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Iran Enjoys Impunity as World Ignores Past Crimes Against Humanity
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1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran |
Iran Enjoys Impunity as World Ignores Past Crimes Against Humanity
by Hamid Enayat Ù€November 4, 2019
Crime Against Humanity: New Book on Iran Regime's Massacre of the Mujahedin-E Khalq MEK Presented at European Parliament
Crime Against Humanity: New Book on Iran Regime's Massacre of the Mujahedin-E Khalq MEK Presented at European Parliament
Iran Regime’s Terror Plots Against MEK Highlighted in New U.S. Report
Iran Regime’s Terror Plots Against MEK Highlighted in New U.S. Report
"Iran remains the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism." That's according to the Country Reports on Terrorism 2018 released by the United States Department of State on Friday, November 1, 2019.
"The regime has spent nearly one billion dollars per year to support terrorist groups that serve as its proxies and expand its malign influence across the globe," the State Department's annual report said.
"Tehran has funded international terrorist groups such as Hizballah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad."
"It also has engaged in its own terrorist plotting around the world, particularly in Europe. In January, German authorities investigated 10 suspected Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force operatives."
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"In the summer, authorities in Belgium, France, and Germany thwarted an Iranian plot to bomb a political rally near Paris, France," the report added, referring to the regime's attempt to bomb the annual 'Free Iran' gathering in June 2018 attended by Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi and hundreds of international lawmakers and personalities as well as tens of thousands of supporters of the Iranian democratic opposition.
"On June 30, French and Belgian authorities arrested several individuals – including an Iranian official based in Austria – suspected of planning to attack an event organized by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq in Villepinte. In October, France imposed sanctions on two Iranian operatives and the internal directorate of the Iranian intelligence agency (MOIS) in connection with the covert terrorist plot," the report noted.
"On October 9, German authorities extradited Iranian official Assadollah Assadi to Belgium, following a legal battle in which he unsuccessfully claimed diplomatic status following his June 30 arrest while on what he claimed was personal travel in Germany. Assadi was arrested in Germany pursuant to a European arrest warrant alleging espionage and a covert plot to attack Iranian opposition activists at a rally in France."
"In October, an Iranian operative was arrested for planning an assassination in Denmark, and in December, Albania expelled two Iranian officials for plotting terrorist attacks," the report said, the latter case referring to the regime's attempt to bomb the Persian New Year festival organized at the compound of the main Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), or Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), in Albania.
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"In December, Albania expelled two Iranian officials, including the Iranian Ambassador to Albania, in response to an Iran-sponsored plot to carry out a terrorist attack in Albania," read another passage in the report.
"In 2018, the Iranian government continued this pattern of behavior, supporting terrorist plots to attack Iranian dissidents in several countries in continental Europe. In June 2018, the Netherlands expelled two Iranian diplomats associated with the November 2017 assassination of an Iranian diplomat on Dutch soil. In October 2018, Belgian authorities arrested an Iranian diplomat and two Belgian citizens of Iranian heritage for plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition group rally that occurred in June 2018 outside Paris. In October 2018, Denmark recalled its ambassador from Tehran and condemned an Iran-backed plot to assassinate an Iranian dissident in Denmark. Finally, in December 2018, the Albanian government expelled Iranian diplomats in retaliation for Iran-sponsored attempts to conduct terrorist attacks in Albania."
