Iran is looking for ways to dodge a key component of the nuclear deal

U.S.Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and  Iran  's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pose for a photograph before resuming talks over  Iran  's nuclear programme in Lausanne March 16، 2015.  

Kerry, Zarif fail to make breakthrough in nuclear talks

Tehran rejected a key Western demand for site inspections Saturday and differences remained after US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart held talks to secure a nuclear deal.
With a deadline a month away, a senior Iranian negotiator said the Geneva talks between Kerry and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif failed to bridge the differences between Tehran and world powers.
'The differences are still there,' Abbas Araghchi, deputy head of Iran’s negotiating team, said at the end of the meeting.

Inspection of military sites must remain a major part of any final nuclear deal with Iran

A recent revelation by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI an umbrella coalition of Iranian opposition groups showed that despite the clerical regime’s claim of wanting to seal a deal with the world powers, they are secretly cooperating with the North Koreans who are clearly defying the international demands for giving up their nuclear weapons’ program. 

Iran regime is supporting terrorism: Saudi Foreign Minister

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said Sunday that the Iranian regime is supporting terrorism and interfering in the Middle East’s affairs

Odierno opens door to U.S. troops embedding with Iraqi security forces

Washington Times – May 29, 2015 - Gen. Raymond Odierno, the U.S. Army chief of staff, introduced the possibility of U.S. military personnel embedding with Iraqi security forces during battle.

Syrian army in retreat as rebels tighten grip on Idlib

Beirut (AFP) - Syrian troops retreated as the rebel fighters advanced toward the province of Idlib on Friday, a day after the opposition forces overran the last government-held city in the key northwestern province of Idlib.
Opposition forces now control the vast majority of Idlib after the Army of Conquest captured Ariha and surrounding villages on Thursday in a swift assault.
It was the latest blow to loyalist forces who have been battling myriad groups of rebels for four years.

Iran, North Korea forging ties in ballistic missile, nuclear warhead technology: Iranian dissidents

PARIS: An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday a delegation of North Korean experts in nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles visited a military site near Tehran in April amid talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program.

Gulf states to push for a US plan for containing Iran

In the expectation of a nuclear deal in June, the Gulf monarchies are worried about an emboldened, enriched Iran expanding its reach and they are seeking reassurance at this month’s Camp David summit

 The Gulf, with Iran at the top and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman at the bottom, could be the focus of greater tension if the Gulf states fears about the Iran nuclear deal are realised. Photograph: Nasa/Corbis

UN nuke agency reports that Iran probe stalled

By GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press

VIENNA (AP) -- Amid accelerated international efforts to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, the U.N. atomic agency on Friday reported that work on a key element - an assessment of allegations that Tehran worked on atomic arms - remains essentially stalled.

Sen. Cassidy discuss Iran nuclear threat

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, who was visiting Israel, said his concern is to 'stop Iran from continuing to develop its nuclear program.'
A news release from Cassidy’s office said his meeting was focused on 'concerns over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the P5+1 negotiation to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for changes to Iran’s nuclear program.'

France opposes Iran nuclear deal without military site checks

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday that France would oppose a nuclear deal with Iran if it did not allow inspections of military sites.

An agreement "will not be accepted by France if it is not clear that verifications can be made at all Iranian facilities، including military sites،" Fabius told parliament.

Arab forces strike Houthi-held Yemen military port: local official

Arab warplanes and ships bombed Yemen`s largest military port in the Red Sea city of Hodaida on Wednesday، a local official said، heavily damaging the facility and partly destroying two warships.
"The naval base was bombed by aircraft and ships. Large parts of it were destroyed and two warships were hit، and one of them، named Bilqis، was destroyed and sank onto its side، and five gunboats shelled the administrative buildings of the base،" the official told Reuters by telephone from the city.
The city and its military bases are aligned with the Iran-allied

Saudi designates two Hezbollah officials as terrorists

 AM DUBAI Saudi Arabia has designated two senior officials of the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah group as terrorists، alleging their involvement in conflicts in Syria and Yemen and responsibility for operations across the Middle East، state media said on Wednesday.
The official SPA news agency identified one as Khalil Youssef Harb and said he was a military commander in charge of Hezbollah`s activities in Yemen. SPA named the second as Mohammed Qabalan and said he had been convicted by an Egyptian court in absentia in 2010 for activities in the country.
The agency said the kingdom had imposed financial sanctions on the two، including freezing their assets and banning Saudis from any dealings with them.

