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My latest- A False Resignation from Iranian Power, While the Regime Still Flirts with EU

The Khomeinist regime’s Foreign Minister, Mr. Javad Zarif, oddly posted a dubious resignation on his Instagram account before midnight local time, February 25, 2019. But it turns out that this phony resignation from power in the Islamic Republic of Iran was effectively legitimizing the regime, rather than weakening it, as appeared. In fact, an IRGC General still backs Zarif.

Not long after Zarif’s social media circus, foreign pundits and officials commented positively on the event, although they were as wrong as the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who responded, “Zarif is gone. Good riddance.”

The sinister minister Zarif reminds Iranians of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

“We do not jail people for their opinions," said the liar-in-chief, Mr. Zarif, in an interview with the American television program host Charlie Rose, as aired on April 27, 2015.

The propagandist FM calls himself a “human rights professor.” Meanwhile, more than 7,000 protesters, students, journalists, environmentalists, workers, and human rights defenders, including lawyers, women’s rights activists, minority rights activists, and trade unionists, were arrested in Iran in 2018, as reported by Amnesty International.

The dissimulating FM said that wearing hijab is part of Iranian culture, while the Girls of Enghelab Street (Persian: دختران خیابان انقلاب) along with a few sympathetic men began a series of protests against compulsory hijab in their Persian homeland. The #GirlsOfRevolutionStreet made their iconic protest image widely known by bravely standing on top of utility boxes above the busy sidewalks of Enghelab (Revolution) Street in the center of Tehran, from which they defiantly waved their white head scarf on the end of a stick.

The Trump administration is willing to reach a good deal if the terrorist regime changes its aggressive regional behavior. However, the smug FM responded, “You'll never get a better deal”.

Mr. Zarif remains the chief of the Islamic regime's foreign affairs. He has always been supported and favored by Islamic Republic of Iran senior officials, especially the Supreme Leader, as Persian Euronews quoted IRGC’s Quds chief, Maj. Gen Qassem Soleimani. But in the West, "The Shadow Commander" is a wanted man, who has been formally labeled a supporter of terrorism by the United States since 2007.

The clever FM is as much akin to a wolf in sheep’s clothing as is the so-called moderate, Hassan Rouhani. The charmer-in-chief Zarif plays to the media like a “display window” in his role as an “echo chamber” of what the media wants to hear, as he covers for the regime’s mistreatment of Iranian people under its harsh rule.

Zarif's ostensible resignation was presumably a strategic move to divert attention from the JCPOA nuclear deal fiasco. Most certainly, he was aware of the coming rejection of his resignation by Khamenei and Rouhani which followed. And it is likely that he wanted to recover his lost credibility and also to deflect pressure from Rouhani's administration.

I believe it showed us the failure of the Iranian regime’s negotiations with the United States. The bottom line is that this whole public relations game was no shock to the regime, said the Iranian socio-political activist, Sina Nahavandi.

To make a long story short, basically, this attempt at rebranding by Zarif of Rouhani's government and his pathetic administration is to resell it to the Europeans. So basically, it is just a sham by the same liars, who are pushing the same fakeries as before, with the same baseless claims. For the next four years, they want to resell the same sham to the west again. So it's just a rebranding of the earlier empty promises, as simple as that, says EU correspondent and Iran analyst, Mohsen Behzad Karimi. It is absurd and a coverup, commented Ali, an Iranian citizen from inside the country.

In the world’s democratic countries, which have legitimate governments, an act of resignation is  genuine and is done with dignity, replacing a failed official with the right person as needed to advance the country’s national or subnational politics. But in Iran’s Islamic Republic regime, the formula is quite the opposite. In contrast to the democratic governments, IRI officials are placed in governmental positions due to their personal relations with power centers, the regime leaders’ trust in them, and in a word, their rants.

In such a regime as the IRI, there has been a pack of individuals who are always, in any circumstances, entrenched in power. It really does not matter what changes appear to take place in the regime’s national politics or plans; or if the officials are fit for such jobs or not. One way or another, they stay on their jobs, because the regime’s Islamic system of tight control trusts only them. To allow for a new specialized person in the job would be to let in an uncertain element, a risky move not wanted by the regime. And so in such controlled countries as the IRI, the purported act of resignation is nonsense, and absurd.

