by Atousa Pilger
On May 13th, plainclothes members of Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Basij went head to head with Tehran University students who had gathered to protest the forced hijab laws at the universities.
The protesting Tehran University students were attacked as they gathered in protest the new regulations imposed on campus.
By Staff writer, SF
Citing serious concerns about some 90 individuals who were all under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged offenses, UN Human Rights experts, many of them Special Procedures Experts, called on Iran to immediately halt the execution of child offenders.
by Navid Felker
It was unclear and an important question as recently as last week that would Beijing comply to Washington’s demand that it stops importing Iranian oil at the start of May after the 180-day import waiver period ended? The answer, at least for now, is that Beijing will comply.
By Saeed
A former Iranian commander has said that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in cooperation with Al Qaeda, deployed soldiers disguised as aid workers to Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s conflict.
Said Qasemi, a now-retired spokesperson the IRGC, revealed that the IRGC forces dressed in Red Crescent uniforms to impersonate aid workers in order to train Muslim militias. Meanwhile, another IRGC official revealed that the IRGC and Al Queda engaged in joint weapons training.
By Armin Baldwin
In response to the Iranian regime’s alleged use of their embassies to plot terror attacks against its political opponents across the continent, European nations are being called upon by the popular Iranian resistance group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), to shut down Tehran’s embassies.
While the Trump administration escalates sanctions against President Hassan Rouhani’s Islamic Republic, NCRI Deputy Director Alireza Jafarzadeh told reporters at a news conference in Washington, D.C., “What we are calling for is closing the Iranian regime’s embassies.” The Deputy Director added, “These diplomatic relations have allowed the regime to plot terrorist attacks and assassinations in the West.”
By Azita Carlson
Iran regime’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has yet again tried to portray the false notion that the Iranian Regime is a moderate one when he appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation last weekend.
He argued that the US’s recent designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terror group would tell the Iranian people that the US is not a “worthy” negotiating partner and said that Trump’s maximum pressure campaign was “squeezing the Iranian people, not the government”.
by Atousa Pilger
Food rationing may soon return to Iran, the Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri said on Saturday.
Jahangiri did not give any details about how this would work but said that some goods might need to be rationed with vouchers because of increased US sanctions on Iran.
by Navid Felker
“Tehran’s defiant attitude is part of a desperate strategy to compel the international community to stand down,” writes Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former vice-president of the European Parliament, professor of atomic and nuclear physics, and president of the Brussels-based International Committee in Search of Justice.
By Saeed
National Security Adviser John Bolton has explained that the push that is part of the White House’s effort “to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero” is a way of ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran. Last month, the Trump administration kicked its “maximum pressure” campaign into high gear by announcing that it would not expend waivers to countries like China, India, and Japan and allow them to continue buying Iranian oil. Instead, they will face the prospect of being excluded from the American market.
By Staff writer, SF
During the Iran-Iraq war in the eighties, the Iranian regime recruited a large number of child soldiers. Many of their parents were not even aware that their children had been recruited until it was too late.
Iran signed the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child two and a half decades ago, but it clearly means nothing to the Iranian regime because it still continues to recruit child soldiers.
