Iran in Syria: Russia Took Over

Iran in Syria: Russia Took Over: by Heshmat Alevi It appears that Iran literally gained nothing from the Moscow conference, meaning that its participation was mere of a ceremonial nature. 'The regime in Tehran is the source of the crisis in the region and killings in Syria; it has played the greatest role in the expansion and ...

Afghan official: IRGC cooperates with the Taliban and are actively fighting alongside them

Afghan official: IRGC cooperates with the Taliban and are actively fighting alongside them: Al-Arabiya, 29 Dec. 2016- Afghan officials have accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of fighting alongside the armed factions fighting the government in the west of Afghanistan. Head of the Farah Province council Jamileh Amini said that IRGC cooperates with the Taliban militias and ...

Iran: Demonstration by 'Siah Jamegan' shareholders

Iran: Demonstration by 'Siah Jamegan' shareholders: A group of residents of the Iranian city of Mashad, gathered in front of the city hall, protesting against fraud committed by the officials of the residential building project titled “Boroujerdi”. The protestors held banners accusing the general manager of the “Siah Jamegan” club of fraudulent ...

Oil prices slide as U.S. supply data shows unexpected spike

Oil prices slide as U.S. supply data shows unexpected spike: MarketWatch, 29 Dec. 2016- Oil prices fell in Asia trade Thursday after an industry group data showed U.S. crude inventories likely expanded last week, upending the market’s expectations for lessened growth or a contraction. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for ...

Turkey aims to establish Syria ceasefire before new year, foreign minister says

Turkey aims to establish Syria ceasefire before new year, foreign minister says: Reuters, 29 Dec.2016- Turkey aims to establish a ceasefire in Syria before the new year, and will act together with Russia as a guarantor of the deal, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. In an interview with broadcaster AHaber, Cavusoglu also said all foreign fighter groups ...

Iran, Russia ties with Taliban stoke Afghan anxiety

Iran, Russia ties with Taliban stoke Afghan anxiety: KABUL, AFP, 29 Dec.2016- Allegations over Russia and Iran's deepening ties with the Taliban have ignited concerns of a renewed 'Great Game' of proxy warfare in Afghanistan that could undermine US-backed troops and push the country deeper into turmoil. Moscow and Tehran insist their contact with ...

Colombia Congress approves amnesty for thousands of FARC rebels

Colombia Congress approves amnesty for thousands of FARC rebels: AFP, 29 Dec. 2016- Colombia's Congress on Wednesday passed a law granting amnesty to FARC rebels as part of the country's peace deal, a development the government hailed as 'historic.' 'Thanks to the Congress which in a historic vote approved the amnesty law, first step toward consolidating peace,' ...

Shocking Report Shows Iran’s Poor Dwelling in Graves

Shocking Report Shows Iran’s Poor Dwelling in Graves: Asharq Al-Awsat, 8 Dec. 2016- Shocking footage of homeless people spending their nights in empty graves outs ide Iran’s capital surfaced, shocking the cleric-led regime. Shahrvand daily had first issued a report touching on the subject on Tuesday. Images were shot in Shahriar, some 20 kilometers ...

Berlin cancels Iran modern art exhibit after bureaucratic run-ins

Berlin cancels Iran modern art exhibit after bureaucratic run-ins: An exhibition on art from Iran has been canceled after Iran's President reportedly refused to issue papers for the artworks to be exported to Berlin. The cancellation comes after serious accusations of Holocaust denial. DW, Dec. 27, 2016 - It was supposed to be a major highlight for the cultural ...

Tehran; Images of homeless living in graves shock Iran

Tehran; Images of homeless living in graves shock Iran: Tehran, Asia One, Dec. 27, 2016 - Images of homeless drug addicts living in empty graves just outside the Iranian capital have deeply shocked the public Shahrvand newspaper on Tuesday published the images in a report on the homeless people - about 50 men and women - who dwell in a cemetery in the ...

Iran's Oil Industry University Graduates staged a protest in front of the Iranian parliament.