Javad Zarif’s feigned resignation exactly follows this pattern. Now that the behind-the-scenes stories have come to light, it is clear that his “resignation” move was a kind of objection to his being kept unaware of Bashar al-Assad’s visit to Tehran. His resignation announcement was a sudden and emotional act, which indicates his lack of a big heart. But, he used his resignation as his national-scale sacrifice to bring back credibility to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. To paraphrase Shakespeare, he will roar like a lion.

Anyway, whether it came from personal anger or desire for sacrifice, whatever his reason was, by definition, a claim of “resignation” from power by an official in the Islamic Republic is meaningless. Whatever Mr. Zarif intended to achieve, his resignation show was tiresome to witness, and absurd in effect. But certainly, his tumultuous act turned all eyes away from covering the news of the regime's continuing acts against Iran’s national interests, and its clandestine meeting with the arrival from Damascus.

By Kaveh Taheri (Twitter: @TaheriKaveh), co-founder and chairman of the ICBHR.Com, is a Turkey-based Iranian Human Rights researcher and journalist who has worked exclusively on Middle East. Kaveh, who was a former political prisoner in Shiraz, had been sent to prison for his writings and statements on his Websites and Weblogs, in Iran and fled the country through Turkey to save his life. It was first published on World View Weekend.

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The West Should Be Faithful to Iranian People, Who Want the Islamic Regime Gone

In Iran, there is freedom of speech; but there’s no freedom after speech, Dr. Thamar Eilam Gindin told CBN News. Nearly six decades after Shah Mohammad Reza (Pahlavi) granted women the right to vote in 1961, and after nearly four decades of Islamic reversal of those women’s rights, the Iranian citizens remain imprisoned by the Khomeinist regime. Throughout 2018, more than 7,000 protesters, students, journalists, environmentalists, workers, and human rights defenders, including lawyers, women’s rights activists, minority rights activists, and trade unionists, were arrested in Iran, as reported by Amnesty International. Allegedly, most of the arrests were made arbitrarily. Amnesty International calls this crackdown by Iran’s Islamic regime its ‘year of shame’.Esmail Bakhshi, the leading activist and spokesman for workers’ rights, was re-arrested recently along with Sepideh Gholian in an act of obvious revenge for their talking publicly about the torture they have undergone during interrogation. The regime re-arrested them on the bogus charges of allegedly “provoking a public outcry”.They had been first arrested on 18 November 2018 after taking part in the peaceful protest gathering in front of the governor’s office in Shush, Khuzestan province.

The state-controlled TV, run by mullahs, aired a “documentary” aiming to discredit the labor rights movement in which the detainees were forced to confess against themselves.“The authorities must release them”, Amnesty said in an announcement. Eight environmentalists have remained arbitrarily under arrest for more than a year on the ambiguous charges of “espionage from military centers, corruption on earth” (ifsad fil-arz), and relationship with the hostile state”.

The malicious Khomeinist regime is not only oppressing its citizens, but also it has tried to destabilize the region through funding, support, and equipping of Islamic militants, ever since it seized state power in the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. After the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, the Islamic regime was given as much as $150 billion in cash directly into its bank account. That windfall has never been spent on the Iranian people, but rather to enrich the repressive regime. So, President Trump was right to withdraw America from the bad deal, as he called the agreement “the worst ever”.

