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La Présidente élue du Conseil national de la Résistance iranienne, Mme Maryam Radjavi, a exhorté le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU, le Conseil des droits de l'homme de l'ONU, le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme et les organisations internationales de défense des droits de l'homme à prendre immédiatement des mesures pour empêcher le régime iranien de détruire systématiquement les tombes des victimes du massacre de 1988 en Iran et de supprimer les traces de ce massacre dans tout le pays, en particulier à Ahvaz. Alors que les efforts du régime clérical pour empêcher la croissance du mouvement de l'Appel à la justice ont échoué et qu'il n'a pas réussi à faire tomber dans l'oubli le massacre des prisonniers politiques iraniens, les mollahs au pouvoir tentent désespérément d'effacer les traces de ce massacre dans le but d'échapper aux conséquences de ce génocide et de ce grand crime c...

Par Behzad Naziri Au début de l’année, de larges manifestations ont embrasé plus de 140 villes en Iran ; certaines sont issues de grèves qui se poursuivent. Les analystes ont étudié l’histoire de 40 ans du régime pour identifier les raisons derrière de tels évènements sans précédent. Deux différents points de vue ont fait surface : le premier est la transformation rapide de ces manifestations générales en manifestations politiques. Par exemple, les habitants de Machhad ont scandé «  non à la cherté de la vie  » le premier jour, puis «  mort à Khamenei  » le deuxième, avec une radicalisation net des slogans. Par exemple, les habitants de Kazerun (à l’ouest de Chiraz) qui ont manifesté contre la division administrative de la ville, ont fini par entonner «  prenez garde au jour où nous serons armés ! » Un autre exemple est celui des agriculteurs d’Ispahan qui ont manifesté contre le manque d’eau (notamment l’assèchement de la rivière Zayanderud) ainsi que la de...

• Nassrin Sotoudeh, lawyer of human rights defendants, was rearrested Nassrin Sotoudeh, lawyer of human rights defendants, was rearrested. Ms. Sotoudeh was arrested at home in Tehran on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, and transferred to the Prosecutor's court of Evin. There is no information available on the reason for detention of Nassrin Sotoudeh. This is not the first time Nassrin Sotoudeh, a jurist and lawyer and winner of the Human Rights International (HRI) Award, is arrested. • Canada’s House Of Commons Votes against Relations with Iran The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reversed Canada’s long-stated goal to improve relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. On June 12, the government sided with an opposition motion in parliament demanding that Ottawa "immediately cease all negotiations or discussions" on restoring diplomatic relations with Iran. • Mazda, Hyundai Leave Iranian Market, Affecting Cars and Shipping A week after it was a...

ncr-iran In un’intervista dettagliata con Mohammad Javad Larijani, in merito alle sanzioni statunitensi sull’Iran e su altre questioni correlate, il presentatore gli chiede del ruolo di Al-Qaida e della sua connessione con il regime iraniano. Di seguito la traduzione di questa sezione dell’intervista: PRESENTATORE: “Circa l’11 settembre e il ruolo di Al-Qaida?”  MOHAMMAD JAVAD LARIJANI: “C’era una raccolta di rapporti secondo i quali questi elementi di al-Qaeda che viaggiavano qui dall’Arabia Saudita volevano andare in Afghanistan o altrove, venivano con voli o via terra, chiedendo di non timbrare il loro passaporto, perché se il governo saudita avesse scoperto che erano stati in Iran si sarebbero messi nei guai. Per alcune di queste richieste il nostro governo accettò di non timbrare i passaporti, dato che i viaggiatori erano in transito per due ore, sarebbero andati via, ma la loro entrata e uscita fu registrata. Per questo motivo, hanno detto, ad esempio, che fu com...

ncr-iran Im Bedrängnis: US Druck gegen das iranische Regime könnte „Änderung der Machtverhältnisse im Mittleren Osten“ verhindern Am 5. Juni sprach die Staatssekretärin im US-Finanzministerium für den Bereich Terrorismusbekämpfung und Finanzierung von Geheimdiensten vor der „Stiftung für die Verteidigung der Demokratien“, einem Thinktank, in Washington. Dabei ging es um die Finanzierung von destruktiven Aktivitäten des Iran im Inland und im Ausland. In „ The Tower “ wurden Auszüge dieser Rede veröffentlicht und die Schlussfolgerung getroffen, dass das Weiße Haus intensiv daran arbeitet, dass der Druck auf das iranische Regime in dieser Hinsicht erhöht wird. Man will mit dieser Politik auch die Nationen in Europa und anderen Teilen der Welt ermutigen, Teheran den Zugang zum Finanzmarkt zu verwehren und damit seine Finanzierung von Terroristen, die Destabilisierung im Mittleren Osten sowie seine Menschenrechtsverletzungen im Iran zu beenden. Sigal Mandelker erklärt in ihre...

