"Rouhani: Regional stability impossible without Iran"
Well of course!
Since your regime sponsor the most terror in the region!
Since your meddling created over 10 million refugees and displaced from Iraq and Syria in a decade!
Since your regime and the Assad dictatorship are the biggest contributors to the existence of ISIS!
Since your regime is one of the worst violators of human rights in the world!
Since it is an institutionalized duty for your regime to spread its dictatorship to the rest of the world!
In Europe there are currently refugees from at least 4 different countries as a result of the clerical dictatorship in Iran, being Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
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Designation of Iranian Entities and Individuals for Proliferation Activities and Support for Terrorism
October 2007
https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/pages/hp644.aspx
U.S. Treasury Department Targets Iran’s Support for Terrorism Treasury Announces New Sanctions Against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force Leadership
August 2010
Treasury Designates Iranian Qods Force General Overseeing Afghan Heroin Trafficking Through Iran
March 2012
Treasury Targets Networks Linked To Iran
February 2014
Treasury Designates the IRGC under Terrorism Authority and Targets IRGC and Military Supporters under Counter-Proliferation Authority
October 2017
https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/sm0177.aspx
Secretary Pompeo Announces Intent To Designate IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
April 2019
https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2019/04/290966.htm
In the Matter of the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (and Other Aliases) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
April 2019
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/15/2019-07415/in-the-matter-of-the-designation-of-the-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-and-other-aliases-as-a
Treasury Targets Senior IRGC Commanders Behind Iran’s Destructive and Destabilizing Activities
June 2019
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm716
Treasury Designates Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif for Acting for the Supreme Leader of Iran
July 2019
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm749
Treasury Designates Supreme Leader of Iran’s Inner Circle Responsible for Advancing Regime’s Domestic and Foreign Oppression
November 2019
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm824
Treasury Designates Vast Network of IRGC-QF Officials and Front Companies in Iraq, Iran
March 2020
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Iranian regime "the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism"
As part of the maximum pressure campaign against the Iranian regime – the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism – the United States and our partners imposed new sanctions on Tehran and its proxies.
The Iranian regime and its proxies continued to plot and commit terrorist attacks on a global scale. In the past, Tehran has spent as much as $700 million per year to support terrorist groups, including Hizballah and Hamas, though its ability to provide financial support in 2019 was constrained by crippling U.S. sanctions. The regime was directly involved in plotting terrorism through its IRGC and Ministry of Intelligence and Security, including plots in recent years in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Tehran also continued to permit an al-Qa’ida (AQ) facilitation network to operate in Iran, sending money and fighters to conflict zones in Afghanistan and Syria, and it still allowed AQ members to reside in the country. Finally, the Iranian regime continued to foment violence, both directly and through proxies, in Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
Country Reports on Terrorism 2019
United States Department of State
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Iran “world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism”
In its annual Country Reports on Terrorism 2018, the United States State Department on Friday described Iran as the “world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism”.
“The regime has spent nearly one billion dollars per year to support terrorist groups that serve as its proxies and expand its malign influence across the globe”, the report said.
The report outlined Iranian support for groups including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, the Palestinian Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Nathan Sales warned that the Iranian threat is not confined to the Middle East. “In 2018, that threat reached Europe in a big way. In January, Germany investigated 10 suspected IRGC Quds Force operatives. In the summer, authorities in Belgium, France, and Germany thwarted an Iranian plot to bomb a political rally near Paris. In October, an Iranian operative was arrested for planning an assassination in Denmark. And in December, Albania expelled two Iranian officials for plotting terrorist attacks there,” he said.
The State Department also accused Iran of harboring al Qaeda (AQ) operatives. “Iran has allowed AQ facilitators to operate a core facilitation pipeline through Iran since at least 2009, enabling AQ to move funds and fighters to South Asia and Syria,” according to the report.
The following is an excerpt from the report:
Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1984, Iran continued its terrorist-related activity in 2018, including support for Hizballah, Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, and various groups in Syria, Iraq, and throughout the Middle East. Iran used the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) to provide support to terrorist organizations, provide cover for associated covert operations, and create instability in the region. Iran has acknowledged the involvement of the IRGC-QF in the Iraq and Syria conflicts, and the IRGC-QF is Iran’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad. Iran also uses regional proxy forces to provide sufficient deniability to try to shield it from the consequences of its aggressive policies.
