Iran: Execution of 10 prisoners, including five youths, in just two days 12/21/2017 7:58:40 PM National Council of Resistance of Iran High school student, 21-year-old woman sentenced to death Coinciding with the 64th  United Nations  resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran, the mullahs’ regime hanged at least ten prisoners on December 19th and 20th. Seven of these individuals were mass executed in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran. At least five of those hanged were youths. Three youths, two of which were 21 years of age, were executed in Gohardasht Prison on December 19th for “armed robbery from supermarkets.” On the same day a 24-year-old youth from Iran’s Baluchistan was hanged in Zahedan Central Prison, southeast Iran, after enduring five years behind bars. The day before that another young individual was hanged in Zanjan Central Prison, northwest Iran, after enduring six years in prison. In the meantime, the mullahs’ sup...

CIA’s Bin Laden Files Shed New Light on Qaeda-Iran Ties Iranian border guards stood watch in 2001 near Zahedan, an Iranian city where many al Qaeda fighters who had been based in Afghanistan had fled after the U.S. toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan Militant group shared a pragmatic alliance that emerged out of shared hatred of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, a newly released document shows. Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2017  - A newly released trove of documents the U.S. found in the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed provides new insights into al Qaeda’s relationship with Iran, suggesting a pragmatic alliance that emerged out of shared hatred of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. After the U.S. toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001, members of al Qaeda, which was based there, scrambled to escape. Most of them crossed the border into Pakistan. But others moved to Iran, an al Qaeda official who appeared to be a senior member of the militant group...