U.S. House passes bill to enforce sanctions on Iran regime

U.S. House passes bill to enforce sanctions on Iran regime

The US House of Representatives approved the “Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act,” nearly three weeks after a similar vote was cancelled.

The House narrowly passed the legislation last month, but the vote was voided after nearly a third of the chamber showed up too late to cast their votes.

The “Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act,” bars the removal of certain individuals and financial institutions from a restricted list until Obama administration certifies to Congress that they are not involved in Iran's ballistic missile program or in terrorist.

Following Tuesday’s passage of the Iran Terror Finance Transparency, House Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Ed Royce said: The regime in Tehran “is cashing in on a $100 billion jackpot, even as it tests ballistic missiles, seizes American sailors and continues its support for terrorism. President Obama must keep his promise to ‘fully enforce’ sanctions on Iran’s illicit programs and confront its dangerous acts.”

Iran - Patrick J. Kennedy: The illusion of Iranian moderation

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Former US Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy has written in the Thursday edition of the Providence Journal about how Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is not at all “moderate”, despite Western perception, and that such a gap between perception and reality has existed for “more than three decades.”

“Countless instances since the 2013 election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani—including most recently the state-sanctioned torching of the Saudi embassy in Tehran — should have dispelled the notion that we are dealing with a moderate reformist at the helm of the Islamic Republic,” Mr Kennedy writes. “Sectarian conflict is on the rise with Iran backing Syria’s Assad, Hezbollah, an anti-American insurgency in Yemen and radical Shia factions in Iraq.”

The former Congressman noted how these developments “have proven the accuracy of analyses from sources like the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which insisted from the start that moderation was not a realistic prospect under the existing theocratic regime.”

“Indeed, the illusion of a “moderate” Iranian president has persisted for more than three decades, despite its nonexistence in reality. Rouhani is only the latest to artfully exploit this fantasy and play into a naïve, aspirational worldview among many in the West about Tehran's behavior and intentions.”

’Assad Is the Problem, Not the Solution’: Amb. Bill Richardson

Ambassador Bill Richardson

At the sidelines to the massive anti-Rouhani demonstration held across from the UN on Monday, in an exclusive interview, Amb. Bill Richardson, a life-long Democrat, former American Ambassador to the UN, and former Governor of Arizona, came out strongly against Obama’s Iran deal, The Wall Street Journal reported.

He also stated that Bashar Assad “is the problem, not the solution – he’s a killer, he’s a violator of human rights... and unless he goes, there’s not going to be peace in Syria.”

But to the thronging masses of over 3,000 Iranian-Americans and Syrian-Americans, Amb. Richardson opened by accusing Iranian president Rouhaniand his regime of executing more than 2,000 political prisoners in the less-than two years of his administration.

That means Rouhani has executed an average of more three political prisoners a day in Iran since he was installed by the Khamenei in a sham election.

101 Iranian-American scholars and professionals press Obama on human rights in Iran

More than a hundred Iranian-American scholars and professionals across the United States have expressed serious concern to U.S. President Barack Obama over the deteriorating situation of human rights in Iran, the Organization of Iranian-American Communities. (OIAC)said on its website

The letter, sent on the eve of the arrival of the Iranian regime’s President Hassan Rouhani in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, cites the “unprecedented spike” in hangings in Iran and the crackdown on dissidents, women and youths as well as religious and ethnic minorities as evidence of the true nature of Rouhani and his regime.

The 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran and the nuclear deal

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Aformer Iranian political prisoner has described his torment during the seven years he spent in the mullahs' jails in Iran. Karim Moradi, an Iranian human rights activist and member of the Society of Iranian Political Prisoners, gave his account of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran in an article on Friday in TheHill.com:I am often asked by my American friends what I think about the Iran deal. As someone who spent seven years of his life imprisoned in Iran, it is difficult for me to give a simple answer. I have spent the past few weeks reflecting not on the nuclear deal with Iran, but on the summer of 1988, when Iran systematically massacred 30,000 political prisoners in a matter of weeks.

Iran: authorities body-search imprisoned priest

Iranian-American Priest Saeed Abedini

Priest Saeed Abedini, imprisoned in Iran

, imprisoned in Iran, was body-searched and saw his belongings inspected by prison authorities on July 21, reports indicate. Chief of ward 4 in Gohardasht Prison (in Karaj, west of Tehran) carried out these measures. Along with a number of prison guards he forced this priest to wake up, conducted a body search and inspected all his belongings.