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Europe Iraq Association condemns Qasem Soleimani interference in Iraq

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Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:53

Press Release by: European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA), 25 February 2016

The visit by General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the criminal Qods Force of Iran to Baghdad, is one of his first trips after being seriously wounded in Syria last November. His aim is to prevent the crumbling of the Shiite militias and to reinforce their control.

Currently, the commander of the Badr militias is Hadi Ameri, the commander of Kata’ib Hezbollah is Abu-Mahdi Mohandess, and the commander of AAH is Qais Khazali. All three militias fall under the ultimate command of the terrorist Iranian Qods Force, led by Soleimani. In recent weeks the most prominent religious leaders and Shi’ia and Sunni political figures have called for the disarming of the militias affiliated with the Iranian regime and Abadi has called for a cut in their numbers of up to 30%, causing great anger and resentment in their ranks. A state of virtual anarchy and lawlessness now exists in many parts of Iraq, causing the Iranian regime to panic. They dare not lose control of their puppet state in Iraq and hence the reason for Soleimani’s flying visit to Baghdad. In parallel to increasing calls to dissolve the militias, the quarrels within the Shi’ia groups who share power and have been traditionally fully backed by Iran, have escalated.

Torture and executions continue in Iran: Amnesty International

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Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:18

The authorities in Iran have “severely curtailed the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly, arresting and imprisoning journalists, human rights defenders, trade unionists and others who voiced dissent, on vague and overly broad charges,” Amnesty International said in its annual report on violations of human rights in Iran.

Maryam Rajavi: Iran regime will end up weaker regardless of outcome of sham election

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Wednesday, 24 February 2016 11:35

NCRI - The Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, said that regardless of the outcome of the sham elections for the regime's parliament and the Assembly of Experts, which have no legitimacy whatsoever in the eyes of the Iranian people, ultimately, the regime will be weakened in its entirety, its internal crises will intensify, and the resentment and anger of the population toward the mullahs' corrupt and criminal factions will deepen even further.

Elections in Iran are a sham: Former U.S. Amb. To U.N.

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Tuesday, 23 February 2016 23:50

The dreadful theocracy that draconian ayatollahs have imposed on Iranians bears no similarity to a democratic system, says Kenneth Blackwell, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

Amb. Blackwell who is also a member of the bipartisan International Foundation for Electoral Systems wrote in an article published on Tuesday: “What’s worse is that in a very real sense, the outcome of the elections for Parliament and Assembly of Experts were already determined long before formal campaigns launched.” The so-called election will be held on Friday.

IRAN: Student sentenced to 15 years in prison

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Tuesday, 23 February 2016 22:52

NCRI - A court in Iran has sentenced a student activist to 15 years imprisonment. His wife and two other activists received prison terms of one to six years.

Arash Sadeghi, his wife Golrokh Iriai (Ebrahimi), Behnam Mosivand and Navid Kamran were violently arrested in September 2014 by the intelligence organization of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Mr. Sadeghi’s mother suffered a heart attack at the time of his arrest and died a few days later.Arash Sadeghi, a student in Allameh University, has already spent seven months in solitary confinement.

IRAN: Death sentence of young Kurdish man becomes definite

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Tuesday, 23 February 2016 00:20

The Iranian judiciary has finalized the death sentence that had been handed dwon to a young Kurdish man who was under the age of 18 at the time of attributed crime.

The country’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence issued for a young man by the name of Heyman Uraminezhad.

Bahrain adopts measures to counter Iran regime’s ‘interference’

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Monday, 22 February 2016 01:28

Bahrain said Sunday it has adopted measures to counter the Iranian regime’s “interference” in the kingdom.

“We have taken a series of measures to confront the dangers of terrorism,” Bahrain’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid al-Khalifa said during a meeting with clerics, MPs and newspaper chiefs in Manama.

Saudi Arabia: 32 accused of spying for Iranian regime stand trial

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Monday, 22 February 2016 00:52

A group of 32 people including an Iranian national who have been accused of spying for the Iranian regime’s Intelligence appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Riyadh on Sunday.

The court presented a list of accusations prepared by the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) against the members of the cell that also includes Saudis and an Afghan national.

Leading House Democrat: “Iranian terror proxies endanger security and stability in Middle East”

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Sunday, 21 February 2016 01:11

A top Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. congress is seeking to ensure that the U.S. administration keeps its pledge to hold the Iranian regime responsible for continued terrorism.

Rep. Ted Deutch (D – Fla.), the ranking Democratic member of the Committee’s Mideast and North Africa Subcommittee along with Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (D – Mass.), introduced the Zero Tolerance for Terror Act last month, which would allow Congress to impose new sanctions on the Iranian regime, if it should engage in terrorism, fund terrorist proxies, or acquire ballistic missiles in violation of UN Security Council resolutions.

EIFA condemns assassination of UN Rep. that documented massacre of Iranians in Camp Ashraf

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Sunday, 21 February 2016 00:18

Source: The European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA)

ASSASSINATION OF UN REPRESENTATIVE IN DIYALA, IRAQ
Militias must be dissolved and listed as terrorists

On Tuesday, February 16, the UN Assistant Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) announced that the death of its representative in Diyala Province, Amer al-Kaissy, had been confirmed. He was abducted by the militias in April 2015.