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Iran’s fundamentalist government has created a state based on the strictest political, cultural and religious codes. There are no elections, free speech nor effective political opposition. The legal process is stagnant, more than half the population lives under the poverty line.
Front Page Mag, SFGate, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty

Iran’s draconian judicial system sanctions sentences of stoning, flogging, amputation of limbs and public execution. There are 30,000 political prisoners, many convicted without a fair trial.
Amnesty Report 2003, Amnesty Report 2004

Women are denied equal opportunities in educational, professional and legal spheres. The government has enforced a system of segregation on women including second-class legal status, mandatory veiling, lashing and stoning to death. In Tehran alone there are 84,000 prostitutes. Thousands of whom have been sold into sexual slavery abroad as part of a global sex trafficking industry in which government officials themselves are involved.
Womens News, Front Page Mag, Iran-e Azad, NCWDI (1), NCDWI (2), NCDWI (3)

Iran was considered the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2003 with investigations showing approximately $75 million allocated annually for terrorist activities. Iran actively funded the 9/11 World Trade Centre attacks and suicide operations in Iraq . They continue to actively fund a number of violent groups today including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and the oppressive Sudanese regime.
US Dept of State (1), US Dept of State (2), The Washington Institute, GPO Access, Front Page Mag, MSN, BBC, Asante, ME Inteligence Bulletin, ME Forum, Global Security

According to U.S. estimates, Iran may have a stockpile of at least several thousand metric tons of weaponry and bulk chemical agents. In fact, they are currently in the advanced stages of developing biological weaponry including Ricin, smallpox and anthrax.
NTI (1), NTI (2), US Dept of State , Iran Va Jahan

Iran might be as little as two years away from nuclear weapons capability according to investigations that reveal Iran ’s front end nuclear fuel cycle in the final stages of completion.
IAEA

There were two nuclear facilities monitored and shut down by the International Atomic Agency. Recently, however, they were reopened against the wishes of the international community.
ISIS, Time, NTI, CNS, BBC (1), BBC (2)

The world holds its breath while Iran ’s fundamentalist, unstable and extreme regime, unable to secure even the most basic human rights for its own citizens, takes a step into a nuclear future. Join FreeMiddleEast to highlight the situation and fight to return human rights to Iranians and stabilize a country out of control.