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US sanctions deny Iran the revenue it needs to fund its proxies Brian Hook, the US special representative for Iran, walks past parts of short-range ballistic missiles at the Iranian Materiel Display at an airbase near Washington on November 29, 2018. (AP) August 20, 2019 The United States envoy on Iran, Brian Hook, said on Tuesday that sanctions have denied the Iranian regime the revenues it needs to fund Tehran’s proxies in the Middle East . “ We have worked with partners in the region to deny Iran the revenue that it needs to run its foreign policy and to fund its proxies,” Hook told reporters during a press briefing at the New York Foreign Press Center . “ We have prevented billions of dollars from reaching the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian Treasury … Iran used to transfer $700 million to Hezbollah annually,” Hook said . Comments made by Washington’s special representative on Iran came as Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is expected to ...

Nasrin Javadi, Labor Activist Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison, 74 Lashes Aug 21, 2019  Nasrin Javadi (Azam Khezri), a female labor activist who was arrested on International Labor Day in Tehran, was sentenced to 7 years in prison and 74 lashes. Her trial was held at the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on August 6, 2019. According to the verdict, Ms. Nasrin Javadi was sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of “association and collusion against national security”, one year in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state”, and one year in prison, 74 lashes, banning the use of smartphones and banning activities in political and social parties and groups on charges of “disrupting public order “. Ms. Nasrin Javadi is a former employee of the Medical Distribution Company and the retiree of the Social Security Organization, a member of the founding board of the Social Security Retirement Labor Council, and a member of the Free Union of Iran Workers. She was among t...

Iran news in brief, August 20, 2019

Honoring Women Victimized By Iranian Regime’s Unbridled Terrorism Aug 21, 2019  Iranian women have always borne the brunt of the clerical regime’s suppression with their flesh and bone. As for occupation, education, sports, and clothing, they suffer from restrictions and deprivations far more than men. However, they enjoy “equality” in executions, arrests, and torture. In every political impasse and economic crisis, women are the first group to pay the price. On the flip side of the coin, the regime’s unbridled terrorism has no mercy on female opponents. On  August 21, International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims  of Terrorism, we commemorate Iranian women who became victims of the Iranian regime’s terrorism for their opposition to the regime. From left, Fereshteh Esfandiari and Effat Haddad Effat Haddad and Fereshteh Esfandiari On the morning of May 17, 1995, terrorists dispatched by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry to Baghdad opened ...

MARYAM RAJAVI: IRANIAN PEOPLE FORGING AHEAD TOWARDS CERTAIN VICTORY: PART 2 During the Free Iran conference in Ashraf 3, Albania, last month, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian opposition, gave a speech about the exhibition on the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom. During that speech,  Maryam Rajavi  made clear the movement has had countless defeats and triumphs, but that the people would gain freedom in Iran eventually. Over this short series, we will explain her speech in full. Previously , we went over  Maryam Rajavi’s  description of the Iranian people’s struggle from freedom from the beginning of the 20 th  Century until the 1979 revolution. Today, we will look at the true goal of the anti-monarchic revolution that was cruelly snatched from the people by the mullahs. In 1979, days after the Shah fled the country, Massoud Rajavi, the only leader of the Iranian Resistance still alive, thanks to an international campaign by his Geneva-base...

Iran: Unprecedented power struggle over Khamenei’s successor The power struggle over the position of the Iranian supreme leader Iran, August 20, 2019 —In an unexpected development in Iran, the  power struggle  over the position of the Iranian supreme leader has increased dramatically. Mohammad Yazdi, a senior Iranian regime official who is a member of the Guardian Council and previously headed the judiciary, attacked Sadeq Larijani, also a former head of the judiciary and, according to rumors, a potential successor for the Supreme Leader  Ali Khamenei . Reports indicate that Ebrahim Raisi, the current judiciary chief and one of the main figures involved in the  1988 massacre  of political prisoners in Iran, is behind the disclosure of Larijani’s corruption. Raisi aims to remove Larijani from the political scene as a potential competitor to succeed Khamenei. Now, it appears that Larijani’s recent threats that he is going to the holy city of Najaf i...

Secretary Pompeo Urges UN to Renew Arms Embargo on Iran's Regime Written by Hosseini Abedini on  21 August 2019 . United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned against ending an arms embargo on Iran's regime, likening every day until the deal's October 2020 expiration as a "#CountdownToTerror." The push to extend the ban on weapons sales to Tehran comes amid increasing efforts by Washington to restrict the Iranian regime's oil exports, CNN reported. Since the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018 to abandon the Iran nuclear deal, Washington has attempted to use what it calls "maximum pressure" to change the regime's behavior and limit its nuclear ambitions. "Time is drawing short to continue this activity of restricting Iran's capacity to foment its terror regime. The international community will have plenty of time to see how long it has until Iran is unshackled to create new turmoil, and figure out what ...

Second Iranian Oil Tanker Headed to Syria: Sources Written by  Amir Taghati  on  21 August 2019 . A new tanker filled with Iranian oil is on its way to Syria in a violation of current U.S. sanctions, Western intelligence sources have told Fox News. The Bonita Queen loaded 600,000 barrels of crude oil on August 2 near the Iranian coast at Kharg Island. Shortly after, the tanker was de-flagged by the country of St. Kitts and Nevis, fearing retaliatory U.S. sanctions. The vessel is now headed to Dubai, where it will refuel before beginning a months-long journey around the horn of Africa, through the Mediterranean and to the shores of Syria, Fox News reported on Tuesday. Sources told Fox News the ship plans to meet two Syrian owned oil tankers in the Mediterranean later this year and conduct a ship-to-ship transfer of the crude oil. This transfer would be an additional violation of American sanctions since the U.S. Treasury Department already sanctioned the ...