When the Supreme Leader Speaks, Who Still Listens?

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  By: Struan Stevenson Mojtaba Khamenei inherited the most powerful office in the Islamic Republic. Yet six months into his tenure, a question once considered unthinkable is surfacing in Tehran. When the Supreme Leader speaks, who still listens? For almost five decades, the answer was obvious. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini created a system in which factional warfare could rage beneath the surface, provided everyone ultimately bowed to the Supreme Leader. Ali Khamenei preserved that arrangement for more than three decades. Presidents came and went. Clerics competed. The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) accumulated power. Yet one principle remained sacrosanct. The Supreme Leader had the final word. Today that principle is under strain. On August 28, Mojtaba Khamenei warned officials against creating false choices between war and negotiation, compromise and confrontation. He urged them to avoid publicizing weaknesses and declared that anything damaging social cohesion was forbidden. The mess...

1st Week of Feb: Calls for Freedom and Justice in Iran Echoed Across European Cities

 Written by Hamideh Taati

On January 29, to commemorate half a million people killed in Iran from the Covid-19 virus and protesting against the Iranian regime’s inhuman policies that lead to the national catastrophe, Iranians and supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran held rallies in European countries like Sweden, UK, France, and Belgium.



تجمع هموطنان و اشرف‌نشانها در بزرگداشت نیم میلیون جانباخته کرونا در استکهلم

Stockholm, Sweden

تجمع هموطنان و اشرف‌نشانها در بزرگداشت نیم میلیون جانباخته کرونا- انگلستان - لندن

London, UK

فرانسه-تجمع هموطنان و اشرف‌نشانها در بزرگداشت نیم میلیون جانباخته کرونا

Paris, France

تجمع هموطنان و اشرف‌نشانها در بزرگداشت نیم میلیون جانباخته کرونا- بروکسل

Brussels, Belgium

On January 30, protesting the catastrophic decision making of the Iranian regime that killed more than half a million Iranians during the Covid-19 pandemic and calling to hold the regime’s supreme leader and other officials to account for committing crimes against humanity, Iranians, and supporters of the NCRI rallied in countries like Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Denmark and

کانادا تورنتو ۹بهمن۱۴۰۰ تجمع اعتراضی حامیان مقاومت و هواداران مجاهدین در هوای بسیار سر

Toronto, Canada

Cologne, Germany
The Hague, the Netherlands

Rome, Italy
Vienna, Austria

 

Oslo, Norway

On February 2, Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathered in Vienna, Switzerland, to call on the world powers to re-enact the six previous UN Security Council resolutions against the Iranian regime and to close the regime’s embassies in their capitals. The demonstrators chanted slogans against the regime’s nuclear program and condemned the systemic fraud and discrimination under the mullahs that have brought destruction and poverty upon the people in Iran.

تظاهرات یاران شورشگر در وین- ۶ قطعنامه شورای امنیت ملل متحد را علیه رژیم مجدداً اعمال کنید

On February 2, Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Canada held a rally against Iran’s regime and its criminal policies that has left hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of families mourning around the country during the pandemic.

تظاهرات یاران شورشگر در ونکوور؛ خواست مردم ایران سرنگونی تمامیت رژیم آخوندی است

Vancouver, Canada

This article was first published by ncr-iran

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