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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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London Conference: “No to Belligerence and Fundamentalism” on the Eve of Eid Al-fitr

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  Written by   Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Maryam Rajavi: Islam Is a Messenger of Freedom and the Overthrow of the Absolute Rule of the Clergy On Thursday, April 28, 2022, on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, a conference entitled “No to Belligerence and Fundamentalism” was held in London, with the presence of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Several political and religious dignitaries from various countries also spoke at the conference, some via video. Members of the  Mujahedin-e Khalq  (MEK/PMOI) in Ashraf 3 in Albania also participated in the conference online. Representatives and political figures from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Algeria, Sudan, Ukraine, and Britain participated in the conference, including Riyad Yassin, Former Foreign Minister and Yemen’s Ambassador to France, Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi, former Lebanese Minister of Justice (2014-2016); Tareq Mehdi Abdoltawab, f...
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Iran: Khamenei’s Speech Revealed His Fear of Domestic and International Dangers Ahead

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  Written by   Sedighe Shahrokhi On April 26, on the same day when the Iranian regime’s Judiciary confirmed the 16-year jail sentence for two award-winning elite students for activism against the entire ruling establishment, the regime’s  Supreme Leader organized  a meeting with a crowd he called “students and members of student organizations” to warn his followers about what is going on in the country’s universities. Recalling the very first days after the 1979 revolution and contradicting the events that turned most Iranian students into political dissidents, Khamenei said: “From the very beginning, two completely opposite views, namely, ‘the view of the revolution led by Imam Khomeini’ and ‘the view of the reactionary and counter-revolutionary movement’ confronted each other in our universities. The revolution saw the university as a center to produce science and scientific growth and thus a provider of national power, but the counter-revolutionary movement wanted...
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Arrest of ‘Mossad Agents’ to Justify Tehran’s Anti-Semite, Anti-Western Strategies

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  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh. On Wednesday, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)  announced  that it had arrested three individuals on charges of spying for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. The identity of the persons in question or the evidence that led to allegations against them were not revealed. Vulnerable political parties or authoritarian regimes that lack an agenda for prosperity and development have always invoked foreign boogeymen, in that they are useful to blame for one’s failures. For example, In 1980, the mullahs  provoked their  western neighbor into war and used the “the divine blessing”— as former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini put it — to wipe out domestic opposition. The Mujahedin-e-Khalq (PMOI), the People’s Fedayeen Organization, or any progressive movement that would have dared to speak out for democracy or women’s rights faced brutal crackdown, as a fifth columnist.   The Irania...
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Changing times add to the mullahs’ isolation in Iran

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 By Farid Mahoutchi Following the November 2020 U.S. presidential election and a new administration entering the White House, the mullahs’ regime in Iran launched a brouhaha about “new opportunities” and former regime president  Hassan Rouhani  emphasized on November 12, 2021, that “no one is permitted to miss out on this opportunity!” Proponents of this initiative believed a Democrat administration in the U.S. will provide “a better atmosphere for closer relations and better engagement.” Some 15 months into the new U.S. administration, we have witnessed eight rounds of  fruitless negotiations  aimed at revitalizing the 2015 nuclear deal. Not only has U.S. President Joe Biden refrained from reentering the 2015 nuclear deal and lift significant sanctions, but in fact the Iranian regime is suffering from increasing isolation. In a recent phone call with Iranian regime Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Josep Borrell, the European Union’s High Representativ...
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Iran’s corrupt and dysfunctional Assembly of Experts

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  The idea for an assembly of experts dates back to the 1979 Iranian Revolution when a constituent assembly was needed to draft a new constitution. Debates over the nature of that body ultimately led to the formation of a small, expert-based group rather than a larger assembly of representatives from all over the country. The first assembly was dissolved after the constitution was ratified in December 1979. The Assembly of Experts, in its current form, was established in 1982 under Article 108 of the constitution. It officially began work in 1983. Subsequent elections were held in 1991, 1999, and 2007. The scheduled 2015 election was delayed for a year until February 2016 based on the 2009 electoral law, which synchronized the parliamentary elections held every four years with the assembly’s elections held every eight years.  This body chose Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri as the designated successor to the founder and then Supreme Leader of the regime, Khomeini in 1985....
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Hamid Noury in His 86th Trial Session: Only Those Who Cooperated Would Have Furlough

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  Written by   Sedighe Shahrokhi On Thursday, April 21, the Court of Stockholm that is currently  trying Hamid Noury , a former prison guard accused of participating in the execution of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 in Gohardasht Prison, held its 86 th  session with an extraordinary examination of the defendant. As with other defense hearings in recent months, his family, including his wife, daughter, bride, son, and son-in-law, attended the hearing. The prosecutors had requested the questioning and provided audio and video evidence known as “Protocol 16” to the court. One of the prosecutors explained how investigators put a great deal of effort to obtain part of the audio and video content from the defendant’s phone, accessing evidence Hamid Noury had deleted the night before he flew to Sweden. Some of the evidence included a conversation between Hamid Noury’s wife and daughter, the night before he left Iran, and his eventual arrest the same day at Stock...
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State Officials Become More Vocal as Internet Restriction Bill Lingers On

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  Written by   Hamideh Taati The flow of free information about the Iranian regime’s atrocities and corruption is increasingly raising public awareness and the state officials’ paranoia has reached new levels. As the so-called ‘cyberspace protection bill’ continues to be pulled from the parliament to the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, some officials are pointing fingers at the MEK to accelerate a decision. According to the state-run  Mehr news agency  on April 23, a member of the Supreme Council of Seminaries Mohsen Araki said: “This is a warning to all decision-makers. As in many countries that wisely make decisions and manage their cyberspace in accordance with their national interests, you should be brave too. Do not let the hoax created by the enemies and hypocrites affect you.” Another state-affiliated cleric Mohammad Hassan Doaei said on Razavi local TV: “You have to see how much power the media has and look what propaganda is doing to public opinion. When you ...
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As New Teacher Protests Loom, Crackdowns Persist on the Streets and in Prisons

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  Written by   Mansoureh Galestan Iranian teachers are expected to stage a new round of protests on Thursday as part of a nationwide movement that has been ongoing for many months. It demands an increase in poverty-level wages and safeguards on the rights of both teachers and students. However, the regime’s contempt for those rights is evident from numerous arrests of teacher-activists and trade unionists, many of which have led to multi-year prison sentences amidst broader crackdowns on social activism. The threat of such crackdowns was underscored on Tuesday when it was reported that the judiciary had sentenced  Rasoul Bodaghi , an organizer of prior teacher protests, to five years imprisonment on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security” and “spreading propaganda.” The Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights quoted Bodaghi himself as saying, “My five-year prison sentence is for seeking justice and freedom; And for wanting to improve the education system ...
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Iran’s regime is ramping up repression of girls in universities

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By Shamsi Saadati   According to multiple reports, authorities in Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology have security forces to control female students and ensure they abide by the regime’s dress codes. Reports indicate that at the same time, the university’s security guards are harassing girls under different excuses and claiming that they are violating hijab and dress rules. Such behavior has not only been seen at the entrance of the university, but security forces are also patrolling the campus area and stopping students who are not observing the regime’s dress code. Students say that these measures have increased since  Ebrahim Raisi  became the regime’s president. After a pause in in-person school attendance, the regime has started ratcheting up repressive measures in universities as students return to campuses. In response to the reports, authorities at Amirkabir University said they are just following the orders of their higher ups. One student said, “A secur...
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