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West has a chance to bring Iranian regime to heel at UN Security Council

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West has a chance to bring Iranian regime to heel at UN Security Council DR. MAJID RAFIZADEH September 16, 2018  this Article  the first published in Arab News The this Islamic Republic of Iran is mired in crises, few of which stem from US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the subsequent renewed economic sanctions. Those actions only serve to help the US, and hopefully the international community as a whole, in putting pressure on Iran’s clerical regime at a time when it is most vulnerable and least likely to conceal the misdeeds that make such pressure necessary. Iran’s national currency, the rial, plumbed new depths this month,  trading  at more than 150,000 to the US dollar. The new figures provoked further economic protests in various Iranian cities, in what has become the status quo in recent months. The Iranian people view the economic catastrophe as part of the broader failings of the Iranian ...

Iran: 7.4 Million Children Deprived of Education

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Iran: 7.4 Million Children Deprived of Education September 16, 2018 While over 7.4 million Iranian children are deprived of Education, the Iranian regime’s spends billions of dollars on its terrorist and extremist ambitions abroad aimed at preserving the regime’s hold on power at home and the region are not only taking their toll on the livelihoods of the people of Iran but are also negatively affecting the lives of the future generations of Iran. On September 14, Iran’s Ruydad news website published a report in which it revealed damning statistics about the educational conditions of children inside Iran. According to this state-run website, Iranian regime officials are offering conflicting accounts of how many Iranian children have or don’t have access to basic education. Writes the site: “Like many other national statistics, the exact number of children who have been deprived of education is not available. The figures offered by the ministry education differs from that...

Worldwide Iranians' Freedom demonstrations - Conviction for the wave of executions in Iran

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Worldwide Iranians' Freedom demonstrations - Conviction for the wave of executions in Iran On Saturday, September 24, Azadeh Iranians condemned Velayat-e faqih's arrested regime following the execution of three Kurdish political prisoners and a wave of executions in Iran's cities by protests. Free Iranians and Ashraf musicians joined the global campaign in various countries and cities around the world: (Canada: Toronto and Ottawa - Denmark: Copenhagen and Aarhus - Sweden: Stockholm, Southwest and Malmö, and Brice - Austria: Vienna - Luxembourg) Toronto Ottawa Luxembourg   Sweden Malmö-Sweden Aarhus - Denmark Copenhagen Vienna, Austria

The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Key Slush Fund and Its Brutal Custodian

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The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Key Slush Fund and Its Brutal Custodian By TZVI KAHN September 15, 2018 Ebrahim Raisi arrives with a crowd of supporters to vote in Tehran, Iran, in 2017. (TIMA/via Reuters) Former presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi runs a massive business conglomerate that helps Tehran suppress dissent at home and export terror abroad t first, he couldn’t identify the sound. But Amir Atiabi, an inmate in Iran’s Gohardasht Prison, was curious. Over the course of several nights in 1988, he  recalled , “strange noises that sounded like the dropping of cooking-gas containers” reverberated from trucks in the jail’s loading dock. Each time, he marked the date on his calendar. On some days, the sound echoed through his cell as many as 50 to 55 times. Eventually, he discovered the truth. One night, Atiabi said, he and his fellow prisoners “went to the end of the corridor to the shower room and toilettes and climbed up to see through the window what the...