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One Minute Iran News, December 7, 2018

Iran news in brief, December 7, 2018

Ivan Sheehan Tehran’s Influence Operations a Threat to Journalistic Independence For decades, Tehran’s theocratic rulers have gone to great lengths to m ake inroads in Western media outlets once notable for upholding commitments to journalistic independence. These efforts have been so successful that many such organizations are now threatened from within by assets – often disguised as journalists – portraying Iran as the victim of US-led interference and even a looming war. These instruments of propaganda are used to demonize the regime’s opponents at key moments and stave off basic freedoms that would cause the regime to collapse like a house of cards. Many of these so-called journalists of Iranian origin previously worked for Iran's state-controlled media, and some parrot the regime’s talking points as if they are still on the payroll. Most have found comfortable homes in left-leaning media outlets in the West, including MSNBC,...

Forgotten Summer Of 1988 More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in Iran in less than three months in the forgotten summer of 1988. Many of these prisoners were serving their prison terms and many of them had finished serving their time. Feeling threatened by the dissent against his absolute rule, less than 10 years into the Islamic revolution, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious decree, known as the “death decree” to execute all political prisoners, most of whom were members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran. He decreed that “as the treacherous Monafeqin [Mojahedin] do not believe in Islam and what they say is out of deception and hypocrisy… it is decreed that those who are in prisons throughout the country and remain steadfast in their support for the Monafeqin [Mojahedin], are waging war on God and are condemned to execution”.... Read more .... Forgotten Su...

Iran news in brief, December 6, 2018

The leader Iran’s regime fears the most is Maryam Rajavi Oct. 28, 2018 - In an article published on Sunday, October 28, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, now lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, calls for the recognition of Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ) as the alternative to the Iranian regime. As protests inside Iran escalate and the mullahs’ regime faces an ever-growing international isolation, analysts and observers are discussing the issue of the alternative for this regime that can guarantee the correct transition to freedom and democracy based on the Iranian people’s will. Originally published in the  Townhall  website: The American Iranian diaspora that stands against the regime in Iran last month came to New York, my city, as the international community does during the annual United Nations General Assembly meetings. For the ninth time, I had the honor of addressing them. We have an oblig...

The Baluchi father of these children was killed by Iranian regime security forces Iranian regime authorities killed a man in cold blood   Iran, Dec. 5, 2018 - A hardworking Baluchi father in southeast Iran, who put food on the table for his family by selling gasoline, was gunned down and murdered on Tuesday by members of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). News of this incident broke out on social media, shedding light on only a small portion of the cruelty imposed on the Iranian people, especially the constantly oppressed Baluchi minority. Iranian regime authorities have increased their lethal measures against Baluchis who are selling fuel. This is in parallel to their killing and murdering of  porters  in the Kurdistan region of Iran’s western border with Iraq and Turkey. On November 26, the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) issued a  statement  reminding various cases of suc...