The European Union could impose sanctions on the Iranian regime over its recent ballistic missile tests, France’s foreign minister said on Sunday.
The United States, France and other countries have already said that, if the missiles are confirmed as nuclear-capable, the tests, conducted last week by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), would violate U.N. Security Council resolution 2231.
Executions in Iran surged to nearly 1,000 in 2015, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Iran said on Thursday, the highest level in more than a quarter-century.
In a statement released on January 28, the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran has said that “It would be best if relations with the Iranian were to be made contingent upon a halt to executions and an improvement of human rights in Iran.”
Tahar Boumedra is the author of “The human rights situation in Iran: a challenge for international law”, and is also the former director of the human rights office of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). He has recently written about the gross human rights abuses of the Iranian regime and says, “I find it incredible how Western governments, from a campaign whose promises remain to be met, engage in a race to mark their presence in Tehran and trigger lucrative contracts with a regime they consider to now be respectable.”
A global Muslim body on Thursday condemned the attacks on Saudi missions in Iran earlier this month and denounced the Iranian regime’s regional ‘interference’.
Maryam Rajavi: Hassan Rouhani is travelling to Europe to cover up the regime’s weakness and isolation. He is trying to put up a moderate face to cover up the executions in Iran and the mullahs’ role in the massacre of Syrians.
Instead of apologizing for the attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions, Iran’s leaders must change their government’s policies, become good neighbors, stop supporting militant groups, desist from assassinating people and not harbor terrorists, said Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir in an interview published Friday.
The Revolutionary Guards will get rich with the loosening of US sanctions at the expense of the Iranian economy – former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Ken Blackwell, has written in Wednesday’s edition of Investor’s Business Daily
Farzad Madadzadeh
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How many more unelected Iranian leaders will walk the red carpet into Europe before the West realizes that none of them will end the bloodshed in their own country so long as they come from within the regime itself?
NCRI – Text of speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, in a New Year ceremony with French supporters of the Resistance at the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris:
