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Archives for January 2016

Ransom for Freed Hostages Invites Tehran to Take More!

Reuters

Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping probe: U.S. sources
WASHINGTON/DAVOS | BY MARK HOSENBALL AND DAVID BRUNNSTROM
Fri Jan 22, 2016

Asaib Ahl al-Haq Shi’ite militia fighters from the south of Iraq run during a mission to take control of Sulaiman Pek village from Islamist State militants, in the northwest of Tikrit city September 1, 2014.
REUTERS/YOUSSEF BOUDLAL

U.S. intelligence […]

Iran’s economy cannot be separated from human rights

The Globe and Mail

GEOFFREY CAMERON
Friday, Jan. 22, 2016

Geoffrey Cameron is a PhD candidate and Trudeau Scholar at the University of Toronto. He is also principal researcher with the Baha’i Community of Canada.
Now that nuclear-related economic sanctions against Iran are being lifted, many countries are looking forward to a new era of political and economic relations […]

Kerry Acknowledges Iran May Misuse Funds, Draws Fire From Congress

The Wall Street Journal

FELICIA SCHWARTZ

Jan. 21, 2016

DAVOS, Switzerland—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said some of the funds freed up by the implementation of the Iranian nuclear deal could end up in the hands of the hard-liner Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and wouldn’t rule out the possibility that they could be used for terrorism, but […]

Senate Kennedy Caucus Room: Briefing on Iran

Washington D.C., December 15, 2015 — A Senate briefing at the United States Kennedy Caucus Room featured prominent former U.S. officials who discussed the Iranian regime’s in Iraq and Syria and to voice support for Iranian dissidents at Camp Liberty, Iraq.
The first U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, former Vice […]