https://youtu.be/9XQX_5mBRhU @zyazigi @skynewsarabia #ايران #NO2Rouhani
۰۷ مرداد، ۱۳۹۶
#مريم_رجوي في حوار خاص على سكاي نيوز عربية
https://youtu.be/9XQX_5mBRhU @zyazigi @skynewsarabia #ايران #NO2Rouhani
Solidarité avec la résistance historique du peuple d’Iran pour la liberté
Solidarité avec la résistance historique du peuple d’#Iran pour la liberté
http://www.ncr-iran.org/fr/communiques-cnri/iran-resistance/19975-solidarite-avec-la-resistance-historique-du-peuple-d-iran-pour-la-liberte
Nombre
de personnalités et parlementaires ont rendu hommage à un plus d’un
demi-siècle de lutte du peuple iranien contre la tyrannie et pour la
liberté, devant un monument symbolisant ce combat à la résidence de
Maryam Radjavi, en signant un recueil de solidarité avec la campagne
pour « un Iran libre avec 1000 Achraf. Notre but : un changement de régime ».
L’événement suivait le grand rassemblement de la Résistance iranienne à Villepinte, au nord de Paris, en présence de nombreuses personnalités et délégations parlementaires du monde entier.
Maryam Radjavi a accueilli ses invités avant de les remercier pour leurs efforts qui ont permis de garantir la réinstallation en toute sécurité des Achrafiens : “Le changement de circonstances pour la Résistance iranienne, ses activités croissantes en Iran et la dégradation de la situation de la dictature, rendent clair qu’un changement de régime en Iran est à portée de main.
“Aujourd’hui, il existe une alternative puissante et organisée dans une position adéquate en mesure d’influer sur la situation intérieure en Iran et d’organiser des protestations de tous les secteurs sociaux, en particulier la jeunesse et les femmes. Cela signifie que notre véritable tâche vient juste de commencer, la tâche de libérer les Iraniens de l’oppression.
“C’est pourquoi, je répèterai le mot d’ordre du rassemblement d’aujourd’hui : avec la Résistance iranienne, un changement de régime est à portée de main. Je suis sûre que nous pouvons et devons changer ce régime religieux et instaurer la paix et la sécurité dans le monde.
“Une fois de plus, je vous remercie tous pour vous tenir à nos côtés dans la quête de ce noble objectif qu’est la libération de l’Iran.”
Plusieurs personnalités ont pris la parole pour saluer le succès de ce grand rassemblement de la Résistance iranienne dans lequel les Achrafiens ont participé en direct via une connexion satellite.
L’événement suivait le grand rassemblement de la Résistance iranienne à Villepinte, au nord de Paris, en présence de nombreuses personnalités et délégations parlementaires du monde entier.
Maryam Radjavi a accueilli ses invités avant de les remercier pour leurs efforts qui ont permis de garantir la réinstallation en toute sécurité des Achrafiens : “Le changement de circonstances pour la Résistance iranienne, ses activités croissantes en Iran et la dégradation de la situation de la dictature, rendent clair qu’un changement de régime en Iran est à portée de main.
“Aujourd’hui, il existe une alternative puissante et organisée dans une position adéquate en mesure d’influer sur la situation intérieure en Iran et d’organiser des protestations de tous les secteurs sociaux, en particulier la jeunesse et les femmes. Cela signifie que notre véritable tâche vient juste de commencer, la tâche de libérer les Iraniens de l’oppression.
“C’est pourquoi, je répèterai le mot d’ordre du rassemblement d’aujourd’hui : avec la Résistance iranienne, un changement de régime est à portée de main. Je suis sûre que nous pouvons et devons changer ce régime religieux et instaurer la paix et la sécurité dans le monde.
“Une fois de plus, je vous remercie tous pour vous tenir à nos côtés dans la quête de ce noble objectif qu’est la libération de l’Iran.”
Plusieurs personnalités ont pris la parole pour saluer le succès de ce grand rassemblement de la Résistance iranienne dans lequel les Achrafiens ont participé en direct via une connexion satellite.
Signature du recueil en solidarité avec la campagne « un #Iran libre avec 1000 Achraf. Notre but : le renversement du régime »#FreeIran pic.twitter.com/qYY1gDf3Es— Maryam Radjavi (@Maryam_Rajavi_F) 21 juillet 2017
Source: http://www.maryam-rajavi.com/fr
Solidarité avec la résistance historique du peuple d’Iran pour la liberté
Les responsables du massacre de l’OMPI devraient être récompensés - un haut responsable iranien
Les responsables du massacre de l’OMPI devraient être récompensés - un haut responsable iranien
http://www.ncr-iran.org/fr/actualites/droits-humains/19983-les-responsables-du-massacre-de-l-ompi-devraient-etre-recompenses-un-haut-responsable-iranien
Ahmad Khatami, membre influent de l’Assemblée des experts du régime iranien, a profité de la prière du vendredi de Téhéran pour exprimer sa colère au sujet du succès de la campagne du « Mouvement pour la justice pour les victimes du massacre de 1988 en Iran » et a proposé que des médailles soient décernées à ceux impliqués dans la terrible tuerie de plus de 30 000 prisonniers politiques en quelques semaines dans les prisons iraniennes.