In 2018, Iran supported various Iraqi Shia terrorist groups, including Kata’ib Hizballah. It also bolstered the Assad regime in Syria, and Shia terrorist groups operating there, including Hizballah. Iran views the Assad regime in Syria as a crucial ally and Syria and Iraq as vital routes to supply weapons to Hizballah, Iran’s primary terrorist proxy group. Through financial or residency enticements, Iran has facilitated and coerced primarily Shia fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan to participate in the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown in Syria. Iran-supported Shia militias in Iraq have also committed serious human rights abuses against primarily Sunni civilians. Iranian forces have directly backed militia operations in Syria with armored vehicles, artillery, and drones.
Since the end of the 2006 Israeli-Hizballah conflict, Iran has supplied Hizballah with thousands of rockets, missiles, and small arms in direct violation of UNSCR 1701. Israeli security officials and politicians expressed concerns that Iran was supplying Hizballah with advanced weapons systems and technologies, as well as assisting the group in creating an infrastructure that would permit it to indigenously produce rockets and missiles to threaten Israel from Lebanon and Syria. Iran has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Hizballah and trained thousands of its fighters at camps in Iran. Hizballah fighters have been used extensively in Syria to support the Assad regime. In Bahrain, Iran has continued to provide weapons, support, and training to local Shia militant groups.
In 2018, Iran provided support to Hamas and other designated Palestinian terrorist groups, including Palestine Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. These Palestinian terrorist groups were behind numerous deadly attacks originating in Gaza and the West Bank, including attacks against Israeli civilians in the Sinai Peninsula.
The Iranian government maintains a robust offensive cyber program and has sponsored cyberattacks against a foreign government and private sector entities.
Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior al-Qa’ida (AQ) members residing in the country and has refused to publicly identify members in its custody. Iran has allowed AQ facilitators to operate a core facilitation pipeline through Iran since at least 2009, enabling AQ to move funds and fighters to South Asia and Syria.
In 2018, the Iranian government continued this pattern of behavior, supporting terrorist plots to attack Iranian dissidents in several countries in continental Europe. In June 2018, the Netherlands expelled two Iranian diplomats associated with the November 2017 assassination of an Iranian diplomat on Dutch soil. In October 2018, Belgian authorities arrested an Iranian diplomat and two Belgian citizens of Iranian heritage for plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition group rally that occurred in June 2018 outside Paris. In October 2018, Denmark recalled its ambassador from Tehran and condemned an Iran-backed plot to assassinate an Iranian dissident in Denmark. Finally, in December 2018, the Albanian government expelled Iranian diplomats in retaliation for Iran-sponsored attempts to conduct terrorist attacks in Albania.
On June 30, French and Belgian authorities arrested several individuals – including an Iranian official based in Austria – suspected of planning to attack an event organized by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq in Villepinte. In October, France imposed sanctions on two Iranian operatives and the internal directorate of the Iranian intelligence agency (MOIS) in connection with the covert terrorist plot. Authorities separately arrested 11 people during an October raid of the Iranian government-funded organization Zahra France, which the government suspected of supporting and defending the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hizballah.
Country Reports on Terrorism 2018
United States Department of State
https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2018/
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Iranian Regime Malign Activities During Negotiations With Iran and During JCPOA
October 2019
U.S. Department of State
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U.S. Department of the Treasury
Iran Sanctions
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/programs/pages/iran.aspx
U.S. Department of State
Iran Sanctions
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Guidance on the Sale of Food, Agricultural Commodities, Medicine, and Medical Devices by Non-U.S. Persons to Iran
July 2013
"The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) is issuing this Guidance in response to inquiries it has received from medical suppliers and financial institutions with regard to the humanitarian exceptions to sanctions on Iran. As we have stated in previous guidance, the U.S. maintains broad authorizations and exceptions that allow for the sale of food, medicine, and medical devices by U.S. persons or from the United States to Iran. U.S. sanctions laws provide similar allowances for sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices to Iran by non-U.S. persons."
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/iran_guidance_med.pdf
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High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action
February 2020
FATF
High-risk jurisdictions have significant strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing of proliferation. For all countries identified as high-risk, the FATF calls on all members and urges all jurisdictions to apply enhanced due diligence, and in the most serious cases, countries are called upon to apply counter-measures to protect the international financial system from the ongoing money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing (ML/TF/PF) risks emanating from the country. This list is often externally referred to as the “black list”.
United States Commends FATF for Re-imposition of Countermeasures on Iran
February 2020
U.S. Department of State
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Calls for Countermeasures on Iran, Evaluates U.S. AML Framework, Releases Digital Identity Guidance
February 2020
U.S. Department of Treasury
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Six reasons why Iran won’t change
Nothing can change. It is in the nature of the mullahs’ regime, if it stays untouched, to wreak havoc in the region.
