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Iran news in brief, May 31, 2019 Saudi King Tells Regional Summit: Iranian Regime's Actions Threaten Regional and Global Security Saudi Arabia’s King Salman told an emergency Gulf Cooperation Council meeting on Thursday that the Iranian regime’s development of nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities threatened regional and global security. He said Tehran’s actions threatened international maritime trade and global oil supplies in a “glaring violation of UN treaties,” following attacks this month on oil tankers off the United Arab Emirates and on oil pumping stations in the Kingdom. King Salman added that Iran’s regime has been threatening security in the region for four decades, stating that not taking a stand against its activities has led to its transgressions. GCC and Arab League Call on Iran to Reconsider Its Role in the Region The Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council called on Iran’s regime to reconsider its role in the region, the league’s Secre...

Iran news in brief, May 30, 2019 MEK Supporters Rally Against Iran Regime's Terrorism   Supporters of the Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization held demonstrations and gatherings in Canada, Norway, Austria, Sweden, and the Netherlands, protesting the Iranian regime’s support for terrorism and unbridled crackdown inside Iran. In Ottawa, Iranians voiced their compatriots’ desire to overthrow the religious fascism ruling Iran. They called on the Canadian government to designate the regime’s Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Intelligence as terrorist organizations. In Oslo, MEK supporters called on the Norwegian government to sanction the regime and blacklist the IRGC and MOIS. In Stockholm, MEK supporters expressed their support for NCRI President Maryam Rajavi. They emphasized their determination to continue this struggle to bring about democratic regime change in Iran. Acting Pentagon Chief Says Iran Still a Threat to U.S. Forces Iran’...

Iran news in brief, May 29, 2019 Iran-Based Social Media Scheme Impersonating US Politicians Shuttered Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday said they shuttered accounts used in an Iran-based social media campaign to sway public opinion by impersonating reporters, politicians and others. Facebook removed 51 accounts, 36 pages and seven groups, and another three accounts from Instagram after investigating a tip from internet security firm FireEye. Twitter told AFP that it removed a network of 2,800 inauthentic accounts originating in Iran at the beginning of May, but was not privy to the FireEye findings made public on Tuesday. German Intelligence Says Iran Seeking to Expand Military Program to Weapons of Mass Destruction While European powers still claim Iran's regime is in compliance with the nuclear deal, a new German intelligence report accuses the regime of seeking to build weapons of mass destruction. Iran is a "risk country" that is "making effo...

Iran news in brief, May 28, 2019 Anti-Regime Protest Against the Killing of a Young Man A number of residents of the impoverished city of Zahedan attacked and clashed with brutal plainclothes agents of the Iranian regime on Saturday for killing a young Baluchi man. The repressive agents called for backup and fired shots in the air trying to disperse the crowd, fearing that the protest could draw more protesters and turn into larger unrest. The angry crowd attacked vehicles belonging to the state security forces, throwing rocks at them to evade arrest. Earlier, the repressive forces shot at a young Baluchi man called Mousa Shah-Bakhash for not having a driver’s license and ignoring a stop sign. The bullet pierced the young man’s chest resulting in his death. Iran-Supplied Missiles to Houthis Pose Threat to the Region The ballistic missiles owned by the Houthis continue to pose a threat to the region and point to the Iranian regime’s support to militias and terroris...

Iran news in brief, May 27, 2019 Iran Regime Shuts Down Church, Removes Cross The Assyrian Christian community in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz has been left in a state of shock after intelligence agents forced a Presbyterian church to close earlier this month. Religious freedom charity Article18 said: “Intelligence agents stormed the 100-year-old church, officially recognized as a national heritage site in Iran, on Thursday, May 9, changed all the locks, tore down the cross from the church tower, and ordered the churchwarden to leave.” “They made it clear that the Assyrian people are no longer allowed to hold any worship service there,” Article18 reported. Political Prisoner Denied Medical Care in Prison Officials at the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz are preventing political prisoner Ameneh Zahersari from receiving hospital treatment. She is suffering from acute swelling in various parts of her body. The physician of the prison’s dispensary has not been able ...

IRAN: Untold Story Episode 5 The Hill TV series on Iran: Former U.S. ambassador says Iranian resistance group is ‘well organized’ and competent, Iran: The Untold Story episodes examine some of the under-reported challenges in the U.S.- Iran relationship and whether regime change in Tehran is possible without military intervention. The series, brought to you by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities, offers expert analysis from the front lines of the war on terror, the fight against nuclear proliferation and the effort to investigate and prevent human rights abuses inside Iran.

The Hill.TV, EPISODE 4 The Hill.TV-EPISODE 4:   Iran's legacy of torture and mass execution persists. Tahar Boumedra, the former UN human rights chief in Iraq, says there is "overwhelming" evidence that Iran engaged in a crime against humanity during the 1988 slaughter.

The Hill_Iran: The Untold Story part 3 Iran: The Untold Story is a 10-week sponsored miniseries that examines some of the under-reported challenges in the U.S.- Iran relationship and whether regime change in Tehran is possible without military intervention. The series, brought to you by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities, offers expert analysis from the front lines of the war on terror, the fight against nuclear proliferation and the effort to investigate and prevent human rights abuses inside Iran.

THE HILL TV: IRAN UNTOLD STORY PART 2 Iran: The Untold Story is a 10-week sponsored miniseries that examines some of the under-reported challenges in the U.S.- Iran relationship and whether regime change in Tehran is possible without military intervention. The series, brought to you by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities, offers expert analysis from the front lines of the war on terror, the fight against nuclear proliferation and the effort to investigate and prevent human rights abuses inside Iran. Iran's terrorism continues: How Western authorities thwarted multiple plots in the last year Several important pieces of intelligence that alerted the West to Iran's illegal nuclear weapons program have come over the years from Iranian opposition groups, like the National Council for the Resistance in Iran which famously uncovered work sites in 2002. While most Americans believe the Obama era nuclear deal put Iran's nuclear weapon ambitions on ho...

