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Richard Ashworth MEP: Over 1000 executions in Iran in 2015

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Tuesday, 05 April 2016 14:45

NCRI - Richard Ashworth, a Member of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom, has reiterated that the Iranian regime’s president Hassan Rouhani is not a ‘moderate’ as he claims to be.

Mr. Ashworth, who is a strong supporter of freedom and democracy in Iran, pointed to over 1000 executions carried out in Iran in 2015 under Rouhani’s watch.

U.S. Congress investigates deception in Iran nuclear deal - report

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Tuesday, 05 April 2016 09:52

The United States Congress is investigating whether the Obama administration misled lawmakers last summer about the extent of concessions granted to Iran's regime under the nuclear deal, as well as if administration officials have been quietly rewriting the deal’s terms in the aftermath of the agreement, the Washington Free Beacon reported, quoting sources and a formal notice sent to the State Department.

U.S. does not plan to grant Iran regime access to U.S. financial system

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Tuesday, 05 April 2016 09:34

The Obama administration does not plan to give Iran's regime access to the U.S. financial system, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Monday.

"The administration has not been and is not planning to grant Iran access to the U.S. financial system," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at a briefing, according to Reuters.

U.S.: Singapore man charged with illegal exports to Iran

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Monday, 04 April 2016 23:59

A Singapore man accused of illegally exporting technology to Iran that was later found in unexploded improvised explosive devices has been extradited to the United States to face charges, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday.

Lim Yong Nam, who is also known as Steven Lim, had been detained in Indonesia for the last year and a half, according to the Associated Press. 

IRAN: Saudi Arabia suspends Mahan Air license to use its air space

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Monday, 04 April 2016 23:48

Saudi Arabia has suspended licenses granted to the Iranian regime's Mahan Air to fly through its air space or land at its airports due to violations of local safety rules, the country's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said on Monday.

Aviation sources said in January that around 150 direct flights between Iran and Saudi Arabia that carry thousands of pilgrims every month had been halted after Riyadh severed diplomatic relations with Tehran, Reuters reported.

Air France allows female crew to refuse Iran route in headscarf row

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Monday, 04 April 2016 23:39

Air France’s female flight attendants will be allowed to refuse to work the company’s new route to Iran, the company has announced.

Unions for the airline’s cabin crew held talks with management after several female crew members opposed an order to wear a headscarf in Iran.

UAE envoy: Iran regime remains world’s top terror sponsor

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Monday, 04 April 2016 23:22

The Iranian regime continues to be 'hostile,' 'expansionist' and 'violent', and the international community ought to intensify its actions against the mullahs' regime to check its strategic ambitions, Yousef Al-Otaiba, the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United states, argues.

In an article for The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Ambassador Otaiba recommended that the U.S. and the global community make clear that Iran's regime will face the full range of sanctions over its violations.

US Navy seizes weapons shipment from Iran

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Monday, 04 April 2016 22:52

The United States Navy says it has seized a weapons shipment in the Arabian Sea from Iran likely heading to war-torn Yemen, the third such seizure in the month of March alone.

The U.S. Navy said in a statement Monday that the USS Sirocco on March 28 intercepted and seized the shipment of weapons hidden aboard a small dhow, a type of ship commonly used in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

Who are the “moderates” in Iran’s elections?

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Monday, 04 April 2016 09:55

NCRI publishes report on Iran’s Cyber Army

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Monday, 04 April 2016 09:43

NCRI - The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has published a new detailed intelligence report on the Iranian regime's Cyber Army. The report is based on intelligence gathered by the sources of the main Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK) inside the clerical regime including its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).