AI Slams Iran For Humiliating Two Prisoners Of Conscience November 07, 2017 Amnesty International, AI, has slammed the Islamic Republic for shackling and handcuffing two prisoners of conscience who are bedbound in a hospital. It is regrettable, AI notes, that Iranian officials instead of immediately releasing  Mahmoud Salehi and Mohammad Nazari  have humiliated them. According to AI, Salehi and Nazari who needed medical treatment were transferred to a hospital where they have been shackled to their beds. “It is regrettable that Iranian officials, instead of immediately releasing Mahmoud Salehi and Mohammad Nazari, have treated them as criminals, persecute, humiliate and tying them to their beds”, AI’s researcher for Iran related cases, Raha Bahreini told Radio Farda. International laws allow using tools such as fetters and handcuffs only for the prisoners who might harm themselves or attack others and try to escape, AI reiterated. Furthermore, using chains and shackles th...

New US policy must account for Iran's human rights abuses © Getty Images Twice since taking office, President Trump has certified Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiated by his predecessor in 2015. The certifications reportedly resulted from advice that the status quo would be better for America’s relationship with its allies, in contrast to campaign-trail promises that Trump would tear up the “worst deal ever negotiated.” But the most recent certification, in July, was coupled with a White House announcement of a comprehensive review of its Iran policy. That review is apparently coming to an end, and it could hardly happen at a more fitting time. It is expected that the Trump administration will announce a more assertive policy later this week that allows for proportional responses to provocative gestures, like the ballistic missile tests of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards C...

MARYAM RAJAVI’S MESSAGE ON WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY THE NONSTOP CYCLE OF EXECUTIONS IS AIMED AT PRESERVING THE MULLAHS’ RELIGIOUS TYRANNY CATEGORIES //  Messages The World Day against the Death Penalty is a time to pay tribute to 120,000 PMOI and combatant freedom-fighters including the 30,000 who were hanged during the 1988 massacre by the religious dictatorship in Iran. It is also a day to reject the mullahs’ abhorrent regime who protect their decadent rule by daily executions in the face of public dissatisfaction and protests of a restless society that thirsts for freedom. As Amnesty International has reported, with the exclusion of China, the Iranian regime accounts for 55 per cent of the total number of executions in the world. Therefore, the World Day against the Death Penalty is a day when the world says no to the mullahs’ religious tyranny. What distinguishes the executions in Iran from those carried out in other parts of the world, are not the n...

The world must stop ignoring Iran's pattern of obstructing nuclear inspections Giving Tehran a free pass is simply too dangerous by Alejo Vidal-Quadras   Washington Examiner, Sept. 27, 2017  - The Islamic Republic of Iran has demonstrated a long pattern of obstruction regarding inquiries and investigations into its nuclear activities, and that pattern persists more than two years after the conclusion of a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers. The conclusion of that agreement in 2015 was to some extent dependent upon the neglect of certain controversial issues, including access to Iranian military sites, where the regime apparently carried out research and development related to weaponization aspects of the country's nuclear program. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action effectively skirted this issue by making it theoretically possible for the International Atomic Energy Agency to ask for and receive access to military sites...