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Khamenei Speech Translated: No agreement at Lausanne, US Is Lying– NO Inspections

Khamenei delivered a speech today in Tehran on the Lausanne nuclear agreement. The Iranian leader said there was no agreement in Europe, that the US is lying and that NO military inspections will be allowed.
Khamenei tweeted out similar remarks earlier today.

US warns Iranian regime over support for Houthis in Yemen

The U.S. will not stand by while the Iranian regime provides support to Houthi rebels who have seized much of Yemen, Secretary of State John Kerry said.

"There have been -- there are, obviously -- flights coming from Iran. Every single week there are flights from Iran and we've traced it and know this," Kerry told PBS television in an interview.

"Iran needs to recognize that the United States is not going to stand by while the region is destabilized or while people engage in overt warfare across lines, international boundaries in other countries."

It was Secretary Kerry's first television interview since his return to Washington after negotiating a framework agreement with the Iranian regime last week reining in its nuclear program.

A coalition of largely Arab and Islamic countries led by Saudi Arabia has been waging an air campaign against the Huthi rebels funded and supported by the Iranian regime that have seized control of large parts of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.

Kerry said Washington was not looking for confrontation with Tehran.

"But we're not going to step away from our alliances and our friendships and the need to stand with those who feel threatened as a consequence of the choices that Iran might be making."

Meanwhile in Saudi capital, a senior U.S. official told reporters on Tuesday that the U.S. has stepped up weapons deliveries in support of the operation by Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

"Saudi Arabia is sending a strong message to the Houthis and their allies that they cannot overrun Yemen by force," Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after the talks with Saudi officials.

"In support of that effort we have expedited weapons deliveries," he said.

"We've increased our intelligence sharing, and we've established a joint coordination planning cell in the Saudi operations center."

Saudi Arabia blocks Iran flight carrying pilgrims

Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) said it blocked an Iranian flight carrying 260 pilgrims from Saudi airspace because because the aircraft lacked appropriate permissions, Saudi's state news agency reported late in Wednesday.

The General Authority of Civil Aviation announced the move in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency on Thursday.

"The operator must file a request with the authority prior to flying, specifying the type of aircraft, registration ... and other documents in order to ensure the safety of passengers and the airspace," said the SPA report.

The pilgrims had hoped to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday afternoon to perform the minor Umrah pilgrimage.

Tensions are high between Saudi Arabia and the Iranian regime as a Saudi-led coalition is carrying out airstrikes in Yemen against forces funded and trained by the Iranian regime have occupied much of the country.

A military spokesman for the Saudi-led “Operation Decisive Storm” said on Tuesday that Iran and Hezbollah have trained Houthi militias to “harm Yemenis,” Al Arabiya reported.
“We have evidence that Iran trained Houthi militias on operating fighter jets,” Saudi Brigadier General Ahmed Asiri told reporters.

Asiri said there was “no way for militias to acquire fighter jets,” referring to Iran’s support for the Houthis rebels.

Mr Asiri’s comments follows Monday’s remarks by Saudi ambassador to the United States Adel al-Jubeir who said Washington and Riyadh are in agreement over the support Iran is providing the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

“Iran provides financial support for the Houthis and helps them in building weapon factories and providing them with weapons. In addition that there are Iranians working alongside the Houthis,” al-Jubeir told U.S. and Arab reporters in a gathering in Washington, reported state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Iran news in brief, 7 March 2015

IRAN: Christians barred from holding Easter celebration in churches in northwestern city

NCRI - In the latest repressive measures taken against religious minorities in Iran, Iranian Christians in a northwestern city have been barred from holding Easter celebrations in churches.

On Saturday, the Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (police) sent threatening letters to churches in the city of Urumiyeh warning them against holding gatherings for Easter celebrations.

According to the directive sent by the force's Office of Public Building, Christians have only been allowed to hold Easter celebrations in their homes.

Barring Iranian Christians from holding Easter celebrations is considered unprecedented in Iran - even under the mullahs’ rule which has been ranked one of the world’s worst nations for the persecution of Christians.

Iranian Christians, like the followers of other religions, are being deprived from their most fundamental rights under the dark rule of this regime and have suffered from discrimination.

The persecution of Christians in Iran is getting worse under Hassan Rouhani and many now face ‘severe physical and psychological torture’. However their suffering and oppression will only end with the overthrow of the religious dictatorship in the country.

IRAN: Political prisoners violently attacked during Easter

NCRI - On Monday, Special Guards in Gohardasht Prison in the city of Karaj in Iran violently raided the section of the prison where political prisoners are being held and transferred a number of political prisoners to solitary confinement.

The guards attacked Hall 12 in Section 4 of Gohardasht Prison and transferred Pastor Saeed Abedini, Mr. Khaled Hardani and Mr. Mostafa Eskandari to solitary confinement. The repressive agents mistreated and harassed Pastor Saeed Abedini.

Protesting against the repressive measures and transfer of political prisoners to solitary confinement Pastor Abedini and Mr. Hardani went on hunger strike.

The attack took place in the presence of Geramiyan, the head of Section 4 and was commanded by Amirian, commander of the Special Guards.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, April 4, this section’s political prisoners protested against the broadcast of high-powered jamming signals that caused two political prisoners to become dizzy and faint.

The repressive prison authorities have recently installed very powerful jamming devices in a hall called Hosseiniyeh to block prisoners’ communications.

The Iranian regime has intensified repressive measures in prisons to raise fear and intimidation in society and among the political prisoners to prevent any public expression of dissent against the regime following the clerical regime’s Supreme Leader retreating backwards in the nuclear talks by agreeing with a ‘framework’.

The Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights organizations to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate the dire situation of political prisoners in Iran.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 6, 2015