THE HILL TV: IRAN UNTOLD STORY PART 1 The once-secret evidence connecting Iran to the deadly 1996 Khobar Towers terror attack. Today it is widely accepted in the United States that Iran played a major role in the Khobar Towers terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996 that killed 19 U.S. service members and wounded dozens more. President Trump's administration even cited the attack earlier this month when it took the unprecedented action of naming Iran's Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organization. But there was a time back when Bill Clinton was president where the evidence of Iranian complicity was tightly held. In the first episode of the sponsored content series Iran: The Untold Story, the once-secret cable that President Clinton sent to Tehran alerting them to the evidence is revealed and we talk to retired FBI Agent Bassem Youssef about his role in helping former FBI Director Louis Freeh solve the case and bring the terrorists to justice.

Iran news in brief, May 24, 2019 Iran Hangs Prisoner in Public in Hamedan The Iranian regime’s judiciary hanged a prisoner in public yesterday in Hamedan, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. The prisoner identified as Mehdi Cheraghi Far was charged with “waging war against God through robbery.” According to Amnesty International, at least 253 people were executed in 2018 in Iran, while the number is over 3,500 since 2013, when supposed moderate Hassan Rouhani took power. MEK Network Focuses on IRGC Terror Designation Members of the “Resistance Units,” a network associated closely to the Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, along with their supporters, are expanding their activities in Khuzestan Province, Tehran, Karaj, Kerman, Lorestan Province, Khash, Sari and Saveh. The Resistance Units are putting up posters exposing the regime’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist entity. In Tehran, Resistance Unit members put up large pos...

Iran news in brief, May 23, 2019 Pentagon is considering request to send 5,000 troops to the Middle East The US Department of Defense is considering a US military request to send about 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East amid increasing tensions with the Iranian regime, two US officials told Reuters on Wednesday. The officials said the request had been made by US Central Command but added that it was not clear whether the Pentagon would approve the request. Female Singer Prosecuted for Singing Solo In A Village A female singer called Neghar Moazam has been prosecuted for solo singing in a local gathering during a sightseeing tour of the village of Abyaneh. Ali Isfahani, Prosecutor of Isfahan, announced the news on Tuesday, May 21, adding, “The preliminary case regarding this incident has been filed upon the report of the intelligence police for public security, and the Prosecutor of Natanz is following up on it.” Security Forces Raid Restaurant Serving Fo...

Iran news in brief, May 22, 2019 Pompeo Says 'Quite Possible' Iran Behind Gulf Incidents U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday it was "quite possible" Iran was responsible for sabotage of Gulf oil interests as he prepared to brief lawmakers on rising tensions. Pompeo cautioned that the United States has not made "a definitive conclusion" that can be presented publicly over mysterious sabotage incidents of oil tankers off the United Arab Emirates or drone strikes on a crude pipeline in Saudi Arabia but "given all the regional conflicts that we have seen over the past decade and the shape of these attacks, it seems like it's quite possible that Iran was behind these". Saudi Cabinet Calls on International Community to Stand Firm Against Iran's Regime Saudi Arabia’s Council of Ministers called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities by taking a firm stand against the Iranian regime to stop an...

Iran news in brief, May 21, 2019 Iran's Regime Sentences 4 MEK Activists to Execution, Imprisonment Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on Sunday sentenced four men affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran to prison and or death. Branch 28 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court headed by the notorious judge, Mohammad Moghiseh, sentenced 34-year-old Abdullah Ghasempour to death and eight years behind bars on charges including “waging war on God,” “assembly and collusion,” and “membership in the MEK.” The court said that Ghasempour had set fire to a paramilitary Bassij base, filmed the event and sent it to the MEK media. The Bassij is affiliated to the regime’s Revolutionary Guards, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department last month. Three other men, Mohammad Hossein Ghasempour (Abdullah’s brother), Alireza Habibian, and Akbar Dalir, all in their thirties, were sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison each for “assem...

Iran news in brief, May 20, 2019 Trump Warns Iranian Regime as Rocket Hits Near U.S. Embassy in Baghdad After a rocket landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, President Donald Trump tweeted an ominous warning to Tehran saying, " If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!" Reports say there were no casualties as a rocket exploded less than one kilometer from the U.S. Embassy Sunday evening. It was the first such rocket attack since September in the Green Zone -- a high security area where many foreign and Iraqi officials, including the parliament and the prime minister, are based. A spokesman said the U.S. will not tolerate such attacks and that it will hold Iran responsible "if any such attacks are conducted by its proxy militia forces." Political Prisoner Announces Hunger Strike Political prisoner Akbar Bagheri has started a hunger strike since Wednesday, May 15, to protest his...

Speech by Maryam Rajavi, on the Advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan On the occasion of Ramadan, an Iftar reception was held along with the Mojahedin (PMOI/MEK) freedom fighters at Ashraf 3. In this meeting entitled, “Islam is a religion of free choice,” Maryam Rajavi congratulated the advent of Ramadan to the people of Iran who have been suffering greatly for several weeks due to devastating floods. She also congratulated the world’s Muslims and wished for their liberation from the evil of extremism, religious fundamentalism, war and terror emanating from the Velayat-e Faqih regime in Iran. Speech by Maryam Rajavi, on the Advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan I am very delighted, and I praise God for being beside you and in your gathering in this Iftar of the holy month of Ramadan after 17 years. This was my wish over the past years which has been realized, today. I’ll take this as a good omen. God willing, this will be the year of realization of all the wishes and ...