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John Bolton Trump Should Decertify, Withdraw from Iran Nuclear Deal Entirely NEW YORK,  24 Sep 2017 --  Former United States Ambassador to the  United Nations  and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, John Bolton, says he thinks President Donald Trump should de-certify the Iran nuclear deal prior to the October 15 deadline. “I think the president should decertify. I think he should withdraw from the deal entirely,” Bolton told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview outside Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza during the United Nations General Assembly last week. “I think it was a disastrous agreement for the United States to make; harmful to the United States, harmful to its friends and allies, harmful to the people of Iran. The sooner we get out of it, the better,” Bolton said. Bolton conducted the interview during a September 20 rally coordinated by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC), and members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), ...

National Council of Resistance of Iran On Saturday, September 23, the religious fascism ruling Iran informed of test launching a new ballistic missile named Khorramshahr. The range of the missile, which was shown on a military parade the previous day, is said to be the commander of the air force of the Army, is 2000 km, and has the ability to carry several warheads, according to the IRGC Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of IRGC Aerospace. The purpose of the mullahs’ regime for the development of ballistic missiles is to explicitly violate  United Nations  Security Council resolution 2231, and, on the other hand, to pave the way for intensifying the war and terrorist interventions in the region and cover up the internal crises. This action well confirms the fact that the unjustified concessions received in the nuclear deal not only do not change the behavior of this regime, but it has also emboldened it in law breaking and exploiting the gaps and...

ژنرال مک مستر ژنرال مک مستر مشاور امنیت ملی کاخ سفید روز پنجشنبه 30شهریور 96 از موضعگیری  دونالد ترامپ  علیه رژیم ایران در جلسه مجمع عمومی  سازمان ملل‌متحد  دفاع کرد. وی در مصاحبه با سی.ان.ان گفت:‌ «رژیم ایران به گسترش برنامه موشکی خود ادامه می‌دهد. گسترش موشکی که می‌تواندبعداً با برنامه اتمی درهم آمیزد. رژیم ایران نه فقط روی خط حرکت نکرده بلکه با به چرخش در آوردن سانتریفوژهای بسیار و آب سنگین بسیار، از خط عبور کرده است.» مک مستر افزود:‌ «شما چطور می‌خواهید به این رژیم اعتماد کنید که (توافق) را به اجرا در آورد! بنابراین برای نظارت نیاز به نیروی بسا بیشتری است. پرداختن به سایر توانمندیهای رژیم ایران مانند برنامه موشکی ضروری است. این حکومت استبداد مذهبی می‌تواند جهان را تهدید کند.».

Iran nuclear deal VIENNA (AP) Sept. 18, 2017  -- U.S. President Donald Trump warned Monday that Washington will walk away from a nuclear deal it agreed to with Iran and five other nations if it deems that the International Atomic Energy Agency is not tough enough in monitoring it. Iran, however, said the greatest threat to the nuclear agreement is U.S. hostility. The warning from Trump came in a message to the U.N. agency's annual meeting, being held in Vienna, that was read by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The United States asserts that Iran is obligated to open its military sites to IAEA inspection on demand if the agency suspects unreported nuclear activities at any of them. That's something Tehran stridently rejects, and Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi urged the agency and its head, Yukiya Amano, to 'resist such unacceptable demands.' Asserting that Iran is fully complying with terms of the accord, Salehi said the greatest threat to its survi...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson takes part in a press conference after his meeting on Libya, at Lancaster House in London on September 14, 2017 AFP, Sept. 17, 2017  - There are 'no plans' for United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammed Javad Zarif on the sidelines of the  United Nations  General Assembly that kicks off on Monday, an Iranian spokesman said. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi was quoted by Iranian media on Friday as saying no meeting was scheduled and they had not received a request for one from Washington. Earlier on Friday AFP news agency reported that the two were 'due to meet' along with the foreign ministers of other signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal that curbed Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. US President Donald Trump has strongly hinted that he will deem Iran to be non-compliant with the deal when he next has to decide on the matter in Octobe...

In Commemoration of the 1988 Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in Iran EPA, Geneva  - People protest in front of a wall of photos of victims of the 1988  Massacre of political prisoners  in Iran during an exhibition at the Palais des Nations in front of the  United Nations  (UN) European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 15 September 2017. The shoes with flowers represent the victims of the mass execution. In the summer of 1988, some 30,000 Iranian political prisoners were massacred in a matter of a few months on the basis of a fatwa issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. Human rights organizations and jurists are demanding the UN to conduct an independent international investigation of the 1988 massacre.

Hassan Rouhani The Hill, 11 September 2017  - Amid the White House review of its Iran policy and subsequent to the signing into law of H.R. 6634, which imposes tough sanctions on the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC ),  familiar voices in Washington have begun fear mongering that supporting “regime change” leads to war. Let us be clear: The real issue is not war. There has never been any suggestion of military intervention. Here are the real questions that need to be answered: Should the Iranian people continue to suffer under a brutal dictatorship, which has denied them their most  rudimentary rights , or do they have the right to change this suppressive regime?   Should the world remain silent on the destructive role of the Iranian regime in the region, including its direct participation in the carnage in  Syria ? Far from being warmongers, advocates of regime change are calling for a transformation fro...

30000 political prisoners massacred in 1988 in Iran September,  12,   2017 -- This is the title of a statement submitted to the Thirty-sixth session of the U.N. Human Rights Council will be held 11-29 September 2017, in the European headquarter of the  United Nations  . The Joint written statement was submitted to the Secretary General, by France Libertés : Fondation Danielle Mitterrand, Women's Human Rights International Association, non-governmental organizations in special consultative status, Movement against racism and for friendship among peoples. The text of this statement is as follows: On the 29th anniversary of the 1988 mass extra-legal executions of political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran, we believe that until the full truth is unveiled and the perpetrators are held to account for their crimes, there will be no incentive for the government of Iran to change its policy on human rights. This is why we are calling on the ...

Raheleh Rahemipour has spent years trying to uncover the truth about what happened to her brother Amnesty International, 11 September 2017  - The Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a human rights defender arrested from her home last night, who has previously been targeted by the authorities for her peaceful activism, said Amnesty International. Raheleh Rahemipour has spent years trying to uncover the truth about what happened to her brother and baby niece who were forcibly disappeared while in custody during the early 1980s. She was sentenced to a year in prison earlier this year in connection with these efforts and has been awaiting the outcome of her appeal. “Raheleh Rahemipour has already been forced to endure the anguish and distress of having her loved ones forcibly disappeared and faces an unjust prison sentence for her efforts to learn their fate. Her arrest provides further evidence of the Iranian authorities’ ruthless determinatio...

Shia militias of Iraq under Irans IRGC orders The Washington Times, September 7, 2017  - The U.S. military is keeping a wary eye on Iran’s most violent proxy militia in Iraq,which has vowed to start killing Americans again once the Islamic State is expelled. With the Islamic State’s defeat in  Iraq , coming closer — the U.S. estimates that the once 25,000-strong terrorist group is down to a few thousand followers at most holding only pockets of resistance — the danger from the Hezbollah Brigades is fast approaching. A commander in the Shiiite battalion, also known as Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH)  and the largest and most ruthless Iranian-trained militia fighting in  Iraq , and  Syria ,  warned Americans on Sunday that they must leave  Iraq ,  or face a new war, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported. Said the Fars headline, “Iraqi Popular Forces Warn to Target US Forces after Defeating ISIL Terrorists.” Spokesman Jafar al-Hos...