Iran's Oil Industry University Graduates staged a protest in front of the Iranian parliament.: A group of graduate students from the Iranian University of Oil Industry staged a demonstration in front of the parliament, protesting their non-employment in the Iranian ministry of oil, on Sunday, December 25. The protestors held signs demanding a solution to their unemployment problem. The ...

Russia, Turkey prepare for a meeting on Syria in Kazakhstan

Russia, Turkey prepare for a meeting on Syria in Kazakhstan: Orient TV, Dec. 28, 2016 - Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey have communicated about preparations for a possible meeting on Syria to be held in Kazakhstan. The ministry said Sergey Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu continued to exchange views on the ...

Iran: Demonstration by 'Siah Jamegan' shareholders

Iran: Demonstration by 'Siah Jamegan' shareholders: A group of residents of the Iranian city of Mashad, gathered in front of the city hall, protesting against fraud committed by the officials of the residential building project titled “Boroujerdi”. The protestors held banners accusing the general manager of the “Siah Jamegan” club of fraudulent ...

Iran Threatens to Snatch Custody from British Mother unless Her Child Joins her in Evin Prison

Iran Threatens to Snatch Custody from British Mother unless Her Child Joins her in Evin Prison: London, Iran Focus 23 Dec - A British woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 37-year old charity worker has been held in custody at Evin Prison since being detained by the Revolutionary Guard Corps, is being pressured to take her daughter into prison with her, or give up custody. A person of dual ...

Iran political prisoners on hunger strike in critical condition

Iran political prisoners on hunger strike in critical condition: London, Iran focus, 24 Dec - On Thursday December 22nd 2016, the political prisoner Arash Sadeghi is on hunger strike for the continuous 60 days. At the night of 21st December 2016, due to his critical condition, he was transferred to the infirmary outside the prison to inject IV. In the past days, ...

Iran: 40 boys and girls arrested at a party in Orumieh

Iran: 40 boys and girls arrested at a party in Orumieh: Security forces in the Iranian city of Orumieh raided a party, arresting 40 young boys and girls taking them to the judiciary, according to the Iranian regimes commander of security forces in the city of Orumieh. Iran regime has been condemned internationally for raiding peaceful parties where ...

Justice, Iranian regime style: Brutal public hangings to crackdown on dissent

Justice, Iranian regime style: Brutal public hangings to crackdown on dissent: Iran’s present administration can only be described as a terrorist regime, which uses various violent methods with which to intimidate the population, showing the citizens of cities, towns and villages across the country, how dissenters will pay the ultimate price through capital punishment, should ...

Turkey Moves Arms to Syria Border, Seeks Trump's Backing in War

Turkey Moves Arms to Syria Border, Seeks Trump's Backing in War: News Max, Sunday, 25 Dec 2016 - Turkey’s military deployed tanks and guns on the Syrian border as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged joint action with the Trump administration against Islamic State in its de facto capital, Raqqa. The deployment, including long-range guns and armored personnel ...

Pope pays tribute to Iraqi Christians persecuted by Islamic State

Pope pays tribute to Iraqi Christians persecuted by Islamic State: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) December 26, 2016 - Pope Francis paid tribute on Monday to Middle East Christians who have clung to their faith during persecution by Islamist militants, saying there are more Christians martyrs now than in the Church's early days. The pope spoke to thousands of people in St. ...

How Iran actually lost in Aleppo

How Iran actually lost in Aleppo: By Heshmat Alavi American Thinker, December 26, 2016 - Following a historic period of perseverance, Syrian rebels and their families were forced to evacuate eastern Aleppo after its liberation back in 2012. An unjust, intense war was launched upon Aleppo by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and ...

Qatar and Saudi Arabia Praised the Resolution Against the War Criminals in Syria

NCRI - Qatar and Saudi Arabia praised the UN resolution on investigating war criminals in Syria adopted in the morning of Thursday December 22, according to Aljazeera.

