Maryam Rajavi: Our hearts bleed for the French nation

On behalf of the Iranian people and Resistance for freedom and democracy, I strongly condemn the terrorist attacks and massacre of defenseless people in Paris.

I extend my condolences to the French President, government and people on these attacks which are true examples of crime against humanity.

I express my sympathies to the families of the victims.

Today, our hearts bleed for the French nation.

The people of Iran can deeply feel the bitterness of these crimes.

Message by Maryam Rajavi (in English)

They understand the feelings of the French people in these difficult moments and share your grief, since for 37 years they have been suffering under the religious and terrorist dictatorship which is the Godfather of ISIS.

Today, the conscience of humanity is in shock and disbelief for how such crimes could be committed in the name of God and in the name of religion.

Fundamentalism under the name of Islam has nothing to do with this religion, whether it is under the pretext of Shiite extremism and religious tyranny of velayat-e faqih or under the pretext of Sunni and by the name of Daesh (or ISIS).

Such anti-human crimes have nothing to do with Islam and such evil is the enemy of peace and mankind wherever it be.

Crimes committed by the religious fascism ruling Iran, including 120,000 political executions, hostage-taking and export of terrorism, have nothing to do with Islam and Iranian people.

For this reason, I call on all Muslims to strongly condemn this crime and do not allow the conduct of these criminal terrorists to be accounted for Islam and Muslims.

I also call on you to stand firm against such extremism which is against the true teachings of Islam.

The Assad regime in Syria and its prime sponsor, namely the mullah regime ruling Iran, are the main source of social and political backing for ISIS, by their killing of 300,000 innocent people and by forcing more than half of the Syrian population out of their land.

As long as this dictatorship rules in Damascus with the backing of the religious fascism ruling Iran, ISIS will continue to survive and export its bloodbaths from the Middle East to Europe.

At the same time, Iran's ruling mullahs who are the first to benefit from these crimes, brazenly blame the French government for these attacks.

Based on what they published today in the official news agency of the IRGC, their demand is for France to give up its firmness against the Assad dictatorship in light of the November 13th massacre and instead "coordinate its efforts with Islamic countries", namely the Tehran mullahs.

In such circumstances, it is ever more necessary for France to persist on the removal of Bashar Assad from power and be ever more decisive in resolving the Syrian crisis.

Experience has shown that the most effective and the only principled and correct method of dealing with terrorists is to be decisive.

My most sincere sympathies to the people of France and my heartfelt prayers for the recovery of the injured.

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Cruz: Obama is ‘not interested’ in protecting the U.S.

The Hill – Nov. 14, 2015 - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says he thinks President Obama is “not interested” in protecting the United States from terror attacks. 

“I recognize that Barack Obama does not wish to defend this country. He may have been tired of war, but our enemies are not tired of killing us,” Cruz said in a “Fox and Friends” interview. 
 
 He said Obama’s foreign policy has driven the world more in to the hands of terrorists.  
 
Cruz, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, accused the president of ignoring the threats posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in light of a coordinated set of attacks in Paris on Friday. 
 
He said Obama “doesn’t recognize that enemies of America want to kill us.”
 
Cruz’s interview came after an attack in Paris left at least 129 people dead Friday. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. 
 
Cruz said as president, he would focus on attacking and destroying ISIS and other terrorist groups. 
“It is not random, unconnected extremism, it is a particular form — radical Islamism — that takes the view that anyone that doesn’t embrace their radical psalmist view should be murdered or forcibly converted,” he said.  
 
“That’s what we’re seeing happening in Paris, it’s what we’re seeing happening in Israel, and I’m sorry to tell you, this will be coming to America. ISIS plans to bring these acts of terror to America.”

Iran - Female Journalist get's 3 year's in prison for insulting Khamenei

On Tuesday, an Iranian judge who is well-known for handing down harsh sentences for journalists sentenced Solmaz Ikdar, 33, to three years in prison for allegedly insulting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and promulgating propaganda against the state.


