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Islamic State: ‘US failure to look into Saudi role in 9/11 has helped Isis’
By: Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 14 September 2014
The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has been aided by the continuing failure of the US Government to investigate the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks and its support of jihadi movements such as al-Qaeda in the years since, says former Senator Bob Graham, the co-chairman of the official inquiry into 9/11.
Senator Graham, who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that successive administrations in Washington had turned a blind eye to Saudi support for Sunni extremists. He added: “I believe that the failure to shine a full light on Saudi actions and particularly its involvement in 9/11 has contributed to the Saudi ability to continue to engage in actions that are damaging to the US – and in particular their support for Isis.”
Iran: 411 Executions in the First Half of 2014
At least 411 prisoners have been executed in Iran from the beginning of January 2014 to the end of June of the same year. This indicates that the execution wave, which recommenced after the most recent Iranian presidential election, is continuing. According to reports by Iran Human Rights (IHR), more than 870 people have been executed since the election of Mr. Hassan Rouhani in June 2013. IHR calls on the international community to take serious measures to stop the execution wave in Iran.
US Shouldn’t Weaponize the Mighty Dollar
By Leonid Bershidsky
It’s not the projected size of the fine — $8 billion to $9 billion. It’s not even the demand to fire specific employees. No, as BNP Paribas prepares to settle claims by U.S. authorities that it has transacted some $30 billion worth of business in violation of U.S. international sanctions, the part of the settlement most likely to stick in Gallic throats (and cause a bit of choking elsewhere) is a ban on clearing dollar transactions.
Iran’s human rights situation, w/ Mehdi Arabshahi & Gissou Nia
Mehdi Arabshahi, was president of the largest student organization in Iran, the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat, and a former political prisoner who fled Iran after being held in solitary confinement for 100 days. He and Gissou Nia, Executive Director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, discuss the status of human rights in Iran.
Why is Russia Silent on Iran’s Gas Courtship of Armenia?
April 2, 2014 – 1:23pm, by Marianna Grigoryan
Natural gas flares at a processing facility of the South Pars gas field near the Iranian town of Kangan in January 2014. Armenia recently announced an agreement to increase its import of natural gas from Iran to two billion cubic meters per year – an increase of 75 percent.
Mystery is swirling around a deal to boost Iranian natural gas exports to Armenia: why does the Kremlin seem to be going along with the idea?
On March 19, Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisian announced that Armenia plans to increase its imports of gas from neighboring Iran to 2 billion cubic meters per year, an increase of nearly 75 percent over the current annual volume. In exchange, Armenia would export electricity to Iran.
The Assassinated Iranian “Scientist” Was Not a Scientist!
By Nazanin Kamdar (source: Rooz Online)
The Iranian regime has named tens of streets, circles, schools, universities, etc in his name across the country.
As conservatives in Iran have been increasing their criticism over staffing changes at the country’s Atomic Energy Organization which some media characterized as the “expulsion of nuclear scientists,” the former director of the agency Fereidun Abbasi whose appointment to head the organization during Ahmadinejad’s tenure caught all observers by surprise, revealed that Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan who has been called “the nuclear scientist martyr” by Iranian authorities and all official media, was not a scientist at all but was involved in commercial activities. Thirty two year-old Roshan and his driver were killed in a terrorist attack in January 2012 in Tehran.