Tony Duheaume, for Al Arabiya English, wrote an article about the Basij Mostazafan. He explained that in Iran, ever since the beginning of the revolution which saw the overthrow of the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the country has experienced martyrdom and death via the clerical regime.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported that on 6th December, on the occasion of Student Day, students from various universities from all over Iran took to the streets to protest against the Iranian regime. Students chanted things such as “Students die, but do not accept humiliation” and “political prisoners must be freed”.
The Daily Mail in the UK has published an article about how Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani still sees the United States as the enemy, despite the lifting of sanctions.
Rouhani, who is likely to run for a second term in May next year, has been criticised by conservatives for allowing too many concessions during the nuclear deal negotiations. However, in a speech on Tuesday to university students Rouhani said that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been consulted and Rouhani had not made the decisions alone.
Tim Johnson wrote an article about the recent spate of cyberattacks. He said that two government agencies in Saudi Arabia have had an unspecified number of their computers frozen with experts saying that Iran is probably behind the chaos.
Johnson said: “The attacks are believed to have affected thousands of computers at the Saudi civil aviation and transportation agencies, harkening back to a devastating Iranian cyberattack in 2012 that nearly crippled the Saudi state oil company, Aramco.”
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, president of the International American Council on the Middle East, wrote an article about the Iranian regime and its future relationship with the United States.
The Security and Anti-Terrorism Commission of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has released a statement about the involvement of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in Syria. It highlights that their presence in Syria and the transfer of weapons are both blatant violations of UNSC resolutions.
The main command centre and barracks of the IRGC is at “Fort Behuth” which is 30 kilometres away from Aleppo. This site is commanded by IRGC Brigadier General Seyed Javad Ghafari.
Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, has said that an American-Iranian man and his wife was arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in July and have been held in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. They have been detained without charge and do not have access to a lawyer.
The recent Presidential election in the U.S. has made the Iran regime officials worried about what the future holds, according to an article in the American Thinker.
The groups that have lobbied the mullahs’ interests in the White House are now trying to influence the new president Donald Trump with their agendas. This is because of Donald Trump’s opposing views to Barack Obama’s in relation to Iran.
