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Iran news in brief, August 31, 2019

Iran news in brief, August 30, 2019

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...

IAEA Report: Iran Regime Further Breaches 2015 Nuclear Deal Written by  Mahmoud Hakamian  on  30 August 2019 . The Iranian regime has further breached its nuclear deal with world powers, increasing its stock of enriched uranium and refining it to greater purity than allowed, a report by the United Nations atomic agency said on Friday. The quarterly report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is policing the 2015 deal, confirms Iran's regime is progressively backing out of the deal, Reuters reported. The Iranian regime has said it will breach the deal’s limits on its nuclear activities one by one, ratcheting up pressure on parties who still hope to save it. In July, the IAEA said Iran's regime exceeded both a 202.8-kg limit on its enriched uranium stock and its 3.67% cap on the fissile purity to which it is allowed to refine uranium. In a verbal update on July 10, the IAEA said Tehran was enriching uranium to 4.5% purity and had stockpile...

Iran's Regime Is Dying; It Is Time to Support the Opposition – Irish Lawmaker Written by  Mahmoud Hakamian  on  30 August 2019 . Iran's regime is in its dying days, and Europe should look to the Iranian Resistance as the democratic alternative to the mullahs' rule, former Irish Minister and lawmaker John Perry argue. In an  op-ed for the Eurasia Review  on August 29, 2019, Mr. Perry pointed out that Iran's regime is "extremely unpopular among both Iranians and regional countries, and is today the greatest threat to a prosperous Iran and to stability and peace in the Middle East and the world." The Iranian regime and it's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has systematically violated human rights, prosecuted, tortured and killed an uncountable number of Iranians over the course of 40 years, Mr. Perry wrote. "A prime example of this is the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, in which the regime executed over 30,000 political priso...

Iranian foreign minister should be banned from Europe, not welcomed – Struan Stevenson Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif There was the usual ­outpouring of criticism when President Trump imposed sanctions on Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s Foreign Minister. The left-wing press predictably went into meltdown, protesting in anger against the blacklisting of a foreign minister. But few people expected President Macron of France to extend a ­invitation to Zarif to attend the G7 summit in Biarritz. This appeared to be a particularly provocative move by the French president, given that Donald Trump was also attending the conference in Biarritz. Macron’s invitation should have come as no surprise. He has ­positioned himself as Europe’s ­leading appeaser of the medieval, ­fascist Iranian regime. But, it is worth taking a closer look at why the US State Department took the action it did. As Foreign Minister, Zarif is in charge of Iran’s army of ambassadors ...

RIGHTS GROUP: UN MUST INVESTIGATE FORCED DISAPPEARANCES IN IRAN Written by  Mansoureh Galestan  on  30 August 2019 . Aug 31, 2019  The human rights group Iran Human Rights Monitor has published a new report, called "Enforced Disappearances in Iran and the 1988 Massacre," to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30, 2019. Iran HRM's report  pointed out the Iranian regime has a history of cracking down on its opponents. Incommunicado detentions, arbitrary abductions, summary executions, torture, and enforced disappearances are among practices commonly used against opponents. Dissident intellectuals and students, ethnic groups and religious minorities, and members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI , Mujahedin-e Khalq or  MEK ) have always been targeted, it said. With the brutal suppression of the last demonstrations in Tehran and other cities which peacefully demande...

MARYAM RAJAVI: WE WILL FREE IRAN: PART 4 Aug 31, 2019 On July 13, at the Free Iran gathering at Ashraf 3,  Maryam Rajavi , leader of the Iranian opposition gave an inspiring and moving speech about how the Iranian people and their organised Resistance forces would take back Iran from the mullahs. In this short series, we will look over Maryam Rajavi’s speech in full. Previously , we looked at the history of the Resistance, where it is headed and how the Regime is disrupting the Middle East in order to attack or distract the world. Here we will look at the lies of the appeasement policy and the Resistance’s historical mission. As we mentioned at the end of our last piece, regime apologists will stoop to any level to make sure the Regime is not had accountable for its actions, but the biggest issue they’ve created is linking any sort of firm policy on Iran to warmongering. This is dangerous because, as  Maryam Rajavi  asserts, it will only embolden the mull...

Baghdad's crackdown on Iran-allied militias faces resistance By John Davison and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD, Aug 29 (Reuters) - At checkpoints leading into the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the flags of Brigade 30, a paramilitary force, still fly nearly two months after the Baghdad government ordered all militias to leave. Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's decree gave Iran-backed paramilitary groups, which have wielded increasing power in Iraq, a month to fully integrate with the armed forces, leave checkpoints and sever ties with political groups. Brigade 30's refusal to abandon its positions on the eastern edge of Mosul -- instead it cut off roads and whipped up angry protests -- underlines Baghdad's struggle to assert its authority and raises the risk of further instability in a region marked by U.S.-Iranian rivalry. Washington warned this year it would take action against Iran-backed militias if Baghdad failed to control them, and imposed sanctions on g...

Time To Empower Iranian Opposition And Support Democratic Change In Iran – OpEd Protests in Iran. Photo Credit: Fars News Agency. By  John Perry*   August 29, 2019 Iran is presently the subject of vigorous public discussion as experts debate over what is the right policy for dealing with escalating tensions between the Iranian regime and the West. A key component that has been overlooked for too long is the organized Iranian opposition. Thousands of Iranians recently rallied in London to remind participants in that debate, particularly in Europe, of the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people and their coalition of opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).  https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/our-resistance Iranian exiles, their families, and their supporters highlighted their support for the ongoing popular protests across Iran, which became much more visible last year and gave rise to explicit demands for the overthrow of the religious...