Iian - Official Irna News Agency: Hassan Khomeini disqualified

Hassan Khomeini 

NCRI - Elimination of Hassan Khomeini from the election charade by Khamenei's orders despite advice to the contrary by renowned figures and government officials. 
After two weeks that passes of election of the Council of Experts the Guardian Council conclusively rejected the competence of  Khomeini's grandson. Although many of renowned clerics authority had suggested his competence be confirmed, this is the intense power struggle within the highest ranks of the Iranian regime between Khamenei and Rafsanjani. On February 1, on the anniversary of Khomeini’s return to Tehran from Paris, in a ceremony at the Tehran Airport where a large number of regime’s leaders were present, Rafsanjani chastised rejection of Hassan Khomeini’s candidacy. “They do not approve the competence of an individual that is like his grandfather who was the Imam. Who has approved your own competence?!” he said. 

UN: The Crimes against Prisoners by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad

On Monday the United Nation Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria said that the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is committing crimes against people held in the country's prisons which include extermination, murder, rape, torture, forced disappearance and other inhumane acts. The investigators gathered evidence based on interviews with hundreds of people who managed to survive a period of detention, former prison staff and relatives of victims. The information has been published in a reporentitled “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Deaths in Detention in

the Syrian Arab Republic.” 

According to the sources of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) inside the IRGC, the dispatching of Afghans to Syria has grown almost three-fold in 2015; from around 2500 to close to 7000.