Let's talk Iran - May 5, 2021
Iran envoy drops appeal to jail in Belgium, no prisoner swap seen
An Iranian diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, sentenced to 20 years in prison for planning a bomb attack in France has dropped an appeal in Belgium and will serve his sentence.
This is Iran's regime. Using diplomats to carryout terrorist bombings. LINK
Iran: Fearing A More Significant Defeat The Clerical Regime Withdrew Its Appeal Against Assadi’s Conviction, His 20-year Imprisonment Is Now Final
Holding accountable and expelling intelligence agents, mercenaries, and Revolutionary Guards from Europe, revoking their refugee status and citizenship, as well as the closing down the regime’s official and unofficial embassies and centers are imperative to countering terrorism and subsequent crimes and safeguarding Europe’s security. LINK
TERRORISM
Iran: Any Sanctions Relief Will be Used Against Americans
The billions of dollars that Iran will gain from the Biden Administration's potential sanctions relief will be directed towards sponsoring terrorism, funding and arming militia and terror groups across the Middle East. LINK
Iranian-backed rocket attacks on US increase in Iraq
The U.S. promising to return to Obama's highly flawed and failed 2015 nuclear deal with Iran has encouraged the regime to increase its proxy attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.
Periodic reminder: Appeasing dictators invites more malign measures. LINK
67 million of Iran's 85 million population can’t even afford rice.
All the while, the regime continues to fund:
-dictators like Assad
-terrorists like Hezbollah
-ballistic missiles
-a completely unnecessary nuclear program LINK
HUMAN RIGHTS
Five city council members sentenced to lashes in Tehran for “economic crimes”
Despite the prohibition of the use of inhumane punishments by all int'l civil and political rights conventions, flogging is regularly handed out by the Iranian regime.
Over 100 “offences” are punishable by flogging under the Iranian law. LINK
Two women from southwest Iran summoned for participating in a public protest.
Two women from Behbahan were summoned to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office on April 25, 2021. They were instructed to report to the Prosecutor within five days.
Behbahan, located in the southwestern Khuzestan Province, is one of the highly active cities during the November 2019 nationwide uprising in Iran. LINK
150 Ex-UN Officials, Experts Urge OHCHR To Launch Commission Of Inquiry Into Iran’s 1988 Massacre
More than 150 former United Nations officials and renowned international human rights and legal experts wrote to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday, calling for an international Commission of Inquiry into the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran. LINK
April Human Rights Report for Iran
Over April, authorities in Iran have continued executions, torture, corporal punishment, the suppression of marginalized groups, and measures to eliminate evidence of the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners. LINK
JUNE 18 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Iran’s Many Crises
A multitude of crises face the regime in Iran and there’s no escape for the mullahs.
Except possibly through a high voter turnout miracle in the June 18 presidential election, which is why officials are heralding the vote as highly important. LINK
