He was kidnapped and tortured, his multi-million-dollar business was destroyed, and his family threatened. Now, as a Canadian citizen, Houshang Bouzari is going after the government of Iran through the civil court system BY LARRY KROTZ - JAN. 6, 2020 ONE AFTERNOON this past February Houshang Bouzari was trolling the Internet, as he often does, in search of news from his country of birth, Iran. Suddenly he came upon something that stopped him cold. “I couldn’t believe what I was…

By David Wallace-Wells - DEC. 7, 2020 You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna…

By: MAHDI GHODSI & ALI FATHOLLAH-NEJAD – 30 November 2020 Iran’s economic crisis remains heavily connected to its enmity with the United States. The best tool for economic diversification and sustainable development is an end to the four decades of animosity between Tehran and Washington. The Covid-19 pandemic has deteriorated Iran’s already ailing economy, yet the country’s economic crisis is rooted in factors beyond the pandemic’s fallout. Since the United States’ 2018 withdrawal from the Join Comprehensive Plan of Action…

Central bank chief says US trying to prevent efforts to purchase vaccine through the WHO’s COVAX programme. By: Maziar Motamedi - 7 Dec 2020 Tehran, Iran – The United States is actively trying to prevent Iran’s efforts to buy a COVID-19 vaccine through COVAX, a global initiative undertaken by the World Health Organization, according to the chief of Iran’s central bank. Abdolnasser Hemmati on Monday said it must be “recorded in historical memory” that Iranian efforts to buy a vaccine…

Defying US sanctions, Iran sends flotilla of about 10 vessels to help the Latin American nation fight a crippling fuel shortage. By: Fabiola Zerpa, Ben Bartenstein and Peter Millard - 6 Dec 2020 Iran is sending its biggest fleet yet of tankers to Venezuela in defiance of U.S. sanctions to help the isolated nation weather a crippling fuel shortage, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some of the flotillas of about 10 Iranian vessels will also help export…

Trump remains quiet on suspected Israeli assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh By Caitlin McFall | Fox News Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan condemned the killing of an Iranian scientist believed to be linked to Tehran’s nuclear program Friday, calling it “criminal” and “highly reckless.” Details on the attack remain slim, but local outlets have reported that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed after a truck full of explosives concealed, by a pile of wood pulled alongside the scientist’s sedan…

Dear friends of BPUR International We are delighted to have held the first meeting with a member of Italian Government, Undersecretary of State Ivan Scalfarotto Deputy Minister at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, who was very supportive to BPUR International. image.png The meeting was very constructive and it comes as part of our advanced efforts to get the Italian Government to adopt our proposed ‘International Treaty to Ban the Political Use of Religion’. We are very…

By: Ranj Alaaldin – 1st December 2020 The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, the architect behind Iran’s nuclear program, has raised the spectre of a major conflict in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in January. Iran is under unprecedented pressure at home (facing economic reverberations of the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign) and in the region (as Tehran struggles to protect its influence in key countries like Iraq and Syria). It has suffered a wave of airstrikes recently, including…