IRAN SHIITE MILITIAS ENDANGERING FUTURE OF IRAQ

IRAN SHIITE MILITIAS ENDANGERING FUTURE OF IRAQ

IRAN SHIITE MILITIAS ENDANGERING FUTURE OF IRAQ

The Islamic Republic continues on its path of death and destruction.
A conglomerate of Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq, known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), or more commonly by the Arabic label al-Hashd al-Shaabi, pose a very dire threat for the future of Iraq. This sectarian group of dangerous armed elements is resorting to any and all crimes with the objective of pursuing Tehran’s policies across Mesopotamia.

The PMU, established back in the mid-2014, has taken part in the battles of Syria from mid-2013 onward and now, despite participating in the offensive to retake Mosul from Daesh (ISIS/ISIL), this phenomenon poses the gravest of all threats for the Iraqi nation. Mor...

Iran: Arash Sadeghi's father on hunger strike to support his son

Political prisoners father on hunger strike on solidarity with son

Prominent Iranian political prisoner, Arash Sadeghi's father, Hossein Sadeghi, has staged a hunger strike in solidarity with his son. Mr. Sadeghi said: “My son Arash in his 67th day of hunger strike is experiencing moment to moment struggle with death. On Monday, December 26, Arash was urgently transferred to Taleghani hospital in Tehran due to his deteriorating health condition and underwent medical examination. The hospital’s doctors said my son was in extremely dire health condition and in a written report warned about my son’s «dangerous heart condition and risk of cardiac arrest, and danger of coma and even death».”
The suffering father continued: “Now, since last Friday, December 23, I staged a hunger strike to protest the authorities lack of attention to address the demands of my child, and to protest keeping him incommunicado and denying him visit with his wife, and also to support his hunger strike and legitimate demands. I demand his dire condition be addressed and his demands be met. I call on all to be the voice of my son, his wife and other imprisoned loved ones (political prisoners).”Mor...”Mor...

Iran The Political Prisoners Congratulate the New Year

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Iran The Political Prisoners Congratulate the New Year

NCRI - On Wednesday December 28th 2016, a group of political prisoners of Gohardasht Prison in a message congratulated the New Year 2017.The political prisoners stated:"today in the days left till the New Year 2017, we, the political prisoners of Gohardasht Prison commended Iranian and Syrian people and especially children and women’ struggle for freedom and said: We honor the hardworking workers, imprisoned teachers and so on. We will begin the new year with great ambition and unity."
On the eve of New Year, the political prisoners said that they will strongly protest against the plunders and repressions of the Mullahs' regime as well as the men behind the scene. They added: “we will challenge the security and police authorities and those who are behind the scene and then we will shout at the top of our voice against their plunders and lootings. We will not forget that there is not enough food for the children of my country and they suffer from poverty and unemployment due to thousands of economic rents, far-fetched salaries of officials and the lootings."Mor....

iran Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Giuliani’s Ties to an Iranian Resistance Group

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iran Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Giuliani’s Ties to an Iranian Resistance Group

 Mujahidin e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian resistance group, and the U.S. politicians who support it, especially former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. As a former Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and someone familiar with the MEK and Giuliani’s work on the organization’s behalf, I can say unequivocally that Benjamin’s assertions are outrageous—so outrageous that I must respond.

First, I want to be clear about one thing: This isn’t about Rudy Giuliani. Arguably the broadest and most impressive bipartisan coalition in a generation has supported the MEK in its campaign for regime change in Iran. This includes two former chairmen of the joint chiefs, two former CIA directors, a former attorney general and the former chairs of both political parties. The ideological range includes everyone from Howard Dean and Patrick Kennedy to Newt Gingrich and John Bolton. From this perspective, the outlier isn’t Rudy Giuliani; it’s Daniel Benjamin mor...mor...

Iran: Last Message of Syrian Girl Lina Shami From Aleppo

Last Message of Syrian Girl Lina Shami From Aleppo

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NCRI - In a message from Aleppo, young Syrian girl Lina Shami asked for help from people around the world to do something to save them. This message is in English and published widely on social networks.

Lina Shami: “To all those who hear my voice: We are facing genocide here in East Aleppo. This might be my last video message. More than 50 thousand civilians who have risen up and resisted against Assad’s dictatorship are facing the threat of execution or being killed in the bombing.”

According to activists, more than 180 people, who (left Aleppo and) went to the areas under the control of Assad regime, were executed by Assad forces or their allied militants.
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Iran Bi-Partisan Lawmakers Endorse....

