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Pompeo Blames Iran's Regime for Oil Attack, Calling It an 'Act of War' Written by  Shamsi Saadati  on  23 September 2019 . United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday insisted Iran's regime was definitively to blame for  attacks on Saudi oil production facilities  for which Tehran-backed Houthi rebels have taken credit. The attacks, which hit an oilfield and a production facility, "could not have come from the Houthis. It’s crazy for anyone to assert that they did," Secretary Pompeo said on CBS’s "Face the Nation." "This was an act of war. ... This was a state-on-state act of war." Host Margaret Brennan noted that the Iranian regime's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has forcefully denied Tehran's responsibility for the attacks, but Pompeo countered that “there’s already ample evidence” Zarif is lying. “I don’t know why anyone listens to the Iranian foreign minister,” Secretary Pompeo added. “It’s benea...

Female Students Face Obstacles at Schools, Universities in Iran Written by  Mansoureh Galestan  on  23 September 2019 . Students face numerous obstacles in having access to quality education in Iran; such obstacles double and triple when it gets to girls and young women,  according to the  Women's Committee of  the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) . The new academic year starts in Iran on September 23 for some 15 million elementary and high school students and another four million students of higher education. With the Iranian regime’s failure to provide free and mandatory education for Iranian children while more than 80% of the nation is living under the poverty line, there is no guarantee for Iranian children and youths to be able to continue their education. Article 30 of the Iranian regime’s constitution obliges the government to provide free and mandatory education for all to finish high school, but levying heavy tuitions...

UK: Iran's Regime Is Responsible for Attack on Saudi Oil Facilities Written by  Mohammad Sadat Khansari  on  23 September 2019 . Britain has concluded that Iran's regime was responsible for  attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia , United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday. The United States and Saudi Arabia have already blamed Iran's regime for the September 14 strikes on two Saudi Aramco oil plants that initially halved the country's crude output. "The UK is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to Iran for the Aramco attacks. We think it very likely indeed that Iran was indeed responsible," Johnson told reporters on a plane to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. "We will be working with our American friends and our European friends to construct a response that tries to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf region," he said, according to Reuters. British Foreign Secretary Dominic ...

Iran news in brief, September 23, 2019

British MPs Supported Maryam Rajavi's Call For The IRGC's Guard And Intelligence Ministry To Be Included In The Terrorism List Date of publication: September 21, 2019. British MPs supported MP Bob Blackman and the main sponsor of the resolution: The West should make it clear to Iranian regime officials that the free world stands with the Iranian people and their resistance movement, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Sir David Ames, Co-Chair of the British Parliamentary Committee: Draft Resolution 2333, which has the support of many deputies from various parties in the House of Commons, supports Maryam Rajavi's call to include the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence as terrorist organizations. o Sir David Ames: The future of Iran is decided by the people and by its organized resistance movement. We continue to call on the British government and the European Union to develop a decisive policy towards the Iranian regime Following the registration ...