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Posted by Mary Chastain on January 03, 2020 75 Comments
Remember when President Barack Obama put troops in Syria without Congressional approval? Remember when he droned a U.S. citizen and his family without Congressional approval? Silence from the left. But now that President Donald Trump ordered an attack that killed Iran's Qassem Soleimani, the architect behind the regime's war on America and Israel, Democrats now care about the Constitution.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 03, 2020 28 Comments
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened the United States with 'jihad' after an American drone strike killed Qassem Soleimani, the chief of Iran's elite Quds Force. "All Enemies should know that the jihad of resistance will continue with a doubled motivation, and a definite victory awaits the fighters in the holy war," Khamenei said in a televised statement.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2020 137 Comments
Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, is the architect of Iran's war on the West and Israel, including through Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorist group. There was an airstrike on a convoy of vehicles at Baghdad airport, and reportedly Soleimani was killed along with the leader of the Iraqi militia aligned with Iran.

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.)
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