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Sanctioning the Terrible Twosome

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BY HESHMAT ALAVI SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 Deep military and nuclear cooperation between North Korea and  Iran  makes sanctions on both regimes all the more essential he world currently faces two atomic crises in  Iran and North Korea , despite long strides in the effort of nuclear non-proliferation. Deep military and nuclear  cooperation  between the two states makes dealing with these challenges even more difficult. One may have thought lessons would have been learnt from the devastating lessons of  appeasement  from World War II – yet the approaches adopted vis-à-vis North Korea and  Iran  in signing nuclear agreements have raised accusations that Neville Chamberlain’s  famous policy  is still alive and well.

New Light On Iran's Human Rights Violations

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SEP 4, 2017 BY: Heshmat Alavi Two of the major crises the international community is currently engaged with are terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Iran , in particular, is negatively involved in both fields, being known as the central banker of international terrorism, and suspicious for its own controversial  nuclear program  at home parallel to its  nuclear/missile  collaboration with  North Korea .

Iran: Plight Of Political Prisoners Signals Regime Turmoil

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By: Heshmat Alavi  AUG 29, 2017 Iran  is currently striving to manage a number of increasingly painstaking dilemmas. International spotlight is again on Tehran ’s  nuclear program , with the  United States  demanding United Nations inspectors be granted access to its military sites.    Raja'i Shahr (Gohardasht) prison in Karaj, 20 kilometers west of Tehran