Repeated attacks on Iranian dissidents featuring discredited talking points normally espoused by Tehran’s well-organized Washington lobby are landing with Donald Trump’s White House transition in full swing.Daniel Benjamin’s Politico Magazine hit job – Giuliani Took Money From a Group That Killed Americans. Does Trump Care? and Josh Rogin’s takedown in The Washington Post – Giuliani […]
The Washington Post: “In Syria’s Aleppo, Shiite militias point to Iran’s unparalleled influence”
November 30, 2016 by
By Hugh Naylor
November 20, 2016
BEIRUT — Syria’s government hopes a brutal siege will vanquish rebel holdouts in the city of Aleppo, a key battleground. But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops aren’t leading the charge.
That task has been taken up by thousands of Shiite militiamen from Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan who are loyal to Iran, […]
Huffington Post – “On Trump’s Presidential Victory: Losing Graciously and Winning Humbly”
November 30, 2016 by
by Dr. Majid Rafizadeh President of the International American Council
If politics were like sports, the losers would take their losses graciously; but Washington politics are not like sports.
Some still appear to have a difficult time at accepting the results of the presidential election, but they should not act like an attorney who lost his case before […]
Sanctions Targeting Iranian Human Rights Abusers are Right, Not Radical
October 16, 2015 by
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 […]
Iran broadcasts rare images of underground missile bases
October 16, 2015 by
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
October 1, 2015 by
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 […]
Iran regime’s quarter-century planning for occupation of Yemen
March 31, 2015 by
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”
February 8, 2015 by
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 […]
UN: Freeze Funding of Iran Counter-Narcotics Efforts
December 17, 2014 by
Surge in Executions for Drug Trafficking
DECEMBER 17, 2014
(London) – The United Nations agency charged with combating illicit drug trafficking should withdraw its support for counter-narcotics police operations in Iranuntil the death penalty for drug offenses is abolished, six rights groups said in a letter published today. The groups made the plea after Iran’s judiciary hanged 18 alleged drug traffickers within 24 hours […]
Opinion: Little to show after the yearlong talks with Iran
December 17, 2014 by
December 08, 2014, 05:00 pm
Little to show after the yearlong talks with Iran
By Majid Sadeghpour
The West seems to have learned little – sadly very little – in its dealings with Iran’s Ayatollahs. In the past and recently, the Iranian regime has played a waiting game: offer a little, stall a while, offer less, stall more, all […]
