By JAN M. OLSEN and LORNE COOK | January 8, 2019 BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is putting an Iranian intelligence service and two senior officials on its terror list over suspicions that they have been involved in assassinations and plots to kill opposition activists in Denmark, France and the Netherlands, Danish Foreign Minister…
WHY IRAN’S 1988 PRISON MASSACRES ARE ONGOING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 4 December 2018, Index number: MDE 13/9421/2018 Amnesty International – Between July and September 1988, the Iranian authorities forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed thousands of imprisoned political dissidents in secret and dumped their bodies, mostly in unmarked mass graves. Since then, the authorities have treated…
UPI | By Struan Stevenson | Sept. 19, 2018 The Iranian economy is in free-fall. With only six weeks to go before the second tranche of U.S. sanctions is introduced, international economic experts believe the current regime cannot survive. Nationwide protests and strikes, which began in December and quickly spread across the whole country, are…
Washington Post | By Spencer S. Hsu | August 20, 2018 U.S. prosecutors announced charges Monday against two men arrested Aug. 9 and accused of acting as agents of the government of Iran, covertly monitoring a Jewish center in Chicago and American members of an Iranian opposition group in exile in behalf of the government of…
By INU Staff | August 18, 2018 INU – The US State Department confirmed on Wednesday, August 15, that it is “closely monitoring” reports of human rights abuses in Iran. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said: “We are closely monitoring reports of numerous human rights defenders and members of minority groups, such as the Gonabadi Dervishes, who…
Saudi envoy exposes Iran regime’s role in assault on KSA oil tankers Iran’s belligerent use of proxy warfare threatens global shipping trade ARAB NEWS | August 11, 2018 Prince Khalid bin Salman condemns Tehran’s ‘menacing role’ in Yemen and disregard for human suffering Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Commander Nasser Shabani himself admitted to Iran’s role…
By Iran HRM | Jul 30, 2018 The doors of a beef delivery truck opened by accident on Tehran’s Modarres Highway to shock other drivers with the sight of 50 children piled up inside the truck. They called the police to interfere and save the children. “So what? What do you want, now?” They called the Police Detectives Office…
I was attacked in Istanbul in 1990. An attack in Paris was foiled this month. By Hossein Abedini | July 23, 2018 “Hossein, have you heard the news about the plot to bomb the gathering?” My colleague asked me as I walked into the office on Monday, July 2. He was talking about the grand meeting…
Express | By VICKIIE OLIPHANT, IN PARIS | July 3, 2018 TERROR ATTACK FOILED: Plot to Bomb Iran rally halted after car with Explosives found An Iranian diplomat is among three people arrested over an alleged terror threat after a plot to bomb a Free Iran rally in Paris was discovered by Belgian authorities. Three terror…
Harry Farley | June 21, 2018 Former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams leads a mass denunciation of Iran today from 50 bishops across the UK’s three Anglican churches. Attacking the ‘deplorable situation of human rights in Iran, particularly the painful situation of religious minorities’, the statement represents the largest en-masse political intervention from Anglican bishops…
