Iran sanctions could tighten if nuclear talks fade, Biden admin officials tell senators
Nearly every congressional Republican and a few Democrats have signaled that the effort to revive the Obama-era pact with Tehran isn’t worth it.
Politico, June 15, 2022
Biden administration officials assured senators at a Wednesday classified briefing that the U.S. would ramp up sanctions on Iran if needed as hopes dim for a diplomatic pathway on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to attendees.
The assurances came as lawmakers in both parties press the Biden administration to articulate a backup plan that could prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. U.S. officials had worked for months to revive the Obama-era denuclearization agreement with Tehran that Donald Trump ripped up in 2018, but the last of those discussions happened in March, one top lawmaker said. Read More
Iran: UN experts alarmed by civil society crackdown
OHCHR, June 15, 2022
GENEVA (15 June 2022) – UN human rights experts* today expressed serious concerns about a violent crackdown against civil society in Iran, including members of workers’ unions and teachers arrested for protesting against their low salaries and poor working conditions, and urged those responsible for using excessive force to be held to account through comprehensive and independent investigations.
“We are alarmed at the recent escalation of allegedly arbitrary arrests of teachers, labour rights defenders and union leaders, lawyers, human rights defenders and other civil society actors,” the experts said. Read More
Iran’s Actions Could Be Fatal Blow to Reviving Nuclear Deal, Says IAEA Chief
U.N.’s atomic-energy chief warns Tehran to reverse decision to remove cameras monitoring nuclear-related work
WSJ, June 9, 2022
Iran dealt a potentially “fatal blow” to the 2015 nuclear accord by removing cameras monitoring its nuclear work, the head of the United Nations atomic agency said Thursday, calling on Tehran to reverse its decision in three or four weeks.
The concerns over transparency in Iran’s program come as the Biden administration’s push to revive the nuclear deal has hit a stalemate, with no negotiations on a deal since mid-March. The Biden administration is under growing political pressure, including from some Democrats, to abandon the effort to revive the 2015 deal, which lifted most international sanctions on Iran in exchange for tight but temporary limits on Iran’s nuclear activities. Read More
Execution of 24 Prisoners in 4 Days, an Increasing Trend of Executions in Iran
Iran News Update, June 14, 2022
The anti-monarchical revolution in 1979 raised the hope for freedom and the establishment of human rights principles in a country that, after several decades of the dictatorship of the Pahlavi dynasty, did not care about the rights of its people.
Over the past few days alone, the regime has executed at least 30 people. Many of the executions in Iran are often implemented secretly so the true scale of the problem cannot be fully ascertained.
According to reports, at least 26 people, including two women, have been executed across 11 Iranian provinces since May 17th. Seven of the executed men were Baluch citizens who had been sentenced to death on ‘drug-related’ charges. Khamenei’s criminal government hanged 12 prisoners in Kermanshah, Ilam, Birjand, Ardabil, Khalkhal, Ahvaz, Isfahan, and Amol prisons between June 6 to 8. Twelve Baluch prisoners were also hanged in Zahedan Prison on June 6. Read More
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Iran’s Mullahs Are Losing the Cyber War
Townhall, June 12, 2022 by Struan Stevenson
Protesters in Iran can be shot dead. In November 2019 nationwide protests were met with deadly fire ordered by the mullahs. Snipers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the theocratic regime’s Gestapo, killed 1,500 mostly young people, including 400 women. Thousands more were arrested, imprisoned, tortured and some even executed. To support the main democratic opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran/Mojahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK), is regarded in the mullahs’ constitution as “Moharebeh,” or waging war against God, a crime punishable by death. In the summer of 1988, they massacred over 30,000 political prisoners who were known to support the PMOI/MEK. Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, has been dubbed ‘The Butcher of Tehran’ after he publicly admitted and even boasted about his involvement in the 1988 massacre. Raisi is on the record saying: “As long as the MEK leadership is alive, anyone who supports the group in any way deserves to be executed.” Read more
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