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The U.S. Should Focus on Iran’s Human Rights Abuses - Amb Ken Blackwell Written by  Mansoureh Galestan   on   22 October 2019 . Iran’s regime is becoming ever more brazen in its foreign policy, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently attacking commercial vessels in the Gulf, and seizing others,  including a British tanker , launching  missiles against  Saudi oil infrastructure  and pursuing aggressive policies in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen,  writes  former United States Ambassador Kenneth Blackwell . The Iranian regime's recent actions cannot simply be interpreted as a response to rising levels of pressure from the US, argues Ambassador Blackwell. " Its  abuses both at home and abroad have been getting worse for quite some time. And they have done so not because of newfound foreign pressure but because of the predictable absence thereof."   In an op-ed for Townhall on October 22, Amb Blackwell quoted...

Iranian Political Prisoner Majid Assadi Denied Medical Treatment Written by  Shamsi Saadati  on  20 October 2019 . Iran's regime is denying  political prisoner Majid  Assadi   medical treatment in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj.   Assadi   is suffering from various illnesses, including severe pain in his spine and digestive problems which have intensified as a result of prison  authorities’  continued hindering of his medical process.   He is being denied access to a hospital outside the prison because he has refused to wear a prison garb at the hospital.   Forcing political prisoners to wear prison clothes during outside hospital appointments is a method used by Iran's regime to humiliate them in public.   The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the main force behind the Iranian regime's terrorism and malign behavior in the region Assadi , 35, suffers from Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), a rheum...

Iranian political prisoner deprived of medical care Iranian political prisoner Majid Assadi (File) Iran, October 15, 2019 —Iranian regime authorities in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, are hindering the medical care that political prisoner  Majid Assadi  needs by not permitting his transfer to a hospital. This political prisoner is suffering from  various illnesses , including his glands and digesting system, eyes and spinal cord. Prison authorities are demanding that he wear prison clothing when sent to a hospital. This is a method used by Iranian regime authorities to humiliate political prisoners when sent outside of their controlled facilities and into the public. Back in November 2017, Assadi was sentenced by a regime court to six years behind bars on vague charges, such as “threatening national security through assembly and collusion,” and “propaganda against the state.” Back in late September of this year, a court hearing scheduled for A...