Iran is providing financial and material support to the Taliban, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on October 6 Tuesday. General John Campbell told the U.S. Senate Armed Services committee that his forces have received reports that Iran has provided money and weapons to the Taliban mainly in the Herat region of Afghanistan.
The Washington Times (October 6, 2015):
Bill Clinton’s administration gathered enough evidence to send a top-secret communique accusing Iran of facilitating the deadly 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist bombing, but suppressed that information from the American public and some elements of U.S. intelligence for fear it would lead to an outcry for reprisal, according to documents and interviews.
Before Mr. Clinton left office, the intelligence pointing toward Iran’s involvement in the terror attack in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen and wounded hundreds was deemed both extensive and “credible,” memos show.
At least 137 laborers in Tehran have lost their lives in the past five months as a result of accidents at their work places. One woman was among those killed in work accidents due to unsafe working conditions the general coroner’s office in Tehran said.
A group of teachers from Gilan Province, in north of Iran, on Monday protested outside the local branch of the regime’s Education Ministry in the city of Rasht.
The Iranian teachers protested against inequality, poor living standards, and overdue wages, the National Council Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said.
A group of residents of the Jask port, in south-eastern Iran, on September 30 demonstrated outside the Mayor’s Office.
Mullah Hassan Rouhani, the President of Iran, hideously supported the atrocities of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad at the General Assembly and during his other remarks in New York. He portrayed the regime’s lethal meddling in the region as combating terrorism. This brazen defense of the greatest crime of the century, especially in a place where diplomatic rhetoric is prevalent, again drives home this reality that Rouhani is no different from Khamenei or other factions of this dictatorship when it comes to the fundamental policies of this regime such as export of terrorism and fundamentalism; a point that the Iranian Resistance has been making from the first day.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said it has seized 1.5 tons of high-grade explosives and arrested a number of suspects linked to the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards after it raided a warehouse in a residential district.
The head of the Iranian regime’s judiciary recently disputed the very concept of international standards for human rights. “We don’t expect the West to impose its assumptions on human rights and human dignity to all societies,” Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said during a meeting with Austrian President Heinz Fischer. In other words, Larijani believes that the Iranian regime should be free to redefine human rights to allow torture and systematic repression of dissent, and he would like the West to actively endorse that notion.
The main Iranian opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), has strongly condemned the presence of Hassan Rouhani, President of the religious fascism ruling Iran, in New York and at the United Nations General Assembly. The NCRI said on Sunday in a statement that Rouhani is among the most senior officials involved in the production of the nuclear bomb, 120,000 political executions, and warmongering and slaughter in the region. This regime does not represent the Iranian people and its leaders, from whatever faction, should face justice for crimes against humanity in Iran. Iran’s seat at the United Nations should be given to its people and their legitimate resistance.
Former U.S. ambassador to the UN human rights commission Ken Blackwell puts it correctly when he says that the trip next week by the Iranian regime’s president Hassan Rouhani to the UN in New York should be used to exert serious pressure on the mullahs over their atrocious human rights record.
