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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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Raisi Continues His Speech Therapy as Iran’s Economic Crises Deepen

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 Written by Shamsi Saadati On Wednesday, the regime’s new president  Ebrahim  Raisi said: “the country’s inflation rate should be controlled and reduced.” It has been over a month since Raisi became the president. Still, he has only given bogus claims and reading a “to-do list” yet, and he has not taken any action or proposed any meaningful actions to address Iran’s economic crises.   “There have been no serious changes in the prices of people’s basic needs since the new  administration  started its work. In fact, the prices have been skyrocketing,” wrote the state-run Arman daily on September 28.   “The president has used people on his  economic  team who have different views on economics. How his government intends to alleviate economic problems with this economic group?” Arman adds. Raisi’s government, as stated by the Iranian opposition leader, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, is   the  “ embodiment of four decades of the religious and terrorist dicta...
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Iran: After Swiss Court’s Ruling the World Must Continue To Challenge Tehran’s Impunity

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 Written by Mansoureh Galestan  On September 23, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court issued a ruling which halted the planned closure of the assassination case of Dr. Kazem Rajavi. Dr. Rajavi was assassinated in 1990 near his Geneva home by a 13-member  hit squad  acting upon orders from the regime’s top authorities. Dr. Rajavi was a representative to Switzerland for the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The perpetrators were promptly identified, but not before fleeing back to Iran. No willing authority has ever been able to execute the arrest warrants for the operatives or their handler.   After the public prosecutor for the Swiss canton of Vaud announced the imminent closure of the case, the Iranian opposition’s attorneys argued in court that the killing of Dr. Rajavi was not merely an act of murder but was part of a much larger crime that could be prosecuted at the international court as an instance of genocide. His assassination came two years after the...
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Iran: New Scandal at Tehran’s Stock Exchange Market

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 Written by Sedighe Shahrokhi On September 29, the CEO of Tehran’s Stock Exchange Market resigned after it was revealed there were dozens of cryptocurrencies miners discovered in its basement. When it was first reported that there was a mining farm in Tehran’s Stock Exchange Market’s building, the public relations of this organization vehemently denied it. Yet, in its statement, it said: “Since 2020, due to the migration of liquidity from the stock exchange to cryptocurrencies, and due to the creation of the liquidity outflow crisis, an investigation and research project was launched.” The state-run Mashreq News reported on September 29 that according to an announcement by the stock exchange organization, “during the supervision of the stock exchange organization, several miners who the stock exchange company exploited were discovered in the building of the aforementioned company. During the investigation, we found that the activity was not fully recorded and disclosed in the repor...
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Iran: Raisi’s Presidency Signals Imminent Escalation in Many Fields

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Written by Amir Taghati  Since taking office on August 5, the Iranian regime’s new President  Ebrahim Raisi  has gathered a group of terrorists and criminals whose background should be cause for equivalent concern among the Iranian people and the democratic nations of the world. The overall make-up of his administration reflects a commitment to belligerent foreign policy strategies, as well as the open endorsement of some of Tehran’s worst malign activities over the past 42 years. Mrs.  Maryam Rajavi , the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), described Raisi’s cabinet as “the embodiment of four decades of mullahs’ religious dictatorship and terrorism, whose primary mission is to confront the people’s uprising, and to plunder the national wealth, step up terrorism and warmongering, and expand the unpatriotic nuclear and ballistic missiles programs.” This is precisely the sort of identity expected to take shape after Raisi’s June “sel...
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Swiss Federal Court Orders the Swiss Attorney General To Investigate the Murder of Dr. Kazem Rajavi as Genocide and Crime Against Humanity

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  Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: • The Swiss Federal Court decision is a historic turning point, affirming that genocide and crime against humanity should at no time and not anywhere be ignored based on the statute of limitation. • European governments and the U.S. must recognize the  1988 massacre  of political prisoners in Iran as genocide and a crime against humanity. On September 23, 2021, the Swiss Federal Court ruled that a new investigation into the assassination near Geneva in 1990 of Dr.  Kazem Rajavi , the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) in Switzerland, should be undertaken in the context of genocide and crime against humanity. Dr. Rajavi was assassinated following the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in 1988. The Federal Criminal Court ruled that according to Swiss and international law the crime committed against Dr. Rajavi was not subjected to the statute of limitation. Dr. Rajavi was assassinated by a 13-member h...
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Int’l Community Must Not Embrace Raisi and a Regime Rejected by Iran’s People

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 Written by Mansoureh Galestan The Iranian people boycotted the regime’s sham presidential election. Nevertheless, the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, pulled  Ebrahim Raisi  out of the ballot box despite the massive boycott of the Iranian people. Ebrahim Raisi’s designation as the next president was met with public protests which condemned him as the “ henchman of 1988 ” and also highlighted his more recent contribution to the regime’s record of human rights abuses when he served as head of the judiciary from March 2019 until after his presidential “selection.” Chief among those recent abuses was the crackdown on a nationwide uprising that broke out in  November 2019  and revived anti-regime slogans like “death to the dictator” which had defined a prior uprising in January 2018. Panicked by the persistent signs of popular support for regime change, Iranian authorities opened fire on crowds of protesters at the outset of the latter uprising. According to t...
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