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Establishing Relations With Iran Should Be Conditioned Upon Respect for Human Rights

The National Council of Resistance of Iran published a story on October 31 about Christian Zimmermann, the Director of Human Rights and Minority affairs in Berlin, who attended a commemoration for the 24 members of PMOI/MEK killed in missiles attacks on Camp Liberty on October 29th, 2015. 

“In these months, the German government wants to pass a law in order to coordinate the economic relations with the human rights; But what will happen then?”,  Mr. Zimmermann asked, referring to the cooperation of German authorities with Iran, and their policy of appeasement with the Iranian regime.

Is Iran Gaining Ground in US Over the Arabs?

In his article on October 30, for Al-Arabiya, Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, a prominent UAE businessman and Chairman of the Al Habtoor Group, one of the most successful conglomerates in the Gulf says that, “The world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism is pulling out all stops to ingratiate itself with Washington elites with an image makeover projecting their supposedly peaceful culture – and it is all thanks to President Barack Obama, whose deal with the devil opened a window for the first time since Iran held 66 Americans hostage for 444 days during the 1970s.”

President-elect Maryam Rajavi, condemns rocket attack targeting Mecca, calls it ‘War against Muslims’

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), on October 30, published remarks made by their President-elect, Maryam Rajavi, who strongly condemned the rocket attack on Mecca carried out on October 29, from inside Yemen, under the Quds Force supervision, and upon the orders of Khamenei. 

She described this as a declaration of war on all Muslims around the world. She demanded expulsion the Iranian regime from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and requested that the Islamic states cut off relations with them.

Silence Against 1988 Massacre by Iran Regime, in Fact, Encourages Them to Continue Their Crime.

Leading figures in the Catholic Church  and Italian diplomacy have come out to condemn the 1988 Iranian Massacre and call for the prosecution of those responsible.

The papal legate and the Secretary of the conferences in the Marche region of Italy issued a statement, which read: “Many of those executed have been sentenced to imprisonment previously and they have been serving their time or have already served. Lots of those executed were the prisoners who were to be released or they were the family members of the people of Mujahedin that Khomeini ordered to arrest them. In Tehran and provincial capitals and many cities (a total of more than 70 cities) the death delegations were formed.”

Iran: Companies Who Inadvertently Support Terrorism

A campaign group of prominent diplomats has warned that the money from foreign entities conducting business in Iran is going to the Iranian mullahs.

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) made this statement ahead of the first Iran Investment Summit in Singapore.

Iran: Another High Ranking General Killed in Syria

Reports are circulating that one of the highest-ranking members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in Aleppo on Saturday.

Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Rafieii was in charge of the IRGC’s Special Forces Commandos, according to Syrian News Channel, Orient. He had been sent there after the Iranian Regime had failed to take Aleppo.

The Iran Deal’s Tragic Affect on the Region

Amir Basiri, a human rights activist writes in an article for Forbes, about the Obama administration’s further easing of financial sanctions on Iran, that were lifted as part of the nuclear deal that came into effect early this year. This facilitates for non-U.S. persons to deal with Iranian entities that are minority owned or controlled by sanctioned individuals or bodies.

Iran: Political prisoners call on United Nations to act for human rights

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has reported that a group of prisoners in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj wrote to António Guterres (just elected as the next United Nations Secretary General) and to Asma Jahangir (the new UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran). In their letter they complain about the appalling human rights abuses and political violence that is taking place in the country.

Iran: Brave political prisoner challenges regime’s notorious Attorney General

In a letter to the Iranian regime’s Attorney General, political prisoner Narges Mohammadi said: “I will not be silent until my rights are respected and justice is served.”

The Attorney General had referred to Narges Mohammadi as “a sinister existence” and added: “If the Judiciary does not reveal the documents of infringement and violations by her and others like her, it does not mean that they are good people.”

Iran: U.S. officials say Iran is supplying weapons to Houthi rebels in Yemen

NBC has reported that U.S. officials believe Iran has supplied weapons to Houthis in Yemen. The head of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Kevin Donegan, who is tasked with securing the waters around Yemen, told NBC that he believes the U.S. and partner nations have intercepted five shipments of weapons to Yemen from Iran.