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Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir: Iran should stop fanning terror in the region

 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.

Sanctions Relief Won’t Revive Iran’s Economy While Also Enriching The Revolutionary Guards

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

I was a political prisoner in Iran – and this is why I won’t be celebrating President Rouhani’s trip to Europe

Farzad Madadzadeh

INDEPENDENT

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?

Maryam Rajavi meets French supporters of Iranian Resistance

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:

IN A NEW YEAR MEETING WITH FRENCH SUPPORTERS OF THE IRANIAN RESISTANCE:

Maryam Rajavi called on international community to expel Iranian regime from region

World can be free of fundamentalism only when the clerical regime in Iran as the epicenter of fundamentalism is overthrown

 In a gathering of French supporters of the Iranian Resistance celebrating the New Year, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi expressed her regrets over bitter incidents of 2015 which made the world suffer especially in France and in the Middle East.

Republicans move toward Iran deal showdown with White House

REUTERS-Thu Jan 7, 2016

Legislation that could undermine the international nuclear deal with Iran cleared a U.S. congressional panel on Thursday, setting up a potential showdown over one of President Barack Obama’s signature foreign policy initiatives.

Political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared denied medical treatment

There has been a continuing deterioration in the treatment of political prisoners in Iran since the time that Hassan Rouhani became president of the mullahs’ regime. This includes denying political prisoners the right to proper medical treatment when needed.

Reuters: Iran unveils second underground missile, likely to irk U.S.

Reuters Tue Jan 5, 2016

Iran unveiled a new underground missile depot on Tuesday with state television showing Emad precision-guided missiles in store which the United States says can take a nuclear warhead and violate a 2010 U.N. Security Council resolution.

UN condemns attack on Saudi embassy in Iran

The United Nations Security Council on Monday strongly condemned an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran.

 Saudi Arabia cut off diplomatic ties with Iran’s regime on Sunday after protesters ransacked and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and the consulate in Mashhad.

Iran’s Congressional Veto

The Wall Street Journal

 REVIEW & OUTLOOK

 Tehran demands waivers from a new law on visa entries to the U.S.

 President Obama has staked much of his foreign-policy legacy on the Iran nuclear deal, but does that deal effectively give the Iranians veto power over legislation by the U.S. Congress? That’s the question at the center of Tehran’s “outrage” at a security law passed by Congress after the Paris and San Bernardino attacks.