Bi-Partisan Lawmakers Endorse Resolution to Bring to Justice Perpetrators of the 1988 Massacre of MEK Political Prisoners in Iran

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WASHINGTON - The bi-partisan support is growing for a House resolution introduced by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the Homeland Security Committee Chair, Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) ranking member and Ed Royce (R-CA), the HFAC chairman.
The resolution condemns the deteriorating situation of human rights in Iran and the Iranian regime “for the 1988 massacre, and for denying the evidence of this manifest set of crimes against humanity.”
H.Con.Res.159, co-sponsored by some 50 House members, urges the United Nations “to create a Commission of Inquiry to fully investigate the massacre and to gather evidence and identify the names and roles of specific perpetrators with a view towards bringing them to justice.”
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Iran IRGC commanding Aleppo killings from.....

Iran IRGC commanding Aleppo killings from “Fort Behuth” southeast of the city

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Iran IRGC commanding Aleppo killings from “Fort Behuth” southeast of the city

IRGC presence, transfer of weapons to Syria are flagrant violations of UNSC resolutions

The main Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) command center and barracks in Aleppo is at “Fort Behuth,” located 30 kilometers southeast of the city (5 kilometers south of the city of al-Safire). Iran has named this site as “Fort Hazrat Roqiye,” under the command of IRGC Brigadier General Seyed Javad Ghafari, commanding all IRGC forcers in Aleppo.

Ghafari, with experience from the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, has for the past three years commanded the Aleppo military campaign and Syria’s northern front. He has recently been appointed as field commander of all IRGC forces in Syria. A few months ago he joined IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani in a meeting with Bashar Assad, where the Syrian dictator praised Ghafari. He has also joined Suleimani to meet with Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nassrollah.........MOR..

Iran- Has the Iran Lobby Set its Sights on the Trump Administration?

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Has the Iran Lobby Set its Sights on the Trump Administration?

Repeated attacks on Iranian dissidents featuring discredited talking points normally espoused by Tehran’s well-organized Washington lobby are landing with Donald Trump’s White House transition in full swing.

Daniel Benjamin’s Politico Magazine hit job – Giuliani Took Money From a Group That Killed Americans. Does Trump Care? and Josh Rogin’s takedown in The Washington Post – Giuliani was Paid Advocate for Shady Iranian Dissident Group – are case in point.

Were the smears designed to influence the selection of key members of the president-elect’s cabinet and, by extension, US policy?

If allegations levied by Benjamin or Rogin were substantiated by actual evidence, their claims might be credible. They are not. Instead the articles traffic in innuendo that is easily dismissed.
How do I know?

I am the author of three empirical, peer-reviewed journal articles that examine matters involving the exiled Iranian resistance group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), also known as People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). I also penned the foreword to an independent 2013 study undertaken by Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. that addressed the misinformation campaign directed at Western government policies toward the Iranian opposition group. Bloomfield, a former defense and foreign policy official who served three presidents over five administrations in the Pentagon, White House, and State Department, produced the scholarly history of the MEK to challenge conventional wisdom within the Department of State and to prompt fresh policy thinking.
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Iran:Can propaganda save the threadbare Iran appeasement policy?

With President Obama's administration expiring in a few weeks, the Iranian regime, its lobbies in the United States and Iran apologists with vested interest in the continuation of rapprochement with Tehran have initiated a widespread propaganda campaign to avoid losing their earnings in Obama's eight years of appeasement policy vis-a-vis Iran.

Their efforts involve the publication of lopsided reports and hastily scribbled op-eds with enticing titles on highly viewed media outlets to reframe past failures as historical achievements, and to discourage President-elect Trump from choosing vocal critics of Iran's mischievous deeds as his cabinet members.

An op-ed published in the Washington Post shortly after Trump's victory tried to demonize Rudy Giuliani, calling him a "paid advocate of a shady Iranian dissident group," referring to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main opposition of the Iranian regime. The author of the article, Josh Rogin, has a long history of attacking the PMOI/MEK and quoting Tehran lobbies in his reporting..Mor

Iran regime even more oppressive since nuclear deal, dissidents say

Iran regime even more oppressive since nuclear deal, dissidents say

Now free in the West, recently escaped political dissidents say Iran’s regime has grown more oppressive since its nuclear deal with the U.S. and other world powers that had hoped the agreement would moderate the Islamic-ruled nation.

The protesters also say the billions of dollars in cash the U.S. shipped to Iran, plus the West’s release of frozen Iranian bank assets, already have been diverted to Iran’s expansionist armies in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

“Every deal, every negotiation with the regime, it means additional gallows in Iran,” says Shabnam Madadzadeh, 29, who gained fame as a student organizer at Tehran’s Tarbiat Moalem University. She spent five harsh years in confinement, including in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, but she did not break..Mor....

