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The Clash of Civilizations continues.\u00a0 This partly explains Iran\u2019s actions.\u00a0 \u201cChina says it will safeguard Iran nuclear deal, defend Sino-Iran ties,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, Reuters, March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n

Under direct orders of the Leader, and explicitly to not be open.\u00a0 \u201cIRGC forms group to monitor internet in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Al Monitor, March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n

Carefully selected and planned, with a small missile resulting in light damage.\u00a0 Iran is sending a message.\u00a0 \u201cIran missile hits India-bound Israeli ship in Arabian Sea, says report,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, The Hindu, March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n

This article is not for the squeamish.\u00a0 \u201cIranian dissidents accused the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s National Olympic Committee chairman, Seyed Reza Salehi, of killing Kurdish and Azerbaijani political prisoners via torture while he served as an intelligence officer. \u201cIs the Olympics aware that there are horrific reports about Seyed Reza Salehi, the president of the NOC of Iran? During his time as senior director at the ministry of intelligence, he went by the name of Seyed Reza Fallah and was involved in the torture and murder of prisoners,\u201d tweeted Sardar Pashaei, the former head coach of Iran\u2019s Greco-Roman team and a world gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, last week. Pashaei added that \u201cWe, the Iranian athletes, call on the Olympics to ban the entry of the President of the Iranian NOC from attending the Tokyo 2020 because of his security record in the Ministry of Intelligence. He has arrested and tortured many opponents of the Iranian regime.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026 In a 2018 Persian language article by Pedram Ghaemi on the website of IranWire, he reported on a Voice of America TV broadcast in which an Iranian regime historian named Abdollah Shahbazi told someone close to the administration of then-president Mohammad Khatami that Ebad (Ali Rabei) told him about the suffocation of Azerbaijanis in coffins. Ali Rabei, who used the name Ebad while an intelligence official, worked with Salehi. According to the US government outlet VOA report, Rabei and Salehi placed Azerbaijanis in coffins and nailed the coffins shut and sent them from Astara, Azerbaijan to Tehran. When the Azerbaijanis arrived in Tehran, they had suffocated to death. The VOA broadcast also reports on Salehi\u2019s presence in Kurdistan and Azerbaijan as a reconnaissance force officer in 1980\u2019s.\u201d\u00a0 Thus, \u201cWe, the Iranian athletes, call on the Olympics to ban the entry of the president of the Iranian NOC from attending the Tokyo 2020.\u201d\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cHead of Iran\u2019s Olympics implicated in murder of prisoners via torture,\u201d<\/a> Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina says it will safeguard Iran nuclear deal, defend Sino-Iran ties,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, Reuters, March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n

Whomever provides opposition is wrong.\u00a0 \u201cIran Denounces Human Rights Council\u2019s \u2018Illegitimate\u2019 Resolution,\u201d<\/a> IFP, March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterrogations in Iran\u2019s Judicial Systems: Law vs. Reality,\u201d<\/a> Center for Human Rights in Iran, March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrussels universities call for government action over lecturer jailed in Iran,\u201d<\/a> The Brussels Times, March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Clash of Civilizations continues.\u00a0 This partly explains Iran\u2019s actions.\u00a0 \u201cChina says it will safeguard Iran nuclear deal, defend Sino-Iran ties,\u201d Jerusalem Post, Reuters, March 25, 2021. Under direct orders of the Leader, and explicitly to not be open.\u00a0 \u201cIRGC forms group to monitor internet in Iran,\u201d Al Monitor, March 25, 2021. Carefully selected and … <\/p>\n

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