Eye on Iran: Iran Protests: State Tv Shows Pro-government Rallies after Days of Unrest

TOP STORIES Iran Protests: State Tv Shows Pro-government Rallies after Days of Unrest | Associated Press State media aired pro-government demonstrations in cities across Iran Wednesday after a week of protests and unrest over the nation's economy - a move apparently aimed at calming nerves amid clashes that have killed 21 people.  Haley Calls on U.N. to Support Demonstrators in Iran | The Wall Street Journal U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called Tuesday for the U.N. to act and for world leaders to express solidarity with Iranians, as antigovernment demonstrations raged in Iran for the sixth day. The U.S. has called for emergency meetings at the Security Council and the U.N.'s Human Rights Council in Geneva, said Ms. Haley. Trump Keeping Options 'Open' on Iran Sanctions Waiver | CNN President Donald Trump has not yet made a decision on whether to sign an Iran sanctions waiver later this month, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday. But Sanders said the administration is keeping "our options open" as far as sanctions against Iran are concerned, particularly as popular protests continue to grip Iran. UANI IN THE NEWS Trump Throws Full US Support Behind Protesters In Iran | Associated Press But [UANI Chairman and] former Sen. Joe Lieberman, a staunch Iran critic, said it's a given Tehran will portray dissent as externally provoked. "That's a very weak excuse for American inaction and inconsistency with our own interests and values. I'm glad President Trump is not following that advice," Lieberman said in an interview. Iran Protests Could Move Trump To Kill Nuclear Deal | Politico "I would not walk away" from the nuclear deal, said [UANI Senior Adviser] Dennis Ross, a Middle East adviser to three presidents of both parties. "It basically diverts attention back onto us. We have an interest in keeping the spotlight on what the Iranians are doing, not shifting it to a step that we took." Interview with UANI Senior Adviser Bill Richardson on the Iranian Protests | MSNBC's "The 11th Hour" It's clear that these demonstrations are broad-based. They're rural and urban areas. They're talking about corruption, the economy. They're talking about the Islamic Republic, against the involvement in Syria. This is a broad- based democratic movement. UANI Senior Adviser Robert Bartlett on the Iranian Regime | Fox News' "The Story With Martha McCallum" I joined UANI and Vets against the Deal to try and stop them from getting a nuclear bomb a long time ago. We are still on that mission today. When they got the blood of 500 Americans just in the last few years on their hands. They've been killing Americans since the 1970s and we just really haven't done a whole lot about it. 22 dead as Iran protests roll into 6th day: Inteview with UANI Policy Director Jason Brodsky for i24 News I think expressions of support for the Iranian people are helpful. And it shouldn't just be coming from President Trump, it should be coming from the world. There has been talk of a joint communique that the United States is working on issuing with nations in Europe to support the people of Iran. It really has to be a multilateral approach. IRAN PROTESTS Iran's Spending on Foreign Conflicts Raises Protesters' Ire | The Wall Street Journal Iran's costly efforts to project power beyond its borders in the wider Middle East are exacting a political price at home, with arrests and deaths multiplying as antigovernment demonstrations persisted into a sixth day Tuesday. Defiant Iran Protesters Steal Revolutionary Guard's Trousers Even as Death Toll Mounts | Daily Telegraph (U.K.) The Basij militiaman, a paramilitary storm trooper of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, was reportedly swinging an electric shock baton when the crowd of angry protesters closed in around him. "They got a Basij, hold him!" one man shouted as the demonstrators pulled away the militiaman's baton and knocked him to the ground in the largely Kurdish city of Kermanshah. Crisis of Expectations: Iran Protests Mean Economic Dilemma for Government | Reuters Iran's President Hassan Rouhani may have to step back from some of his core economic policies in the face of nationwide protests by tens of thousands of people frustrated by high unemployment and stagnant living standards. The protests, during which at least 10 people have been killed, are fueled by disappointment that the lifting of sanctions on Iran in January 2016 has failed to deliver an economic boom. Instead, the non-oil part of the economy has continued to struggle, with unemployment officially put at around 12.5 percent - in reality, much higher for Iran's millions of young