Iran View

• 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...

El fin de semana un vocero de la judicatura iraní dijo que las fuerzas de seguridad confrontarán el malestar social que lleva meses manifestándose. En semanas recientes se siguen presentando protestas por temas laborales y legales. Camioneros y maestros son dos de los colectivos que han salido a las calles en protestas que se han sin duda disparado por la incertidumbre sobre el futuro tras las sanciones económicas que seguramente serán reimpuestas por Estados Unidos. Hace algunas semanas se informó que al menos dos individuos habían sido asesinados tras un incendio en una estación policial. A finales del año pasado un gran número de iraníes salió a protestar por la mala situación económica provocada por el mal manejo de los recursos y la corrupción encontrada a todos los niveles del régimen. Manifestaciones contra el gobierno se sucedieron y quedó claro lo amplio del descontento popular. Las autoridades iraníes intentaron reprimir al pueblo acudiendo a violencia física, arresto...

Tras dos semanas de retirarse del acuerdo nuclear, el Secretario de Estado Estados Unidos reconoció el levantamiento popular contra la dictadura religiosa patrocinadora del terrorismo y pidió un frente internacional contra el régimen iraní. El Secretario de Estado se refirió a los grandes fallos del acuerdo nuclear y el “dinero manchado de sangre” dado al régimen y a individuos como Qassem Soleimani, comandante de la Guardia Revolucionaria, recordando resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad para reiterar que todo acuerdo con el régimen iraní debe incluir un freno al enriquecimiento nuclear, acceso desclasificado a todas las instalaciones nucleares, el fin de la proliferación de misiles balísticos y del desarrollo de sistemas de misiles capaces de transportar armas nucleares, el respeto por la soberanía de Irak, el desarme de las fuerzas satélites, la retirada de todas las fuerzas bajo comando iraní de Siria, el fin del lanzamiento de misiles y amenazas a sus vecinos y el fin del apo...

ncr-iran Appello firmato da 159 senatori italiani al sostegno della Resistenza Iraniana  Da circa quattro decenni la dittatura teocratica in Iran viola sistematicamente il Diritti Umani e per questo è stato più volte condannata. Oltre 120.000 persone, tra i dissidenti e gli attivisti per la democrazia e i Diritti umani, sono state impiccate e in alcuni casi i loro famigliari sono stati oggetto di arresti arbitrari, atroci torture e impiccagioni. Nell’estato del’88 il regime iraniano, in solo due mesi, ha fatto eccidio di 30.000 prigionieri politici, perché dissidenti e per il sostegno al movimento di opposizione dei Mojahedin del popolo iraniano (PMOI). Amnesty International ha menzionato tale eccidio “crimine contro l’umanità” di cui i responsabili debbano essere messi di fronte alla giustizia. Secondo la relazione delle Nazioni Unite l’Iran è al primo posto per il numero di impiccagioni relativo alla sua popolazione.  Nonostante l’oppressione dura e Violanta del ...

Agencies, 21 January 2018  - Iran Mullah regime wasted little time squelching their citizens' favorite social media as protests multiplied in December including slapping 'temporary' blocks on encrypted international apps like Telegram and Instagram, in addition to existing obstacles to Internet access, Radio Free Europe reported. Such steps paled in comparison to reports of protester deaths in the streets and in custody, thousands of arrests, and official denunciations of demonstrators as puppets of foreign 'enemies.' But officials are convinced that the digital clampdown helped extinguish the outbreaks of simmering popular anger against the mullahs establishment in more than 90 cities and towns. 'Cyberspace was kindling the fire of the battle,' cleric Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Friday Prayers in the Iranian capital on January 5, with reports of unrest waning. 'Once cyberspace was restricted and closed down, the sedition was stopped....

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...

By Pamela Geller January 14, 2018 -- This is a historic moment. Thank heaven that to meet it, we have a president in the White House who stands for freedom and individual rights. Thanks to Barack Obama, the Iranian people who marched for freedom back in 2009 were routed, raped, and defeated en masse. The contrast couldn’t be more vivid between Trump’s immediate declaration of support for people yearning to be free versus Obama’s shrug, then silence, and ultimately support for the murdering mullahs. The brutality of the 2009 crackdown on the Iranian people marching for freedom, for one man one vote, was impossible for those of us in the West to fathom. We heard the horror stories. We saw unarmed people meeting bullets with sheer will. But you cannot win this way. We watched our president of the United States sanction the crushing suppression of a people who were yearning to be free. We witnessed our president sanction mass rape, torture, and the public hangings of innocent peop...

MARIO TONEGUZZI THE GLOBE AND MAIL JANUARY 14, 2018  - Recent protests in Iran over economic policies are giving a boost to two Canadian companies offering virtual private networks and other software that can circumvent government moves to censor internet traffic. Virtual private networks, or VPNs, can be used to mask the online IP address that could identify a user. Ryan Dochuk, co-founder and chief executive of Toronto's TunnelBear, said that, over the past few years, the company's software has been downloaded by people who have experienced censorship in countries including Turkey, Venezuela and Uganda. In Iran, as protests that began in late December spread throughout the country, the government has been blocking an increasing number of websites. People have been turning to TunnelBear to continue to get access to chat rooms and social media, Mr. Dochuk said. 'TunnelBear is an application that people are downloading today en masse in Iran. We would estimate tha...

Beijing,  AFP,  14 January 2018 -- An Iranian oil tanker burst into flames from end to end and sank Sunday, eight days after a collision with a cargo ship off China, state media said. A Tehran official said even before news of the sinking that there was no hope of saving some 30 missing crewmen. But Chinese officials played down fears of a major environmental disaster. The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tons of light crude oil from Iran, had been in flames since colliding with the CF Crystal, a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter, on January 6.    The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tons of light crude oil from Iran Around midday Sunday the ship “suddenly ignited”, with the entire vessel burning fiercely and a pall of smoke around 800 to 1,000 meters high, China’s transport ministry said, releasing dramatic pictures showing the entire vessel obscured by thick black smoke. The ship later sank, the official news agency Xinhua cited the State Oceanic Administrat...