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The truth about the Iranian regime’s new president

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  By Sadegh Pashm-Foroush The day after the announcement of the results of Iran’s sham presidential election, Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei summoned the remaining members of the government of former regime president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19. In his remarks to them—indirectly addressing new regime president Massoud Pezeshkian—he warned him and reminded him of the “model” of the president in the regime. The supreme leader repeatedly mentioned Raisi and said, “He is truly a model; we must all learn from him.” He then reiterated the concept of “heartfelt belief and practical commitment” to the regime, which Pezeshkian, like all the election candidates, had committed to. Khamenei stated, “Dear Raisi demonstrated as a model that one can possess these mental, heartfelt, and practical qualities as the president of a country and follow them in practice.” Of course, before the sham election, Pezeshkian repeatedly stated that he would continue Raisi...
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Iran: Mohammad Eslami, The New Head Of The Regime’s Atomic Energy Organization Was The Principal Liaison With Abdul Qadeer Khan To Acquire Knowledge Of The Atomic Bomb

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    By appointing Eslami, Khamenei and Raisi seek to accelerate atomic bomb project On Sunday, August 29, 2021, Ebrahim Raisi, the regime’s president, appointed  IRGC  Brig Gen.  Mohammad Eslami  as a vice president and head of the  Atomic Energy  Organization. Eslami was the regime’s principal liaison for acquiring atomic bomb knowledge from the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. This appointment makes it palpably clear that the clerical regime intends to intensify and accelerate its nuclear bomb projects. Sixteen years ago, on August 26, 2005, at a press conference in Washington D.C., the Iranian Resistance revealed: “According to information obtained from within the regime by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI.MEK ), Brig. Gen. Mohammad Eslami had met with Abdul Qadeer Khan (father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons program) at least twice in 1986 and 1987. Eslami was then head of the Defense Industries Training and Research Insti...
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Iran’s Problematical Electricity Shortage Under the Clerical Regime

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 Written by Aladdin Touran Iran is the victim of successive blackouts and power outages of the national grid. While the country  ranked 12th in the world  last year in terms of electricity generation, people struggle with  frequent  and unannounced blackouts in the heat of summer. The situation has shocked even the ruling regime with cries of “Death to Khamenei” in the east of Tehran following the power outage on July 3rd .   The outgoing Minister of  Energy Ardakanian  of Hassan Rouhani’s government said that the power outage was due to the premature warming of the air and the decrease in rainfall .   Mohammad Hassan  Motavilizadeh, CEO of Tavanir , on April 23 said that  the reduction in the volume of water in dam reservoirs, which reduces the production of hydropower by 40%, as an essential factor in electricity shortages .   Meanwhile, the former  Minister of Energy , w...
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Iran: Ebrahim Raisi’s Cabinet Demonstrates Malign Priorities

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 Written by Shahriar Kia The Iranian regime’s new President  Ebrahim Raisi  held his first cabinet meeting on Thursday, a day after all but one of his initial appointees were approved by the handpicked parliament. In it, he claimed that the government should focus on policies that would “improve people’s livelihoods,” but the make-up of the new administration casts much doubt on the seriousness of its stated priorities. In fact, the Iranian people believed that Raisi would have the best interests of the people in mind long before his cabinet was appointed or confirmed.   Less than ten percent of the country’s eligible voters took part in the sham election that ultimately resulted in Raisi’s presidency on June 18. Even regime authorities acknowledged that the  majority  of the population sat out the election and that many of the ballots that were cast were invalid.  ...
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Iran: The 1988 Massacre Of Political Prisoners Amounts To Genocide

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 Written by Mansoureh Galestan In a  conference  coinciding with the 33rd anniversary of the  1988 massacre  of political prisoners in Iran, more than 1,000 political prisoners and witnesses of torture in prisons and dungeons of the clerical regime demanded an end to the impunity enjoyed by the regime leaders and to prosecute Khamenei, Raisi, Judiciary Chief,  Eje’i  and other perpetrators of the massacre. During the 1988 massacre, based on Khomeini’s  fatwa , the clerical regime executed at least 30,000 political prisoners. Most of the victims were members and supporters of the  Mujahedin-e Khalq  ( MEK/PMOI ). They were massacred for their steadfast commitment to MEK’s ideals and the Iranian people’s freedom. Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Human Rights Barrister and first President of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, was one of the event’s speakers. In his remarks, Mr. Robertson, who has investigated the 1988 massacre, said that the 198...
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Conference on Iran’s 1988 Massacre Reiterates International Calls to Action

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 Written by Mahmoud Hakamian On Friday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran hosted a  virtual conference  as part of its ongoing “ Call-for-Justice ” movement regarding the  1988 massacre  of political prisoners. Though always an urgent priority for the pro-democracy coalition, the massacre assumed newfound significance in June when it was confirmed that  Ebrahim Raisi  would be the new president of Iran. More than 1,000 former political prisoners took part in Friday’s conference, and many of them delivered remarks recalling their interactions with Raisi around the time of the massacre. At the outset of 1988, Raisi was deputy public prosecutor for the capital city of Tehran, and in the summer of that year, he willfully became one of four officials to serve on the Tehran “ death commission ” that was tasked with overseeing the implementation of a  fatwa  by the regime’s founder and first supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini. The religious ...
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