The Arab Weekly
Ali al-Sarraf
Sunday 02/06/2019
The United States’ strutting and cowboy diplomacy has been toned down to, not just a notch less than war, but even to less than regime change in Iran. So, it is right to ask, considering such a new “equation,” about what can change in Iran when the regime does not change.
Nothing can change. It is in the nature of the mullahs’ regime, if it stays untouched, to wreak havoc in the region.
Iran is a state of militias and gangs. It expands its foreign influence and interests by establishing and sponsoring militias and gangs in neighbouring and far-away countries. This is more than clear anywhere Tehran has influence and a role.
Second, Iran is a sectarian state. Its dogma is the spearhead of sectarian strife and conflict in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. It is a dogma that relies on accusing other sects of heresy and criminalising them.
The details of this dogma reveal a brutal nature that is no different from the Islamic State’s brutality and savagery. The Islamic State was the result of a long series of atrocities committed against millions of people in Iraq and Syria for purely sectarian reasons. This is why it duplicated those atrocities.
Third, Iran is a corrupt state.
Corruption is the nature of the system in Tehran. Militias acting as a state above the state think that they have the right not to be accountable to the law. Billions of dollars are moving outside the official and formal channels. They are part of a system that knows no regulations, a system that depends on connections and relations of a secret nature and on people acting as a mafia.
Just as no one knows the budgets allocated to the militias, no one knows what they are doing with the funds because they are above accountability. When one organ of the regime commits a crime, it is impossible to know who did what or who gave the order. That’s how the mafia functions.
Fourth, Iran is terrorising the region by appearing to be the one that controls terrorism in the region. When the rumble between Washington and Tehran rose, terrorist fingers moved to fire a missile into Baghdad’s Green Zone, sabotage four ships off the Port of Fujairah and burn oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabia. These were messages that terrorism is part of the “jobs” that Tehran does.
Fifth, Iran does not practice terrorism against governments or individuals but against entire social entities, threatening them with destruction. Based on a doctrine that destruction of the society is part of the prospect for the emergence of the “Awaited Mahdi” and that spreading grievances and crimes will hasten this emergence, any place that Tehran’s hands touch will become another rotten Iraq.
Sixth, Iran is a state of hatred and grudges, nourished by the worst historical criminal legacy. In 1624, Shah Abbas massacred three-quarters of Baghdad’s population and made its people eat dog cadavers to force them to convert to Shiism. In 1743, Mosul experienced the atrocities of what became known as the “siege by Nader Shah.” In 1775, Basra experienced Karim Khan’s siege, which lasted 13 months, wiping out most of the city’s population.
At the same time, Iran does not mind talking but only on the basis of accepting those doctrines, not just because they are part of its nature but because that’s how it sees itself: arrogant and intractable. The mullahs’ regime has proven that today’s Iran is the extension of a 500-year brutal legacy. It can’t do otherwise.
Washington negotiated with Tehran until they reached the fateful nuclear agreement and, now, US President Donald Trump has given the bottom line: He doesn’t want to change the regime in Iran. What a storm in a teacup!
https://thearabweekly.com/six-reasons-why-iran-wont-change
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“Simply put, Iran is not only a terror state terrorizing its own populace, but also the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Any deal kept or made with such a regime makes those nations complicit in Iranian actions. Any nation placing this deal over the lives of the protesters is worse than the regime itself.”
Lamont Colucci
Associate professor of politics
Ripon College
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2018-01-08/stop-letting-iran-terrorize-its-own-people-and-the-world
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“Any person resorting to arms to cause terror, fear or to breach public security and freedom will be considered as a mohareb and to be corrupt on earth”.
“being at enmity with God” (“mohareb”)
“being corrupt on earth” (“mofsed fil arz”)
- Iranian Penal Code
(Exactly what the clerical regime has done in Iran and around the world since it came to power, and the only reason for its continuing existence and influence.)
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HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN
UN Resolutions on human rights in Iran
https://digitallibrary.un.org/search?ln=en&as=1&m1=a&p1=Situation+Human+Rights+resolution+Iran&f1=title&op1=a&m2=a&p2=&f2=&op2=a&m3=a&p3=&f3=&dt=&d1d=&d1m=&d1y=&d2d=&d2m=&d2y=&rm=&ln=en&sf=latest+first&so=d&rg=100&c=United+Nations+Digital+Library+System&of=hb&fti=0&fti=0
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran - 2019
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3848290?ln=en
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran - 2018
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1660770/files/A_RES_73_181-EN.pdf
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Iran is the world’s biggest jailer of women journalists
August 2019
“Already one of the world’s five biggest jailers of journalists, Iran is now holding more women in connection with their journalistic activities than any other country in the world,”
“We call on Javaid Rehman, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, to intervene with the utmost urgency to obtain their release and to address the disastrous press freedom situation in this country.”
