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Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 07, 2019 25 Comments
Tehran may have killed more than 1,000 protesters during the deadly clampdown against anti-regime protests, the U.S. State Department said. "As the truth is trickling out of Iran, it appears the regime could have murdered over a thousand Iranian citizens since the protests began,” the U.S. Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, disclosed on Thursday.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 06, 2019 5 Comments
Israel is set to present Iran's violation of the nuclear agreement to the United Nations Security Council later this month, the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz confirmed on Thursday. "Iran is developing missiles capable of carrying a nuclear payload while violating UN Security Council resolutions," he said.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 01, 2019 23 Comments
Six European countries have joined the European payment mechanism which seeks to bypass U.S. sanctions against Iran. "Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden are in the process of becoming shareholders of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (Instex)," the Government of Norway said in a statement on Friday.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 28, 2019 10 Comments
Anti-regime protesters torched around 731 banks in nationwide unrest that began two weeks ago, Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted. The demonstrations against the Shi'a Islamic regime started on November 15 after Tehran announced the rationing of gasoline and a sharp hike in fuel prices. Protesters also turned their anger at symbols of the regime, setting fire to banners and billboards depicting Ayatollah Khamenei and Islamic propaganda.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 21, 2019 21 Comments
The Iranian regime is using snipers and helicopter gunships to quell anti-regime protests, the media reports disclosed. People witnessed pro-regime sharpshooters firing at unarmed demonstrators, German newspaper Bild reported. "Verified video footage show snipers shooting at people from rooftops," the newspaper confirmed. "In at least one instance, a helicopter had been used for the shooting."

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 18, 2019 15 Comments
Anti-regime protests erupted across Iran after the regime imposed rationing of gasoline and hiked fuel prices. People took to streets in more than 100 cities, including the Iranian capital of Tehran. Iran's so-called Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei lashed out at the people on Sunday for protesting the three-fold fuel price rise, calling them "thugs" and "hooligans."

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on October 31, 2019 4 Comments
The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, is using thugs to break up anti-government protests in the country's capital Beirut. Hundreds of Hezbollah followers armed with sticks assaulted protesters at an anti-corruption rally. They burned and dismantled tents set up by the demonstrators in the city center, news reports said.

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on October 30, 2019 16 Comments
In October 2019, CodePink took another in a long line of trips to the Islamic Republic of Iran on the premise of promoting peace. The latest trip, even more so than the prior trips, amounted to a whitewash of Iranian human rights violations, particularly towards women. The CodePink group was led by National Co-Director Ariel Gold, and included several of her Ithaca (NY) anti-Israel activist friends, including Beth Harris and Amber Gilewski. (In the featured image, these three are circled, from left to right, Harris, Gold and Gilewski.)

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on October 18, 2019 5 Comments
The Iranian economy could shrink by 9.5 percent in 2019 amid tighter U.S. sanctions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts. The economic projection comes a month after President Donald Trump ordered the Treasury Department to "substantially increase" sanctions on Tehran.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 29, 2019 6 Comments
Echoing the sentiments of Democrats, a top Iranian official has threatened to "catch" President Donald Trump and "put him on trial" for unspecified actions against Iran and others. The threat was made by Mohsen Rezaei, the former chief of the regime's military arm, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 08, 2019 8 Comments
The U.S. Ambassador to Berlin, Richard Grenell, has urged Germany to ban the Islamist terror organization Hezbollah from the country. Writing in the German newspaper Die Welt, the envoy called on Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to outlaw the Iran-backed terrorist group that has been "murdering innocent people from Lebanon to Syria, Thailand, Bulgaria, Spain and Argentina" for 37 years.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2019 15 Comments
Israel has attacked Iranian bases in Syria to preempt the launch of a squadron of bomb-loaded attack drones that were in the final preparations for launch. The planned drone attack was personally supervised by Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, according to the Israel Defense forces, which in an unusual move took to Twitter to announce the preemptive attack:
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