Alya Al-Thani, Qatar’s representative to the UN, said that the adoption of the UN resolution to probe war criminals in Syria, is a clear message to all human rights violators that they will be brought to justice, no matter how much time has passed.

On the other hand, Manal Hassan Radwan, first secretary at Saudi Arabia’s mission at the UN, also said that her country hopes that this resolution is going to reduce the crimes committed against the Syrian people and stop their forced displacement and also put an end to the presence of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards in Syria.

The draft resolution on war crimes and crime against humanity, provided by Qatar and Lichtenstein, was supported by 105 countries, while 52 countries abstained from voting and 15 countries voted against it.

The resolution asks for establishing a special team to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyze evidence as well as to prepare cases on war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated during the Syrian conflict.

The resolution was opposed by the Syrian regime and its allies, headed by Russia and the Iranian regime.

Maryam Rajavi’s Christmas and New Year’s Greetings

Christmas is the day when the world was blessed to see the birth of God's great prophet.

Merry Christmas to all Christians in Iran and around the world.

Christmas is the day of joy, hope and salvation of mankind.

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SYRIA: MEK exposing new details on the Iranian regime’s involvement in occupying the city of Aleppo

SYRIA: MEK exposing new details on the Iranian regime’s involvement in occupying the city of Aleppo: The Media Express, December 22, 2016 - Shahin Gobadi, spokesman of the main Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), exposing new details on the Iranian regime’s involvement in occupying the city of Aleppo, Syria. Gobadi provided details on the number ...

Pentagon: Iran Seeking New Missiles, War Equipment

Pentagon: Iran Seeking New Missiles, War Equipment: Washington Free Beacon, December 21, 2016 - Pentagon officials are downplaying declarations by Iran that it is spending some $1.7 billion provided by the United States on new advanced weapons systems, while also acknowledging that the Islamic Republic continues to build its military arsenal at an ...

Arab, European Foreign Ministers called on Iran to stop interference in other countries’ affairs

Arab, European Foreign Ministers called on Iran to stop interference in other countries’ affairs: Cairo, Asharq Al Awsat, 21 Dec. 2016 - The fourth ministerial meeting between the League of Arab States and the European Union adopted a new roadmap for cooperation, stressing unified stances on the situation in Libya and Yemen and condemning crimes perpetrated by the Syrian regime in Aleppo. ...

How Obama's Iranian nuclear deal enabled tragedy in Aleppo

How Obama's Iranian nuclear deal enabled tragedy in Aleppo: By AMIR BASIRI Washington Examiner-21 Dec. 2016- In his year-end press conference, President Obama reflected on the tragedy that has befallen Aleppo, Syria, where Iranian-backed militias and Russian warplanes helped Syrian dictator Bashar Assad reclaim the city and conduct a crime against humanity ...

4,000 rebels leave Aleppo in 'last stages' of evacuation

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Iran: Why the Mullahs Will Not Reform from Within

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Time for a Principled Approach on Iran

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Fall of Aleppo shines harsh light on UN

Fall of Aleppo shines harsh light on UN: AFP, Dec. 22, 2016 - The warning from the UN envoy could not have been starker: Pounded by a near-daily barrage of air strikes, Aleppo would be totally destroyed by Christmas unless the United Nations stopped the carnage. During the weeks that followed Staffan de Mistura's distress call in early ...

Iran regime proxies, Hezbollah group in Syria using U.S. military vehicles, official says

Iran regime proxies, Hezbollah group in Syria using U.S. military vehicles, official says: December 22, 2016 – Hezbollah militants in Syria are using American armored personnel carriers originally supplied by the U.S. to the Lebanese army, World Tribune citing a senior military officer. In an intelligence briefing to foreign reporters on Dec. 21, the senior Israeli officer showed a ...

SYRIA: MEK exposing new details on the Iranian regime’s involvement in occupying the city of Aleppo

SYRIA: MEK exposing new details on the Iranian regime’s involvement in occupying the city of Aleppo: The Media Express, December 22, 2016 - Shahin Gobadi, spokesman of the main Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), exposing new details on the Iranian regime’s involvement in occupying the city of Aleppo, Syria. Gobadi provided details on the number ...

