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Iran News in Brief – December 14, 2022

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UPDATE: 10:30 PM CET

UK Security Minister Warns of Iran’s Regime Security Threats

On December 13, Tom Tugendhat, the UK Security Minister delivered a speech at the Policy Exchange and addressed security threats that have been posed by the regime in Tehran.

“Iran’s malign behaviour in the Middle East directly threatens our partners and our interests, they are brutally suppressing courageous people in the streets who are calling for an end to the control of a corrupt and corrupted religious and security elite claiming authority from God,” Mr. Tugendhat said.

He added: “As the head of MI5 put it recently, the Iranian regime is projecting its campaign to silence dissent directly to the UK, with at least ten such threats since January, as he said. Now, as recently as last month, I – along with other MPs – were sadly given security guidance because of the Iranian threat. Since Ken McCallum’s speech just a few weeks ago, we have seen even more out of Iran. This is not and has not yet been finished.”

UPDATE: 8:30 PM CET

Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 90

Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran

Monday, December 14, 2022 – 8 PM GMT+1

Iran’s nationwide uprising marked its 90th day on Wednesday following a day of protests in various parts of the country as the public responds with outrage to the recent executions of two arrested protesters, Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, in less than a week.

Locals in several parts of the capital Tehran, Mashhad being the hometown of Majidreza Rahnavard, and other cities were seen in the streets protesting the mullahs’ rule and these two barbaric executions, both under the mullah-fabricated charges of “Moharebeh,” or “waging war against God.”

In Tehran, the people gathered to mark the seventh day of Mohsen Shekari’s execution by the mullahs’ regime began chanting anti-regime slogans. They laid flowers at his grave.

Early Wednesday morning local time, protesters in Firuzabad near Shiraz, a major city in south-central Iran, set ablaze a base of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij units. The Basij are utterly loathed in Iran as they are usually the first units deployed to quell popular protests across the country.

In similar measures, protesters torched a pro-regime propaganda poster in the city of Ramsar in northern Iran, attacked the local governor’s office in Shandiz in northern Iran using Molotov cocktails, and attacked a branch of the regime’s so-called Islamic Development Organization in Izeh in southwest Iran.

Late last night, protesters in Tehran’s Chitgar district staged a rally, chanting: “This is the last message: The entire regime is the target!”

UPDATE: 11:00 AM CET

British MPs call on UK Government for More Decisive Actions Against Iranian Regime

On Tuesday, December 13, at a parliamentary debate in the United Kingdom’s House of Commons, MPs and the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs James Cleverly discussed the brutal crackdown on protesters in Iran, sanctions against the regime’s Revolutionary Guards and Tehran’s malign influence on the war in Ukraine.

Labor MP Anna McMorrin said: “Iranians are being hanged from cranes with black bags over their heads and their hands and feet bound while Iranian weapons are being used to perpetrate Putin’s illegal war murdering Ukrainians. Will the Secretary of State join me in condemning those human rights violations and tell me exactly what sanctions he will bring forward against Raisi’s abhorrent regime?”

Labor MP John Spellar also stated: “The Minister has rightly identified that the clerical fascist regime in Tehran is increasingly using violence and terror in trying to crush the popular protests there, while also destabilising the region through proxies, as well as further afield. He knows that a vital underpinning of this dreadful regime’s activities is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He mentioned working with other parties; he knows that the United States has already taken action to proscribe the IRGC. Will that finally persuade him to sanction the IRGC?”

Mr. James Cleverly stated: “These protests in Iran are a watershed moment. After years of repression, the Iranian people have clearly had enough. They are standing up to the authoritarian regime under which they live. Sadly, the regime has responded in the only way it knows: with violence. The UK is committed to holding Iran to account, including with more than 300 sanctions—including the sanctioning of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in its entirety. We will continue to work with partners to challenge the regime’s aggression at home and its disruptive behaviour in the region.”

