayer center.’The land belonging to the Iranian Assyrian community’s Chaldean Catholic Church in Tehran’s Patrice Lumumba Street (in Western Tehran) was illegally confiscated two years ago under the pretext of constructing an Islamic prayer hall and the authorities have refused to hand it back, a member of the regime's Majlis (Parliament) was quoted as saying by the state-run newspaper Sharq on Wednesday, December 30.

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U.S. House Republicans want panel to investigate Iran deal - The Hill

Some two dozen Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives want to create a Congressional committee to provide oversight of the Iran nuclear deal, The Hill reported on Thursday.
Rep. Todd Young (R-Ind.) has introduced legislation to create the Select Committee on Oversight of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) after lawmakers were unable to block the agreement earlier this year despite opposition from majorities in both chambers.