Iran’s Use Of Extremism To Gain Political Leverage Must Be Confronted

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Iran sanctions extension act to become law without Obama's signature: White House

Iran sanctions extension act to become law without Obama's signature: White House: Reuters, Dec 15, 2016 - A bill extending U.S. sanctions against Iran for 10 years will become law without President Barack Obama's signature, but will not affect implementation of the international accord limiting Iran's nuclear program, the White House said on Thursday. The announcement represents ...

Iran: Freezing cold weather and no heaters in Prison

Iran: Freezing cold weather and no heaters in Prison: According to the reports recivied from inside Iran's Gohardasht Prison, west of Tehran despite freezing cold weather, the prison authorities have refrained from providing heaters to prisoners in Gohardasht Prison, located in Karaj, west of Tehran. The hot water has cut off and all heating elements ...

Iranian regime and Hezbollah militants captured by Yemeni army

Iranian regime and Hezbollah militants captured by Yemeni army: Al Arabiya, 16 December 2016 - Yemeni armed forces have captured large number of militants including Iranian experts and Hezbollah members in al Jawf Governorate, northwest Yemen, according to a Yemeni official. Amin al Ikamai, Governor of the Jawf said in a press conference, Thursday: “During the ...

Sanctions against Iran regime extended without Obama’s signature

Sanctions against Iran regime extended without Obama’s signature: The Washington Post, December 15, 2016 - Sanctions against Iran were officially extended for another decade Thursday, even though President Obama did not sign the legislation, a symbolic move intended to show the White House’s disapproval of the bill. The sanctions renewal, which passed Congress ...

The ‘power of lies:’ Uncovering the Iranian regime’s policy

The ‘power of lies:’ Uncovering the Iranian regime’s policy: As far as the Iranian regime is concerned, deals are made to be broken, but not until its leaders have gained all of what they were seeking. The regime’s policy has always been to seek out weak leaders, either enemy states or those of its so-called allies, and to exploit them for whatever goal they ...

Iran: Three Kurdish youth arrested west of the country

Iran: Three Kurdish youth arrested west of the country: According to reliable sources inside Iran, three young Kurdish activists were arrested early this week in the town of Gharah-Gol near the city of Bukan, western Iran. The suppressive security agents involved in arresting these youths raided their homes first and arrested them after searching their ...

More than 4500 goldsmith and jewelries shut down in Iran

More than 4500 goldsmith and jewelries shut down in Iran: Tehran's president of Gold industry, Mohammad Kashti-Ara revealed that more than 4,500 goldsmith and jewelries have been shut down in Tehran and other cities during past two years. A top dealer in the jewelry business cited Kashti-Ara as saying on Thursday, Dec. 15, that the gold industry ...

Amnesty International: Anti-death penalty activist violently arrested - Freedom Messenger

Amnesty International: Anti-death penalty activist violently arrested - Freedom Messenger: Iranian human rights defender and anti-death penalty campaigner Atena Daemi was violently arrested on 26 November and taken to Evin Prison to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence

Critically sick Iranian political prisoner on hunger strike in danger - Freedom Messenger

Critically sick Iranian political prisoner on hunger strike in danger - Freedom Messenger: Spending his 10th day of hunger strike, the severely weakened political prisoner Behnam Mousivand was taken to Gohardasht prison’s medical unit, and from there to a hospital outside the prison on Tuesday December 13.

US's Inaction Towards Iran Regime’s Expansionism - Freedom Messenger

US's Inaction Towards Iran Regime’s Expansionism - Freedom Messenger: Iran is looking to expand its anti-US sentiment from the Middle East to South America by implementing Shite Islamic centres across the continent.

Samanth Power to Russia, Assad and Iran: 'Is there literally nothing that can shame you?'

