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The International Judo Federation (IJF) announced in an Oct. 22 statement that the Iran Judo Federation will be suspended “from all competitions, administrative and social activities organized or authorized by the IJF and its Unions”. Iran: Athletes Face Internal Restrictions Before Foreign Opponents 24 OCTOBER 2019   EMPTY By Jubin Katiraie On October 22, the International Judo Federation (IJF) banned Iran from all competitions authorized by the federation and its unions. This means that Iranian judokas are suspended from Tokyo Olympics next summer, in which they counted as strong contenders. It is worth considering that judo is one of Iran’s strongest sports and IJF’s announcement is a big blow for Iranian judokas. However, the Iranian federation shows no effort to normalize its strange decisions instead of trying to justify them. Iran’s sports minister ordered the judoka to lose IJF issued a provisional ban last month while investigating a report that the Ir...

Trump Is Punished And Does Not Fight…Why? Date of publication: September 21, 2019. Rajeh El Khoury - Lebanese writer:  No international investigation is needed to find out that Iran carried out the terrorist aggression against the Aramco facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais, whether cruise missiles and drones came directly from its territory, from its bases in the vicinity, and even from Yemen. According to the Houthis, in the end, in fact, they are Iranian hands or fingerprints. But the international investigation is necessary because this attack is not only against Saudi Arabia, not only the United States but almost the entire world because it targeted global oil supplies and threatened global economic stability. Days later, because confronting the escalation of Iranian escalation has become an international responsibility, and is no longer confined to the Kingdom, which is subjected to Iranian attacks through the Houthis, nor to the United States in response to the departu...

The U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran Regime's Space Agencies Written by  Hamideh Taati  on  04 September 2019 . The United States imposed sanctions on the Iranian regime’s space agency and two research organizations on Tuesday, saying they were being used to advance Tehran’s ballistic missile program.  The U.S. Treasury sanctions targeted the Iran Space Agency, Iran Space Research Center and the Astronautics Research Institute, according to a statement on its website. “The United States will not allow Iran to use its space launch program as a cover to advance its ballistic missile programs,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. Secretary Pompeo ✔ @SecPompeo For the 1st time, the US has sanctioned Iran’s civilian space agency, which develops the same space launch vehicle technology used in ballistic missiles. We call on our allies to join us in deterring the world’s top sponsor of terrorism from growing its ballistic...

U.S. Designates Iran Regime's Petroleum Shipping Network That Supports IRGC Written by  Mansoureh Galestan  on  04 September 2019 . The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a vast petroleum shipping network run by Iran's regime that supports the terrorist Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force and that has moved hundreds of millions of dollars to the Assad regime and Lebanese Hizballah. The Treasury  said in a statement  on September 4, 2019: "The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against a large shipping network that is directed by and financially supports the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and its terrorist proxy Hizballah." Over the past year, the IRGC-QF has moved oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more through this network for the benefit of the brutal Assad regime, Hezbollah, and other illicit actors, the Treasury said. Senior IRGC-QF official and th...

US SLAPS SANCTIONS ON ANOTHER IRANIAN-LINKED ENTITY THIS WEEK Aug 31, 2019  The United States slapped sanctions against Lebanon-based Jammal Trust Bank on Thursday, designating it a “global terrorist” over its ties to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group. Sigal Mandelker, the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence  said  in a statement: "[The] Treasury is targeting Jammal Trust Bank and its subsidiaries for brazenly enabling Hezbollah's financial activities. Corrupt financial institutions like Jammal Trust are a direct threat to the integrity of the Lebanese financial system. Jammal Trust provides support and services to Hezbollah's Executive Council and the Martyrs Foundation, which funnels money to the families of suicide bombers." The US-made this move against the bank, just one day after placing sanctions on two Iranian networks that it claimed facilitated "tens of millions of dollars' worth" of “covert procuremen...

Iran: How hard-earned U.S. dollars are  smuggled out of the country More money is being smuggled outside of Iran Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 31, 2019  - In May, Hossein Mirshojaeean, former deputy minister of economy in Iran, said that about $30 billion of the total $40 billion that Iran made through exports has never returned to Iran, neither as imported goods nor as money. More recently, according to Eghtesad Online, an Iranian website specializing in economic news, Iran’s director of the Central Bank reported that about $18.5 billion from last year’s $40 billion in exports have returned to Iran. While even taking the comments of Iran’s Central Bank director into account leaves out the fate of 11.5 billion dollars, other governmental statistics suggest that more than 70 percent of the earned money through exports never returns to Iran. No need to say that the major problem here is the very same governmental institutions that function with im...

Iran: Inflation and corruption are two sides of the same coin Corruption and skyrocketing inflation are hallmarks of the regime ruling Iran 7/29/2019  Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 29, 2019  - While Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani expressed his optimism for Iran’s economy in a cabinet meeting on July 23 and his first deputy, Eshaq Jahangiri, claimed that the mullahs have overcome the  economic crisis  and reached the shores of stability, Iranian media announced the next day that inflation has crossed the 40 percent threshold. Iranian state-run media reported on July 24 that inflation is 40.4 percent. “The government is the main culprit for increasing prices because by changing the price of the U.S. dollars that are used to import meat from 42,000 rials to more than 80,000 rials, they’ve created the conditions for increasing prices in the market,” they wrote citing Tehran’s pundits. Mohammad Gholi Youssefi, an Iranian ...

Britain rules out seized tanker swap with Iran Iran detained the UK-flagged Stena Impero and its 23-strong crew as they sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on July 20 (AFP Photo/HO London (AFP) - Britain on Monday ruled out swapping seized oil tankers with Iran as a second UK warship arrived in the Gulf to conduct convoys that have irritated Tehran. A sense of crisis in the world's busiest oil shipping lane has been building up for weeks as Iran responds to US President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign. The US economic sanctions and stepped-up military presence are designed to force Iran to renegotiate a landmark 2015 nuclear pact from which Trump pulled out last year. Britain further outraged Iran by seizing one of its tankers -- the Grace 1 -- on July 4 on suspicion of it carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions. Iran vowed to retaliate and it's Revolutionary Guards stormed and detained the UK-flagged Stena Impero and its...