by Navid Felker
French President Emmanuel Macron is being praised for attempting to facilitate talks between Iran and the US, but few are questioning whether this is appropriate considering that Iran tried to bomb a rally in Paris just last year.
Last Friday, Macron met Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Paris before inviting him to the G7 summit in Biarritz, hinting at talks between Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
By Azita Carlson
Iran’s cover-up of 1988 – Missing bodies
Amnesty international published a report on Wednesday, August 29, 2019, about thousands of unregistered deaths of political prisoners across Iran during the horrible massacre in summer of 1988.
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Iranian authorities’ continued failure to disclose the fate and whereabouts of thousands of political dissidents who were forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed in secret during Iran’s 1988 prison massacres has sparked a crisis that for decades has been largely overlooked by the international community, said Amnesty International in the lead-up to the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30.
By Armin Baldwin
Hassan Roshan, a football veteran of Iran’s national team, was condemned to 74 lashes and a million-rial fine following a complaint by two coaches of Esteghlal Club, Harranah news agency reported on Wednesday, August 29, 2019.
by Atousa Pilger
“The enemy is using social media better than us. The internet is like a kitchen knife that you can use. The enemy can also use it to tear you apart.”
These are words of Iranian regime Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi in an interview with state TV on Sunday, August 25. Alavi reflected the growing concerns of the mullahs over increasing activities of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) on social media.
by Navid Felker
On August 26, 2019 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announced on its website that Iran is now the world’s biggest jailer of women journalists.
By Azita Carlson
On Wednesday morning, the Iranian regime executed Hamidreza Derakhshandeh, who had killed Mohammad Khorsand, the regime’s Friday Prayer Leader in Kazerun. Friday Prayer leaders are mullahs who directly represent the Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, which makes them much hated among the Iranian population.
By Armin Baldwin
When Donald Trump sanctioned Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif by adding his name to the US terrorist list, there was an outcry in the media, but let’s look closely at the State Department made this move.
Zarif is in charge of all Iranian ambassadors and diplomatic staff at embassies around the world. Therefore, in June 2018, he was responsible for the orders given to Assadollah Assadi, stationed at the Iranian Embassy in Vienna, to bomb the Free Iran rally in Paris, which was attended by over 100,000 people, including high-ranking international political leaders, like Rudy Giuliani.
by Navid Felker
According to state-run Khorasan newspaper, a young Iranian girl named Ziba set herself on fire to avoid marriage with the elderly cousin of her stepmother. Most part of her body and face is burned.
Earlier, Ali Kazemi, adviser to legal assistant of the Iranian regime’s judiciary revealed that 500-600 children are facing forced marriage every year.
By Azita Carlson
On Monday a prisoner was executed in Babol, Mazandaran province. According to state-run media, the prisoner was charged with murdering two cousins in the Babolkenar forest park.
Another unnamed woman was hanged at dawn on August 25, 2019 in the Central Prison of Mashhad, according to the state-run ROKNA news agency.
by Atousa Pilger
Protests against the European trip of Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of the Iranian regime, continue. The French committee of Mayors in support of a democratic Iran, headed by Mr. Jean-Francois Legaret, Mayor of 1st. arrondissement of Paris, issued a statement condemning the visit of the Iranian regime’s FM to France.