Iranian citizens have remained frustrated by their harsh lives under the repressive regime, as they have demonstrated their disapproval of the Supreme Leader’s control since late December 2017. Now, Iranians fed up with the mullahs are ready to collapse the regime through a civic revolution, as I detailed in February 2018, “Why the West Should Support Iran Protests”, published in Times of Israel. After I published that piece, I was mysteriously blocked (banned) from being able to sign in to my personal blog to publish new articles on TOI. The Iranian economy has been crushed by sanctions, and by state mismanagement. The starved people are forced to queue up for daily necessities like meat and chicken. Prices rose, and their purchasing power declined. The Iranian people can be mobilized in resistance at this time, as they face such economic difficulties forced upon them by an unpopular regime which is seen to be stealing from them. Now, Western countries must choose whether they will continue the relationship as it is with the Islamic regime in power, and hope to change the threatening and aggressive behavior of the regime; or if they will support the mass of Iranian citizens as they try to bring a peaceful transition out from under Islamic state control. The Iranian people will never forget, never forgive those who enable their oppressors, as the exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi said: “The free world resisted Soviet totalitarianism, Nazi fascism, and South African apartheid; but when it comes to the oppressive Islamic regime in #Iran—a totalitarian, fascist and apartheid system all at once—far too many democracies prioritize trade deals. #Iranians will not forget”. By Kaveh Taheri (Twitter: @TaheriKaveh), co-founder and chairman of the ICBHR.Com, is a Turkey-based Iranian Human Rights researcher and journalist who has worked exclusively on Middle East. Kaveh, who was a former political prisoner in Shiraz, had been sent to prison for his writings and statements on his Websites and Weblogs, in Iran and fled the country through Turkey to save his life. Cartoon by: Reza Rish (Twitter: @reza_delrish)

It was first published on American Truth Project.

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Women’s Enslavement in Islamic Iran, vs. “Great Satan” America

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s mullah kleptocrats call the United States government “The Great Satan” and have repeatedly chanted “Death to America.” But what should outrage American feminists in particular among Americans is the Islamic regime kleptocrats’ attitude toward women, including toward American women feminists. Women in Iran were granted the right to vote in 1962 under the Shah Pahlavi dynasty, in a ruling comparable to one by which Switzerland granted rights to its women in 1971. This improvement in the legal rights of women in Iran came by way of the Shah’s White Revolution (also known as the Shah and People’s’ Revolution). As part of that movement, a law enacted by Shah Mohammad Reza ended extrajudicial divorce and restricted polygamy. The law also raised the minimum age of marriage for girls from 13-15 up to 18. In response, the leading Islamic Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Khomeini, convened a meeting in the city of Qom to protest the Shah’s granting of such rights to Iran’s women. The Islamic objection was then sent to the Shah by telegraph. But then, all Iranian women’s hopes for liberty vanished into thin air, when Ayatollah Khomeini took power of the Iranian state in 1979. Women still held on to the right to vote, but under the new Islamic regime they lost many of their other rights. Women became forced to live as second-class citizens in Iran, by the mullahs’ unequal and medieval Islamic rules, where men are legally entitled to have controlling status of “guardianship” over all of the big decisions of women’s lives. And so today, Iran’s rate of women working in the labor force is a mere 16%, 49% lower than men, says the state-run media source, ISNA. The percentage rate of women in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Parliament) is only 5%, while the world’s average is more than 25% female representation. One million and 800 thousand women in Iran are illiterate. The women’s illiteracy in some provinces reaches as high as 30%. Before the Islamic takeover of Iran, the country experienced six decades of granting rights to women. But now, the women in Iran face harsh difficulties that earlier generations did not have to endure. Only about three million and 500 thousand women are among the 22 million people employed in Iran, according to the Iran Statistics Center reports in 2017. Most of the people who commit suicide are women. More than 10% of the students deprived of education are girls between 6 and 17 years old, ISNA declared on October 2014. At least 50% of girls in the marginalized areas across Iran are deprived of education, the deputy minister of education said in 2017. Today in Iran, many official laws are enforced against women, such as:

According to Iran’s Civil Code, girls need their father’s consent, if they want to marry. It means that there is no marriage choice for the girl if the father withholds his consent. Further, the father can force his 13-year-old daughter into any marriage he wishes.

Women are not considered as the head of family in any social or legal sense. A mother’s young son can effectively be her “guardian.”

According to the current laws in Iran, men can divorce their wives easily, at will. But women have extreme difficulty obtaining a divorce for almost any reason. And in the attempt, they must file a long list of evidence to prove that the man is not fitting to continue with her wedlock.