Breitbart, Jan. 18, 2018  - Iranian members of parliament pressured President  Hassan Rouhani  to permanently block critical messaging and communications app Telegram, used by tens of millions living in the Islamic Republic, on Tuesday. “In recent months, the enemies of the Iranian nation made maximum use of foreign messaging apps to create insecurity and chaos in Iranian cities,” the MPs wrote in a letter read during a public session of the parliament January 16. The MPs reportedly also blamed the deadly attacks on Iran’s parliament by Islamic State (IS) militants last June on said apps in order to strengthen their request to shutter access to them for everyday Iranians. Although apps like Telegram and Instagram were temporarily blocked by the regime at the onset of the December 28 protests and uprising, some were still able to access them by using anti-filtering software and proxies, both of which the MPs have asked the government to block. Breitbart News reporte...

By IranHRM Introduction Thousands of Iranians angry over rising food prices, government institutions’ scam and inflation protested in the country’s second-largest city and other areas Thursday, December 28, 2017. The protests swiftly spread to 142 cities and turned into a nationwide uprising. The slogans chanted by people combined economic dissatisfactions and political discontents, poverty, unemployment, corruption and total rejection of the regime. Iranian authorities blocked access to social media tools that had become key sources of information to demonstrators. Telegram and Instagram had been blocked since Dec. 31, while internet access was sporadically cut off to several cities where protests have taken place. The authorities also resorted to violence to disperse the demonstrators using firearms and water cannons. Thousands of innocent young protesters, have been detained while dozens were shot dead or wounded by the State Security Force. Some of those arrested...

The Guardian, January 18 2018 -  An Iranian protester who died in custody was forced to take pills that made him sick, his family have claimed, as secrecy shrouds the similar deaths of other prisoners. Little is known about the circumstances leading to the death of at least five protesters rounded up in mass arrests during Iran’s largest protests in nearly a decade. At least 25 people died in clashes during the unrest, which began on 28 December over economic grievances and spread across the country. Mahmoud Sadeghi, an outspoken MP who has scrutinized the authorities’ conduct of the crackdown, has said about 3,700 people were arrested during the protests. A series of tweets by Sadeghi since the unrest has been a rare source of information from within the country. “According to the relatives of one of the detainees who died in jail, he had told his family during a phone conversation [prior to his death] that the authorities had forced him and other prisoners to take ...

Al Arabiya, 17 January 2018  - European countries have increased pressure over Iran’s ballistic missile program and its role in regional conflicts even as they try to tackle President Trump’s threat to nullify nuclear deal with Tehran, a news report has revealed. A Financial Times report, quoting foreign ministry sources in Berlin, said that German, French and British foreign ministers – and EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini – agreed with Iran to hold an “intensive and very serious dialogue” on Tehran’s missile program and regional influence. According to the report, Germany’s foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, briefed Rex Tillerson, his US counterpart, about the plan after the European officials met Javad Zarif in Brussels last week. The meeting was held a day before Trump’s warning to European signatories that this was their “last chance” to fix it. The report says that European diplomats are seeking more information from White House officials to understand...

New York Times, Jan. 14, 2018  - The village of Zaras lies in a valley circled by the Zagros Mountains in southwestern Bakhtiari Province of Iran. An hour’s ride from Izeh, the nearest town, Zaras is home to about 60 families, who make a living from farming, pastoral nomadism and working as migrant laborers in Iranian cities. On a September afternoon in 2014, I sat by the mud wall of a hazelnut garden with Darab, a 50-year-old farmer in Zaras. Darab, a man with a charming face and rough, calloused hands, cultivated potatoes, beans and onions on a plot of land slightly larger than an acre. Yet the harvest wasn’t enough to feed his family — his wife, his six children and his elderly parents. Iran imported grains and potatoes on an enormous scale, and the prices fell each year. Darab supplemented his meager earnings by digging wells and working for a few months at construction sites in nearby cities. He would make less than the equivalent of about 20 American dollars for 10 hou...

By Raymond Tanter and Ivan Sascha Sheehan 14 Jan 2018  -- On Jan.12, 2018, President Trump renewed the nuclear deal with Iran. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was the lead official in helping Trump rollout the decision. The President extended sanctions relief under the deal, keeping it intact for at least another 120 days, but said he would not issue any further waivers, as he negotiates a modified deal with European allies.  In extending the deal, Treasury also issued new sanctions on Iran; the president set a four-month window for Congress and our European allies suggest ideas for a new “pact,” which was neither a treaty nor a signed document. The head of Iran’s judiciary, Sadegh Larijani, is named on the sanctions lists, as is a Chinese network helping Iran procure weapons. The measures are meant to pressure Tehran over ongoing missile tests and its crackdown on Iranian protesters. At the end of 2017 and beginning of this year, Iran has seen its largest dem...