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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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Human Rights Experts: Hold Iran’s Regime Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity

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  On Monday, a dozen renowned human rights defenders and organizations attended a virtual conference on the opening day of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 49th session, raising concern over Iran’s critical human rights situation. Among participants were former UN judges, special rapporteurs, UN officials, and prominent jurists and human rights personalities who called for an independent inquiry by the UN into the  1988 massacre  of 30,000 political prisoners, which amounts to a genocide and crime against humanity. Simultaneous with the virtual conference, organized by five NGOs, a rally and large photo exhibition was held in Geneva regarding the 1988 massacre and the call to action. Some of the massacre survivors and victims’ families attended this rally at Place des Nations in front of the UN’s European headquarters. The conference comes weeks after  a historic open letter by some 470  prominent former UN judges and special rapporteurs to the Council ...
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Cities across Iran witness protest rallies by retirees and pensioners

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By Mahmoud Hakamian Retirees and pensioners of the Social Security Organization in Iran held rallies in numerous cities on Sunday, February 27, protesting their low pensions and poor living conditions that are worsening with rising inflation. The cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Isfahan, Ahvaz, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Arak, Khorramabad, Qazvin, Haft Tappeh, Shahrekord, Ilam, Bojnourd, Ardabil, and others were scenes of different gatherings as such regular protests are becoming a new weekly norm, pressuring the mullahs’ regime to provide for the people’s basic demands. The demonstrating retirees and Social Security  pensioners  are protesting their extremely low wages and pensions, issues regarding their insurance benefits, and poor living conditions. They’re demanding an increase in their pensions as prices of basic goods and housing are skyrocketing with no end in sight. The rally in Tehran, the capital of Iran, was the scene of pensioners and retirees protesting their own dile...
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Iran: Khamenei’s defeat in stifling protests

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  By Farid Mahoutchi On Sunday, February 27, retirees and pensioners in dozens of Iranian cities returned to the streets to reiterate their demands and hold the government and Majlis to account for disregarding their most basic needs. Their demonstrations, which have become a mainstay of Iran’s news, have grown, and become more intense and better organized despite the regime’s efforts to establish an environment of fear and intimidation. And retirees are not the only growing protest movement in Iran. Teachers, students, oil-and-gas workers, nurses, defrauded investors, and government employees are also becoming more organized and bolder in pursuing their demands. The growing protest movements are a testament to the failure of the strategy of regime supreme leader  Ali Khamenei  to strengthen his regime. Last year, Khamenei set the stage for  then-judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi  to become the regime’s next president. Raisi, who is notoriously known for his key rol...
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Amnesty International Outline Priorities for the 49th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

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  Written by   Sedighe Shahrokhi Ahead of the 49 th  session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which is set to begin on February 28, Amnesty International has put forward several key priorities to be discussed and considered regarding the human rights crises in Iran. They are urging the Human Rights Council to ‘take a more robust approach to the crises in Iran, ‘including the establishment of effective monitoring and investigative mechanisms.’ Amnesty International said, “As the authorities in these countries refuse to cooperate with existing human rights mechanisms and processes, and the situations continue to deteriorate, the HRC cannot continue with ‘business as usual.’ A further request is the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Iran. Amnesty is urging the HRC to increase its focus on the ‘systematic’ human rights violations in the country, as well as the institutionalized impunity that officials of the Iranian regime are surrounded by, prote...
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West has to confront the Iranian regime immediately

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  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh The Iranian regime has long aligned itself with Russia to advance its geopolitical and ideological interests. While the US, UK and EU develop their strategies in response to the Ukraine crisis, they must not lose sight of the fact that other Russian forces recently coordinated with Iran and China for naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, thus signaling the continuous growth of an anti-Western bloc whose threat extends well beyond the bounds of NATO. If left unchecked, Russia’s military moves could embolden different kinds of aggression from Iran, which in recent weeks has used its regional proxies to launch drone attacks on the UAE and Saudi Arabia. But at the same time, if the international community focuses too much on the crisis in Ukraine, it runs the risk of giving Iran a green light to expand its similar actions, secure in the knowledge that its leading adversaries will be too distracted to offer a suitable response. Iran’s belligerent approach to fore...
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Iranians Abroad: Another Week of Protests and Activism in Europe

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  Written by Hossein Farsi On Saturday, February 26, Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathered in Malmo and Gothenburg in Sweden, to support the protesting teachers in Iran and call for a trial of the Iranian regime’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, for his role in executing their fellow countrymen and women in the last four decades. تظاهرات یاران شورشگر در یوتوبوری و مالمو -۷اسفند۱۴۰۰ On Friday, February 25, Vienna, the capital of Austria was witness to a demonstration by Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance who called on world leaders to stop offering concessions to a regime that thirsts for nuclear weapons and consists of mass executioners and terrorists. وین- تظاهرات ایرانیان آزاده-مذاکره و امتیاز دادن به جلادان و قتل‌عام کنندگان را متوقف کنید- ۶اسفند On Thursday, February 24, Iranians and relatives of the martyrs of the 1988 massacre in Iran, staged a demonstration in front of a Stockholm courthouse, demanding the trial of the regime’s Supreme Leader Al...
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