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\u201cNearly seven months after Iran\u2019s security forces killed several hundred protesters in November 2019, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said implicitly for the first time on Saturday May 30 that the number of those killed was around 200.\u00a0 While Iran has been hiding the actual number of those killed in the violent crackdown that followed the nationwide protests in November, independent news agencies and human rights watchers put the number at up to 1,500.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran Minister Downplays November Protest Death Toll In First Official Acknowledgement,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, May 31, 2020.<\/p>\n

And we have another new official, the speaker of Parliament, who makes a similar disturbing statement.\u00a0 \u201cIran’s new parliament speaker says talks with US ‘futile’,\u201d<\/a> AFP, May 31, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0Notably, Speaker Ghalibaf also \u201cvowed revenge for the US drone attack in January that killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Guards’ foreign operations arm. “Our strategy in confronting the terrorist America is to finish the revenge for martyr Soleimani’s blood,” he told lawmakers in a televised address. \u2026 This, he said, would entail “the total expulsion of America’s terrorist army from the region”.\u201d\u00a0 This is despite Iran\u2019s earlier official statements that using ballistic missiles against American bases in Iraq was sufficient retaliation.<\/p>\n

Many persons, including Iranians, follow and cheer for football\/soccer.\u00a0 Iran\u2019s government has lied to its citizens, though, regarding its communications with FIFA for years, and has put the country\u2019s membership in jeopardy.\u00a0 \u201cFIFA Threatens Iran With Suspension From World Football,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, May 31, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0Here is the full story.\u00a0 \u201cFIFA, the international governing body of football (soccer), has set a short deadline for the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) to either amend its statues or face global suspension.\u00a0\u00a0In a letter received on May 29, FIFA has objected to FFIRI’s recently drafted statues, demanding its amendment according to FIFA’s rules. FFIRI has until June 5 to comply or face an international suspension, the state-run Mehr News Agency reported on May 30. FFIRI submitted its updated draft statues to FIFA in mid-May. FIFA had previously banned FFIRI from holding its elections due to concerns over potential government interference in its affairs. Earlier, in April, an official in charge of running Iran’s Football (soccer) Federation for almost a decade had stepped forward, openly admitting that the association had frequently lied to the world governing body about its independence from the government. Speaking on a local radio show in Tehran, Iran\u2019s former football chief Ali Kafashian declared that despite FIFA’s regulations, the Iranian soccer association has always been under the government’s direct control. FIFA rules decree that a national football federation should remain autonomous and independent from the national government. Mehr\u2019s report does not mention FIFA’s objections in detail but says the letter refers to eighty cases that should be addressed, including reducing the role of the Islamic Republic’s sports minister in deciding FFIRI internal affairs. Moreover, one of the main objections that FIFA has made to FFIRI\u2019s amended statutes is that the federation’s independence is not mentioned in the draft. The statutes should explicitly state that no external organization -in this case, the government – has the right to interfere in the football affairs, FIFA has asserted in the letter. “We deem that a failure to comply with this directive would result in the matter being brought to the attention of the relevant FIFA bodies for further action,” the letter reads.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Friday, May 22, the State Department “Fact Sheet” maintained that the Shi’ite clergy-dominated Iran, since its establishment four decades ago, has carried out more than 360 assassinations, terrorist plots, and terrorist attacks in more than forty countries across the globe.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cSpecial Representative Hook Calls Iran’s Regime ‘Marxist Theocracy’,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, May 31, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Arrests Two In Death Of Woman Resisting Demolition Of Her House,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, May 31, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong With Iran\u2019s Fake Aircraft Carrier,\u201d<\/a> H.I. Sutton, Naval News, May 31, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoronavirus pandemic rises freight rate between Iran, Qatar by 3 folds,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, May 31, 2020.<\/p>\n

Just a voice, not a government like Russia, but supporting the Regime, which encourages Iran to not move toward normalcy.\u00a0 \u201cIranian people are victims of Trump\u2019s decisions: Colorado University professor,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, May 31, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran ‘likely’ to give Ukrainian airplane black box to France \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> Aaron Reich, Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cTop Iran body denies negligence in teenage girl\u2019s killing,\u201d<\/a> AFP, May 31, 2020.\u00a0 Below are some quotes.\u00a0\u00a0Iran\u2019s Guardian Council denied Saturday that the killing of a teenage girl by her father was the result of \u201cnegligence\u201d due to a delay in its approval of a new law to protect children and teenagers.\u00a0 According to Iranian media, Romina Ashrafi was killed in her sleep on May 21 by her father, who decapitated her in the family home in Talesh in northern Gilan province.\u00a0 The reports said she ran away after her father refused her permission to marry a man 15 years older, but was detained and taken home. The legal age to marry in Iran is 13 for women. Kadkhodaee said the council had indicated to parliament that it had some \u201cobjections\u201d concerning the text of the bill and that lawmakers could have met in an emergency session to further discuss the draft law. But he added: \u201cOne law alone cannot resolve such problems (apparent \u2018honour\u2019 crimes) which have a cultural, social and even economic dimension.\u201d\u00a0 Iranian media reported that after authorities detained the teenager, she told a judge she feared for her life if she was sent home.\u00a0 But what most outraged public opinion was that the girl\u2019s father was likely to face a lenient punishment of just three to 10 years in prison, which could be further reduced, according to the Ebtekar newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNearly seven months after Iran\u2019s security forces killed several hundred protesters in November 2019, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said implicitly for the first time on Saturday May 30 that the number of those killed was around 200.\u00a0 While Iran has been hiding the actual number of those killed in the violent crackdown that followed … <\/p>\n

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