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Senior Congress Members Ask US Administration To Stop Engaging With a Barbaric Regime
Eighteen senior Republicans in the United States Congress wrote a letter to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, demanding that the US should not continue to negotiate with a barbaric regime that rules Iran.
The Congress members wrote: “The reports of ongoing negotiations with Iran raise serious concerns about why the Administration is willing to engage and provide U.S. taxpayer dollars to a country adverse to America’s interest. Iran is a state sponsor of terror, and once in the possession of a nuclear capability, could weaponize it against our nation and our allies.”
UPDATE: 5:00 PM CEST
U.N., U.S. Press for Broader Yemen Truce After Unilateral Moves
RIYADH, March 30 (Reuters) – United Nations and the United States envoys on Wednesday welcomed unilateral truce moves by Yemen’s warring sides as encouraging steps while stressing the need for a more comprehensive ceasefire that would help alleviate a dire humanitarian crisis.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis had said it would temporarily halt military operations from Wednesday after the Iran-aligned group this week declared a three-day cessation of cross-border attacks and ground offensives in Yemen.
FIFA Should Bar Iran From 2022 World Cup Over Its Ban on Female Spectators
The Islamic Republic of Iran has had enough chances. It must be stripped of its right to attend soccer’s 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Blatantly rejecting FIFA requirements to the contrary, Iran blocked ticket-holding female supporters from attending its World Cup qualifying match against Lebanon on Tuesday. Iran won that game 2-0, thus securing a spot in the World Cup in November. But the scenes in Tehran testify to the intrinsic immorality of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime. As many as 2,000 female ticket holders attempting to access the stadium instead found themselves tear-gassed. In a telling act of utter mathematical incontinence, the Iranian football authority claimed that only nine, rather than 2,000, women had tickets for the game.
Top House Republicans Sound Alarm Over Biden’s Attempt To Revive Flawed Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON — House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Oversight Republicans today raised concerns over reports indicating the Biden Administration is working to revive the flawed Obama-era Iran deal and provide the regime even more leniency to the detriment of American interests. In a letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken, the Republican lawmakers request a briefing about the Biden Administration’s new nuclear negotiations with Iran.
UPDATE: 8:30 AM CEST
Barring Women From Entering Stadiums, Attacking Them With Pepper Spray
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) strongly condemns the mullahs’ regime for barring women and girls from entering the Imam Reza Stadium in Mashhad and attacking them with pepper spray. This is another manifestation of the brutality of the ruling medieval and misogynistic tyranny that considers women second-class citizens, deprives them of their basic political, social, and economic rights, and has tortured or executed tens of thousands of women political prisoners.
On the evening of Tuesday, March 29, many women and girls in Mashhad who had bought tickets to attend a soccer match were prevented from entering the stadium. They gathered outside the stadium to protest but were attacked by the State Security Force (SSF) who used pepper spray against them.
Amnesty International Warns About Continued Human Rights Abuses in Iran
Iran’s regime has continued to violate the basic human rights of the Iranian people, Amnesty International warned in its latest yearly report on the state of human rights across the world.
The report highlights the alarming persecution of protesters; abuses against women, ethnic, and religious minorities; torture and ill-treatment of prisoners; and the widespread use of the death penalty, “including as a weapon of repression.” Amnesty also warned that regime officials continue to enjoy impunity for their involvement in past crimes, including the 1988 massacre of political prisoners.
Hollow Promises of Iranian Regime Not Fulfilled Before Nowruz
Nearly eight months have passed since the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi’s government; A government that came to power with the support of the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and many other key elements.
In their propaganda, Raisi and the regime’s so-called principlist faction claimed that the country had been led by individuals who did not consider the people’s demands and basic needs, all the while forgetting that there is no difference between them and the so-called reformist faction, which they have accused to be the main culprits for the country’s disastrous situation. All of them, from the beginning of this regime’s foundations, have supported its corruption and human rights violations, along with many other issues that have created the basis for a collapsed and dying country.
Over 131.000 Iranian Girls Under Age 15 Married in Five Years
Data from the Statistics Center of Iran show that in the past five years, more than 131,000 girls under the age of 15 have been married, of which more than 7,500 married last summer.
According to a report by the state-run Tejarat News website on Tuesday, March 29, the Statistics Center of Iran has disclosed that since 2017, an average of 30.000 girls under 15 get married annually. The report said 123 boys under 15 also got married in the past five years.
MEK Resistance Units Broadcast Anti-regime Slogans in Public Across Iran
Members of Resistance Units, a growing network of courageous Iranians associated to the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), are expanding their latest campaign of anti-regime measures.
Resistance Units members are braving the odds to broadcast in public anti-regime slogans along with excerpts of speeches delivered by Iranian Resistance leader Massoud Rajavi, and Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
“Death to Khamenei!” referring to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
U.S. Treasury Department Sanctions Iranian Regime’s Linked Companies, Agent Over Missile Attack
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned multiple Iranian organizations and one individual Wednesday linked to the Iranian regime’s development of ballistic missiles, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a release.
Mohammad Ali Hosseini used a network of companies to “procure ballistic missile propellant and related materials” to help support Iran’s missile program, the department said in a release.
Those companies include Iran-based Jestar Sanat Delijan and the Sina Composite Delijan Co., which supplied the components to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Research and Self Sufficiency Jihad Organization.
The group has been on the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations since 2019.
Read more: Iran News in Brief – March 30, 2022