people - and inflation running at nearly 10 percent. New York Times to Keep Selling $8G Iran Tours despite Deadly Protests | Fox News The New York Times says the recent deadly protests that exploded in Iran have not led the company to cancel any of its $8,000 tours of the terror-sponsoring rogue nation being offered this year, conferring the prestige of the paper on wealthy customers - as the paper seeks to find new sources of revenue. Trump Is Right To Tell Iran The World Is Watching | David Ignatius for the Washington Post Think of the Iranian uprising as a bottom-up revolt by people who feel they've been ignored by a corrupt elite. The issues and the faces in the street are very different from those of the populist movements that swept the United States and Europe in 2016, but you sense a resonance: "Make Iran Great Again" and "Iran First." Tens of Thousands of People Have Protested in Iran. Here's Why | Washington Post On Dec. 28, protests broke out in the northern city of Mashhad, spurred at first by concern over the country's stunted economy and the high prices of basic goods like eggs, which saw a 40 percent jump in price. Over the next six days, the protests in more than two dozen towns would turn into an open rebellion against Iran's Islamic leadership itself. Democracy in Iran? The Demographics Say Yes | Leonid Bershidsky for Bloomberg In a country as repressive as Iran, it's difficult to gauge where the current countrywide protests are leading. But a bold theory that predicted the recent transition to democracy in Tunisia may offer some clues.  The Worst Thing for Iran's Protesters? U.S. Silence | Reuel Marc Gerecht for the New York Times We are now six days into the Iran protests, and the questions that seized Washington during the 2009 pro-democracy movement have now once again come to the fore. Should the United States try to help Iran's protesters? Can we help them? Barack Obama's answers to those questions were clear: No, not really. His position, the one now echoed by many Western liberals, is based on a deeply misguided premise that the current regime can be reformed or moderated. It can't - and that premise should be abandoned if we want to do right by Iran. Editorial: Iran Protests Show Tehran Has Lost the Advantage | Weekly Standard Editorial Board For the first time in years, the regime finds itself at a severe diplomatic disadvantage. Since the administration in October refused to recertify the nuclear deal, the U.S. is free to reimpose sanctions and pull out of the deal altogether. A return to pre-deal sanctions would do irreparable harm to the country's economy and thus the regime's authority. The administration might threaten to carry out that policy if the regime arrests or assault any more peaceful protesters. That will put Khamenei's government in an impossible position and may, in time, lead to its long hoped-for dissolution and a true Persian democracy. Trump Is Right, This Time, About Iran | Roger Cohen for The New York Times I have a New Year's confession: I retweeted President Trump with approval, not something I had expected to do, especially on the subject of Iran. But Trump has been right to get behind the brave Iranian protesters calling for political and economic change. Oil Steadies as Violent Iran Clashes Fail to Disrupt Supplies | Bloomberg Oil settled close to a 30-month high after days of civil unrest in Iran failed to interrupt supplies from OPEC's third-biggest crude producer. Iran Deadly Protests Could Send Oil Prices To $100 | Forbes Iran deadly protests could drive prices back towards $100-mark and even higher. It happened back in 1979, and it could happen again this time around. There are several reasons for that. One of them is that protests place Iran's regime between a rock and a hard place. Letting protests go on and risking chaos or cranking down on protesters and risking another round of sanctions, this time around for humanitarian reasons. Either scenario is bullish for oil, as it could limit the flow of oil coming out from Iran. FOREIGN AFFAIRS Macron 'Worried' About Iran, Asks Rouhani For 'Restraint' | Agence France-Presse French President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday expressed his concern over unrest in Iran during a telephone conversation with counterpart Hassan Rouhani and called for "restraint and appeasement," his office said. Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eye on Iran is not intended as a comprehensive media clips summary but rather a selection of media elements with discreet analysis in a PDA friendly format. For more information please email press@uani.com. United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons.  UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons.

