Showing posts with label Maryam Rajavi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maryam Rajavi. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Iran: A Trump Administration's Effective Iran Policy Should Have An Eye To The Mullahs' Weakening Grip






 Iran: A Trump Administration's Effective Iran Policy Should Have An Eye To The Mullahs' Weakening Grip


A Trump Administration's Effective Iran Policy Should Have An Eye To The Mullahs' Weakening Grip


Earlier this month, it was reported that the Iranian judiciary had granted temporary release to Golrokh Ebrahimi. A political prisoner, Ebrahimi made international headlines after she was brought up on charges stemming from the “dissident” sentiments expressed in an unpublished, fictional short story found in her home during a police raid. Amnesty International described the charges as “ludicrous,” explaining that she was “effectively being punished for using her imagination.”

Over the past two months, her case attracted more attention after her husband, Arash Sadeghi, launched a hunger strike. He had been imprisoned ahead of her on vague national security charges stemming from his peaceful human rights activism. Ebrahimi’s release on Tuesday finally prompted Sadeghi to end his fast that had lasted a staggering 71 days....Mor..

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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...


Wednesday, January 4, 2017

IRAN ACTIVIST ENDS 71-DAY PRISON HUNGER.....

Arash Sadeghi
AP:IRAN ACTIVIST ENDS 71-DAY PRISON HUNGER STRIKE AS WIFE FREED


By JON GAMBRELL
AP - An imprisoned Iranian human rights activist ended a 71-day hunger strike Tuesday as his detained wife won a temporary release from prison, a day after his case sparked a rare unauthorized protest in Tehran.
Arash Sadeghi was to be taken to a hospital, his lawyer Amir Raisian said, while Amnesty International said he would be fed intravenously. His wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, was temporarily freed for several days in a decision that can be extended, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
The sudden decision comes after a dayslong social media campaign and the march Monday toward Evin prison by dozens of Iranians. Such protests have been rare in Iran after violence that followed the country's disputed 2009 presidential election.Mor....


Monday, January 2, 2017

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...

Saturday, December 31, 2016

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....

Friday, December 30, 2016

Iran MARYAM RAJAVI’S CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS



Christmas is the day when the world was blessed to see the birth of God's great prophet.

Merry Christmas to all Christians in Iran and around the world.

Christmas is the day of joy, hope and salvation of mankind.

We also admire the Virgin Mary on this day, who inspires all women, particularly the oppressed women of the world.
Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." 
This is why many Christians from all across the world support the Iranian Resistance. 
Inspired by his message, the Iranian resistance wants to establish a society based on freedom, equality and separation of religion and state.
In the future Iran followers of all religions including Christians are equal and free and are no longer harassed.
On this Christmas Eve we wish that the liberating message of Jesus Christ would embrace my oppressed people. 
With the same hope, I wish a happy New Year in 2017 for all nations ....

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Iran Maryam Rajavi: The Mullahs' "Moderate" President Shamelessly Calls for the Killing of Besieged People of Aleppo .....

Maryam Rajavi

Maryam Rajavi: The Mullahs' "Moderate" President Shamelessly Calls for the Killing of Besieged People of Aleppo by Using Terrorist Label

“moderate” President of the religious fascism ruling Iran, in a gathering of a number of regime paid agents and mercenaries, called for continuation of killing people of Aleppo and criticized that some "Islamic states" had expressed concerns about the success "of the people and the army" of Syria, saying some "Islamic governments are concerned about the fate of the terrorists and want their safe exit from Aleppo" (State-run media - December 17, 2016).Mor....


Sunday, December 18, 2016

Iran The Slogans Chanted in Ahvaz Stadium to ....


The Slogans Chanted in Ahvaz Stadium to Support the People of Aleppo

The Slogans Chanted in Ahvaz Stadium to Support the People of Aleppo


NCRI - On 16th December 2016, the fans of Foolad Khuzestan B F.C chanted slogans against the dictator Assad in support of Syrians and the people of Aleppo during the football match.

To support the people of Aleppo, the audience held placards on which were written:"Aleppo is falling down." and "we are with Aleppo." The fans also chanted the slogan of "death to Assad" and” Assad must leave Syria."




