Thursday, June 30, 2016

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





ANALYSIS/OPINION:

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
#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         

Political prisoner writes to UN about abuses in Iran


NCRI - Iranian political prisoner, Hassan Sadeqi, who is currently behind bars in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj, north-west of the Iranian capital, has written an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council protesting the authorities’ refusal to allow him to visit his wife imprisoned in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
The following is the text of his letter:
To the UN Human Rights Council,
I, Hassan Sadeqi, a political prisoner of Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj, write this letter to talk about my current ... 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