Samanth Power to Russia, Assad and Iran: 'Is there literally nothing that can shame you?': The US Ambassador to the United Nations has accused the Syrian regime, Russia and Iran of carrying out barbaric 'crimes' in Aleppo. Addressing an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Samantha Power said: 'To the Assad regime, Russia and Iran, your forces and proxies are carrying out ...

Iran sanctions extension act to become law without Obama's signature: White House

Iran sanctions extension act to become law without Obama's signature: White House: Reuters, Dec 15, 2016 - A bill extending U.S. sanctions against Iran for 10 years will become law without President Barack Obama's signature, but will not affect implementation of the international accord limiting Iran's nuclear program, the White House said on Thursday. The announcement represents ...

Aleppo rebel evacuation under way after ceasefire deal Video

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Russian leader Putin arrives in Japan for summit

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Despite Obama's decline to sign Iran sanctions renewal, it still becomes law

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Iran frees criminals if they volunteer in Syria - Al Arabiya - Freedom Messenger

Iran frees criminals if they volunteer in Syria - Al Arabiya - Freedom Messenger: Iranian authorities are pardoning some of their most notorious criminals from its prisons as long as they agree to volunteer to fight in Syria

Iran: conditions of political prisoner on hunger strike deteriorates severely

Iran: conditions of political prisoner on hunger strike deteriorates severely: Political prisoner Arash Sadegh, on his 45th day no hunger strike, once again began suffering from breathing and heart rate problems. He was transferred to the prison clinic and placed under oxygen. The clinic resident doctor described his conditions as very concerning. In the past few weeks ...

Petraeus sees 'downsides' to Iran nuclear pact

Petraeus sees 'downsides' to Iran nuclear pact: Dubai (AFP) December 10, 2016 - A global deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions contains elements 'of great concern', retired US general David Petraeus, seen as a contender to be Washington's top diplomat, said on Saturday. The agreement took effect in January following its signing last year after ...

Amnesty urges Iran to release Kurdish prisoner, give medical care

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Iran: numerous protest rallies in Tehran, Ilam

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Iranian people clash with repressive riot police in Tehran

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Protest rallies in Four Major Iranian cities

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Conference on Human Rights Abuses in Iran and EU Policy

Conference on Human Rights Abuses in Iran and EU Policy: Press Release for Immediate release - Thursday 8 December 2016 - Brussels, European Parliament On the eve of the Human Rights Day, European lawmakers held a conference at the European Parliament on Wednesday 7 December. They strongly condemned the violations of human rights in Iran and urged the ...

Emboldened Iran hawks eager to press Tehran on nuclear violations under Donald Trump

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What Iran without Ayatollahs mean?

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Ex-Sen. Lieberman ‘Hopeful’ About Administration Change ‘When it Comes to Iran’

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Iran: political prisoner transferred to Tabriz Prison

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Kerry denounces Syria 'WAR CRIMES' after new round of talks in Paris

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Four people killed in cargo train explosion in Bulgaria

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Students chant 'Political prisoners must be freed' during speech by regime official - Freedom Messenger

Students chant 'Political prisoners must be freed' during speech by regime official - Freedom Messenger: 'Political Prisoners Must be Freed,' chanted students in Iran

Political prisoners sews his lips, starts hunger strike - Freedom Messenger

Political prisoners sews his lips, starts hunger strike - Freedom Messenger: A political prisoner has staged a hunger strike in a prison in Iran after sewing his lips to protest the inhuman condition of prisons

Inside Iran’s regime: Student tortured for FIVE years ESCAPES to tell of horror - Express - Freedom Messenger

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US Congress to Crack Down on Business with Iran, Leading US Lawmaker Says

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U.S. Congress passes $618.7 billion annual defense bill

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As Aleppo falls, diplomats foresee Iran and ISIS rise

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Hundreds of men from east Aleppo missing: U.N. rights office

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South Korea Parliament Votes to Impeach President Park Geun-hye over corruption scandal

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Decades-old appeasement policy vis-à-vis Iran must end

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Iran: Rouhani talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk

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Iran: political prisoner’s health conditions failing Evin Prison

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