Reza Moini
Head of RSF’s Iran/Afghanistan Desk
https://rsf.org/en/news/iran-worlds-biggest-jailer-women-journalists
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Report of the Secretary-General
August 2019
https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=A%2F74%2F273&Language=E&DeviceType=Mobile
European Parliament resolution on Iran, notably the situation of women’s rights defenders and imprisoned EU dual nationals
September 2019
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2019-0089_EN.html
Iran: Death toll from bloody crackdown on protests rises to 208
December 2019
“This alarming death toll is further evidence that Iran’s security forces went on a horrific killing spree, that left at least 208 people dead in less than a week. This shocking death toll displays the Iranian authorities’ shameful disregard for human life,” said Philip Luther, Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.
Special Representative for Iran and Senior Advisor to the Secretary Brian Hook
SPECIAL BRIEFING
December 2019
“On November 16th, protests were spreading throughout the country. In Mahshahr, a city in southwest Iran, a number of Iranian demonstrators blocked a road. The State Department has received videos of what happened next. Without warning, the IRGC opened fire on the protesters, killing several people. Many of the protesters fled to nearby marshlands to escape. The IRGC tracked them down and surrounded them with machine guns mounted on trucks. They then sprayed the protesters with bullets. Between the rounds of machine gun fire, the screams of the victims can be heard. In this one incident alone, the regime murdered as many as a hundred Iranians and possibly more. When it was over, the regime loaded the bodies into trucks. We do not yet know where these bodies went, but we are learning more and more about how the Iranian regime treats its own people.”
U.S. Department of State
European Parliament resolution of 19 December 2019 on the violent crackdown on the recent protests in Iran
December 2019
December 2019
After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared impatient. Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an order: Do whatever it takes to stop them.
That order, confirmed by three sources close to the supreme leader’s inner circle and a fourth official, set in motion the bloodiest crackdown on protesters since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
About 1,500 people were killed during less than two weeks of unrest that started on Nov. 15. The toll, provided to Reuters by three Iranian interior ministry officials, included at least 17 teenagers and about 400 women as well as some members of the security forces and police.
Iran: Experts alarmed at alleged mistreatment of detained protesters
December 2019
Iran: Scores injured as security forces use unlawful force to crush protests
January 2020
“It is appalling that Iran’s security forces have violently crushed peaceful vigils and protests by people demanding justice for the 176 passengers killed on the plane and expressing their anger at the Iranian authorities’ initial cover-up,” said Philip Luther, Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.
“The use of unlawful force in the latest demonstrations is part of a long-standing pattern by Iranian security forces.”
“Iran’s security forces have once again carried out a reprehensible attack on the rights of Iranian people to peaceful expression and assembly and resorted to unlawful and brutal tactics,” said Philip Luther.
U.S. Congress: Supporting the rights of the people of Iran to free expression, condemning the Iranian regime for its crackdown on legitimate protests, and for other purposes.
January 2020
A resolution supporting the rights of the people of Iran to determine their future, condemning the Iranian regime for its crackdown on legitimate protests, and for other purposes. (S.Res.539)
March 2020
Iranian Officials Stole More Than $1 Billion in Humanitarian Coronavirus Funds, Pompeo Says
March 2020
Iranian authorities revoke approval for MSF coronavirus treatment center
March 2020
Iran: Details released of 304 deaths during protests six months after security forces’ killing spree
May 2020
The organization found that more than 220 of the recorded deaths took place over just two days on 16 and 17 November. New and extensive research has again concluded that the security forces’ use of lethal force against the vast majority of those killed was unlawful.
“In almost all protests that took place between 15 and 19 November, there is no evidence that people were in possession of firearms or that they posed an imminent threat to life that would have warranted the use of lethal force, according to research, including video analysis, conducted by Amnesty International. The organization is aware of two exceptions in one city on 18 November where gunfire was exchanged between protesters and security forces,” read the Amnesty report.
“The fact that so many people were shot while posing no threat whatsoever shows the sheer ruthlessness of the security forces’ unlawful killing spree,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
“Six months later, the devastated families of victims continue their struggle for truth and justice while facing intense harassment and intimidation from the authorities.
“The prevailing impunity afforded to the security forces allows the recurrence of lethal force to crush dissent. In the absence of any meaningful prospect for accountability at the national level, we reiterate our call to members of the UN Human Rights Council to mandate an inquiry into the killings, and identify pathways for truth, justice and reparations,” he added.