Iran MP: 5,000 on death row

By Heshmat Alavi
An MP in Iran’s so-called parliament, aka Majlis, admitted there are 5,000 people on death row in the mullahs’ prisons spread across the country.

Iran MP: 5,000 on death row

Noruzi, representing the town of Robot Karim near Tehran, referred to a tip of the iceberg of the huge numbers of arrests, imprisonment, crackdown measures and executions under the mullahs’ regime in Iran.....http://bit.ly/2gnUfbZ

Iran: A big victory for the Iranian opposition PMOI as the last remaining members in Camp Liberty, leave Iraq for Albania

A big victory for the Iranian opposition PMOI as the last remaining members in Camp Liberty, leave Iraq for Albania

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A big victory for the Iranian opposition PMOI as the last remaining members in Camp Liberty, leave Iraq for Albania

This afternoon the main Iranian opposition PMOI, moved their remaining members who were previously trapped in Camp Liberty near Baghdad airport. This successful huge transfer took place while the Iranian regime planned to either eliminate or rip apart its main enemy while they were still in Iraq.

This final round of departures marks the successful conclusion of the process of relocating members of the PMOI to countries of safety outside Iraq despite the Iranian regime’s conspiracies, obstruction and threats, which continued until the very last day.

I was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014 and President of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq during my final 5-year mandate. I was able to learn at first hand about the Iraqi government’s repeated attempts to annihilate the defenceless PMOI refugees in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, under the guidance of the Iranian regime.
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Iran; As understanding of the Iranian resistance grows, support should follow

As understanding of the Iranian resistance grows, support should follow

Iranian Maleheh Hosseini (R) participates in a rally at the White House against Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his alleged killing of 52 Iranian dissidents at Camp Ashraf in Iraq in 2013. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

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This summer marked the 28th anniversary of an extraordinary massacre of political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the span of a few months in 1988, upwards of 30,000 people were put to death as a result of minutes-long trials that were little more than loyalty tests for the regime. The vast majority of those victims were members and supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and recently revealed information has helped to confirm that the massacre was primarily motivated by a longstanding desire to snuff out the opposition of the MEK to the increasingly repressive theocracy.... http://bit.ly/2cgHJsW

كلمة مريم رجوي في المؤتمرالسنوي الحاشد للمقاومة الإيرانية في باريس 9 يول...

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كلمة مريم رجوي في المؤتمرالسنوي الحاشد للمقاومة الإيرانية في باريس 9 يوليو 2016 – الحلقة الاولى

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كلمة مريم رجوي في المؤتمرالسنوي الحاشد للمقاومة الإيرانية في باريس 9 يول...

Iran’s empty condemnation of terrorism While denouncing the Orlando shooter, Tehran leads the world in attacks

Iran’s empty condemnation of terrorism
While denouncing the Orlando shooter, Tehran leads the world in attacks

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About two days after an Orlando gunman carried out the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, the Iranian foreign ministry issued a statement purporting to decry the incident. Speaking via the state-run IRNA, a spokesperson said the Iranian regime “condemns” the attack “based on its principled policy of condemning terrorism and its strong will to seriously confront this evil phenomenon.”More.http://bit.ly/2924dvL

Iran news in brief, 28 June 2016

Iran news in brief, 28 June 2016
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Human Rights Violations In Iran

'Free Iran' rally to give voice to those still suffering in the Islamic Republic

'Free Iran' rally to give voice to those still suffering in the Islamic Republic

On July 9, I will be joining a large number of my fellow Iranian expatriates and their international supporters at the annual “Free Iran” rally in Paris. The National Council of Resistance of Iran has been hosting such events for over 10 years.
How do I know? After this year’s rally, I will have seen the event from both sides of the ideological wall that separates the Islamic Republic from most of the rest of the world. In past years, I was among those Iranians who supported the NCRI and its main constituent group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), from a silent place inside the country. I put my safety and freedom at risk, as did many of my colleagues, to carry on the groups’ local activism. I spent five years in jail from 2009 to 2014 and suffered extensive physical and psychological torture for my support for the PMOI.  I fled Iran at the age of 29 last year....

Iran-Prospects for change one year after the nuclear agreement

Iran-Prospects for change one year after the nuclear agreement

Iran: Prospects for change one year after the nuclear 
Middle East: Growing and immediate threat of Islamic extremism
NCRI - Contrary to earlier assessments, a year after the nuclear deal between the P5+1 countries and the clerical regime, Tehran’s belligerence in the region has become more widespread, the human rights situation in Iran has deteriorated and the regime has become ever more closed and introverted....More