The West must seize this chance to change Iran, says the Times 1/4/2018 1:27:11 PM protests show the West was wrong in 2015 to gamble London, Riyadh Daily, 04 January 2018  - The London-based The Times newspaper has called on the  Europeans to reconsider their policy towards Iran. The paper, commenting on the current protests in Iran, said ' So far Tehran has played the European signatories of the nuclear deal off against Trump. Now we have to sit down with the Trump team and agree on common aims'. The paper added' is it in the joint western interest that Iran becomes the military leader of the region? How can additional sanctions help? How do we reach ordinary Iranians and convince them that their government’s subversion abroad is damaging their standing in the world? That their economy is being usurped by the rapacious Revolutionary Guard? For Iranians there is a clear choice to be made, between guns and butter. We should nudge them towards ...

Cutting off Internet and filtering social media to prevent the spread of uprising and release of its news 1/3/2018 11:56:27 PM National Council of Resistance of Iran Iran Uprising – No.29 On the seventh day of the Iranian people uprising, and a few days after the religious fascism ruling Iran filtered many social networks, and cut off or severely restricted access to Internet in many areas, the IRGC commander  Jafari  said: 'Failure to control over cyberspace, which is managed overseas, and the officials’ failure in controlling this space, aggravated the turmoil; but when cyberspace was controlled, we saw a decrease in sedition.' (Fars News Agency-affiliated to IRGC - Jan. 3). On Sunday, December 31st, on the fourth day of the uprising, the state Mehr news agency quoted Ismail Jabbarzadeh, political deputy of the interior minister, as saying, 'in recent days ... some social networks in cyberspace have gone out of access,” adding, “When we are fa...

Iran, plagued with poverty and drought A brief review of destruction of human beings and environment over 4 decades of the clerical regime’s rule Introduction Thirty-eight years after the mullahs seized power in Iran, the economic forecast for ordinary Iranians looks dire. The middle-class in Iran has been all but extinguished. Save for a few affluent neighborhoods that house the extremely wealthy, the vast majority of the country’s 80-million population live well under the poverty line. Breadwinners for many households are forced to take up secondary and tertiary jobs to make ends meet. Almost all across Iran, notices are put up on city walls by people willing to sell a kidney for the equivalent of $2,000. Those who do have a job, such as miners and factory workers, often are forced to work for months without pay. The grim state of poverty contrasts with the immense Iranian national wealth that is being poured by the authorities into Syria to prop up dictator Basha...

Iran, plagued with poverty and drought A brief review of destruction of human beings and environment over 4 decades of the clerical regime’s rule Introduction Thirty-eight years after the mullahs seized power in Iran, the economic forecast for ordinary Iranians looks dire. The middle-class in Iran has been all but extinguished. Save for a few affluent neighborhoods that house the extremely wealthy, the vast majority of the country’s 80-million population live well under the poverty line. Breadwinners for many households are forced to take up secondary and tertiary jobs to make ends meet. Almost all across Iran, notices are put up on city walls by people willing to sell a kidney for the equivalent of $2,000. Those who do have a job, such as miners and factory workers, often are forced to work for months without pay. The grim state of poverty contrasts with the immense Iranian national wealth that is being poured by the authorities into Syria to prop up dictator Basha...