A young Iranian man, Arash Sadeghi, is currently serving a 19-year prison sentence for conspiracy and propaganda against the state – bogus charges that he denies. He had been arrested several times in the past too, with his parents providing bail each time. However since his arrest in October last year he has been behind bars.
In order to bring stability back to Iran, the Iranian regime needs to be brought to justice. Iran lacks freedom in many different ways – there is no liberty of expression, the people do not have religious freedom and Iranians do not have the most basic of human rights.
Hashem Khastar, a former political prisoner and member of the teachers’ trade union in Mashhad, has written a letter in support of the prisoners who are currently on hunger strike. He calls for their immediate release.
It has been announced that the Iranian government’s plans for petroleum, gas, oil, transport, dams, water transfer, telecommunication and IT are assigned to a group affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The news was confirmed by Hossein Dehghan, the regime’s Minister of Defense.
Political prisoner Arash Sadeghi has been on hunger strike for over 70 days and is now in a critical condition. Mr Sadeghi started his hunger strike on 24th November in protest against the unjust arrest of his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, and the unlawful process they experienced during their arrest and trial.
In an interview with Orient TV, affiliated to Syrian opposition, renowned Syrian writer and journalist, Ahmad Kamel, exposes the destructive and sectarian role of Iranian regime in Syria.
The following is part of his interview:
In an article for The National Review by by Ray Takeyh, the Hasib Sabbagh Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and a co-author of The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East, he writes that the incoming Trump administration will confront a Middle East in turmoil.
Taketh believes that the Obama presidency failed in its legacy on foreign affairs in its Iran policy. Today, Iran’s leaders possess a nuclear infrastructure that he says is expanding and “is blessed by the international community”.
A rally was held in front of the Iranian regime’s embassy in Paris at the invitation of ‘Syrian Revolution coordination’ on Saturday, December 24.
Hundreds of Syrian people, as well as members of the Iranian Resistance and their supporters, gathered together to protest the crimes against humanity endured by the people of Aleppo. They condemned Bashar Assad and the Iran regime’s forces and mercenaries, as well as the attempts of the Iranian Guard to block the evacuation of East Aleppo.
The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani’s presence in Aleppo proves the failure of US President Barack Obama’s foreign policy regarding Iran.
In an article for Al-Arabyia, Heshmat Alavi, a political and rights activist, writes that, “We are talking about a man grossly responsible for massacring innocent people across the Middle East,” and says that seeing photos of Soleimani touring the city shows how desperately Iran “needed to boast its tactical victory in Aleppo, knowing its future in Syria is actually quite gloomy.”
