The Big Reveal: The Story of How 470,000 Documents from Osama Bin Laden's Compound Finally Got Into the Open

THE MAGAZINE: From the November 13 Issue

The CIA has finally released 470,000 files recovered from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. Here's why it took so long.

Stephen F. Hayes

The Weekly Standard, November 7, 2017 - On the penultimate day of the Obama administration, less than 24 hours before the president would vacate the White House, Director of National Intelligence 

Iran and How to Defeat The IRGC

By Hamid Bahrami

News Blaze, November 8, 2017 - Following the U.S. new policy towards Iran’s regime, people are emboldened to rise up against the theocratic regime in Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The oppressed people of Iran whose life savings and pensions are being plundered by the regime have received the indirect but

Terror Airlines? Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps runs country's largest airline, report says

Fox News, November 9, 2017 - A new report released by an Iranian opposition group claims that Iran’s biggest airline — Mahan Air — is run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Qods Force. This force is commanded by notorious Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.

Why Saad Hariri faced threat from both Iran and Hezbollah

Al Arabiya, 10 November 2017 - While considering the manner in which Saad Hariri had to resign as Lebanon’s prime minister, it has to be realized that Hezbollah controls around 25 percent of that country’s territory and that its militia has grown more powerful than the

Iran: Plundered women and children beaten up

Plundered men and women gathered for the second day outside the Ministry of Agricultural Crusade (Jihad) in Tehran on Wednesday, November 8, 2017. They have been looted by Vali Asr Financial Institute and protested the government’s support for the crooked institute.

Iran: State media confess to rape of girl child laborers

“We are going to prove that 90 per cent of child laborers get raped.”

This was said by the executive director of the Organization of Social Services in Tehran’s Municipality following a research was done on 400 child laborers.

The state-run Salamatnews.com published a report run by the official Iran newspaper which included some painful examples of sexual assault on deprived girl children and child laborers. The same story was also reported by the

Iran: Two young women, deprived of education, face jail sentences

Three young Baha’is, including two women, were sentenced each to five years of prison for following up on their cases of being deprived of higher education.

Rouhieh Safajoo, Tara Houshmand, 21 and Sarmad Shadabi, 22, were denied higher education after passing the admission tests. They were arrested in March 2016 for legally following up their cases and publishing their issue in the social media. The three were released on bail a month later in April 2016.

After repeated summoning and trials they were tried on September 26, 2017, and a few days ago in November 2017, were informed that they had been given 5-year sentences each for “acting against national security by adhering to the Baha’I faith

How Iran Is Losing Europe

As the United States adopts new strategy vis-à-vis Iran, senior officials in Tehran are desperately seeking a new life-rope. With Obama and his appeasement gone, Iran is also sensing how Europe is distancing.

Tehran is also witnessing how developments

AI Slams Iran For Humiliating Two Prisoners Of Conscience November 07, 2017

Amnesty International, AI, has slammed the Islamic Republic for shackling and handcuffing two prisoners of conscience who are bedbound in a hospital.
It is regrettable, AI notes, that Iranian officials instead of immediately releasing Mahmoud Salehi and Mohammad Nazari have humiliated them.

Iran: Three young Baha’is were deprived of education, face prison terms

Three young Baha’is, were sentenced each to five years behind bars for following up on their cases of being deprived of higher education.
Rouhieh Safajoo, Tara Houshmand, 21 and Sarmad Shadabi, 22, were denied higher education after passing the admission tests. They were arrested in March 2016 for legally following up their cases and publishing their issue in the social media. The three were released on bail a month later in April 2016.
After repeated summoning and trials they were tried on September 26, 2017, and a few days ago in November 2017, were informed that they had been given 5-year sentences each for “acting against national security by adhering to the Baha’I faith.

Egypt’s Sisi: “Gulf security is a red line”

Al Arabiya, 9 November 2017 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stressed his country’s support to the Gulf states and rejects any threat to them.

During a press meet with a number of Egyptian and foreign media on the sidelines of the World Youth Forum on Wednesday Sisi said that he rejects Iranian interference in the affairs of the region.

Iran: Increasing anger and hatred from Iran regime and Khamenei by people looted by credit institutions

Following the spread of protests of people plundered by government institutions and their increasing anger and hatred from the clerical regime and Khamenei, the Supreme Security Council ordered state radio and television not to publish the news of protests and rallies of the plundered people. 'The Supreme National Security Council passed a bill that prevented radio and television from broadcasting depositors' voices through the national media ... after failing to broadcast  my interviews  on this issue 

Trump warns ‘rogue regime’ N.Korea of grave danger

Beijing, Reuters, November 8,  2017 - US President Donald Trump arrived in China on Wednesday seeking help to rein in North Korea after warning the North’s leader that the nuclear weapons he is developing “are not making you safer, they are putting your regime in grave

Iran Regime Uses Fake News to Smear MEK

Iran Focus

London, 2 Nov - The Iranian Regime is now using fake news to discredit a female activist and the popular people’s resistance as a whole in order to pit the people against each other and divide an activist family.

Mere days after Donald Trump delivered his speech on the Iran deal and the oppression faced by the Iranian people, the Regime’s press published a false story about lifelong activist, Somayeh Mohammadi, defecting from the People’s 

Iran: 21 women get divorce per hour

“21 divorces are registered per hour.”

This is the latest statistics provided by the officials of the Iranian Welfare Organization. In other words, 439 couples get separated every day.

