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IRAN: Protest by Residents of Chenar Mahmoudi Village in Lordegan Published on  21 October 2019 . Suppressive forces attack villagers’ homes and arrest young people On Sunday, October 20, 2019, the residents of Chenar Mahmoudi village in  Lordegan  again staged an anti-regime protest. Subsequently, Special Anti-riot units attacked the villagers’ homes and arrested the protesters, especially the youths dragging them on the ground to transfer them to their vehicles. Terrified of the coverage of this onslaught, the suppressive forces seized or broke the residents’ mobile phones. On Saturday, October 5, the city of  Lordegan  (south-central Iran) was the scene of an uprising by thousands of people in which the offices of the Governor and the representative of the regime’s Supreme Leader as well as several other regime centers were set on fire. One of the protesters, a young man by the name of Sa’adatollah Moussavi, was killed and several people w...

The U.S. Should Focus on Iran’s Human Rights Abuses - Amb Ken Blackwell Written by  Mansoureh Galestan   on   22 October 2019 . Iran’s regime is becoming ever more brazen in its foreign policy, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently attacking commercial vessels in the Gulf, and seizing others,  including a British tanker , launching  missiles against  Saudi oil infrastructure  and pursuing aggressive policies in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen,  writes  former United States Ambassador Kenneth Blackwell . The Iranian regime's recent actions cannot simply be interpreted as a response to rising levels of pressure from the US, argues Ambassador Blackwell. " Its  abuses both at home and abroad have been getting worse for quite some time. And they have done so not because of newfound foreign pressure but because of the predictable absence thereof."   In an op-ed for Townhall on October 22, Amb Blackwell quoted...

Fariba Adelkhah, an anthropologist at Sciences Po University in Paris, who was arrested in Iran Newly Disclosed Arrest Reflects Iran’s Crackdowns on Foreign Nationals, Academics TERRORISM     22 OCTOBER 2019   EMPTY By Jubin Katiraie It was reported on Wednesday that the Iranian government was holding a second French academic. The disclosure adds to the international outcry over the questionable detention of Fariba Adelkhah, an anthropologist at Sciences Po University in Paris, who was arrested in Iran. Iran frequently maintains a veil of secrecy over arrests, criminal investigations, and prosecutions. This secrecy may be enforced with particular vigor in cases that are politically sensitive or likely to generate negative public attention. In April 2016, the Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested and accused of being “one of the leaders” of this network. But the then-37-year-old mother had been traveling with her young d...

Suppressing Female Street Vendors in Iran - a Manifestation of Double Repression of Women 21 OCTOBER 2019   EMPTY By Jubin Katiraie Increased street peddling by women in Iran is the result of the catastrophic economic situation and the spread of poverty, analysts say. Peddling is not an official job but the result of an ailing and bankrupt economy which is due to corruption in the Iranian government. The Iranian government’s economic policy has led to a large part of the middle class falling into poverty. The situation is worse for women who are mainly housewives and have no income, so they are forced to go on the streets and work as peddlers. Hard-working women who are always subject to persecution and even insults by government officials are forced to accept these things in order to earn a little something for their families. According to state media and Iran’s officials, many of these women...

Pompeo: Efforts Are Underway to Push Back Iran's ‘Regime’ 21 OCTOBER 2019   EMPTY By Pooya Stone US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview that given the danger of Iran's increasing influence in Syria, efforts to push back Iran are both real and serious and are being pursued on an ongoing basis. In an interview with ABC News’ This Week program on 20 October, Pompeo said: “I can assure you that the effort to push back against Iran are real and continuous, unlike what the last administration did that picked Iran as its strategic security partner in the Middle East.” Pompeo added: “We've taken an incredibly different approach to that and the Islamic Republic of Iran is feeling it and security, stability in the Middle East is increased because of the work we’ve done.” Warning about Iran's danger Pompeo also referred to the danger posed by Iran in a part of an exclusive interview with Fox News that was conducted prior t...