Iranian ships in the Gulf branded 'illegitimate' by maritime experts

The activities of Iranian ships 'posing as merchant vessels' in the waters of the Middle East is illegitimate, the Windward maritime intelligence agency has warned.

The movement of ships is 'neither logical nor economical' and suggests there is a sovereign, not a commercial interest at stake, the agency said.

Women teachers protesting in Iran

A group of teachers in Alborz Province (northern Iran) staged a rally on 21 May, raising posters and placards demanding the release of jailed teacher Rasoul Baddaghi, and the release of other imprisoned colleagues who were arrested for protesting their violated rights.

Iran: official close to Khamenei threatens more crackdown on women

A member of Khamenei’s inner circle in Iran openly threatened to send repressive Hezbollah forces to crackdown on women.

Reza Qolami, secretary of Cultural Council of Khamenei’s office said “hijab” is necessary for a “safe society”, and Hezbollah forces will enter the scene if the police don’t take action against improper veiling.

(Digarban website – May 23, 2015)

Obama: US to rethink how it`s using military assets in Iraq

WASHINGTON (AP) May 26, 2015 - President Barack Obama says the U.S. wants to support the Iraqi government in its fight against the Islamic State group. And the president says that means the U.S. needs to think about whether it is deploying its military assets in Iraq effectively.

Tehran: A call by a group of youths to participate in the great Iranian gathering in Paris

Tehran, May 25, 2015 – A number of Tehran youth have issued a call to the Iranian youth and diaspora around the world to participate at the Great Iranian Gathering in Paris on June 12.
Although there is a criminal dictatorial regime ruling our homeland steeling all of our hopes, but there still is light, hope and a very bright prospect.
Where and When?

When: JUNE 13, 2015;
Where: VILLEPINTE-PARIS

We, the Iranian youth support this gathering which its voice is the true voice of the Iranian people and only with this model we can bring change to our society. That is why we support this gathering and with our solidarity, we declare that the path to victory is possible only through regime change in Iran.

True story: Iran- one night in detention

We are being prepared for the great gathering of Iranians in Paris. In these days all Iranians I see are getting ready and trying their best for this meeting.

They try hard, work tireless and non- stop.

I can see young people, old people, men and women, even children that help…

West should support Iranian Resistance, Amb. Giulio Terzi urges

The West should support the forces of moderation and tolerance in the Islamic world lead by the Iranian resistance, and not an Iran that sponsors terrorism and anti-semitism, a leading Italian diplomat has urged.
Ambassador Giulio Terzi, the former Italian foreign minister, also warned the international community against backing the extremist rulers in Tehran in the battle against the extremists of the Islamic State.

Don't compare yourself with any one in this world

Don't compare yourself with any one in this world
If you compare, you are insulting yourself
No one will manufacture a lock without a key.
Similarly God won't give problems without solutions.
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy...
Life smiles at you when

Iran ‘can not be trusted’ in nuclear talks with West, Australian lawmaker warns

Iran supports Hezbollah terrorists and Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria and the regime cannot be trusted in nuclear talks with the West, a leading Australian lawmaker has warned.

Federal member Michael Danby said concessions from the West in negotiations would not be returned in kind by the rulers in Tehran.

He wrote in The Australia newspaper: "Iran has shown repeatedly that it will pursue its perceived interests regardless of the consequences.

Online conf. to expose foreign assistance to Iran regime nuclear program

In an online conference on Thursday, May 28, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) will expose new information on foreign assistance to the clerical regime’s nuclear weapons and missile programs.

The online conference will take place at 16:30 European Central time (10:30 EST, US).

According to the information obtained from inside of the regime by the network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), such assistance has continued unabated in the midst of the P5+1 negotiations.

The conference exposing the details of this collaboration will take place:

Bush’s mistake was invading the country. His successor’s was leaving it to a strongman.

When trying to explain the current unrest in the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria to Yemen, American officials often resort to platitudes about Sunni and Shia Muslims fighting each other for “centuries” due to “ancient hatreds.” Not only is this claim historically inaccurate, but it also ignores the unintended consequences that the Iraq War more recently leashed on the region. That war—and the manner in which the United States left it behind in 2011—shifted the balance of power in the region in Iran’s favor. Regional competition, of which Iran’s tension with Saudi Arabia is the main but not only dimension, exacerbated existing fault-lines, with support for extreme sectarian actors, including the Islamic State, turning local grievances over poor governance into proxy wars. 