According to a report by state-controlled Salamat News, 174,000 divorces were registered between March 2016 and March 2017 which shows a 6% rise compared to the previous year. 60% of marriages ended by divorce before 5 years with 13% of them lasting no longer than a year.

19,444 young women who got divorced in 2015 were below 20.

Sixty percent of divorce cases are filed by women. (The state-run Salamat news website – November 6, 2017)

Iran: Injured women footballer left beside the field

Zeinab Karimi, a footballer of the Kheibar women’s team of Khorramabad (capital of Lorestan Province in western Iran), experienced an inhuman treatment after being injured in the field.

In an interview about her injury during the third week of women’s Football League, she said, “I was injured in the 20th minute of the game. I remained suffering from 

Women’s participation in protests shows three-fold rise in a month Humiliating psychological punishments to crush women’s dignity

Women’s participation in October protests

Women’s active participation in all the protests in the month of October, and their leading role at the forefront of the demonstrations underlined women’s impact on the anti-government 

Sahar Gholamali: Our movement is summed up in the word of hope!

With her penetrating gaze, she looks around. After hearing the questions, she reflects for a moment and begins replying with a sweet smile. The passage of time and life’s adversities have not affected her cheerfulness nor her expressive words, perhaps because she made her decision years ago and pledged to fight as long as it may take.

Iran: Woman commits suicide with her toddler

A mother hugged her toddler and jumped off a building in Shahr-e Kord, capital of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province in south-central Iran. ‌Both died instantly.

The incident happened on Thursday, November 2, 2017, after the 43-year-old woman walked up a half-built building on Bahonar Street of Shahr-e Kord and threw herself and her 14-month-old child off the building. She committed suicide reportedly in protest to poverty and hunger.

Iran: Kurdish woman under torture to make TV confessions

An Iranian Kurdish woman is under torture and inhuman pressures to make false televised confessions.

Chini Akharkhoob, from Saqqez, a city in Iranian Kurdistan Province, who was arrested by intelligence agents on September 26, 2017, is still in prison after 40 days. The Department of Intelligence has told Ms. Akharkhoob that they would release her only after she speaks out against Kurdish opposition parties before the camera.

UNSR Asma Jahangir expressed ‘deep concern’ over women’s rights in Iran

“The current human rights situation in Iran… is deeply concerning in many respects” is how the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ms. Asma Jahangir, described her assessment in the first six months of 2017. She said “much remains to be done to realize” women’s rights as outlined in the 5thSustainable Development Goal.

What Team Obama didn’t want you to know about the al Qaeda-Iran alliance

New York Post, November 2, 2017 - CIA Director Mike Pompeo has just released hundreds of thousands of documents,  long withheld by the Obama administration, that were seized in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

There are no surprise revelations — but they more fully document the years-long extensive cooperation between al Qaeda and Iran that was still ongoing when bin Laden met

ANALYSIS: Why Obama’s mistakes in the Middle East should never be repeated

By Tony Duheaume

Al Arabiya, 2 November 2017 - For decades, the US took military action against states it deemed were a threat to it; but it has refrained from taking any military action against Iran – even though the latter’s radical leadership has actively supported terrorist activities against the US and its allies.

Using proxy forces, the Iranian regime has exported terror since

Saudi minister says he has ‘confirmed information’ on plot to kill Hariri

Al Arabiya, 5 November 2017 - Saudi Arabia’s Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer al-Sabhan said the personal security detail of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who resigned on Saturday, had “confirmed information” of a plot to kill him.
Speaking in an interview on Future, an Arabic

Missile from Yemen intercepted near Riyadh airport

AFP, November 5, 2017 - Saudi Arabia on Saturday intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile near Riyadh's international airport after it was launched from conflict-torn Yemen, in an escalation of the kingdom's war against Iran-backed Huthi rebels.
The missile attack was the first aimed by

At least 75 dead in IS attack in Syria's Deir Ezzor: new toll

AFP, November 5, 2017 - At least 75 civilians were killed in an Islamic State group car bombing that struck a gathering of people displaced by fighting in eastern Syria, a monitor said Sunday.
Saturday's attack in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor

INTV's Pledges Drive for Finances Begins, as Iran Cracks Down on Media

It is risky to be a journalist who works for a dissenting news outlet in Iran. Reportedly, arrests and imprisonment of free minded journalists has been escalating in recent years.

In fact, the Iranian regime is known to attack not only the reporters and broadcasters of independent and foreign information, but the recipients, as well. It is illegal to own satellite receiver equipment in Iran, but millions of Iranians use satellite equipment to tune into banned television networks. Equipment that has been confiscated by regime authorities

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN AND NCRI

 By INU Staff

INU - After many years of the US attempting to appease the Iranian regime, American commitment to economic sanctions has been effectively reestablished, and even expanded, with President Trump’s announcement on October 13 that his administration would be targeting the entirety of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps for its support of global terrorism and its crimes against

THE IRANIAN PEOPLE ARE WHAT IRAN REGIME FEARS MOST

By INU Staff

INU - The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Washington, DC last June, revealed details concerning the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) regarding both the testing and launching ballistic missiles. Evidence like this shows Iran’s

Donald Trump blames Iran after Saudi Arabia intercepts ballistic missile fired at capital by Yemen rebels

Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired over capital Riyadh by rebels from Yemen, an attack Donald Trumpimmediately blamed on Iran.

The missile was brought down near