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: Armed Forces Chief of Staff: If Sanctions Are Lifted We’ll Be One of the World’s Largest Arms Exporters
The Iranian regime will be one of the world’s largest arms exporters if US sanctions are lifted, said Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of the Iranian regime’s armed forces, on Monday, according to the regime’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, an outlet linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force.
“If the criminal US sanctions are lifted, we will become one of the world’s largest arms exporters,” Bagheri said, stressing that the regime needs to import certain equipment from other countries.
“In the field of self-reliance, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency, we are more than self-sufficient in weapons and equipment, in designing strategies and policies, in operational planning and tactics, and in what we must do in the defense and security of the country. Possibly aside from the world’s three main superpowers, even the Europeans are not self-reliant in this regard,” Bagheri claimed.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), reminded that sanctions relief for the Iranian regime is tantamount to Tehran providing weapons to the Hezbollah and other terrorist proxy groups in the Middle East, further adding to warmongering, killings, and insecurity across the region.
Bagheri, as the regime’s senior military official, is clearly acknowledging that sanctions relief will only fuel the regime’s belligerence throughout the Middle East.
It is worth noting that in 2020, then–Iranian regime defense minister Amir Hatami had said that the mullahs’ continued their arms cooperation with a number of countries despite the fact that the regime was under weapons trade sanctions.
The UN arms embargo on Iran ended in 2020, while US sanctions banning the regime from conducting arms sales are still in place. Following the end of the UN embargo, Hatami claimed that the regime’s arms exports will exceed its imports.
The mullahs’ regime has a long history of providing weapons to its long list of proxies checkered in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
The latest revelations by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) about the Iranian regime’s dangerous attempts to disrupt international maritime activity should serve as a wake-up call for Western governments. Tehran has significantly expanded its maritime terrorism using foreign mercenaries from the Middle East and Africa, especially in Yemen. This shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. The economy is tanking, and the regime is facing a multitude of irremediable social, political, and economic crises at home and is unable to stem the tide of expanding and continuing protests virtually by every sector of the Iranian society. Since December 2017, there have been eight major nationwide uprisings, the common theme of which has been the popular demand to overthrow the regime. Furthermore, the elimination of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in January 2020 damaged the regime’s influence in regional hotspots like Syria and Iraq. Regrettably...
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...
Written by Sedighe Shahrokhi Every day, when the guards opened the solitary cells, they started beating the MEK’s prisoners,” Rahman Darkeshideh testified on Thursday, January 27, during the trial of Hamid Noury , deputy prosecutor in the notorious Gohardasht Prison (west of Tehran), where thousands of political prisoners were massacred in 1988. Noury, an Iranian prison official, was apprehended in 2019 in Sweden. His trial began in 2020, and dozens of survivors of the 1988 genocide shared harrowing accounts of those dreadful days, mainly in Gohardahst prison, where Noury worked. Based on a fatwa by the regime’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini, the so-called “Death Commissions” sent thousands of prisoners to gallows after the victims refused to disavow their allegiance to Iran’s leading opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK). The Iranian regime’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, was a member of Tehran’s “Death Commission.” Darkeshideh, Noury’s neighbor and a Ma...
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