“According to information gathered by Amnesty International, in all but four cases the victims were shot dead by Iranian security forces – including members of the Revolutionary Guards, paramilitary Basij forces and the police – firing live ammunition, often at the head or torso, indicating that they were shooting to kill. Of the remaining four victims, two reportedly suffered fatal head injuries after being beaten by members of the security forces. Another two were recorded as having suffocated from tear gas,” read the report.
Amnesty International
2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests
2019 Iranian protests
2019–20 Iraqi protests
2019–20 Lebanese protests
Death penalty in Iran - 2008
http://acitizen1.blogspot.com/2008/07/death-penalty-in-iran-2008.html
Grand Ayatollah Montazeri - 2009
http://modernityandrationality.blogspot.dk/2016/06/grand-ayatollah-montazeri-2009.html
Big Lie
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
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IRAN WAR IN IRAQ
Average civilian deaths per day by car bombs and suicide attacks in Iraq war 2003-2013
The Sunday Times 25th September 2005
Hazim al-Shalan - the exiled leader of a Shi’ite tribe with 1m members worldwide and 250,000 in southern Iraq — had already been helping British and American intelligence for several months. Now his task was to organise support among the Shi’ite population for the imminent invasion.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein he rose from resistance organiser to provincial governor and defence minister.
Lucky to be alive after 15 attempts on his life and accused of fraud by his former colleagues, Shalan warned last week that the country is gradually being taken over by Iran with devastating potential consequences.
Talking exclusively to The Sunday Times, he said that the Iranians influence the Iraqi police and army and even the interim government.
More than 460 Iranian intelligence agents have been captured in the country, but many thousands more are openly operating, he said.
According to Shalan, the Iranian intelligence service began infiltrating Iraq two months before the allied invasion.
When Saddam began withdrawing troops from outlying regions to protect Baghdad, Iranian intelligence officers “entered through the desert, between 200 and 250 of them carrying just Kalashnikovs and light communication equipment”.
After the invasion, the infiltrators reported back to Tehran that American troops were busy providing critical services such as water, food and medical assistance to Iraqis.
“The Iranians decided there was an opportunity to send large numbers of people very quickly into Iraq. Thousands of Iranians and Iraqi exiles who had joined the militia in Iran began arriving with money to buy houses,” said Shalan.
They sought positions of influence on the new councils and other bodies being formed.
“I talked to the Americans about it, told them trouble was building,” said Shalan, who was at the time a governor in charge of the city of Diwaniyah, with 1m residents. “But the Americans said the Iranians were not effective and not a threat.
“They had received assurances from Tehran that Iran was not trying to get involved.”
Iranian intelligence then started to give out small cash gifts to Iraqis who agreed to co-operate by voting for certain candidates or taking part in local demonstrations, said Shalan. He also claimed that Iraqis were “recruited” for military training.
“The Iranians began taking people to camps just over the border in the Diyala desert region,” he said. “In these camps the Iraqis were being taught military or terrorist techniques; but there was also a very strong religious element. Thousands of men from Najaf, Karbala, Diwaniyah, Basra were being brainwashed, turned into extremists and taught to fight. They were paid between $100 and $200 a month.”
Shalan said he set up an undercover team to infiltrate the camps and report back. He compiled evidence that recruits returning to Iraq were joining the local police forces and army. He said he sent the analysis to his contacts in American military intelligence.
During 2004, according to Shalan, the “situation developed more”. The Iranians began targeting Shi’ite officers in the army and police who were offered payments of $300 a month to attend courses with the Iranian army in Tehran.
Shalan was by now the defence minister on the interim Iraqi governing council and infiltrated the courses with undercover agents. They discovered 15 Iraqi army officers from Basra, three from Nasiriya and 20 from Amarah undergoing training. “In September 2004 I sent the information to American military intelligence,” said Shalan. “I warned them: they are being trained to attack you.”
Artillery trailers, howitzers, grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikovs — all bearing Iranian symbols — were intercepted while being smuggled into Iraq.
Under interrogation, a “failed” suicide bomber revealed the existence of an Iranian car bomb factory a few hundred metres from the Iraqi border at the closest point to Baghdad.
“It was incredibly sophisticated,” said Shalan. “They were using cars with two fuel tanks and converting one tank into a bomb.”
At the end of 2003, a captured Iranian colonel revealed another factory near the border in southern Iran which made remote-control bombs. He claimed that more than 3,000 had been smuggled into Iraq. This was corroborated by other intelligence, said Shalan.
He believes that the Iranians have two aims: to ensure Iraq becomes a religious state over which they have influence or control, and to keep the Americans under pressure.
“The insurgency is a diversionary tactic by Iran to keep the American army busy,” he said. “The Iranian mission is to tie up the Americans for as long as possible so they can develop nuclear weapons.