Women have no rights to custody of their children. A mother can care for her children while those children remain living in her household, but the decision about whether to place the children in any other household apart from the mother rests with the male guardian. A mother cannot take guardianship of her children even in the case of death or absence of the father. In such a case, the rights of custody over her children will be given to the paternal grandfather, or uncle, or the next closest living male relative in the husband’s family.

Women have the right to keep their children (while the children are under 7 years old) after divorce, but they will lose that custody if they remarry before the children reach age seven.

Based on Iran’s Islamic law, men can have up to four permanent wives at the same time, and an unlimited number of “temporary” wives. In contrast, married women may only have one husband at a time. And a woman would be sentenced to the death penalty for adultery if she were ever caught, or even accused to be, in a partnership with another man.

By the laws in Iran, children’s citizenship is under their Iranian father’s nationality, instead of the mother’s. So, Iranian women cannot get Iranian ID cards for their children if they marry foreigners.

Women lose their rights to education after marriage, except by the consent of the husband. The husband has the right to ban his wife from taking any job if he wishes. The husband has the right to seek a court order on grounds of conjugal disobedience, if he does not want his wife working in a different city. He simply asks the court to end her employment, or he may demand court permission to marry another woman.

No woman has the right to become president in Iran, according to the laws that dictate only men (Rejal) to chair the high-ranked official seats.

Women’s “blood money” (compensation for a death—Diyyah in Persian and Arabic) is set at half of the men. In a car accident, the cost of blood money that women receive as compensation is half of the compensation for even a deceased male embryo, if a woman were pregnant.

Women receive 50% less than their brothers from an inheritance, if their father or mother passes away. Based on this rule, if a husband passes away, the female heirs receive 50% less than their male siblings, or the husband’s father.

Women’s testimony as witnesses at court is counted as half of the testimony by men. And, no women can become a judge in Iran under the regime’s Islamic laws. They can only rise high enough to play a role as advisor of a male judge, even if they have a law degree; or, they can work as an investigation judge, but without the rights to issue any verdict.

Women have no rights to obtain a travel passport without their husband’s or father’s permission; and, their husband or father can confiscate the women’s passports, to prevent any females under their guardianship from traveling abroad.

So as the mullahs of Islamic Iran chant murderous disdain for America, while legally enslaving Iranian women as property under Islamic Law, how do American women fare, in contrast? The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees all American women the right to vote. It was passed by Congress nearly a century ago, on June 4, 1919, and was ratified on August 18, 1920. Not only do women in America vote on an equal basis with men, but they increasingly get elected to all levels of political office in America. Over the past half-century or so, Pew Research Center data proves that the rate of women in elective office has been rising in America at a remarkably steady pace across the political landscape, with no sign of slowing. In addition, the same trend shows women taking charge in cabinet level positions in presidential administrations across both parties, becoming Fortune 500 company CEOs, board members and other executives, and university presidents, to name a few areas of high-ranking inclusion. Recent data compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union ranked 193 countries of the world by descending order of the percentage of women in the lower or single House. The United States came in at a respectable upper-middle rank of 76, with almost a quarter of each of its two bodies of Congress containing elected women as representatives. But where does Islamic Iran fall on that chart? You can find it way down near the bottom at number 178 of 193 countries, in company with many of the other Islamic states that are the stuff of women’s nightmares. So the next time American feminists hear the mullahs’ chants of “Death to America,” they might want to ponder where that outcome would lead for American women. They should consider what will be the lost feminist rights and freedoms in the future lives of their daughters and granddaughters, if the Islamic Movement ever takes control here, as it so abruptly did in Iran four decades ago. 

By Kaveh Taheri & Aynaz Anni CyrusKaveh Taheri, co-founder and chairman of the ICBHR.Com, is a Turkey-based Iranian Human Rights researcher and journalist who has worked exclusively on Middle East. Kaveh, who was a former political prisoner in Shiraz, had been sent to prison for his writings and statements on his Websites and Weblogs, in Iran and fled the country through Turkey to save his life. Aynaz Anni Cyrus, National Director of American Truth Project. Anni was sold for $50 as a child bride in Iran. Rebelling against a life of sex slavery, she escaped to America. Now an American citizen, she is a leading spokeswoman against the evils of Islam.