McCain: ‘There is no strategy’ to defeat ISIS

The Hill - 05/24/2015 - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday said the Obama administration needs a more defined strategy to take on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and suggested more American troops are needed to defeat the terror group.
“We need to have a strategy,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “There is no strategy, and anybody that says that there is, I’d like to hear what it is, because it certainly isn’t apparent now, and right now.”

Bolton: ’We are losing’ to ISIS

The Hill – May 24, 2015 - Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said on Sunday that the Obama administration is getting beaten by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
“We are losing, there’s no doubt about it,” Bolton told host Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday.”
“I think they’ve been in denial about the war on terror for the last six-plus years,” he said of the Obama administration.

Yemeni politicians say UN peace talks indefinitely postponed

May. 25، 2015 9:36 AM ET SANAA، Yemen (AP) — A United Nations-sponsored Yemeni peace conference that was to start Thursday in Geneva has been indefinitely postponed، officials said.
The talks were meant to end weeks of heavy fighting and Saudi-led airstrikes against an Iran-backed rebel group amid a humanitarian crisis that has left millions in the Arab world`s poorest country short of food and fuel.

Blow to Yemen peace efforts as UN talks postponed

By Fawaz al-Haidari with Jamal al-Jabri in Sanaa | AFP–5 hours ago
AFP/Saleh Al-Obeidi - Yemeni workers unload medical aid boxes from a boat carrying 460 tonnes of Emirati relief aid that docked in the port of the city of Aden into a truck, on May 24, 2015
Armed Yemeni tribal gunmen from the Popular Resistance Committees loyal to Yemen's…
A United Nations conference designed to help forge peace in war-ravaged Yemen has been postponed, a UN official said Sunday, just four days before it was due to begin.

Turkey، US to provide air protection to Syrian rebels

May. 25، 2015 10:35 AM ET ANKARA، Turkey (AP) — Turkey and the U.S. have agreed in "principle" to provide air protection to Syrian rebels being trained and equipped to fight Islamic State militants، once they enter Syrian territory for battle، Turkey`s foreign minister said.
The two countries agreed in February to train and equip up to 15،000 Syrians under the $500 million U.S. program designed to add a credible ground force to an air bombing campaign against the militant group.

Pentagon slams Iraqi forces for ’failing to fight’ in Ramadi

AFP – May 24 - Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Sunday that Iraqi forces 'failed to fight' in Ramadi, which has fallen to Islamic State militants, and said the troops lacked the will to defend themselves.

Sisi meets Yemeni President’s special envoy

CAIRO: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi meets Saturday with Abdullah Mohamed al-Sayadi, special envoy of Yemeni President at the Ittihadiya presidential palace, according to a presidential statement, Cairo Post reported May 23.

Siege of Syrian soldiers ends as insurgent victories mount

The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, confirmed that dozens of Syrian soldiers had fled the hospital complex but said their fate was unknown.

Negotiator: Iran agrees to `managed access` to nuclear sites

 Iran (AP) — An Iranian nuclear negotiator says his team has agreed to grant U.N. inspectors "managed access" to military sites as part of a deal over its contested program، apparently contradicting earlier comments by the nation`s supreme leader.

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Suicide bomber in the Saudi town of Qatif identified, confirms link to IS

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia on Saturday identified the suicide bomber who killed 21 worshippers at a mosque in a minority Shiite community and confirmed his link to the IS, according to the AFP.
'His name was Salih bin Abdulrahman Salih al-Ghishaami, a Saudi national. He was wanted by security services for belonging to a terrorist cell receiving directions from Daesh abroad,' the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

Senate Dems call on Obama to resettle 65,000 Syrian refugees

A group of Senate Democrats is urging the Obama administration to allow at least 65,000 Syrian refugees to settle inside the United States.
“While the United States is the largest donor of humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees, we must also dramatically increase the number of Syrian refugees that we accept for resettlement,” the group of 14 lawmakers — led by Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) — said.

Governor Christie’s conversation with Elie Wiesel

In a meeting with Elie Wiesel, the world’s most well-known holocaust survivor, New Jersey Governor Christie and a number of other US officials including Sen. Cory Booker, US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power and Sen. Ted Cruz, the Governor asked the Nobel Peace Laureate about Iran and America’s nuclear deal. Wiesel responded that it made America appear weak, a supplicant prepared to capitulate to Iranian demands and allow them a nuclear infrastructure.

Iran meddling in Syria

Syrian regime hopes to receive a new credit line from Iran worth around $1 billion which it will use to buy basic goods, according to the Reuters citing an assistant to Syria's minister of economy and foreign trade saying on Wednesday. 

