Iran News in Brief - 20 April 2015

Saudis noses will be rubbed in dirt over Yemen

US Navy deploys two more warships near Yemen as conflict escalates (video)

U.S. Will Send Additional Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine

WASHINGTON – U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko by phone that the United States will send an additional $17.7 million in humanitarian aid to support vulnerable populations in Ukraine.

In a statement issued Monday, the White House said the aid is for food, shelter and water.

It added that the two leaders urge Russia to comply with the Minsk agreements and cease sending heavy weaponry and troops to Ukraine.

Poroshenko has said repeatedly that Kiev will reinforce its armed forces in eastern Ukraine despite the cessation of hostilities, in response to the latent threat from Russia.

Tensions along the line separating the forces have risen in recent days with accusations by both sides of truce violations, especially around Donetsk airport and the town of Shirokino on the Sea of Azov.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Kiev on Monday of breaching the peace deal with the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

IRAN: Executions in a week reaches 81

NCRI - Coincident with mass executions in the prisons of Ghezel-Hessar, Karaj and other cities, the anti-human regime of mullahs sent 16 other prisoners to the gallows in Mashhad and Birjand (northeastern Iran). Twelve of them were hanged collectively in Vakilabad prison of Mashhad on April 16, and the other four were executed in Birjand prison the following day. Thus, the number of executions from 12 to 18 April reached 81, meaning 12 executions per day.

The unprecedented increase in the wave of executions after the Lausanne nuke framework is a clear indication of the mullahs’ desperate need of creating an atmosphere of fear in the society to confront the explosive situation.

Iranian Resistance calls on Iranian brave youths to express their solidarity with the families of the executed and prisoners, and to protest against this criminal move in the country. It also underscores the need for ousting this bloodthirsty and fascist regime from the world community.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 20, 2015

Sen. Kirk: Iran regime is the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror

The Iran under role of mullahs is ‘the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror’ and is now trying to build nuclear weapons, Senator Mark Kirk said on Saturday.

Kirk said: “We must use strong economic pressure on Iran to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons.”

Senator Kirk said in video address: “Iran is the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror. Iran’s Aytatollah’s are now trying to build their own nuclear weapons.”

“Lately, Iran has tried to backtrack on the promises they made to President Obama," Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, said in a video Saturday.

"Iran now wants sanctions immediately lifted which would fund Iran's terror subsidiaries with billions."

"We must use strong economic pressure on Iran to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons," the Illinois senator continued.

"Stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons is the greatest challenge to peace in our time."

"We answer with bullets to the international inspectors"; Deputy IRGC Commander

Hussein Salami, deputy commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, IRGC, said 'we answer with bullets to inspectors who want to visit our military sites.'
In an interview with Iran’s main state run television, Salami said Saturday night that 'Iran would never make an agreement with the P5+1 on the basis of verification.' He also reacted to the US officials stressing that the military option remains on the table by saying 'Doctrine, the structure and our military capabilities have been set according to an all-out war with the United States.'
US defense secretary; Ashton Carter told CNN on Friday, April 17 that any nuclear agreement with Iran must include inspection of Iran’s military installations.