By Armin Baldwin
The United States is continuing its campaign of “maximum pressure” against Iran, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday.
Mnuchin told CNBC: “There’s no question it’s working.”
He said that there’s no plan for Donald Trump to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in late September, but that Trump is still willing to meet Rouhani with no preconditions.
By Azita Carlson
The Australian couple, who were arrested on vague charges in Iran 10 weeks ago and jailed in Evin prison, has been named overnight on social media as Jolie King and Mark Firkin, who’ve been blogging a globe-trotting adventure since 2017.
by Atousa Pilger
FIFA said Wednesday its officials are set to visit Iran, following the death of a female fan who set herself on fire to protest her arrest for attending a match
Sahar Khodayari, who has been dubbed “Blue Girl” due to the color of her favorite team, Esteghlal, died in hospital on Monday from suicide, after her self-immolation outside a court.
She feared being jailed for six months after attending a football match disguised as a man.
by Navid Felker
The Iranian people are being pushed to a “boiling” point, as the majority of Iranians are now below the poverty line and many are forced to sell their bodily organs to make ends meet, according to expert Hossein Abedini, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
By Armin Baldwin
On Thursday, September 12, 2019, an exhibition was held on the grounds of U.S. Capitol in honor of 30,000 political prisoners massacred in 1988 by the Iranian regime in the span of just eight weeks, and in condemnation of ongoing human rights violations in Iran.
By Azita Carlson
US President Donald Trump discussed easing sanctions on Iran during a meeting on Monday in an effort to set a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and Texas Senator Ted Cruz said it would be a “serious mistake”, reported Bloomberg on Wednesday.
“Relaxing the maximum pressure strategy, which is succeeding in dramatically weakening the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, would be an enormous mistake”, said Cruz in his statement.
by Navid Felker
Sahar Khodayari, a young woman who had set her self in the fire to protest against suppression and discrimination, died on Monday, September 9th, 2019.
Sahar Khodayari, 29, faced charges of “appearing in public without a hijab” when she attempted to enter the stadium “dressed as a man” in March, according to Amnesty.
“She was stopped from entering when the stadium’s security guards discovered she was a woman,” Amnesty said in a statement.
by Atousa Pilger
On 7th September, a Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced three labour rights activists and four journalists to very heavy prison sentences between six and 18 years in length. One was also sentenced to 74 lashes.
Amnesty International has commented on these excessive sentences and has expressed concern that activists and journalists continue to be discriminated against.
Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court announced the sentencing verdicts for the seven individuals that were arrested within the past year. The individuals had been peacefully protesting for the rights of workers, and the journalists had been documenting the events.
by Navid Felker
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has warned the religious fundamentalism of Iran that it is waiting on answers to its questions and emphasised that “time is of the essence”. One response that the nuclear watchdog is waiting on is related to the discovery of uranium, at trace level, in a site that the Iranian regime claims to be a carpet-cleaning facility.
The Iranian regime was supposed to declare all nuclear sites to the IAEA under the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but nuclear deal critics have always pointed out that this is problematic given the regime’s history of deception. Now that it is clear the regime has failed to disclose this site, it only makes one wonder how many other sites remain undeclared.