“I personally and the UK Government have regularly condemned the abuses in Iran. Of course, I recognise that that tone is reflected right across the House. We have sanctioned the morality police; we have sanctioned the Iranian judges whom we know to be involved in those secret trials. We will continue to work with our international partners, and directly, to sanction the members of the Iranian regime who continue to abuse the human rights of the people within that country.”

New Zealand Govt Sanctions Iran over Weapons Technology Supply to Russia

The Government has announced new sanctions against Iran over supplying weapons technology to Russia amid its deadly war on Ukraine.

The sanctions are also part of a broader response to Iran’s human rights violations amid a violent crackdown on protests there, including travel bans and actions through multilateral forums like the United Nations.

Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta said the sanctions were being imposed on Iran for its supply of weapons technology to Russia causing death and injury to Ukrainian civilians.

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Iran’s Currency Has Dived 18% Since Anti-Government Protests Started

Iran’s currency weakened to a record low on the unregulated market as investors scrambled to buy dollars after more sanctions were imposed on the country because of its support for Russia and a deadly crackdown on protests.

The rial slumped to an average of 384,000 to the US dollar on Tuesday, the highest level ever recorded, according to two traders in Tehran and a local website that monitors foreign currency rates.

On Monday, the European Union announced fresh penalties against Iran for its military drone deliveries to Russia and its violent suppression of months-long protests. The UK also imposed more sanctions on Tuesday because of Tehran’s backing of Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

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Iran Pushes Global List of Imprisoned Journalists to Record High

Paris (AFP) – Iran’s protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday.

The figure is up from 488 in 2021, already a record, according to the France-based NGO.

More than half are detained in just five countries: China, which remains “the world’s biggest jailer of journalists” with 110, followed by Myanmar (62), Iran (47), Vietnam (39) and Belarus (31).

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Iran’s People Vow Continued Uprising Following Two Executions of Protesters

Iran’s uprising, about to enter its fourth month, is gearing into a new phase as regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the entire mullahs’ apparatus are resorting to the brutality of executing people who have taken to the streets to practice their God-given right of freedom of assembly. In less than a week the regime’s so-called judiciary has carried out the executions of Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, both under the mullah-fabricated charges of “Moharebeh,” or “waging war against God.”

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Kurdish Women Bita Veisi, Marjan Davoudi Abducted and Arrested

State forces kidnapped Bita Veisi, a physical education student, during the protests on December 10 at the Girls’ Technical College of Sanandaj.

Bita Veisi, 20 years old and a native of Paveh, was kidnapped in front of the Girls’ Technical College of Sanandaj located in Keshavarz township. No information is available on her whereabouts and conditions.

In addition to Bita Veisi, security forces raided the residence of Marjan Davoudi in Tehran on Sunday, December 11, violently arresting her.

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Demonstrations by the Iranian Resistance Supporters, Condemning the Criminal Execution of the Young Protester, Majidreza Rahnavard—Part 3 – December 12, 2022

December 12, 2022: Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held protest demonstrations against the criminal execution of the young protester, Majidreza Rahnavard, in Vienna—Austria, Gothenburg—Sweden, and Heidelberg—Germany.

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Demonstrations by the Iranian Resistance Supporters, Condemning the Criminal Execution of the Young Protester, Majidreza Rahnavard—Part 2 – December 12, 2022

December 12, 2022: Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held protest demonstrations against the criminal execution of the young protester, Majidreza Rahnavard, in Aarhus, Bochum, Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne, Copenhagen, Geneva, Munich, and Frankfurt.

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Demonstrations by the Iranian Resistance Supporters, Condemning the Criminal Execution of the Young Protester, Majidreza Rahnavard—Part 1 – December 12, 2022

December 12, 2022: Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held protest demonstrations against the criminal execution of the young protester, Majidreza Rahnavard, in Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, The Hague, and London.

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Also, read Iran News in Brief – December 13, 2022

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