Spring of freedom

Par. Struan Stevenson Lors d'une  conférence intitulée Droits humain s en Iran qui s'est tenue au Palais des Nations au siège des Nations Unies à Genève le 7 mars 2019. Struan Stevenson, coordinateur de la Campagne pour le changement en Iran (CiC) et ancien membre du Parlement européen représentant l'Ecosse (1999-2014), est intervenu sur la grave situation des droits de l'homme en Iran : « Après 40 ans d’une dictature théocratique violente, 80 millions d'Iraniens en ont assez aujourd'hui. Des manifestations nationales, impliquant des centaines de milliers de citoyens iraniens, font rage depuis plus de 14 mois dans les villes d'Iran. Des hommes, des femmes, des étudiants, des enseignants, des conducteurs de camions, des ouvriers de l’usine de canne à sucre, des propriétaires d'entreprises et des retraités sont descendus dans la rue pour protester contre la violence et la corruption du régime théocratique qui a spolié la richesse de l'Iran, oppr...

Thousands of women are held in horrible situation in Assad regime’s prisons The Syrian Network for Human Rights on Friday, March 8 th  issued a statement to mark the Women’s Day calling for the release of 7,721 women who have been detained by the Assad regime. The statement reads: “sexual exploitation of female inmates in prisons is continuing. At least half million people including 13,500 women are held in Assad’s notorious prisons.” Syrian Network for Human Rights said many dissidents in Assad prisons have been either killed under torture or have been executed. Syrian Network for Human Rights is an independent, neutral, non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization, which aims to document the ongoing human rights violation in Syria. Read more: Orient News reported on March 9, 2019, that thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on Friday (March 8) in Aleppo countryside, calling for the immediate release of women detainees at the Assad regime’s detenti...

The checkmate situation of the Iranian regime The Financial Action Task Force, the world’s de facto standards body on money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism, issued a stark warning to the Iranian regime last week. “If by June 2019, Iran does not enact the remaining legislation in line with FATF Standards, then the FATF will require increased supervisory examination for branches and subsidiaries of financial institutions based in Iran. The FATF also expects Iran to continue to progress with enabling regulations and other amendments,” FATF’s public statement from February 22 reads. And so, the already controversial remaining FATF bills have entered new levels of inner quarrels between the ruling elite. Behzad Nabavi, former deputy speaker of the Majlis (parliament) and one of the iconic figures of the so-called reformist camp, warns rival conservatives about the consequences of not passing the FATF bills into law and says: “Not passing FATF will bring the...

Nowadays, the noose has become tighter around the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran, and all signs indicate that the storm of overthrow is looming on it. From a political point of view, as the figures speak, the regime has internationally become more isolated and has plunged deeper into a dire situation; consequently, a growing radical public anger has surged in an explosive Iran. The trend of regime’s overthrow and its isolation accelerates even more. The political scene, both regional and international, is rapidly and tangibly turning against it from day to day. Regime’s economic condition; a witness to the fact Regarding the economy, which deals with figures, we are witnessing a situation in which the value of the country’s currency has fallen to one-third. In less than a month the value of one US dollar has risen from 100,000 to about 200.000 rials. This is not a gradual phenomenon, but a sharp fall which leads to an economic collapse, turn to social unrests and the ‘ov...