Opposition leader Maryam Rajavi remarks on Europe’s Iran policy and Regime’s 1988 massacre
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Opposition leader Maryam Rajavi remarks on Europe’s Iran policy and Regime’s 1988 massacre
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Opposition leader Maryam Rajavi remarks on Europe’s Iran policy and Regime’s 1988 massacre
The representative of Iran Regime’s Supreme Leader Calls for Takeover of the US Embassy in Iraq
The representative of Iran Regime’s Supreme Leader Calls for Takeover of the US Embassy in Iraq
The U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on the Iranian Regime's Construction Sector
The U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on the Iranian Regime's Construction Sector
France: Maryam Rajavi Pays Tribute to MEK Members Who Perished in Iran’s 1988 Massacre
France: Maryam Rajavi Pays Tribute to MEK Members Who Perished in Iran’s 1988 Massacre
Vast Damage Caused by Iran Floods
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| These floods once again show the level of Iranian government's mismanagement in urban planning and in emergency preparedness," he said in a statement earlier this month. |
Vast Damage Caused by Iran Floods
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The U.S., Gulf Countries Impose Sanctions on 25 Targets Linked to Iran's Regime
The United States and six Gulf countries agreed to jointly impose sanctions on 25 corporations, banks and individuals linked to the Iranian regime’s support for militant networks including Hezbollah, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
The blacklisted targets were announced by the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) nations - which also include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - as U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was traveling in the Middle East.
The U.S. had previously imposed sanctions on all 25 targets, Reuters reported.
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“The TFTC’s action coincides with my trip to the Middle East, where I am meeting with my counterparts across the region to bolster the fight against terrorist financing,” Secretary Mnuchin said in a Treasury statement.
Mnuchin on Monday told reporters the United States would increase economic pressure on Iran's regime over its nuclear program.
Sanctions reimposed on Iran's regime by the U.S. after President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from world powers’ 2015 nuclear pact with Tehran have dried up Iranian oil revenue and cut Iranian banks’ ties to the financial world.
Tensions between the U.S., its Gulf allies and Iran's regime spiked in recent months after attacks on oil tankers and a September strike on Saudi oil facilities, carried out by the Iranian regime.
Twenty-one of the targets announced on Wednesday comprised a vast network of businesses providing financial support to the Basij Resistance Force, a paramilitary group that is part of the Iranian regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The U.S. State Department designated the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in April 2019.
“This is the TFTC’s largest joint designation to date, and is focused on entities supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s regional proxy, Hizballah,” the Treasury statement said.
“Several of the businesses targeted in this action are providing financial support to the Basij Resistance Force (Basij), a paramilitary force subordinate to the IRGC that have long been used as shock troops by the regime to oppress domestic opposition with brutal displays of violence, while also recruiting, training and deploying fighters to fight in IRGC-fueled conflicts across the region.”
A senior Treasury official told Reuters on Wednesday the Basij attacks demonstrators and students, recruits child soldiers and engages in torture.
The Treasury said shell companies and other measures were used to mask Basij ownership and control over multibillion-dollar business interests in Iran’s automotive, mining, metals, and banking industries, many of which operate across the Middle East and Europe.
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“Twenty-one of these targets comprised a vast network of businesses providing financial support to the Basij Resistance Force (Basij). The Iran-based network Bonyad Taavon Basij, translated as the ‘Basij Cooperative Foundation,’ employs shell companies and other measures to mask Basij ownership and control over a variety of multibillion-dollar business interests in Iran’s automotive, mining, metals, and banking industries, many of which have significant international dealings across the Middle East and Europe.”
Four individuals targeted were Hezbollah-affiliated and help coordinate the group’s operations in Iraq, it said.
“These designations again highlight the degree to which Hizballah operates as a clandestine, terrorist arm of the Iranian regime by smuggling oil for Iran, raising funds for Hizballah, and sending fighters to Syria for the IRGC-Qods Force on behalf of Qasem Soleimani.”
“The TFTC’s coordinated disruption of the financial networks used by the Iranian regime to fund terrorism is a powerful demonstration of Gulf unity. This action demonstrates the unified position of the Gulf nations and the United States that Iran will not be allowed to escalate its malign activity in the region,” added Mnuchin.
Earlier this month, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) - the international body that sets standards on combating terrorist financing - said it had given Iran's regime the final deadline of February 2020 to comply with international norms, after which it would urge members to apply counter-measures.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday welcomed the move by Paris-based FATF, saying in a statement that the IRGC “continues to engage in large-scale, illicit, financing schemes to fund its malign activities.”
