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US lawmakers approve use of force as Iran option

US lawmakers approve use of force as Iran option

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2012 (AFP) - The Republican-led House of Representatives approved Friday the use of US force against Iran if t...

Obama Administration To Do List Before Elections: De-List MEK For Justice

Obama Administration To Do List Before Elections: De-List MEK For Justice

OfficialWire News Bureau-   By Fabian Mahmoudi  18 May 2012  

The widely discussed MEK is the most feared by the religious fundament...

Stealing 10 computer sets and several boxes of spare parts of the Ashraf Residents

Stealing 10 computer sets and several boxes of spare parts of the Ashraf Residents

10 computer sets and several boxes of spare parts and tool boxes belonging to the 5th group of Ashraf residents have been stolen from the containers in the cargo destined to Camp Liberty.
These containers were the belongings of the 5th group of Ashraf residents left in the loading area promised to be transferred to Camp Liberty by the Iraqi forces on May 6 and 7, but they refused to do it.

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The MEK Muddle

The MEK Muddle

The  weekly Standard - By Lee Smith  May 16, 2012

State Department officials have announced that Hillary Clinton is moving toward taking the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MEK, off the list of foreign terrorist organizations. The secretary of state has already delayed her decision to review the MEK's status for almost two years, even though congressional rules maintain the process should take 180 days. But now, according to reports, Clinton may make her final decision on the MEK's status within 60 days after the group’s last member is relocated in Iraq, from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty. The question is whether that’s going to give MEK members time enough to find refuge, or rather an opportunity for the Islamic Republic of Iran to round them up.

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Diplomat: UN experts say Iran sends arms to Syria

Diplomat: UN experts say Iran sends arms to Syria

AP - 17 May 2012
 
UNITED NATIONS - An expert panel monitoring U.N. sanctions on Iran has reported that Syria continues to be the main destination of illicit Iranian weapons, a Security Council diplomat said Wednesday.

The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the panel's report has not been released, said it identified three new illegal shipments, two involving Syria which was also the previous destination of a majority of Iranian arms shipments.

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Iran: Cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashes

Iran: Cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashes

NCRI- The semi-official news agency ILNA reported on Thursday that Iranian regime has sentenced a cartoonist to 25 lashes for drawing a cartoon of a former member of Iranian regime's parliament.

Mahmoud Shokraye was put on trial after his drawing depicting the former member of parliament as a soccer player was printed in local  newspaper in city of Arak, capital of Iran's Markazi province.

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Iran: Students gathering and protests against repressive and reactionary policies of the mullahs in universities

Iran: Students gathering and protests against repressive and reactionary policies of the mullahs in universities

NCRI - In recent days, students of various universities across the country have been protesting against the reactionary and repressive policies of the Iranian regime in universities and the deteriorating guild situation of the students.

On October 10, Polytechnic University students in Tehran gathered for the fifth day. They protested against the dire guild situation of the students, lack of safety and their exclusion from a university hostel, and lack of addressing the case of Amena Zangeneh, a graduate student of this university who died a few days ago due to lack of safety.

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How is it that Ahmadinejad Is still Iran's president?

How is it that Ahmadinejad Is still Iran's president?

McClatchy Newspapers - By ALIREZA JAFARZADEH  May 11, 2012

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on April 28th that it would resume discussions with Iran on May 14-15, the first in two months since the last meeting over concerns about Tehran's nuclear activities ended in failure.
 
The IAEA wants Iran to address the questions raised in its November report detailing Iranian research and development activities relevant to manufacturing nuclear weapons.

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Satellite Dish collection Is Only a Temporary Sedative, not a Solution, Admits the Regime Website

Satellite Dish collection Is Only a Temporary Sedative, not a Solution, Admits the Regime Website

NCRI - A state-run medium expressed concerns over the consequences of suppressing plans of dish collecting implemented by commando forces. It warned that if wiser and more calculative measures are not taken today, tomorrow will be too late.

Admitting to the failure of the suppressing project, Ministry of Intelligence-affiliated web site, Aser-Iran, wrote, police forces have in several attempts tried to stop people from using satellite dishes since 2001 when the law against the use of satellite dishes passed.

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Obama unveils Syria, Iran technology sanctions

Obama unveils Syria, Iran technology sanctions

AFP - WASHINGTON —By Stephen Collinson - US President Barack Obama Monday ordered new sanctions on Syria and Iran and the "digital guns for hire" who help them oppress their people with surveillance software and monitoring technology.

Obama announced additions to the pile of US sanctions already faced by the two governments as part of a wider effort to crack down on human rights abuses, atrocities and genocide, at a speech at the US Holocaust Museum.

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Chinese Oil Company may drop the ball to implementing contract with Iranian regime

Chinese Oil Company may drop the ball to implementing  contract with Iranian regime

NCRI - China’s biggest gas contract with the clerical regime is about to be suspended because China has restrained itself from implementing the contract.

“The Chinese have strung along Oil Ministry for over 2 years”, wrote a state medium, “delaying operations in the second phase of special economic region of Pars Energy. This is a 5-billion-dollar megaproject signed by Chinese CNPCI to develop Phase 11 of Southern Pars Field.”

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