“However, if the Americans pull out of Iraq my assessment is that the Iranians would be able to take control very quickly.”
Source: LINK
Iran weekly advertises “application form” for suicide operations
22nd July 2005
http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2949:iran-weekly-advertises-application-form-for-suicide-operations&catid=3&Itemid=137
Iran opens garrison to recruit suicide bombers against West
22nd July 2005
http://iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2944:iran-opens-garrison-to-recruit-suicide-bombers-against-west&catid=9&Itemid=114
Source: LINK
European Parliament resolution of 12 July 2007 on the humanitarian situation of Iraqi refugees
A. whereas the general humanitarian and human rights situation is deteriorating in Iraq, as reflected by the regular reports of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and other UN agencies in the country, that show that an average of 100 people are killed and 200 are wounded per day, that 50% of the population is living on less than USD 1 per day, that unemployment affects more than 80% of the population, that 70% lack access to adequate water supply and 81% to effective sanitation, that 3 million people will be food insecure if food distribution fails and that the system has already ceased to function in some areas, that 80% of doctors have left hospitals, that 75% of children are not in school and that depending on the region 30% to 70% of the schools are closed,
B. whereas in the current post-war situation criminal activities include armed robberies, kidnappings for ransom, harassment, the killing of persons involved in the political process or reconstruction activities, sabotage attacks against civilian infrastructure such as electricity or oil pipelines and full-scale attacks involving indiscriminate use of bombs and/or other explosives against civilians and as a result many Iraqis continue to flee, primarily to Jordan and Syria but also to Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran and further afield,
C. whereas more than 2 million people are now Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs); whereas since February 2006, 822,000 people have been newly displaced, with a further 2000 believed to be displaced each day; and whereas for the end of 2007, UNHCR estimates the number of IDPs as likely to reach 2,3 to 2,5 million,
D. whereas in addition to the internally displaced, there are approximately 42 000 non-Iraqi refugees within Iraq (including around 15 000 Palestinians who are at particular risk, as well as Sudanese, Turkish Kurds, Iranians and others),
E. whereas many governorates in Iraq restrict access to new IDPs, which means drastic limitations on the chances of finding a temporary safe place inside the country,
F. whereas IDPs are denied registration for food distribution, which increases the risk of a humanitarian crisis,
G. whereas an estimated 2 million Iraqis are refugees in neighbouring states without any formal protected status provided by these host states: Syria hosting 1.2 to 1.5 million, Jordan 500 000 to 750 000 Iraqis, representing a high proportion of the population, Egypt (over 80 000), Lebanon (estimated 20 000), Iran (over 50 000), the Gulf region (over 200 000) and Turkey (estimated 5 100),
H. whereas 560 000 of the refugees in the neighbouring countries are children of school age, and whereas access to public education or subsidised health care in many areas is very difficult or barred by law,
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O. whereas Jews, Mandeans and Christians (including Assyrians, Armenian, Greek orthodox and other Christian minorities) are increasingly experiencing discrimination with regard to access to the labour market or basic social services and many are afraid of persecution by insurgent groups as well as Islamist militias, which have gained de facto control over entire neighbourhoods in various cities and villages in Iraq; whereas as part of increasing tensions between Sunnis and Shiite, individuals may also be solely targeted on the basis of their membership of ethnic or religious minorities,
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P6-TA-2007-0357+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN
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An estimated 11 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of the civil war in March 2011. Now, in the sixth year of war, 13.5 million are in need of humanitarian assistance within the country. Among those escaping the conflict, the majority have sought refuge in neighbouring countries or within Syria itself. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 4.8 million have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, and 6.6 million are internally displaced within Syria. Meanwhile about one million have requested asylum to Europe. Germany, with more than 300,000 cumulated applications, and Sweden with 100,000, are EU’s top receiving countries.
http://syrianrefugees.eu
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Our research found that there have been at least 336 chemical weapons attacks over the course of the Syrian civil war – significantly more than has commonly been known. Around 98 percent of these attacks can be attributed to the Assad regime, with the Islamic State group responsible for the rest. Approximately 90 percent of all confirmed attacks occurred after the infamous “red line” incident of August 2013.
