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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters at Trump Tower, January 12, 2017, in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Read Newsmax Article:  Giuliani Welcomes Trump Iran Policy, Calls for Support of Uprising | Newsmax.com Urgent:  Do you approve of Pres. Trump’s job performance?  Vote Here!   Oppressive regimes have never been inevitable. In fact, their apparent inevitability is because they possess the trappings of power. But underneath the trimmings, they lack popular support. There have been and may still be many misconceptions about what is going on inside Iran, but since the end of December, many of those fallacies have been dispelled. A major uprising is going on, a level of unrest that lays bare the lack of backing of Iran’s people for their unwanted rulers. On Feb. 28, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani addressed a luncheon at the National Press Club (NPC) to discuss Iran and the uprising. “Some 142 cities had pro...

Workers from all sectors of industry rally in front of the Parliament Workers' associations across the country have called for a protest assembly in front of the Iranian parliament. This call is in protest to the long delay in paying the workers' salaries for the months of January and February, and salary levels not being raised above poverty line. Location: Tehran, Baharestan, in front of the Parliament

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster during the U.N. General Assembly in New York The efforts of the foreign-policy establishment to defend the Iran nuclear deal are boosting the case for Trump to change it. The prevailing narrative about the Trump administration’s foreign policy in the mainstream media is that a gallant band of “adults” have spent the last year keeping the barbarians at bay. But with the firings of Rex Tillerson and General H. R. McMaster, the walls have been breached. With Mike Pompeo at the State Department and John Bolton now serving as national-security adviser, there will be no stopping Trump from the one thing the foreign-policy establishment most fears: launching an all out effort to replace or scrap the Iran nuclear deal.   The effort to depict policy debates within the administration as between adults and children was always a not terribly subtle way for the foreign-policy establishment and its che...

Jubeir says Iran and Hezbollah agents launched missiles from Houthi territory  Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir accused 'Iranian and Hezbollah agents' of launching ballistic missiles at the kingdom on Monday, reserving his country's right to respond at the 'appropriate time and place'. Speaking to reporters at the  United Nations  following Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Mr Jubeir said 'the Iranian ballistic missiles launched from Houthis' territory in Yemen by Iranian agents and Hezbollah agents is a stark violation of international law and UN resolution 2216'. Saudi Arabia 'reserves the right to respond on this hostile Iranian action at the right time and place'. In his first comments on the attack, Mr Al Jubeir said his country had captured and shown evidence to the international community that Iran is arming the Houthis with ballistic missiles, and that Tehran's den...

Commentators agree that by appointing John Bolton as National Security Advisor (NSA), the President has made an excellent choice to confront the challenges of a dangerous world “President Trump has said he is at last assembling a Cabinet team to his liking, and late Thursday he announced that John Bolton will replace General H.R. McMaster as his National Security Adviser. It is a solid and experienced choice…. Mr. Bolton’s first job will be to prepare the President for an historic meeting with Kim Jong Un. We may assume Pyongyang knows now that bluffing the U.S. won’t work.  FORMER SENATOR TOM COBURN (R-OK) IN USA TODAY: Bolton Right Choice on National Securit “The president’s decision to appoint John Bolton as his national security adviser reflects an understanding of the critical lessons of history, and the Bolton designation will greatly reduce the grave risks now faced by America during today’s increasingly troubled times.” USA TODAY’S JAMES S. ROBBINS: John...

The letter was submitted by Abdullah Al-Muallami, the kingdom’s permanent representative at the UN  Saudi Arabia submitted a letter to the UN Security Council regarding the Iranian ballistic missiles which the Houthis fired towards the kingdom and demanded holding Iran accountable for supplying the Houthis with ballistic missiles. Saudi Arabia also called on the UN Security Council to bear its responsibilities to maintain international security and stability. The letter which was submitted by Abdullah Al-Muallami, the kingdom’s permanent representative at the UN, to the UN security general and to the president of the UN Security Council, comes a day before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with UN Security General Antonio Guterres.

Maryam Rajavi praises role of US Senate in supporting Iranian uprising  The  NCRI  President-elect  Maryam Rajavi  praised the role of US Senators in supporting Iranian people, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) website reported on Saturday. 'I would like to express my appreciation for your attention to the situation in Iran and the Iranian people’s uprising against the mullahs’ religious fascism', she said in her message to the US Senate meeting on “Democracy and Human Rights in Iran Today, it is universally accepted that the clerical dictatorship is responsible for gross human rights violations in Iran, she added. The regime is also recognized as an immediate threat to global peace and security. She condemned the terrorist operations by the IRGC-backed militias in the region, through money laundering and financing terrorism, with its ballistic missile program in violation of the UN Security Council resolutions, and by taking h...

The Iran deal will be another issue thats coming up in May, Sen. Bob Corker said describing the timeline Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said Sunday that he believes President Donald Trump is likely to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal in May, a step that would undo one of the major foreign policy achievements claimed by former President Barack Obama. Corker (R-Tenn.) told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that such a move by Trump could be avoided if the president’s concerns, which deal largely with Iran’s actions outside the specifics of the nuclear deal, are addressed as part of a multilateral framework. Such an agreement seems unlikely, Corker said. “The Iran deal will be another issue that's coming up in May, and right now it doesn't feel like it's going to be extended. I think the president likely will move away from it, unless my — our European counterparts really come together on a framework. And it doesn't feel to me that the...

When it comes to human rights violations in Iran, Europe’s stance is often influenced by its economic interests.  Whenever Europe is mentioned outside the continent itself, one key feature associated with it by non-Europeans is human rights. Whenever its leaders come together to discuss global matters, they ostensibly emphasize the importance of upholding human rights around the world. While the recent protests in Iran were still ongoing, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, a prominent and infamous figure in Iran, was receiving advanced medical treatment in Germany. Ayatollah Shahroudi served as Iran’s chief justice from 1999 to 2009, his tenure coinciding with protests by Iranian university students in July 1999 that became known as the Kooye Daneshgah confrontation. The protests started peacefully, provoked by the closure of reformist Salam newspaper and the campaign against dissidents, known as the Chain Murders, that stretched from 1988 and came to light in the fall of 1...

As part of the family’s ongoing attempt to collect on its judgment against Iran,  A federal judge ruled Boeing must produce its $16 billion contract with Iran Air, a historic agreement made possible by the Iran nuclear deal, in response to discovery requests filed by victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel. The family of Leibovitch, the lead plaintiff in a group of 21 family members, won a $32 million award for a Palestinian Islamic Jihad attack that killed his brother-in-law and maimed his daughter in 2003. As part of the family’s ongoing attempt to collect on its judgment against Iran, Leibovitch served Boeing with discovery requests seeking to identify Iranian assets being held by the Chicago-based aerospace company. Specifically, the requests seek information about the $16 billion contract between Boeing and Iran Air for 80 commercial airplanes, a deal made possible by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, commonly referred to as the ...

A wounded Syrian child is treated at a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta With the reported death toll in Eastern Ghouta exceeding 670 since the air bombardment started on February 13, the US administration upped the ante on Friday, threatening the Assad regime that it “will not tolerate the atrocities” and calling on Russia to immediately uphold a ceasefire all over Syria. The White House, following Donald Trump calls to Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, issued a statement on Friday that stresses the urgency of the situation in Syria. The leaders agreed that “the Syrian regime, and its Russian and Iranian supporters, should immediately and fully implement  United Nations  Security Council Resolution 2401” calling for an immediate ceasefire across Syria, it said.  It addressed Moscow directly, calling for a halt of its bombing in Eastern Ghouta, and to pressure “the Assad r...