Iran: Thousands demonstrate against government corruption and plundering (Video + Photos) 10/15/2017 10:07:21 PM Demonstration by thousands of Iranians chanting we retaliate against those who are killing our brothers Iran, Oct. 15, 2017  - Eye witness and informed sources in the Iranian capital city, Tehran said according to a planned and in advance organized protest rally, plundered and looted shareholders of different government affiliated financial institutions gathered on Sunday, October 15, 2017 in front of the Judiciary building on Keshavarz Blvd. in Tehran and walked toward the department of Justice. The protesters chanted anti-government slogans including: No nation has seen such a dishonest government Saif [referring to the Central Bank President], shame on you, stop lying We will not live under tyranny Our country is a thieves' house, and it is the only example in the world Justice, justice is our decisive right And, the Police must catch the thief...

ANALYSIS , Iranians,  neighbouring ,  theIranian,  alsothe ,  Bashar al-Assad,Houthis. Supporters of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (the JCPOA) have been very active on social media this afternoon claiming that Secretary of Defense James Mattis broke with President Trump when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the United States should remain in the Iran deal. JCPOA supporters are worried that President Trump will not certify to Congress by an October 15 deadline that the JCPOA is in America’s national-security interests and that Iran is in compliance. But after the president called the agreement “an embarrassment to the United States” in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last month, JCPOA advocates are even more worried that he will withdraw the U.S. from the agreement, possibly using a plan drafted by Ambassador John Bolton, which National Review published on August 28. Prodded by JCPOA supporters, the media is playing up Mattis’s state...

ANALYSIS : The disintegrating moral fabric of Iranian society Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had nothing but contempt for the ordinary citizens of Iran. In his own words, he saw them as “ignorant, incomplete and imperfect”. Such was his contempt for those he was destined to enslave that he described them as nothing more than brutes, who would eventually destroy each other if left to their own devices. In his arrogant mind, he believed that it was only through his astute and strict leadership, they could be moulded into a unified nation. He never really recognized the people’s part in bringing him to power, such was his egotism. He believed that it was he had reached the pinnacle through his own devices, having judiciously chosen his goals by unveiling the truth of religion, through which he was able to attain a position of absolute power and would lead Iran toward eventually dominating the world. Iranians shop in a supermarket in north Tehran, Iran, on April 29, 2015. (AP)...