It was first published on American Truth Project

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Forger finagles around laws to make money in Sweden

*Mr. Kristedt is reportedly linked to the Iranian regime.

Cyrus Kristedt, money-making by mass forgery. 

Kristedt immigrated to Sweden with his ex-wife Soraya Saeedi in 1986. Once there he swiftly developed a scam to hit the jackpot- one which primarily preys on wealthy individuals and businessmen. His enterprise “CK Utredningstjänst”, an investigation company, boasts €3 million turnover per year, although he claims its income is zero, citing that his personal income is zero as is his wife’s. All the amount is circulated outside the company, according to reliable sources. Living in an expensive apartment in the very wealthy part of Norrköping, he also owns a seaside house outside Norrköping. The waterside home was allegedly stolen from a widow, whose deceased husband, Mr. Kristedt claimed, owed him money through false documents. He also owns a new brand of Mercedes-Benz 2018, approximately €80K. Born in Iran, but now of migrant status with Iranian citizenship left intact, Kristedt has been active in no less than a total of 90 court cases since 2008, and the claimant in most of them with the assertion that the defendants have unsettled debts. However, all debt bills involved are entirely falsified, according to local sources speaking on the condition of anonymity.Kristedt’s typical victim would be a widow with no children, one whose spouse has recently died, and with a vulnerability such as dementia. His procedure is very simple, he collects information from various sources, including police reports, to contrive a way to defraud his next targets. Arne Huljebrant is one of the victims of deception by Kristedt. Arne was introduced to the seasoned crook by Henrik Johansson in May 1999. Ultimately Kristedt persuaded Arne that he could arrange a foreign loan at a beneficiary rate. Arne needed the money to buy property in Norrköping. Cyrus Kristedt offered this with the agreement of an upfront fee of €160,000. The loan funds were arranged to be paid on site in Schweiz, but when Arne traveled there in September 1999 to receive the money, of course, this did not happen, despite the fact that the deposit was paid in good faith by Arne, with a fee to Cyrus Kristedt. The house in which Kristedt had been living at the time was entirely funded by this kind of fraud. The exploitation of Arne Huljebrant didn’t end there. In 2000 he was badly assaulted and robbed in his own home, with a letter sent to the prosecutor’s office in Gothenburg as an anonymous tip-off. In the letter, Cyrus Kristedt was mentioned as the person who ordered the assault and attempted murder, according to the reports. The criminal owed €200,000 to Arne, and murder was decided upon as the solution. Arne started to receive threats of mutilation, shooting, and references to a funeral date of Autumn 1999. Additionally, to above egregious activity affecting a large number of people, Kristedt has also been convicted of cheating, domestic violence, and even arson.Mr. Kristedt is extremely active in Swedish and German courts all with the same modus operandi as above, even as recently as 2018, with up to 12 different court cases all based on his fabricated debt bills and fraudulent documents. Cyrus Kristedt annually benefits from this criminal activity to the tune of around €2 million, with strong indication that a large portion of this money is being used for illegal activities in northern Europé. Not only this, but the fraud he commits is currently escalating, as Kristedt also targets the municipality in his hometown Norrköping and claims that he owns the shares in the municipality’s real estate company. This is an ongoing fraud and is still in process at the local court in Norrköping at the time of this article’s publication.Unfortunately, the money he makes on this fraud is very hard to track as they being sent abroad many times to Switzerland. There are rumors that he uses these funds for political purposes and also investing in other types of criminal activities. He changed his name from Ali Fattah-Housseini to Cyrus Kristedt. Mr. Kristedt is reportedly linked to the Iranian regime.Kristedt works on a European scale, with cases mostly targeted in Sweden and Germany as one of the arenas. He apparently manages to enlist police authorities to make false reports. The Swedish National Police Authority currently is investigating Cyrus Kristed in the interest of national security. 

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