The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)
https://www.gppi.net/2019/02/17/the-logic-of-chemical-weapons-use-in-syria
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Iraqi official says Maliki’s government wasted $1 trillion of Iraqi funds
August 2015
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/03/Iraqi-official-says-Maliki-s-government-wasted-1-trillion-of-Iraqi-funds.html
Iraq uncovers 50.000 'ghost soldiers' on payroll
November 2014
https://www.google.dk/search?source=hp&ei=6AXyWZCsLIeRUb3buMAE&q=50000+ghost+soldiers+iraq&oq=50000+ghost+soldiers+ira&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.0i22i30k1.11918.23306.0.24641.16.16.0.0.0.0.299.2539.0j13j2.15.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.15.2537...0j0i131k1j0i19k1j0i22i30i19k1j0i22i10i30i19k1.0.sYK0VnBvDbA
After the liberation of Mosul, an orgy of killing
November 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/after-the-liberation-of-mosul-an-orgy-of-killing
Iran using teams of hit squads to silence critics of its attempts to meddle in Iraqi politics, officials say
November 2018
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/29/iran-using-teams-hit-squads-silence-critics-attempts-meddle/
Victims look to punish Iran for attacks against US troops in Iraq
December 2018
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/12/02/victims-look-to-punish-iran-for-attacks-against-us-troops-in-iraq/
Iran Killed 608 American Troops in Iraq War, Pentagon Says in Revised Casualty Estimate
April 2019
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-us-iraq-war-troops-killed-efps-shiite-militias-1385990
Iraqi insurgents using Austrian rifles from Iran
February 2007
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1542559/Iraqi-insurgents-using-Austrian-rifles-from-Iran.html
Iran killed more US troops in Iraq than previously known, Pentagon says
April 2019
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/04/04/iran-killed-more-us-troops-in-iraq-than-previously-known-pentagon-says/
Iran is opening a new regional front in Iraq, the US must act
July 2019
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2019/07/02/Iran-is-opening-a-new-regional-front-in-Iraq-the-US-must-act.html
Exclusive: Iran-backed militias deployed snipers in Iraq protests - sources
October 2019
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/iraq-gruesome-string-of-fatalities-as-new-tear-gas-grenades-pierce-protesters-skulls/
Iraq: Eyewitness describes ‘street filled with blood’ as at least 25 protesters killed in security force onslaught
November 2019
“The scenes from Nasiriyah this morning more closely resemble a warzone than city streets and bridges. This brutal onslaught is just the latest in a long series of deadly events where Iraqi security forces meted out appalling violence against largely peaceful protesters,” said Lynn Maalouf, Middle East Research Director at Amnesty International.
“With well over 300 protesters now dead across Iraq since 1 October, and thousands more injured or arrested, this bloodbath must stop now. The international community must speak loudly and clearly, pressing for Iraq to rein in the security forces and launch effective and impartial investigations aimed at bringing to justice those responsible for unlawful killings and other serious violations.”
Envoys of 16 countries in Iraq, including, France, Britain and the United States, on Monday condemned the use of excessive violence by Iraqi security forces and armed groups and called for a credible investigation into hundreds of deaths since October.
“Despite assurances by the government, security forces and armed groups continue to use live fire in these locations, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries of civilians, while some protestor face intimidation and abduction,” the joint statement said, referring to the cities of Baghdad, Nassiriya and Basra.
The ambassadors called on Iraq to respect freedoms of assembly and right to protest peacefully and urged the Baghdad government to “guarantee credible investigations and accountability for the over 500 deaths and thousands of injuries of protesters since Oct. 1.”
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/01/27/Diplomats-in-Iraq-condemn-excessive-violence-urge-credible-probe-into-deaths.html
Clashes in Iraq’s Najaf kill seven after al-Sadr’s followers storm protest camp
February 2020
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/02/05/Clashes-in-Iraq-s-Najaf-kill-six-after-al-Sadr-s-followers-storm-protest-camp-.html
Iran-backed Katai'b Hezbollah spokesman threatens Iraqi PM following overnight raids
June 2020
Iraqi expert on armed groups shot dead in Baghdad
July 2020
Slain Iraqi al-Hashemi’s papers expose PMU criminal activities in Basra, Salahuddin
July 2020
Secret documents may be reason behind Iraqi activist al-Hashemi’s assassination
July 2020
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LETTER TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL SESSION ON IRAQ
6 MAY 2016
European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA)
“Khamenei has numerously declared that the enemy is the United States and that the Takfiris (Daesh and Qaeda) represent sedition, but not the enemy.”
“Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and mercenaries in Syria number 70,000, but never and nowhere have these forces fought Daesh; instead, they have always fought the moderate opposition and the Free Syrian Army and on many occasions the two have played a complementary role. Similarly, in Iraq, the regime has not confronted Daesh except in limited areas. There is a prevalent belief in Iraq that in many mixed Shia-Sunni regions of Iraq such as Diyala, Daesh has handed over territory to the revolutionary guards in return for money from Iran. In these areas, not many from the two sides have been killed; instead, following the retreat by Daesh, many Sunnis have been killed by the revolutionary guards and their paid hands.”