Iranian mullahs’ president echoes Khamenei’s comments on not allowing inspections of suspected nuclear military sites

Iranian mullahs’ president insisted on not allowing the inspection of Iran’s military sites and its nuclear scientists. During a visit to the city of Tabriz, northwestern Iran, Rouhani said that Tehran will never sign a nuclear deal that would allow foreign access to Iranian scientists or military sites.

US-Sunni estrangement opens Pandora’s box

The Hill – May 22, 2015 - Sunni powers see President Obama as fixating on rapprochement with Iran and renouncing the role of guaranteeing the Middle East balance of power. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, supported by other Sunni countries, are seeking to roll back Iranian hegemonism, while combating ISIS. Obama ultimately is undermining U.S. policy. Sunni countries are enforcing redlines, without consulting, and often in conflict with, the U.S. 

CRUZ: Obama Administration withholds critical information about Iran

PRESS RELEASE Friday, May 22, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter expressing strong concern over the ongoing publication delay of the Defense Department’s Annual Report on the Military Power of Iran. 

Iraqi government and allied forces ..

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqi government and allied forces will launch an offensive aimed at retaking the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group in the coming days، a spokesman said on Friday.
"Preparations for the Anbar operations are needed because this operation will not be easy، " Ahmed al-Assadi ، a spokesman for the Popular Mobilisation (Hashed al-Shaabi ) forces، said.

Dispute over Mideast nuclear arms ban torpedoes U.N. conference

 A month-long review conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ended in failure on Friday after its members were unable to overcome disagreements on an atomic weapons ban for the Middle East، which the United States blamed on Egypt.
After four weeks of negotiations at the United Nations on ways to improve compliance with the pact، there was no consensus among its 191 signatories. U.S. Under Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller announced there was "no agreement" and accused some countries of undermining the negotiations.
Gottemoeller did not say which nations had tried to "cynically manipulate" the conference، though she accused Egypt and other Arab states of bringing "unrealistic and unworkable conditions" to the negotiations.

President of ISJ criticizes West’s policy toward Iran regime

Former vice president of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal-Quadras participated in the latest of an ongoing series of question-and-answer sessions hosted by the website IranFreedom.org.

US Sanctions firms in Iraq and UAE used by Iran regime to defy sanctions

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two firms based in Iraq and in the United Arab Emirates for helping the Iranian regime buy second-hand civilian aircraft, VoaNews reported.

The sanctions applied to Iraq-based Al-Naser Airlines as well as UAE-based Sky Blue Bird Aviation for providing support to Iranian airline Mahan Air.

Iran: Porters mistreated and exploited

In the evening of May 10, the Iranian regime security forces in Mohammadabad, Iranshahr police station opened fire on a pickup truck carrying diesel fuel. The vehicle got on fire and its two passengers burned to death. The reason the pickup came under fire was for allegedly smuggling fuel.

Ground Forces Needed to Reverse the ISIS Advances in Iraq, Syria; Senator McCain

ISIS advances in Iraq’s west province of Anbar is a setback for the US lack of strategy in that country and ground forces are needed to keep Iraq from falling completely out of hand. 
According to the US Senate Arms Services Committee chair, Senator McCain, the fall of the critically important Iraqi city Ramadi to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is a 'terribly significant' event that shows the need for more U.S. forces on the ground.
'I think it’s, unfortunately, terribly significant, capital of Anbar Province, the deaths of hundreds, the displacement of thousands and thousands,' he said Monday on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe.'
'Not the 82nd Airborne, but we’ll have to have more people on the ground and this is really serious, the fall of Ramadi,' he said.
The defeat marks a blow to the Iraqi government and is a setback for the Obama administraiton, which has been training Iraqi forces to take back ground from the terrorist group.

Iran’s pretense of moderation should not fool the West

The Australian - MAY 23, 2015 - Many in politics believe the enemy of their enemy is their friend. But let’s be clear, the Shiite Iranian regime — committed as it is to destroying the Sunni Daesh (Islamic State) for its own reasons — is at best a frenemy.

Obama vows no bad deal with Iran: ’This deal will have my name on it

Obama on deal with Iran: 'Nobody has a bigger personal stake in making sure that it delivers on its promise'President Obama on Friday promised he would not make a bad deal with Iran in part because he wouldn’t want to bear the shame.
“This deal will have my name on it,” Obama said, “so nobody has a bigger personal stake in making sure that it delivers on its promise.

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MR. SCHULTZ: Welcome aboard Air Force One today, en route to Connecticut where the President will speak on the importance of acting on climate change and the risks this global threat poses to our national security in his commencement address to the United States Coast Guard Academy.

