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Men join the fight against compulsory veiling in Iran – IBTimes

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Men in Iran have been taking pictures of themselves wearing hijabs in solidarity with women in the Islamic republic who are forced to cover their hair, reports Harriet Sinclair of the International Business Times.

In a campaign organised by My Stealthy Freedom, which documents women without veils in protest against the compulsory hijab, men have been pictured covering their hair in support, following a recent crackdown on ‘improperly dressed’ women’ by the country’s morality police, IBTimes UK reported on Thursday.

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52 executions during 17 day period in Iran

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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has reported that there have been several more executions carried out in Iran by the fundamentalist regime. In their article they announce that on 27th July nine prisoners were hanged in the prisons of Orumiyeh, Mashhad, Yazd and Tehran. They say that six prisoners were hanged collectively in the Central Prison of Orumiyeh.

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Opposition cause paranoia within the Iranian regime

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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has written an article about the paranoia the Iranian regime is experiencing following the 9th July “Free Iran” rally in Paris where over 100,000 people from around the world gathered to show their support. 

In the past the regime failed to take the Resistance seriously, positing that the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (MEK) “has no major standing among Iranians and poses no serious threat”.

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Ken Blackwell: Iran can be transformed with the help of U.S. Policy

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Ken Blackwell, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and senior fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance at the Family Research Council in Washington, wrote an article for American Thinker in which he details how U.S. policy can help Iran.

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Iran’s crackdown on Resistance shows their vulnerability and fear

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Patrick J. Kennedy, a former U.S. Representative (D-RI), wrote an article for the Independent Journal Review in which he discusses the Iranian regime’s recent reactions to the opposition. 

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Struan Stevenson: Will the nuclear deal collapse?

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Struan Stevenson, Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014, President of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009 to 2014, Chair of Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup from 2005 to 2014 and current President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA), wrote an article for The Diplomat in which he raises his concerns about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran nuclear deal.

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Iran: Women banned from cycling in public

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Harriet Sinclair has written an article in the International Business Times about the recent news that a group of women in Iran have been arrested “for the crime of riding a bike in a public place”. She also said that the women have been forced to sign a pledge in which they promise not to cycle in public again.

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Ambassador Bloomfield: the West’s miscalculations about Iran

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 On the side-lines of the “Free Iran” rally in Paris on 9th July, Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. spoke to ‘Alliance for Public Awareness – Iranian Communities in Europe’. According to an article by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) he spoke about the “fundamental misunderstandings by successive U.S. officials of both the Iranian regime and the Iranian Resistance”.

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Maryam Rajavi strongly condemns cowardly terrorist attack on a church in northern France

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Following the terrorist attack in northern France in which an elderly priest was brutally murdered in a church, Mrs Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect, strongly condemned the cowardly attack, reports the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Rajavi described this heinous killing as being in “diametric contrast to the teachings of all major religions and humane values”.

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Azeris hold anti-regime rallies in north-west Iran

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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has reported that thousands of ethnic Iranian Azeris have held two major anti-regime rallies. They took place on Tuesday in cities in north-west Iran in retaliation against the publication of “derogatory statements in the state-run media against Iran’s largest ethnic minority group”.

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