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Iranian real estates on sale in the north, thanks to the corrupt ruling regime Iran’s northern forests are being destroyed as regime officials and insiders pocket huge amounts of money from luxury villa construction in these areas Iran, September 14, 2019 —Iranian media are reporting an onslaught of citizens from Persian Gulf countries and Iraq who are buying luxury real estate in northern Iran. The  Tabnak  website, close to Mohsen Rezaee, former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ( IRGC ) and current Secretary of the regime’s Expediency Discernment Council, quoted a real estate agent in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran saying Arab buyers are bringing U.S. dollars and buying real estate in enormous quantities at skyrocketing prices. These buyers are counting on their “influential Iranian friends” to quickly take over vast amounts of land, Tabnak added. Eghtesad Online , a website close to Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani’s faction ...

Two major Saudi oil facilities attacked, fingers pointing at Iran Scenes of a Saturday attack targeting large oil facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, September 15, 2019 —Two large oil facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia, including an Aramco site, were targeted in a significant attack on Saturday morning local time. The Saudi state news agency emphasized the fire resulting from these attacks have been contained. The Houthi militias in Yemen, supported by Iran’s regime, claimed responsibility for this attack, saying they launched drones for this latest strike that has once again raised tensions across this already volatile area of the globe. Various reports are circulating and accusing Iran of launching these attacks through its proxies in southern Iraq, saying this latest strike was carried out with cruise missiles, not drones. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, “Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage...

Iranian official warns against continued infighting among regime factions Alireza Panahian, the deputy commander of the regime’s plainclothes agents in the Ammar Garrison Iran, September 15, 2019 —During this week’s Friday prayers, where mullahs in different Iranian cities reflect the views of the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Alireza Panahian, the deputy commander of the regime’s plainclothes agents in the Ammar Garrison, Tehran, revealed the general fear of the Iranian regime from the exacerbating public outrage and the ramifications of the intensifying infighting among regime officials. “Some people are trying to take advantage of the elections to polarize the society. We have some MPs who are calling for the ‘Tunisification’ of Iran,” Panahian said, referring to upcoming elections in the regime’s Majlis (parliament). “Shouldn’t the Guardian Council or the judiciary take action against [candidates] who are openly calling for strife?” The Guardian Council i...

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Iran: 3.5 Million Workers in Black Market Workshops Are Forgotten Written by Staff Writer on  13 September 2019 . In a shocking admission on September 11, 2019, Ali Khoda’i, a member of the regime’s Supreme Council on Labor told Tasnim news agency, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards’ terrorist Qods Force, “3.5 million workers work in underground workshops. Their statistics are not recorded anywhere. These workshops are unofficial and unmarked. Tailors on Jomhouri Street have no worker identification cards… Workers in unregistered workshops are among the forgotten. There are plenty of temporary contracts in these workshops… Workers who deal with many labor contractors associated with the government, public and non-governmental entities are among those who sign temporary contracts with the contractors. If they protest, they will be immediately fired.” He also said that the minimum wage for workers “provides only for 35 percent of their expenses.” This admission offers...

Samantha Power: Backers of Iran Deal Went Soft on Human Rights Written by  Hamideh Taati  on  14 September 2019 . Samantha Power, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in President Barack Obama’s second term, has said supporters of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal went soft on the regime’s human rights abuses. Ambassador Power recalls in her new memoir: “Unfortunately, some countries were so pleased by the nuclear agreement that they felt it was unnecessary to run an annual U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning  Iran's human rights abuses ”. Ambassador Power doesn’t identify the countries that wanted to scrap the traditional denunciation in the months after the Security Council’s July 2015 endorsement of the nuclear agreement. But the episode dovetails with long-standing criticisms from Iran hawks, who argued that the agreement short-circuited Western efforts to counteract Tehran’s other aggressive policies, in order to avoid provoking the Ir...

Women Play Key Role in Bringing About Regime Change in Iran Written by  Mansoureh Galestan  on  14 September 2019 . The Iranian regime has denied basic human rights to the people of Iran, especially to women, argues human rights activist Maria Ryan in The Hill. "For 40 years, Iran’s pro-democracy movement has remained active, despite frequent and often severe reprisals by the regime. The international community has witnessed hints of this movement’s potential at various historical moments, such as the 2009 protests and the nationwide uprising that spread across every major city of Iran in early 2018,"  Dr. Ryan wrote on September 12, 2019 . That Iranian women have played a unique role in these uprisings is not a coincidence, she points out. "The sharp edge of the mullahs’ repression has targeted many of them with repressive, misogynistic laws and execution." Just last week a female soccer fan died after police arrested her sneaking into Tehran’s main s...