A consultant to the Iranian regime’s mission to the United Nations in New York has been criminally charged with violating a U.S. law against dealing with that country, according to an indictment made public on Wednesday.
Ahmad Sheikhzadeh, 60, faces seven charges including conspiracy to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran, money laundering, and helping arrange false tax returns, the May 18 indictment said.
Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pressing the Obama administration to impose new sanctions on Iran’s “extremist regime” over its sponsorship of terrorism, illegal arms transfers and human rights violations.
Clinton pointed to the “existential danger” that would be posed by the Iranian regime if it ever obtained a nuclear weapon.
Clinton told a Washington meeting on Monday it is “not good enough to trust and verify” that Iran’s regime is respecting the terms of its nuclear deal with the world powers. “Our approach must be distrust and verify.”
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has forcefully denounced the international nuclear accord reached with Iran’s regime last year.
The key Senate Democrat drew a stark contrast with the Obama administration over its diplomatic engagement with Tehran on Tuesday, in a sign of lingering tensions in some corners of the party.
A resolution has been introduced in the United States Congress to provide protection and security for the residents of Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq, Digital Journal wrote on Tuesday. The residents are members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), and have been attacked numerous times by pro-Iranian forces.
Representative Ted Poe (R-TX) has introduced a resolution aimed at “Providing for the safety and security of the Iranian dissidents living in Camp Liberty/Hurriya in Iraq and awaiting resettlement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and permitting use of their own assets to assist in their resettlement,” the report said.
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.
