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Lord Alton: Dissent is very much alive in Iran despite recent crackdowns

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Lord Alton of Liverpool, a Crossbench peer, has claimed that activists in Iran are still in “extreme danger” but acknowledges that they will not be defeated by the violence they are confronted with by the government.

In the article published on 1st June he said that a representative of the Iranian cybercrimes police used state media to boast about how the regime has been able to disrupt peaceful networks on Instagram and other social media. Western media picked up on this and took interest in the cultural battleground “where secular, pro-democratic ideas are aggressively battled by the Iranian regime”.

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Eighteen charged in Bahrain for contacting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah

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Eighteen people have been charged in Bahrain with contacting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the Shi’ite Muslim Lebanese Hezbollah group “with the aim of stirring up unrest in the kingdom”, as reported by state news agency BNA on Wednesday.

Reuters have published an article with the news and remind that in January Bahrain cut diplomatic relations with Iran. This came the day after Riyadh severed ties with Tehran “following attacks by Iranian demonstrators on Saudi diplomatic missions in response to the execution of a prominent Shi’ite Muslim Saudi cleric convicted on terrorism charges”.

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Iranians rally in Sweden and Finland to denounce Javad Zarif’s presence

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On Wednesday 1st June, a rally was held in Sweden by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK). They gathered outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm to protest against the presence of Javad Zarif, the Iranian regime’s foreign minister, according to an article by the NCRI.

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Iran: Iranian President Rouhani’s three year record

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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has published a timeline detailing the major events of Hassan Rouhani’s presidency from June 2013 to the end of May 2016. The claims that he is running a moderate administration are contradicted by the facts.

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Washington policymakers misunderstand Tehran’s political system

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Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., a former U.S. defense and foreign policy official now serving as Chairman of the Stimson Center in Washington, and Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad, a ranking executive for a major American technology company and scholar practitioner at the George Mason University School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, have written an article about how Washington policymakers have failed to comprehend Tehran’s political system.

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Iran nuclear deal: Valuable nuclear intelligence ignored by Obama administration

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Raymond Tanter, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and a former senior staff member of the National Security Council, wrote an article in which he expressed his thoughts on the Rhodes narrative.

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Iran: Prison guards conduct raid and destroy prisoners’ belongings

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Prison wardens in Iran’s notorious Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran, raided a prison ward on Monday 30th May, according to reports from inside the prison. During the raid on the ward that houses ordinary prisoners, inmates were harassed and their belongings were damaged, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

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Iran: Second day of rallying to free political prisoner

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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has reported that the family, friends and supporters of Jafar Azimzadeh have rallied for a second day to demand his freedom. They are gathered outside the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament) in Tehran.

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The United Nation’s position on floggings in Iran

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Noury detailed the clerical regime's use of cruel corporal penalties like flogging for minor offences such as insubstantial lying. "They get 30 lashes, 50 lashes, 70 lashes, or 100 lashes depending on the type of crime," he stated.

The United Nations have published a report in which they outline their position on the recent floggings that have taken place in Iran.

This comes a week after 35 young men and women in Iran were flogged after holding a graduation party in Qazvin, north of Tehran.

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Bahrain upholds sentences for five spies with links to the Iranian regime

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In Bahrain an appeals court has upheld the sentences for five men accused of spying for the Iranian regime. The prosecution released a statement on Sunday 29th May confirming that their life sentences will be upheld and the court has rejected the five defendants’ appeals.

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