Chairman Royce Statement on ISIS Advances in Syria, Iraq

U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement on May 20, 2015, following reports that ISIS has seized control of Palmyra, Syria just days after ISIS captured Ramadi, Iraq. 

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Iran Juvenile offender faces imminent execution despite ongoing review of case

Iran Juvenile offender faces imminent execution despite ongoing review of case

Amnesty International - A 24-year-old man is at imminent risk of execution, for a crime which took place while he was below 18 years of age, despite the fact that his case is currently under judicial review, said Amnesty International, urging the Iranian authorities to halt all plans to implement the sentence.

The organization has been warned that the execution of Hamid Ahmadi, who was convicted of fatally stabbing a man during a group fight that took place when he was 16 years old, could be imminent even though the Supreme Court has confirmed that an application for a review of his case is currently being processed.

Iran: Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi's deteriorating health condition

Narges Mohammadi's eight year old twins were able to meet with their mother at Evin prison and are concerned about her health condition. Since last week, Narges Mohammadi has been repeatedly transferred to Evin prison clinic due to her deteriorating health condition. She has been transferred to the clinic for the sixth time last midnight as her health condition worsened.

Iran: Negar Haeri rearrested

Ms. Negar Haeri, a lawyer and the daughter of political prisoner Mashallah Haeri has been rearrested by the Iranian regime.
Ms. Haeri already spent 9 months in Gharchak Prison, which is known for holding prisoners in horrific conditions.

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Three months on, Saman Naseem’s fate still hung in suspense

The past three months have been a living nightmare for Saman Naseem’s family. Since the scheduling of his execution on 19 February sparked an international outcry, the authorities have transferred him to an undisclosed location and kept his family in the dark as to his whereabouts and whether or not he is even still alive.

Iran: 11 executions in just one day

The brutal clerical regime on Iran hanged 11 people today, Wednesday, two of them in public. 
The Khomeini’s henchmen hanged on prisoner in public in the city of Minab, southern Iran. The government run daily, Jomhouri wrote on Wednesday that this execution happened in public in a sport stadium while many people bussed in to watch. 

US is prepared to walk out of the nuclear talks with Iran, if it fails to yield any result; Susan Rice

White House national security adviser Susan Rice discussed, in an interview with the USA Today, the fight against the Islamic State, the Iran deal and the select Benghazi committee.
On Iran, Rice was upbeat about the prospects for reaching a long-sought agreement to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. The June 30 deadline to fill in the details on the framework released last month is just six weeks away.
'I wouldn’t say ’confident.’ (I’m) hopeful,' Rice said. She called the odds 'slightly' better than 50-50 that the negotiations between Iran and the international negotiating group that includes the United States and five other countries will be successful.

Iran’s Forgotten Activists Remain Defiant

Iran’s dissidents appear to be on their own. Once revered and celebrated by the international community, Iran’s dissidents appear to be an afterthought in respect to policy towards Iran. This reality was on full display this past week, as the Iranian regime arrested Nargess Mohammadi, Vice-President of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC). The arrest of Mohammadi is just the latest example of the regimes ongoing war against freedom of speech and human rights activists.

Iran Is Executing Hundreds For Drug Crimes -- And The U.N. Is Backing Its Anti-Drug Efforts

In the first five months of the year, Iranian authorities may have executed nearly 250 people for drug offenses, according to multiple human rights organizations. That's almost two people a day. And despite the alarming frequency with which alleged drug offenders are being put to death in the country, the United Nations is readying a multimillion-dollar package to continue helping Iranian authorities with their anti-drug efforts -- a move that critics say stands in violation of the U.N.'s own human rights policy.

Iran: Protest and strike of Safa Pipe Rolling Mill workers well in to its first month

The protest and strike of more than a thousand workers from Safa Pipe Rolling Mill in the city of Saveh, southwest of Tehran continue well in to its first monsth, demanding payment of 17 months unpaid insurance premiums and four months of backed up salaries.
But the Iranian regime arrested worker’s representative instead of positively responding to their rightful demands.

Saudi-led air strikes hit Yemen after truce expires

Saudi-led forces resumed military operations in Yemen after a five-day ceasefire ended late on Sunday, and Yemen’s foreign minister blamed the Iranian-backed Houthis for failure to renew the truce, Reuters reported on Tuesday, May 19th.
The end of the ceasefire came despite appeals by the United Nations and rights groups for extra time to allow the delivery of badly needed humanitarian supplies to the country of 25 million, one of the most impoverished in the Middle East.

