Iraqi Protestors Target Tehran-Backed Militias: ‘Iran Out, Out! Baghdad Will be Free!’
Iraqi Protestors Target Tehran-Backed Militias: ‘Iran Out, Out! Baghdad Will be Free!’
Netanyahu: Chief of Staff’s Warnings of Approaching War with Iran Not a Spin
Netanyahu: Chief of Staff’s Warnings of Approaching War with Iran Not a Spin
Netanyahu: Chief of Staff’s Warnings of Approaching War with Iran Not a Spin
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that his own and IDF chief of staff Aviv Kochavi’s recent remarks regarding a possible military confrontation with enemies north and south were not a spin, and that the security situation compels Israel to have a wide unity government.
Families Relay Stories Of Americans Detained In Iran
Families Relay Stories Of Americans Detained In Iran
Families Relay Stories Of Americans Detained In Iran
We have messages this morning from Americans imprisoned in Iran. At least five U.S. citizens are in Iranian custody. Some are allowed to call home, and we’ve been learning some of what they say. For one of those prisoners, a grim anniversary passed just this month.
Lebanon’s crisis is caused by Iran
Lebanon’s crisis is caused by Iran
Lebanon’s crisis is caused by Iran
The Lebanese scene has always been part of the great regional playing field, and it has been used by the region’s powers. It has become almost monopolized by Iran through its proxy Hezbollah and forces loyal to the Syrian regime.
UN expert slams Iran’s child executions
UN expert slams Iran’s child executions
UN expert slams Iran’s child executions
Iran executed seven child offenders last year and two so far this year even though human rights law prohibits the death penalty for anyone under age 18, a UN independent human rights expert said on Wednesday.
Iran Prepares For War With Israel
Iran Prepares For War With Israel
Iran Prepares For War With Israel
Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on October 10, 2019, at the memorial for the fatalities of the October 1973 War, and focused on the rising Iranian threats to Israel.
Trump’s Syria withdrawal is ‘disaster’ for Israel, leaving it on its own against Iran, supporters say
Trump’s Syria withdrawal is ‘disaster’ for Israel, leaving it on its own against Iran, supporters say
Trump’s Syria withdrawal is ‘disaster’ for Israel, leaving it on its own against Iran, supporters say
Donald Trump’s decision to abandon former Kurdish allies in Syria last week has been a shock to Israel and its US lobby. Israel thought it had a very special place in Trump’s worldview, but the withdrawal appears to gives Iran far more leeway in the Middle East.
Exclusive: Iran-backed militias deployed snipers in Iraq protests – sources
Exclusive: Iran-backed militias deployed snipers in Iraq protests – sources
Exclusive: Iran-backed militias deployed snipers in Iraq protests – sources
The deployment of militia fighters, which has not been previously reported, underscores the chaotic nature of Iraqi politics amid mass protests that led to more than 100 deaths and 6,000 injuries during the week starting Oct. 1. Such militias have become a fixture here with Iran’s rising influence. They sometimes operate in conjunction with Iraqi security forces but they retain their own command structures.
Imprisoned Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani ends 3-week hunger strike
Imprisoned Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani ends 3-week hunger strike
Imprisoned Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani ends 3-week hunger strike
Imprisoned Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has ended a three-week hunger strike protesting the regime’s prohibition on his children’s ability to complete their education because they refuse to study Islam.
Christian persecution advocacy organizations Article 18 and Christian Solidarity Worldwide report that Nadarkhani, a former Muslim believer who led a house church in the Gilan province and is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, ended his hunger strike on Sunday.
The strike began on Sept. 23 to protest the regime’s decision to withhold education certificates from his two children, preventing them from moving on to the next grades because they would not study Islam or read the Quran in school.
Nadharkani’s 15-year-old son, Youeil, was told in September that he could not return to school because he has not been awarded certificates for completing the eighth and ninth grades.
Meanwhile, the pastor’s 17-year-old son, Daniel, was not given a school report card that would have allowed him to enroll for a college education. However, Daniel has been accepted back to the school as a “guest.”
Last year, both boys attended the school as “guests” but we’re also fully paying students, according to Article 18.
The actions against Nadarkhani’s sons come as Christians and other religious minorities in Iran are usually exempted from having to study Islam or the Quran in school. However, as Article 18 notes, children of Christian converts are not usually given an exemption from Islamic studies because the government still recognizes them as Muslims.
A 2017 court ruling allowed Daniel to continue at the school as long as he attended the Islamic studies class in a nonparticipatory manner, according to CSW.
CSW, a U.K.-based group that operates in over 20 countries, explained that Nadarkhani offered justification for his hunger strike in a letter to prison authorities.
“This is the cries of a father unjustly imprisoned,” Nadarkhani wrote in the letter appealing to the minister of National Education.
Although the situation for his children has not changed since the letter was written, Nadarkhani reportedly ended his hunger strike because he felt he drew enough attention to the issue.
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Read more at: Christian Post
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U.S. ‘deeply concerned’ about untrackable China ships carrying Iran oil: officials
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