Iran regime hangs another 5 prisoners
Wednesday, 04 May 2016/National Council of Resistance of Iran/NCRI
The mullahs’ regime in Iran on Tuesday hanged five prisoners, including a man in public. Four death-row prisoners were hanged in Qezelhesar Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. They were identified as Ahmad al-Tafi, Abdolhamid Baqeri, Majid Imani, and Reza Hosseini. Another prisoner, identified only by his first name Avaz, was hanged in a public square in the port city of Nour, northern Iran, on Tuesday. The hangings bring to at least 62 the number of people executed in Iran since April 10. Three of those executed were women and one is believed to have been a juvenile offender. Commenting last week on the recent spike in the rate of executions in Iran, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said: “In the month of April, during and after visits to Iran by the Prime Minister of Italy and the EU foreign policy chief dozens of people have been executed in Iran.” “The increasing trend of executions indicates that the visits of senior European officials to Iran not only have failed to improve the human rights situation; rather, they have given a message of silence and inaction to the mullahs. This has emboldened the clerical regime in stepping up executions and suppressing the Iranian people. This is the regime that has been the record holder of executions per capita globally in 2015. This bitter reality is not an issue of pride for any of the guests of the religious fascism,” he added. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement on April 13 that the increasing trend of executions “aimed at intensifying the climate of terror to rein in expanding protests by various strata of the society, especially at a time of visits by high-ranking European officials, demonstrates that the claim of moderation is nothing but an illusion for this medieval regime.”Ms. Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, was in Tehran on April 16 along with seven EU commissioners for discussions with the regime’s officials on trade and other areas of cooperation. Amnesty International in its April 6 annual Death Penalty report covering the 2015 period wrote: “Iran put at least 977 people to death in 2015, compared to at least 743 the year before.””Iran alone accounted for 82% of all executions recorded” in the Middle East and North Africa, the human rights group said. There have been more than 2,300 executions during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as President. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran in March announced that the number of executions in Iran in 2015 was greater than any year in the last 25 years. Rouhani has explicitly endorsed the executions as examples of “God’s commandments” and “laws of the parliament that belong to the people.”
U.S. Congressmen: Boeing deal with Iran regime would turn airplanes into ‘warplanes’
Wednesday, 04 May 2016/National Council of Resistance of Iran/NCRI – Any deal between Boeing and Iran’s regime “would effectively subsidize the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism” and would turn American airplanes into Iranian “warplanes,” according to three members of the U.S. Congress in a strongly-worded letter sent to the aircraft giant Monday.The letter to Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg implores the company to refrain from a reported deal with Tehran to supply planes and other services, according to FoxNews.com. Under the terms of the Iran nuclear deal, commercial aircraft can be sold to Iran’s regime, a concession made “at the behest of Tehran,” the letter said. The mullahs’ regime holds a majority ownership stake in the country’s national airline, Iran Air. “This is not about doing what is legal – it is about doing what is right,” the letter said. The authors, Illinois Republican members of Congress Peter Roskam, Bob Dold and Randy Hultgren, repeatedly cite the Iranian regime’s well-documented links to terror financing and allege that passenger air flights have played a particular role in Iran being able to supply deadly weapons – such as rockets or missiles – to notorious groups.“We urge you not to be complicit in the likely conversion of Boeing aircraft to IRGC warplanes,” the letter said, using an acronym for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Roskam, the Ways and Means Oversight Committee chairman in the House of Representatives, has been particularly vocal in his opposition to American companies conducting business with Iran’s regime. Seeking to pressure Airbus into scuttling a $25 billion deal to sell 118 planes to Tehran, Roskam spoke with leading European media outlets last week to express why he believed the decision was unwise. Roskam on Friday introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act which would prohibit the U.S. Department of Defense from awarding contracts to any entity that does business with the Iranian regime. While any future agreement would certainly be lucrative to Boeing – Roskam, Dold and Hultgren warn Boeing’s board, which meets this week in Chicago, that an Iranian deal is akin to supporting tyranny and terror. “The greatest beneficiaries of any potential aircraft sale to Iran would be the Islamic Republic’s despotic leaders,” the letter said.
