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Iran hangs youth in central Iran prison

Tehran, Iran, Sep. 17 – A young Iranian man was hanged in a penitentiary centre in the city of Yazd, central Iran, a state-run daily reported on Saturday.

Iran regime ‘solid’ in pursuing nuclear drive: Khamenei

ImageTEHRAN – Iran’s Islamic regime is as "solid as a mountain" and can easily stand up to international pressure for it to abandon sensitive nuclear activities, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday.

In a sermon at Tehran University, Iran’s top cleric accused the West of trying to bully the Islamic republic into abandoning atomic energy technology but said its campaign did not have the backing of the wider international community.

Iranian President Coming to America

ImageAhmadinejad, a former senior commander of the feared terror-sponsoring Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (the "Pasdaran"), has a despicable past as a fire-brand radical who has been recognized by at least six Americans former hostage to have been involved in capturing and holding of Americans for 444 days in 1979.

Iran is close to a nuclear bomb”: Iranian scientist

ImageFace to Face Iran Focus An interview with a defector from Iran’s secretive nuclear establishment Paris, Jul. 13 – Alireza Assar received his Master of Science degree in high energy physics and elementary particles from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 1977, his PhD in mathematics from the University of Vienna, and studied theoretical physics at the prestigious International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. He was a professor of physics in Shahid Bahonar University in Kerman (southern Iran) and acted as a Ministry of Defence consultant on Iran’s nuclear programme until the early 1990s. He left Iran in 1992, but has maintained contact with his friends and fellow scientists in the country.

Iranian Volunteers Training for Attacks

ImageTEHRAN, Iran – More than 200 young men and women presented themselves Thursday as volunteers to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and against Israelis.

The meeting was organized at Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has sought volunteers for attacks in Iraq and Israel since last year

Iran: Shocking working conditions and death toll following workplace accidents

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has reported that Iran’s workers are forced to undergo harsh treatment for very poor wages. The country’s chief of the ‘Construction Workers Association’, Akbar Shokat, said: “According to experts the monthly income of less than $580, is considered below the poverty line and while the construction workers monthly salary is $230, this figure is not the poverty line anymore, this is the misery line!”

Conference at House of Commons calling for investigations into executions and human rights abuses in Iran

It has been reported that Matthew Offord, the MP for Hendon, is one of around 200 cross-party MPs and peers that is demanding an international investigation into the appalling state of human rights in Iran.

Arab Countries: Iran Must Stop Interfering in the Middle East

In a letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, officials from eleven Arab countries urged that Iran has to change its ways and stop meddling in the affairs in the Middle East.

The letter was signed by UN representatives from Arab countries, such as Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iran’s recent ally Sudan. The letter stated that Iran is a “state sponsor of terrorism” and stressed that Iran’s terrorist activities have only increased since the signing of the historic USA-Iran nuclear deal.

Husband of the Jailed British-Iranian Woman: My Wife Is a ‘Bargaining Chip’ for Iran

On the 3rd of April this year, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was returning home after visiting her parents in Iran, along with her 22-month-old daughter. At the airport, in what must have been the worst day of her life, Mrs. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained by the Iranian authorities. Her daughter has been taken away from her and she herself has been jailed. Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, who has been campaigning for her release ever since is claiming that his wife is being used as a “bargaining chip” in the political relations between the UK and Iran.

The Iranian Regime Is Not Supported by the People of Iran

A huge demonstration against the human rights abuses of the Iranian Regime took place in Trafalgar Square on Saturday, November 19.

The protesters, which included Anglo-Iranian communities, supporters of National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and human rights activists, highlighted the staggering number of executions that have happened so far in 2016.