Tom Ridge, the first secretary of homeland security in the United States and former governor of Pennsylvania, wrote an article for The Philadelphia Inquirer in which he talks about the unfulfilled promises of the Iranian nuclear deal.He highlighted that last week Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, accused the United States of failing to honour pledges in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) mentioning the “futility of negotiations with the Americans”.
Protesters went on hunger strike for three days less than a week after 20 prisoners were executed in Iran. This protest coincides with the anniversary of the 1988 massacre in the country.
In an August 8 article by Imogen Calderwood for The Daily Mail, she reports on the protest this past weekend, when British Iranians were joined by a large group of supporters to protest the execution of up to 30 Sunni political prisoners in Iran on August 2.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that political prisoner Mohammad Abdollahi was executed along with five other prisoners in Orumieh (Urmia), north-west Iran.
Shops selling clothes that are not deemed Islamic are being raided and shut down in Iran, states the Express. This is the latest in a brutal crackdown by morality police.
Metro.co.uk has published an article about the three day hunger strike that is taking place outside Downing Street. The campaigners are protesting the deaths of at least 20 Sunni inmates at Gohardasht Prison near Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday and they are calling on the government to condemn the mass execution. They highlight that the mass execution coincided with the anniversary of the state-sanctioned killing of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.
The August 5 edition of The Mirror reports recent information that Munich killer Ali David Sonboly, 18, went on a weapons training holiday to Iran with his father, Masoud, before embarking on his killing spree.
