Saturday, December 17, 2016

Iran Regime Claims Unity While Killing Innocent Women and Children in Aleppo


Regime Claims Unity While Killing 
Iran Regime Claims Unity While Killing Innocent Women and Children in Aleppo

NCRI - The Iranian regime president, Hassan Rouhani, in his speech on Thursday December 15 in the so-called Islamic Unity Conference, claimed violence from any religion or ethnicity is against Islam.

In this regard, Turkey’s Anatolia news agency in a report on December 15 questioned Rouhani’s statement regarding Islam’s opposition to violence and said while Rouhani today talked about Islam opposing violence, the (sectarian) militants backed by Iranian regime killed several civilians, who were evacuating East Aleppo during the ceasefire, by firing direct shots.

Sectarian militants affiliated to the regime in Iran today once again under the command of Seid Javad, a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), fired direct shots at the civilians, who were evacuating East Aleppo following the ceasefire, killing several civilians and injuring a large number of them. This is while Hassan Rouhani in his speech in «Islamic Unity Conference» today said: «Violence is against Islam. Violence from Shiite or Sunni is unacceptable. Murder by anyone is undue and rejected»” Anatolia reported.....Mor..

Friday, December 16, 2016

iran Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Giuliani’s Ties to an Iranian Resistance Group


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iran Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Giuliani’s Ties to an Iranian Resistance Group


 Mujahidin e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian resistance group, and the U.S. politicians who support it, especially former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. As a former Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and someone familiar with the MEK and Giuliani’s work on the organization’s behalf, I can say unequivocally that Benjamin’s assertions are outrageous—so outrageous that I must respond.

First, I want to be clear about one thing: This isn’t about Rudy Giuliani. Arguably the broadest and most impressive bipartisan coalition in a generation has supported the MEK in its campaign for regime change in Iran. This includes two former chairmen of the joint chiefs, two former CIA directors, a former attorney general and the former chairs of both political parties. The ideological range includes everyone from Howard Dean and Patrick Kennedy to Newt Gingrich and John Bolton. From this perspective, the outlier isn’t Rudy Giuliani; it’s Daniel Benjamin mor...mor...

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Iran: Last Message of Syrian Girl Lina Shami From Aleppo







NCRI - In a message from Aleppo, young Syrian girl Lina Shami asked for help from people around the world to do something to save them. This message is in English and published widely on social networks.

Lina Shami: “To all those who hear my voice: We are facing genocide here in East Aleppo. This might be my last video message. More than 50 thousand civilians who have risen up and resisted against Assad’s dictatorship are facing the threat of execution or being killed in the bombing.”

According to activists, more than 180 people, who (left Aleppo and) went to the areas under the control of Assad regime, were executed by Assad forces or their allied militants.
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Monday, December 12, 2016

Iran Bi-Partisan Lawmakers Endorse....

Bi-Partisan Lawmakers Endorse Resolution to Bring to Justice Perpetrators of the 1988 Massacre of MEK Political Prisoners in Iran
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WASHINGTON - The bi-partisan support is growing for a House resolution introduced by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the Homeland Security Committee Chair, Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) ranking member and Ed Royce (R-CA), the HFAC chairman.
The resolution condemns the deteriorating situation of human rights in Iran and the Iranian regime “for the 1988 massacre, and for denying the evidence of this manifest set of crimes against humanity.”
H.Con.Res.159, co-sponsored by some 50 House members, urges the United Nations “to create a Commission of Inquiry to fully investigate the massacre and to gather evidence and identify the names and roles of specific perpetrators with a view towards bringing them to justice.”
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Iran IRGC commanding Aleppo killings from.....



Iran IRGC commanding Aleppo killings from “Fort Behuth” southeast of the city


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IRGC presence, transfer of weapons to Syria are flagrant violations of UNSC resolutions

The main Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) command center and barracks in Aleppo is at “Fort Behuth,” located 30 kilometers southeast of the city (5 kilometers south of the city of al-Safire). Iran has named this site as “Fort Hazrat Roqiye,” under the command of IRGC Brigadier General Seyed Javad Ghafari, commanding all IRGC forcers in Aleppo.

Ghafari, with experience from the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, has for the past three years commanded the Aleppo military campaign and Syria’s northern front. He has recently been appointed as field commander of all IRGC forces in Syria. A few months ago he joined IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani in a meeting with Bashar Assad, where the Syrian dictator praised Ghafari. He has also joined Suleimani to meet with Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nassrollah.........MOR..

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Iran- Has the Iran Lobby Set its Sights on the Trump Administration?



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Has the Iran Lobby Set its Sights on the Trump Administration?

Repeated attacks on Iranian dissidents featuring discredited talking points normally espoused by Tehran’s well-organized Washington lobby are landing with Donald Trump’s White House transition in full swing.

Daniel Benjamin’s Politico Magazine hit job – Giuliani Took Money From a Group That Killed Americans. Does Trump Care? and Josh Rogin’s takedown in The Washington Post – Giuliani was Paid Advocate for Shady Iranian Dissident Group – are case in point.

Were the smears designed to influence the selection of key members of the president-elect’s cabinet and, by extension, US policy?

If allegations levied by Benjamin or Rogin were substantiated by actual evidence, their claims might be credible. They are not. Instead the articles traffic in innuendo that is easily dismissed.
How do I know?

I am the author of three empirical, peer-reviewed journal articles that examine matters involving the exiled Iranian resistance group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), also known as People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). I also penned the foreword to an independent 2013 study undertaken by Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. that addressed the misinformation campaign directed at Western government policies toward the Iranian opposition group. Bloomfield, a former defense and foreign policy official who served three presidents over five administrations in the Pentagon, White House, and State Department, produced the scholarly history of the MEK to challenge conventional wisdom within the Department of State and to prompt fresh policy thinking.
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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Iran:Can propaganda save the threadbare Iran appeasement policy?






With President Obama's administration expiring in a few weeks, the Iranian regime, its lobbies in the United States and Iran apologists with vested interest in the continuation of rapprochement with Tehran have initiated a widespread propaganda campaign to avoid losing their earnings in Obama's eight years of appeasement policy vis-a-vis Iran.

Their efforts involve the publication of lopsided reports and hastily scribbled op-eds with enticing titles on highly viewed media outlets to reframe past failures as historical achievements, and to discourage President-elect Trump from choosing vocal critics of Iran's mischievous deeds as his cabinet members.

An op-ed published in the Washington Post shortly after Trump's victory tried to demonize Rudy Giuliani, calling him a "paid advocate of a shady Iranian dissident group," referring to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main opposition of the Iranian regime. The author of the article, Josh Rogin, has a long history of attacking the PMOI/MEK and quoting Tehran lobbies in his reporting..Mor