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Archives for 2015

Sanctions Targeting Iranian Human Rights Abusers are Right, Not Radical

Sheryl Saperia
14th October 2015 – The Canadian Jewish News

On September 23rd, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson announced that the Conservatives, if re-elected, would amend the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) to include gross human rights abuses as new grounds for Canadian sanctions against foreign states, entities and individuals. Whoever forms the next federal government should […]

Two Poets Sentenced to Flogging and Nine and Eleven Years in Prison

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Forced Confessions Used as Primary Evidence in Convictions
October 14, 2015—A Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced the poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi to 9 years and 6 months and 99 lashes, and 11 years and 99 lashes, respectively, on charges of “insulting the sacred” for the social criticism expressed in their poetry.
The flogging […]

Iran broadcasts rare images of underground missile bases

By Dana Ford, CNN
October 15, 2015
(CNN) At first glance it looks like the set of a James Bond movie — a seemingly impregnable mountain base packed full of uniformed men and sinister-looking missiles on their launch vehicles parked along a long tunnel buried deep underground.
But this is in fact a real-life missile facility in Iran, […]

Iranian-Americans rally near United Nations

September 28, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Iranian-American protesters said Monday that the country’s current regime has executed about 2,000 dissidents in less than two years, making human rights a key issue in U.S.-Iran relations.
Thousands gathered in Dag Hammerskjold Plaza outside the United Nations just as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was to speak to the world […]

Bipartisan House Members and Expert Panel Dissect Iran Nuclear Deal, Explore Options

July 24, 2015
Bipartisan members of the United States Congress joined a distinguished panel of experts to evaluate U.S. nuclear deal with Iran andexplore policy options going forward.  Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield moderated discussions of a distinguished panel of experts which included Ambassador James B Smith (U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2009-2013), Ambassador Joseph DeTrani (Former […]

UN: Freeze Funding of Iran Counter-Narcotics Efforts

Surge in Executions for Drug Trafficking

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Iran: Letter to the Secretary General regarding UN assistance for drug enforcement and the death penalty for drug offenses
MAY 26, 2014
Letter

Joint Letter to Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UNODC
DECEMBER 12, 2014
Letter

(London) – The United Nations agency charged with combating illicit drug trafficking should withdraw its support for counter-narcotics police operations […]

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed. Submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 25/24  to the 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council  in March 2015.
Click to Read entire Report (PDF): March 2015 report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights […]

Coalition against occupation of Yemen should be elevated to evicting Iranian regime from region

Maryam Rajavi to Arab Summit: Coalition against occupation of Yemen should be elevated to evicting Iranian regime from region

Maryam Rajavi, speaks at a conference at the Council of Europe, January 2015

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, reiterated in a statement, on the need for joint action and unity against the religious terrorist […]

Iran regime’s quarter-century planning for occupation of Yemen

Iran regime’s quarter-century planning for occupation of Yemen by its proxies
Monday, 30 March 2015

Following its defeat in the Iran-Iraq war, since a quarter of a century ago, by drawing on its experience in shaping the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Iranian regime planned to take advantage of Yemen’s religious fabric to form a mercenary group in that […]

The Washington Post Editorial: “The emerging Iran nuclear deal raises major concerns”

By the Washington Post Editorial Board
 February 5, 2015

 THE Obama administration pushes to complete a nuclear accord with Iran, numerous members of Congress, former secretaries of state and officials of allied governments are expressing concern about the contours of the emerging deal. Though we have long supported negotiations with Iran as well as the interim agreement the United […]