Saturday, December 17, 2016

Iran Regime Claims Unity While Killing Innocent Women and Children in Aleppo


Regime Claims Unity While Killing 
Iran Regime Claims Unity While Killing Innocent Women and Children in Aleppo

NCRI - The Iranian regime president, Hassan Rouhani, in his speech on Thursday December 15 in the so-called Islamic Unity Conference, claimed violence from any religion or ethnicity is against Islam.

In this regard, Turkey’s Anatolia news agency in a report on December 15 questioned Rouhani’s statement regarding Islam’s opposition to violence and said while Rouhani today talked about Islam opposing violence, the (sectarian) militants backed by Iranian regime killed several civilians, who were evacuating East Aleppo during the ceasefire, by firing direct shots.

Sectarian militants affiliated to the regime in Iran today once again under the command of Seid Javad, a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), fired direct shots at the civilians, who were evacuating East Aleppo following the ceasefire, killing several civilians and injuring a large number of them. This is while Hassan Rouhani in his speech in «Islamic Unity Conference» today said: «Violence is against Islam. Violence from Shiite or Sunni is unacceptable. Murder by anyone is undue and rejected»” Anatolia reported.....Mor..

Friday, December 16, 2016

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...

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Iran: Last Message of Syrian Girl Lina Shami From Aleppo







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.
.Mor......

Saturday, December 3, 2016

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.
MOR.....

Saturday, September 10, 2016

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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Press release- 9 September 2016
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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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Iran news in brief, 28 June 2016



Iran news in brief, 28 June 2016
#No2Rouhani #FreeIran
http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/exclusive-reports/20466-iran-factsheet-an-overview-of-rouhani-s-three-year-record








Wednesday, June 29, 2016

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....





Tuesday, June 28, 2016

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         

Monday, April 18, 2016

ّIran-Maryam Rajavi: Iran regime will collapse when Assad is toppled in Syria





NCRI - The mullahs' regime in Iran will collapse once Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, told the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday.
In a major interview that took up a full page of the newspaper, Mrs. Rajavi said that the Iranian regime is founded on three main pillars: obtaining a nuclear bomb, absolute domestic suppression and export of terrorism and extremism abroad.
Mrs. Rajavi pointed out that Tehran’s strategy is based on interference in the internal affairs of other countries, warmongering and export of terrorism; however, the regime’s regional plots failed after the start of the Decisive Storm operation against its proxies.
“The Iranian regime can be defeated once and for all in Bahrain if it is confronted with a decisive alliance formed by regional countries,” Mrs. Rajavi said, adding that the Iranian regime is close to drowning in the quagmire of Syria’s civil war.
Mrs. Rajavi pointed out that the Iranian regime would collapse consequentially should al-Assad be toppled in Syria, which is why Iran's regime has been trying to keep Assad in power at any cost.
“If Assad falls out of power in Damascus, then the Iranian regime will evidently follow and collapse in Tehran,” Mrs. Rajavi said.
“It’s dying,” Mrs. Rajavi said, expressing the current state of affairs of the Iranian regime. “It has faced defeat in Yemen. The fronts in Syria and Iraq are in effective escalation, and the regime has sent 60,000 Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) soldiers and affiliated militias to fight in Syria,” Mrs. Rajavi added.
When asked about the Iranian regime's nuclear danger, Mrs. Rajavi explained that the regime has only “temporarily” lost its ability to manufacture a nuclear arsenal and will soon resume what it had long planned for.
“The Iranian regime is skilled with the art of deception and keeping its activities secret. It hasn’t revealed all its cards, and one must say that the international community was not firm enough, because the international community could have taken away everything from the regime,” Mrs. Rajavi said.
On the topic of the regime's recent ballistic missile activities and violations, Mrs. Rajavi clarified that all factions of the regime pursue the same policy, seeking internal oppression of the people and terrorizing regional nations.
The missile program, according to Mrs. Rajavi, is an attempt for establishing missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, as a part of a plan to spread fear in the region and raise the morale of its supporters.
The full text of the interview was published in Arabic on Page 10 of the Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday, April 17, 2016:http://aawsat.com/node/618191 . A shorter version, carrying highlights of the interview in English was also published on the website of the English edition of the Asharq Al-Awsat:
For a PDF version of the article in Arabic on the Asharq-Al Awsat website click here