Iran: Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi'

Iran: Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi's deteriorating health condition

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Iran regime wants nuclear weapons 2 foster IslamicExtremism 

Islamic fundamentalism

The Iran regime is not part of any solution as we attempt 2 deal with Islamic fundamentalism

Iran says can’t afford Ahmadinejad cash handouts

Tehran (AFP) - Iran can no longer sustain the billions of dollars needed to pay cash handouts enacted by former Iranian regime president Ahmadinejad, a top official said Tuesday, signaling plans to halt them.

Iran: Admission of organized smuggling operation in Iran’s official Customs

At a news conference in Tehran, Arash Mohebbi-nejad, the secretary General of the 'Parts Industry' revealed of a $1.2 billion organized and official smuggling operation of Automobiles and auto-parts which has legal jurisdictions too. He said: a 4,500 billion tomans (with the current exchange rate would be about $1.5billion) debt of carmakers to auto-part makers has put a heavy pressure on to the auto-part industry. Many auto-part industries are losing money. Last year the increase in auto industry was the only thing that helped the auto-part industry to survive. 

Iran’s negative influence in the region is devastating; Dr. Ayad Allawi

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Iraqi Vice-president and former Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi, described the role of the mullahs regime in the region as a negative interference in the domestic affairs of countries in the Middle East.

Kuwait MPs reject minister’s grilling over Yemen war

Kuwait City (AFP) - Parliament on Tuesday rejected a demand by a Shiite MP to question the foreign minister over Kuwait’s participation in Saudi-led air strikes against Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Iran: Five prisoners executed in Shiraz

According to human rights activists reporting from Iran, 5 prisoners condemned to death were hanged on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 in Adel-Abad prison, Shiraz, southern Iran. 

Activist Group Pushes for Probe of Syrian Regime and Its Military Backers

A Middle East activist group is pushing the International Criminal Court to investigate the Syrian regime and its principal military backers, Iran and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, for war crimes.

Christie calls for larger military, more US intervention in NH speech

Governor Christie criticized President Obama, Vladimir Putin, and the Iranian regime during a speech laying 
out his vision for U.S. foreign policy on Monday.

Iran regime is using the country’s wealth to build larger prisons

Iranian regime officials claim to have completed the construction of the largest prison complex in the Greater Tehran. 
'The stages to build the largest prison in Tehran are finished and we are adding new spaces to this complex,” Mohammad Alizadeh said. “We needed a new prison.”
The new prison named the “Great Prison” is located in Hassanabad district and can house 15,000 inmates.
An aid to the Interior Minister Reza Mahjoubi said, “The number of people entering our prisons is above world average and every year half a million people enter our prisons of whose 200,000 remain there.” He nonetheless failed to mention the cause for this high number of prisoners.
The Iranian regime has the most dreaded prisons in the world and it tortures and persecutes its political dissidents.

Meanwhile, the regime’s Judiciary officials have said they plan to move prisons and military bases outside Tehran.

Iran is a real threat to Saudi, region as nuclear negotiations continue

Iran has been threatening its neighboring countries, particularly the Saudi Arabia and Bahrain as the nuclear talks with the 6 powers continue, according to a leading Arab journalist.

Graham: `I`m running` to be `best commander-in-chief`

 Sen. Lindsey Graham all but confirmed Monday that he will run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
In an interview on "CBS This Morning،" Graham said he`d make the official announcement June 1 in his hometown of Central، South Carolina. But he also used the phrase "I`m running،" explaining that he believes he would make the best commander in chief

Rout in Ramadi calls US Iraq strategy into question

May. 18، 2015 4:57 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — The fall of Ramadi calls into question the Obama administration`s strategy in Iraq.
Is there a Plan B?
The current U.S. approach is a blend of retraining and rebuilding the Iraqi army، prodding Baghdad to reconcile with the nation`s Sunnis، and bombing Islamic State targets from the air without committing American ground combat troops.
But the rout revealed a weak Iraqi army، slow reconciliation and a bombing campaign that، while effective، is not decisive.

Islamic State fighters seize Ramadi ، a key Iraqi provincial capital، sending government troops in flight

By PATRICK J. MCDONNELL ANDNABIH BULOS contact the reporter

Islamic State fighters seize Ramadi ، a key Iraqi provincial capital، sending government troops in flight

Fall of Ramadi to Islamic State underscores limits of U.S.-led airstrikes without effective ground force

The role of the clergy in the Gulf