According to reports, Judge Mohammad Moghiseh handed down the sentence. Ikdar has reportedly worked for a range of publications in Iran, including Farhikhtegan, Mardom-e Emruz, Aseman, Bahar, and Sharq. She was stopped at an airport on June 18 of this year and taken to Gharchak Prison, where she spent one night and was reportedly hit with another charge of insulting regime officials.
Solmaz was formally convicted on November 10. 
Solmaz was taken to Gharchak Prison, where she stayed one night. There they charged her with insulting regime officials, and she was convicted by a non-criminal court and ordered to pay a fine, which her family could not afford.
Her mother, Shahrzad Garschi, said that while she intends to appeal against the verdict, they “do not have much hope.”
This latest arrest is reportedly part of a “new crackdown on freedom of expression and the media” by Iranian intelligence and security officials, according to Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. special rapporteur on Iran. Iran’s human rights record has grown significantly worse under Hassan Rouhani .
Judge Moghiseh is known to be among six judges–four with Iran’s revolutionary court and two appeal judges–who are complicit in violating international treaties to which the Islamic Republic of Iran is a signatory. Some of these violations include holding trials behind closed doors which last mere minutes, intimidating defendants, depriving prisoners of access to lawyers, and even going so far as refusing to disclose the date and time of the actual trial to the defendants’ attorneys.
These judges have reportedly also violated Iran’s own Constitution, which calls for a fair trial.
According to The Guardian, these judges are Abolghassem Salavati, Mohammad Moghiseh, former justices Yahya Pirabbasi and Hassan Zareh Dehnavi (known as Judge Haddad), and appeal judges Hassan Babaee and Ahmad Zargar.
“This group is among the most notorious judges in Iran,” Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, an Iranian human rights activist in Norway, told the paper. “They are known for their politicized verdicts, unfair trials [and] sentencing prisoners based on confessions made under duress.”
The U.N. special rapporteur on Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, told Reuters that at least 45 journalists were in custody in Iran as of this April, one of the highest rates worldwide.
On Wednesday, several United Nations human rights investigators reportedly called on Iran to cease arresting, harassing, and prosecuting journalists and other activists to pave the way for free debate ahead of February’s parliamentary elections. Reuters notes that they called upon the Islamic Republic to release all journalists.
Additionally, Reuters notes that five journalists were arrested on November 2 by plainclothes members of the IRGC’s intelligence units and accused of taking part in an infiltration network and seeking to undermine Iran on behalf of Western governments.

Crimea’s head denies homicide attempts rumours as nonsense

SIMFEROPOL, November 10 /TASS/. Sergey Aksyonov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, has described as nonsense the allegations of Ukrainian parliament deputy Refat Chubarov that the Russian security services were preparing homicide attempts on some Crimean officials.

"I am refusing to comment this nonsense," Aksyonov told journalists.

Earlier, Chubarov, a leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejilis, which is unregistered in Russia, wrote on his page in social networks that the Russian security services were nurturing a plan of extermination of prominent Crimean leaders, including First Vice-Premier Mikhail Sheremet and Crimean Parliament Vice-Speaker Remzi Ilyasov.

Earlier, the leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejilis wrote on his page in social networks that the Russian security services were nurturing a plan of extermination of prominent Crimean leaders

Criminal proceedings have been initiated against Chubarov on charges of calls for changing Russia’s territorial integrity. At first, a court banned Chubarov from entering Russia for five years but later the republic’s prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya ordered to lift the ban.

Chubarov and his associates initiated the idea to impose a food blockade on Crimea. The Mejilis activists and their supporters from Ukraine’s Right Sector extremist movement, which is banned in Russia, have been blocking all Ukrainian trucks bound for Crimea since September 20. The Crimean authorities, in turn, have said that the blockade has produced no impact either on the range of goods or the prices.