Iran news in brief, July 29, 2019 Thousands March for a Free Iran in London
Some 3000 Iranians demonstrated on Saturday on the streets of central London demanding comprehensive sanctions against the mullahs’ regime.
Demonstrators urged the listing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Ministry of Intelligence and the Office of the supreme leader as terrorist entities by the UK, while supporting the Iranian resistance and its president-elect, Maryam Rajavi, and her 10-point plan for the future of Iran.
In addition to Iranian opposition figures, British and European dignitaries addressed the crowd.
British MP Dr. Matthew Offord said: “Today our response should be firm, held on the principle that the Revolutionary Guards and the regime of Iran should be held to account to their atrocities. These organizations should be proscribed in their entirety under the terrorism act”.
“We should say we want to see regime change in Iran, led by Madam Rajavi, to achieve a better Iran and a better world order,” the British lawmaker added.
Iran Official Blatantly Defends 1988 Mass Execution of Political Prisoners
A former Iranian Justice Minister blatantly defended the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988. When asked by the state-run Mosalas television about the 1988 mass executions, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who was pivotal in the executions in Tehran, said that the regime was “at war” and no one should expect it to follow “legal procedures and consider citizen’s rights and human rights” at a time of war.
He called the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, whose supporters and members were the main victims of the mass executions, “the worst kind of enemy” to the regime.
“They have destructed our image in the whole world. In the past 40 years, nothing has happened against us that the Mojahedin did not play a direct role in”, the former Minister of Justice said.
In 1988, the regime executed more than 30,000 political prisoners after show trials that lasted only a few minutes.
Despite this, Pourmohammadi said that the regime had still not “settled the score” with the People’s Mojahedin or MEK.
The former Minister of Interior said that all the members of the MEK had to be “sentenced to capital punishment”.
Pourmohammadi also expressed regret over not killing prisoners who said that they were not with the MEK out of fear of being executed.
“Whoever is with the enemy, is with the enemy”, he said adding that now was not the time to speak about these things.
“It’s time for settling scores”, he reiterated.
Iran’s Regime Announces Plans to Restart Activities at Arak Nuclear Reactor
Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Iranian Regime’s Atomic Energy Organization, says Tehran is planning to restart activities at the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor -- a move that is not permitted under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran’s ISNA news agency quoted Salehi as making the remarks in a meeting with lawmakers in Tehran on July 28.
Heavy water can be employed in reactors to produce plutonium, a fuel used in nuclear weapons.
According to Iranian state TV, Salehi also said that the country has enriched a total of 24,000 kilograms of uranium since 2015 – far beyond the 300-kilogram stockpile limit of the nuclear deal.
China’s Iran Oil Imports Plunge as US Sanctions Bite
China’s crude oil imports from Iran sank almost 60% in June from a year earlier, Chinese customs data showed on Saturday, following the end of a waiver on US sanctions at the start of May.
Crude shipment from Iran were 855,638 tons last month, or 208,205 barrels per day, data from the General Administration of Customs showed.
Iran Regime Hangs Juvenile Offender in Prison
The Iranian regime hanged a juvenile offender at dawn on Sunday in a prison in the northern province of Mazandaran.
According to a human rights group, the 22-year-old man identified as Touraj Qasemi had been detained for the past six years in Nour Prison.
The report said that at the age of 16, Touraj killed a 19-year-old man during a fight.
State-run news agencies also covered the execution though they changed the date of the incident and Touraj’s age in an attempt to hide the execution of a juvenile offender.
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