Twitter Suspends Ex-Muslim Cartoonist, Allows Hamas and Hezbollah

 

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January 3, 2018

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Hamas has a Twitter account. It links directly to the website of a terrorist organization responsible for murdering thousands of people. And which advocates genocide. Al Aqsa TV, Hamas' tv channel, also has its own Twitter account.

Hezbollah's Al Manar TV also has several Twitter accounts.

Both of these are recognized terrorist organizations. Hamas is listed as a FTO terrorist group by the State Department. Providing services to it as Twitter does, may be illegal.

But Hamas and Hezbollah are a few of the many Islamic terrorist organizations and supporters who are active on Twitter. But while Twitter has no problem with terrorists. It does have a problem with those who criticize them.

Bosch Fawstin, an ex-Muslim critic who was targeted in the first ISIS attack in America, has been suspended by Twitter.

I challenged Twitter’s decision to suspend me, through their channels, and they just told me in an email that their decision stands, that my account will not be restored because they claim my account “was found to be violating Twitter’s Terms of Service, specifically the Twitter rules against hateful conduct.” They went on to say that “It is against our rules to promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.”
So I replied with this:
You have suspended my account without Any proof of your claim that I have violated your rules. You write that it is against your “rules to promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people”, and yet you don’t cite any tweets of mine where I’m guilty of that, because I’ve never done that."

Bosch's final Tweet was this.

While Twitter killed Bosch's account, it still allows Jonathan Brown, an Islamist who endorsed slavery, to tweet. Canary Mission has compiled a long list of calls to murder Jews and endorsements of Hitler by student members of hate groups like SJP on Twitter. Instead of suspending the Islamic bigots, Twitter at one point suspended Canary Mission.

It is a travesty that Twitter chooses to silence those who combat racism and anti-Semitism, while allowing accounts that call for the extermination of Jews to operate freely.

But that's just how things work on Twitter. But that doesn't mean we have to take it.
If you have a Twitter account, let @TwitterSupport know how you feel about Hamas being welcome on Twitter, but not an ex-Muslim critic of Islamic terrorism.

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
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we can't fix our own roads,, but we are FORCED to fix muslim country, Jordan's roads. I am sick to death of this INSANE SHIT!!

PATHETIC: Trudeau Government Wasting Our Taxpayer Money To Build Road In Jordan

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And they don’t even know how much it will cost.

The Trudeau government is wasting more of our money on projects in other countries.

As noted by the Ottawa Citizen, “Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan recently announced that Canada would support the construction and “rehabilitation” of a road along Jordan’s northern border with Syria. The project will contribute to the security and stability of Jordan by allowing the Jordanian Armed Forces to better respond to threats along the border, according to the Department of National Defence.”

First of all, this money shouldn’t be leaving our country. Jordan’s roads should be fixed by Jordan, and our taxpayer dollars should be used to fix our own country.

But it gets even worse.

The Trudeau government doesn’t know how much the road will cost.

“How much will this cost Canadian taxpayers? Who knows? DND says it doesn’t. “We are in the process of completing a detailed review of the road project, but have indicated our intent to the Jordanian Armed Forces to financially support their efforts to build and rehabilitate the road,” the DND noted in a statement. “We will announce the details of our contribution once the review is complete.”‘

So, the government committed to spending OUR tax dollars on a project in a foreign country, without even knowing how much we would be spending.

That about sums up the contempt the Trudeau government has for Canadian taxpayers, as they clearly feel entitled to use our money however they see fit.

It’s disgraceful, and it’s a total waste.

We need to stop giving our money to other countries, and use it to help Canadians in need, especially our seniors, Veterans, and those living in third-world conditions on many reserves.

Unfortunately, Trudeau would rather win global praise for building roads overseas than serve our own citizens.

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VILE!!!!   TRUDEAU IS A UTTER ASSHOLE!!!

WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY: Trudeau Government Still Planning Deeper Ties With Iran’s Islamist Dictatorship

 

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The Trudeau government shows that their rhetoric about human rights and human dignity is empty as they continue seeking deeper ties with Iran’s brutal dictatorship, even as the Iranian people fight for freedom.

The Trudeau government is putting themselves firmly on the wrong side of history by refusing to rethink their terrible move to deepen Canada’s ties to Iran’s theocratic Islamic dictatorship.

As noted by the CP, “A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland indicated Tuesday that Canada is not contemplating ending talks with Iran, despite being “deeply troubled” by the deaths of at least 21 protesters and the arrests of hundreds more. “Canada will continue to engage with Iran on terms that we set, as it remains an effective tool to hold Iran to account, promote human rights and advance our consular interests,” Adam Austen said in a statement.”

Of course, we know that the Trudeau government isn’t doing anything to hold Iran accountable.

