Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and National Council of Resistance of Iran President Maryam Rajavi have each marked this year’s Christmas holiday with their own messages to Christians and others, invoking the memory of Jesus to support contrasting narratives.
By INU staff
INU- The Indo-Asian News Service on Wednesday reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had written an open letter to his counterparts in numerous other countries, commenting upon the current status of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of nations regarding the former’s nuclear program.
INU- In a holiday message addressed to “friends and supporters of the people of Iran and the Iranian Resistance,” Maryam Rajavi, the president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran called for remembrance of Christians and others who have been persecuted by Iran’s fundamentalist Islamic theocracy during the preceding year.
By INU staff
INU- A report in Reuters on Monday stated that in spite of strains on the Iranian national budget in the face of persistently low oil prices, the regime’s plans for its nuclear program are unlikely to change, and its demands and red lines in negotiation with the P5+1 will presumably remain uncompromising.
BY INU staff
INU- In case it is not enough that National Security Council chief Ali Shamkhani plainly declared that Iran would not seek broader rapprochement with the United, States, renewed media attention for Amir Hekmati should make it quite clear that Iran has little to no interest in changing its policy of antagonism toward the US and any US citizens who the ruling system judges to be infiltrating Iran.
By INU staff
INU- On Monday, the fact-checking website Politifact reported upon US President Barack Obama’s assessment of the effects of his diplomatic policy toward dealing with Iran’s nuclear program and its apparent pursuit of nuclear weapons. In an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Obama asserted that for the roughly one and a half years that policy has been in place, the Iranian nuclear program had made no new advancements, unlike in the nearly decade prior.
By INU staff
INU- On Monday, the fact-checking website Politifact reported upon US President Barack Obama’s assessment of the effects of his diplomatic policy toward dealing with Iran’s nuclear program and its apparent pursuit of nuclear weapons. In an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Obama asserted that for the roughly one and a half years that policy has been in place, the Iranian nuclear program had made no new advancements, unlike in the nearly decade prior.
The European Union cannot turn a blind eye to the horrors faced by the people of Iran, writes Soraya Post.
Soraya Post is a Member of European Parliament from Sweden, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
