Iran news in brief, September 4, 2019
Iran news in brief, September 4, 2019
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Embrace of Iran’s Foreign Minister Creates an Opening for Propaganda and Terrorism
Embrace of Iran’s Foreign Minister Creates an Opening for Propaganda and Terrorism Ambassador Adam Ereli | Posted: Sep 06, 2019 12:01 AM The Iranian regime was a major topic of discussion during the G-7 Summit in Biarritz last month. But neither France nor any other European country should be helping the murderous regime to acquire a larger presence on the international stage. Tehran's support for terrorism goes beyond the Middle East and threatens both Europe and the U.S. Both French and American citizens were among the hundreds of victims of Hezbollah attacks in the 1980s and 90s. But France was also the site of one of the most ambitious Iranian terror plots to be thwarted in recent years. In the summer of 2018, two Iranian operatives were stopped in Belgium, as they attempted to carry high-explos...
The U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran Regime's Space Agencies
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
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...
The U.S. Offers $15M for Information to Disrupt Financing for Iranian Regime's Revolutionary Guards
The U.S. Offers $15M for Information to Disrupt Financing for Iranian Regime's Revolutionary Guards Written by Mahmoud Hakamian on 04 September 2019 . The United States government is offering a reward of up to $15 million for information that can help disrupt the financial apparatus of the Iranian regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The U.S. State Department through its Rewards for Justice program is offering the funds for information on the revenue sources of the military unit, which the Trump administration sanctioned as a foreign terrorist organization in April, according to details obtained by The Hill. This includes information on the financial sources of the IRGC-Qods Force. The administration is also seeking information on illicit oil-for-money schemes by the group; entities or individuals assisting it in evading U.S. or international sanctions; financial institutions working with the Revolutionary Guard and other topics related to ...
Iran: Murder under torture of a 30-year-old provokes popular protests in Khorrambid, Fars Province
Iran: Murder under torture of a 30-year-old provokes popular protests in Khorrambid, Fars Province Published on 05 September 2019 . International community urged to condemn the hideous crime On Tuesday, September 3, 2019, hundreds of people in Khorrambid (Qader-Abad) in the southern Iranian Province of Fars staged a demonstration outside the town’s Police precinct to protest against the heinous murder under torture of a 30-year-old man, Javad Khosravanian. Khosravanian had been detained by the security forces on August 30, 2019. The criminal officers of the local intelligence department tortured him to death while in detention and handed over his body to a local hospital. A video clip on the Internet shows clear signs of torture on the victim’s head and neck. While chanting anti-regime slogans, the people of Khorrambid carried placards, which read, “Intelligence murderers shame on you,” and “we demand a follow-up to the murder of Javad Khosravanian in the police prec...
Iran: HEPCO, Azarab workers protest in Arak
Iran: HEPCO, Azarab workers protest in Arak Iran, September 4, 2019 –A large number of HEPCO factory workers and employees of the Azarab company in Arak, central Iran, held a protest rally on Monday, September 3. HEPCO factory workers have been holding numerous rallies during the past few days. Along with Azarab employees, these workers a session held on Saturday with the regime’s Ministry of Industries. They poured into the streets accusing company officials of seeking secret deals with the regime’s minister. The workers are protesting possible plans under the pretext of “ privatization ” that are actually aimed at plundering their assets and refusing to provide for their delayed paychecks. The workers were heard protesting that they are barely making ends meet for their families. In Iran, privatization is a process of regime officials handing over the control of various small and large companies to regime insiders. This process is destroying the country’s economy. ...
They’re all the same from top to bottom, says an Iranian MP
They’re all the same from top to bottom, says an Iranian MP Scenes of the Iranian regime’s Majlis, the so-called parliament Iran, September 4, 2019 –The title is what Masoud Pezeshkian, the first deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament, said recently, expressing his concerns for the plummeting legitimacy of the Iranian regime among ordinary Iranians. Iranian state-run media from all the ruling factions are full of controversy and infighting about corruption. “Transparency is responsibility”, “Embedded supervision”, “the rule of law”, “people’s participation”, and most recently “fighting corruption”, are all fancy terms that increasingly pop up in Iranian media and serve two main purposes: Covering the true culprits of corruption and putting pressure on opposing factions to obtain a greater share of the economic pie for one’s own faction. While the main culprit in corruption is the Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself, running a mu...