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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Miankaleh Peninsula: How Iran’s Environment Is Forgone for Grand Interests of the Regime
n recent days, the construction of a petrochemical site in Miankaleh has become a hot social issue. Initial phases of the Miankaleh Petrochemical Complex started in March by the regime’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, but Ali Selajgeh, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced that the project was not approved by the organization and would be “illegal”.
Following widespread popular protests and public outcry over the construction of the petrochemical complex in the Miankaleh Protected Reservoir, the government announced it has brought the project to a halt. As usual, the regime’s president Ebrahim Raisi tried to exploit the opportunity and claimed he personally had ordered the project to be stopped, followed by Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri who stepped in and took credit.
But despite orders by both executive and judicial branches, environmental activists, as well as locals, say that construction is continuing uninterrupted and around the clock.
Following such reports, the Head of Mazandaran’s Justice Department, Mohammad Sadegh Akbari, announced on Wednesday, April 13, that he had sent a team to this area to investigate the situation. He claimed that violators who ignore the order to stop the petrochemical project will be dealt with legally.
Environmental activists say that the construction of a petrochemical complex will cause considerable damage to the Miankaleh wetland and national park, and the devastation that happened to Khuzestan Province will be repeated here as well.
The mere presence of Ahmadi Vahidi at the groundbreaking ceremony indicated that the Revolutionary Guards were involved in the project and that the reason the construction project continues despite alleged orders by Tehran is that strong hands were behind the project.
Recently, without mentioning the name of Miankaleh Petrochemical Complex, the Speaker of the regime’s parliament Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, spoke about a project in which, after obtaining a permit, investment was made and work began, but it was stopped sometime later. Meanwhile, some pro-government journalists claimed that Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf was behind the project, while his speech in the parliament provided more proof.
Miankaleh is a wetland in the southeast of the Caspian Sea and a protected area that is one of the wildlife sanctuaries of Iran and is an important habitat for herons, swallows, and other migratory birds.
The assertion on continuing the project, despite all public opposition, reinforces the suspicion that the Revolutionary Guards and possibly institutions under the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have high stakes in its construction.
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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