Instead, the government is seeking to “restore” diplomatic relations with the regime, even though restoring relations sends a message that the Trudeau government accepts the legitimacy of the Iranian regime, which is the worst possible message to send at this point.
The Iranian people are fighting for freedom against a ruthless Islamic theocracy that hijacked their revolution, and replaced a secular dictatorship with an Islamist dictatorship.
As Iranians struggle under a brutal and repressive regime, the regime sends billions to terrorist groups around the world, while poverty and economic strife plagues the country.

Considering that the way the Iranian government treats their own people goes against everything we believe as Canadians, the fact that the Trudeau government is still planning to restore diplomatic ties is an insult to the values of our country.
It’s also an insult to the Iranian people fighting for basic freedom and human dignity.
By refusing to stand with the Iranian people and showing pathetic weakness towards an undeserving regime, the Trudeau government has put themselves on the wrong side of history.
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In this mailing: Khadija Khan: Heroic Women Fighting for Freedom Jagdish N. Singh: An Indian Embassy in Jerusalem, Please Lawrence A. Franklin: What to Make of Latest Protests in Iran? Heroic Women Fighting for Freedom by Khadija Khan  •  January 2, 2018 at 5:00 am Iranian women, like many others, are sick and tired of living in layers upon layers of imprisonment. Iran's leaders have promised to soften their misogynistic laws by not imprisoning women who appear in public without their veils on. Instead, the "offenders" would have to attend special "morality classes" by the sharia police. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) Take note, those of you who want to see real women freedom-fighters. Look into the streets of Iran or listen to the chess champion Anna Muzychuk. Iranian women, by risking their lives, have unmasked the faces of those trying to promote burqas and hijabs as supposed "symbols of liberation". The desperate attempt of Iranian people pouring out onto the streets against the Islamist regime exposes the bitter life that Iran's citizens, especially women, have been forced to live for nearly forty years in the name of Islamic law, (sharia). These demonstrations have also shown the ugly face of Islamists who take their own people hostage to quench their thirst for power -- by repression, jail, torture, executions -- any way they can. Iranian women, like many others, are sick and tired of living in layers upon layers of imprisonment. Continue Reading Article An Indian Embassy in Jerusalem, Please by Jagdish N. Singh  •  January 2, 2018 at 4:30 am New Delhi should now appreciate this American logic and refrain from opposing the current US administration's decision on relocating its own embassy wherever it likes. New Delhi would have done better to vote against the resolution and support Washington on the capital transfer also to improve its ties with its two important natural democratic allies -- the United States and Israel. In the post-Cold War landscape, relations between Washington and New Delhi have attained new heights. India today needs American support for defence platforms and membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. US President Donald Trump has already described India as a leading global power and expressed his readiness to support it in reaching this status. Pictured: Officials and staff celebrate India's 70th Independence Day on the grounds of the Indian Embassy in Tel Aviv, on August 15, 2016. (Image source: Indian Embassy in Tel Aviv) India's vote in favour of the recent UN General Assembly resolution critical of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and shift its embassy to the holy city is most unfortunate. The resolution, adopted with 128 in favour to nine against, with 35 abstentions, expressed "deep regret" over this decision and stressed that Jerusalem "is a final status issue to be resolved through negotiations in line with relevant U.N. resolutions." Continue Reading Article What to Make of Latest Protests in Iran? by Lawrence A. Franklin  •  January 2, 2018 at 4:00 am Security forces, such as agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), are photographing the protests, enabling police later to arrest leaders of the protests, violence-prone demonstrators, and those holding aloft political and anti-regime placards. The regime will, of course, try to weather this latest round of protests while arresting leading agitators, to be followed by torture, "recanting" show-trials, and executions. Anti-regime protestors in Kermanshah, Iran, on December 29, 2017. (Image source: VOA News/Wikimedia Commons) For the past several days, Iranians have demonstrated against a government that has not delivered on promised economic improvement and against a regime whose ruling clerical class they despise. The public's animosity against the existing order, as past protests indicate, is no surprise. Particular aspects of this latest series of demonstrations, however, invite a critical eye by Iran-watchers. The current protests began, not as usual, in the Iran's capital, Tehran. The protests began in Mashhad, center of the wealthiest and most powerful religious foundation in the country. At first, the crowds were demonstrating for the long-promised but undelivered economic benefits that were supposed to follow the roll-back of internationally-applied sanctions against Iran, after the Obama administration delivered more than $150 billion to the Islamic Republic. Continue Reading Article