“The extensive presence of the revolutionary guards in Iraq and their shocking atrocities against the Sunnis has created the greatest motive and the vital climate for Daesh to thrive. In tandem, the dominion of the Iranian regime on many political, military and security centers of Iraq and the dominance of political groups associated with Iran have drastically marginalized and suppressed the Sunnis. Through its political and military levers, the Iranian regime prevents the training and arming of Iraqi Sunni tribes in the effort to confront Daesh.”
“Moreover, there is ample intelligence that in many regions it is the Iranian regime, the IRGC and the Qods Force that are aiding and abetting al-Qaeda and Daesh. Many leaders of al-Qaeda and Daesh were living in Iran and under the control of the Iranian regime. They were sent out by the regime to form the terrorist gangs in Iraq and Syria.”
http://eu-iraq.org/index.php/press-releases/item/761-letter-to-un-security-council-session-on-iraq-6-may-2016-european-iraqi-freedom-association-eifa
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Iran: Fears mounting for detained Ahwazi Arabs amid reports of secret executions
November 2018
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/iran-fears-mounting-for-detained-ahwazi-arabs-amid-reports-of-secret-executions/
This is what happens to Arab activists in Iran
December 2015
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/12027744/This-is-what-happens-to-Arab-activists-in-Iran.html
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Disposable Boy Soldiers - FRB Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdSTWST7h90&feature=youtu.be
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Iran: Blood-soaked secrets: Why Iran's 1988 prison massacres are ongoing crimes against humanity
December 2018
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/9421/2018/en/
Iran committing crimes against humanity by concealing fate of thousands of slaughtered political dissidents
December 2018
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/12/iran-committing-crimes-against-humanity-by-concealing-fate-of-thousands-of-slaughtered-political-dissidents/?utm_source=Eye+on+Iran%3A+U.S.+Sends+Aircraft+Carrier+To+Persian+Gulf+In+Show+Of+Force+Agains&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email
Mass murderers are running Iran’s judiciary
August 2019
https://iran1988.org/mass-murderers-are-running-iran-judiciary/
https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=A%2FHRC%2F42%2FNGO%2F128&Language=E&DeviceType=Mobile
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Acid attacks on women in Isfahan Iran 2014
A series of acid attacks on women in the Iranian city of Isfahan starting sometime around October 2014, has raised fears and prompted rumours that the victims were targeted for not being properly veiled.[1] As of October 27, at least eight[2] and as many as 25[3] such attacks have occurred in Isfahan.[2] At least one woman is dead and another (26-year-old Sohelia Jorkesh), has lost the sight from at least one eye (doctors are attempting to save her other eye).[3] Many more have severe burns to their hands and faces.[3]
The attacks have generally been carried out by assailants on motorbikes wearing helmets with visors down to hide their faces, who fling acid into the faces of women who are walking or in automobiles.[1][2]
Motivation
While many Iranians believe the attackers are conservative Islamist vigilantes trying to intimidate women into wearing (what the vigilantes deem) modest dress,[4] Iranian officials deny this and have been called "particularly angry with any suggestion that attackers were driven by religious extremism, or that victims were targeted because they wore clothing that could be deemed inappropriate in the eyes of hardliners".[5]
Iranian liberals believe the attacks are connected to a parliamentary measure passed October 19[6] that “enjoins good and forbids wrong” by providing protection for vigilantes patrolling the streets and helping enforce the country’s strict social mores on public dress or behavior.[4][7] The government Press TV has quoted president Rouhani as warning against making “baseless accusations” against "any particular person or group before the real culprits are arrested".[8] One "semi-official" plainclothes group, Ansar-e Hezbollah, which has conducted 'morality patrols' to enforce Islamic dress in the past, blamed "the enemy" attempting to "strike a blow against security," for the acid attacks.[9]
However, according to the executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Hadi Ghaemi, the attacks come "in the midst of a year-long verbal attack by conservative forces in Iran attacking women for their clothes,” giving “verbal warnings and calls that blood must be shed. These are not isolated incidents.”[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_attacks_on_women_in_Isfahan
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Iran linking with Somalia’s al-Shabab to funnel weapons to Houthis: Foreign Policy
July 2020
US court orders Iran to pay $879 mln to Saudi Arabia's Khobar bombing survivors
July 2020
Pakistan drug lord Uzair Jan Baloch confesses to spying for Iran: Report
July 2020
If arms embargo on Iran isn't extended, Tehran will arm its proxies: US envoy to UN
July 2020
Arab Coalition: World should hold Iran responsible for Houthis’ malicious activities
July 2020
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