« Ce fut un mouvement divin mené par l’imam [Khomeiny] pour se débarrasser de l’OMPI. Tous ceux qui ont agi conformément à ses ordres devraient être récompensés par des médailles... cependant, ceux qui sur leurs sites Internet ont inversé la place des martyrs et celles des meurtriers, devraient se repentir et demander pardon », a-t-il déclaré.Ce haut responsable iranien, impliqué dans de nombreux crimes du régime, a par ailleurs exprimé sa colère au sujet du rassemblement de l’opposition iranienne le 1er juillet à Paris. Il a en outre tenu des propos insolents contre l’ancien premier ministre iranien Mohammad Mossadegh, l’accusant de n’avoir pas collaboré avec les mollahs lors de son renversement par coup d’Etat en 1953, et s’être opposé à Abolghasem Kashani, un mollahs détesté par le peuple iranien pour ses liaisons avec les auteurs du coup d’Etat.
Le mollah Abbasian, un autre imam de la prière du vendredi, a tenu des propos similaires. « Au cours de la période électorale, nous avons vu comment un certain nombre de personnes ont cherché à changer l'image de l’OMPI et ont critiqué ceux leurs opposants… je lève mon chapeau au juge qui a exécuté les Moudjahidine du peuple », a-t-il déclaré.
Il y a quelques jours, l’ancien ministre du Renseignement, Ali Fallahian, recherché par les appareilles judiciaires suisse, allemand et argentin, avec des citations à comparaître internationales, a également exprimé sa crainte au sujet de la campagne du Mouvement pour la justice.
« En ce qui concerne l’OMPI et tous les autres groupes qui sont mohareb [ennemi de Dieu] ... l’imam [Khomeiny] a ordonné d’appliquer les exécutions dans tous les cas... l’imam a constamment souligné qu’il faut veiller à ce qu’ils ne vous filent pas entre les doigts et il insistait la sentence à leur égard est la peine de mort, a la fois avant et après la question de 1988. Même si le juge ne les a pas condamnés à mort », a-t-il déclaré.
« ... Je veux parler de ma première analyse, et cela concerne le rassemblement du [MEK] en France... le simple fait qu'ils soient autorisés à organiser un rassemblement là est un soutien pratique au terrorisme... », a-t-il ajouté.
L’ancien ministre du Renseignement, qui a été l’un des principaux responsables impliqués dans les meurtres en série des années 1990 en Iran, a évoqué en outre l’ampleur du massacre de l’OMPI en 1988 et reconnu que beaucoup des personnes avaient été arrêtées et exécutées simplement pour avoir vendu des journaux, ou pour avoir procuré de la nourriture et d’autres nécessités au membres de l’OMPI.
Ces propos horribles ne sont que la pointe de l'iceberg de la campagne lancé par Ali Khamenei pour justifier le massacre de 1988, surtout après son échec dans la récente mascarade électorale et la tentative de faire élire son candidat favori, le religieux conservateur Ebrahim Raïssi, connu pour son rôle direct dans le massacre de 1988.
رجوي تدعو لتصنيف الحرس الثوري كيانا إرهابيا
رجوي تدعو لتصنيف الحرس الثوري كيانا إرهابيا٫#
أكدت رئيسة الجمهورية المنتخبة من قبل المقاومة الإيرانية مريم رجوي، على
ترحيبها بتبني مشروع القانون في مجلسي النواب والشيوخ الأميركيين لفرض
عقوبات جديدة على نظام الملالي في طهران، لانتهاكه حقوق الإنسان وتصنيع
وتطوير الصواريخ الباليستية، كما ثمنت فرض عقوبات على ميليشيات الحرس
الثوري لممارساتها الإرهابية. وأضافت أن المقاومة الإيرانية منذ سنوات أكدت
على ضرورة تصنيف قوات الحرس الثوري كيانا إرهابيا، بصفتها الجهة الحافظة
لنظام الملالي وذراعه العسكري في القمع وتصدير الإرهاب والتطرف، غير أن
سياسة المساومة مع دكتاتورية الملالي فتحت الأبواب على مصراعيها أمام قوات
الحرس وميليشياتها لانتهاكاتها في المنطقة بكاملها. وشددت رجوي على ضرورة
فرض فوري لهذه العقوبات ، كذلك طرد قوات الحرس والميليشيات التابعة لها من
المنطقة خاصة من سورية والعراق واليمن.
رجوي: نرحب بفرض عقوبات جديدة على «الثوري»
<<رجوي: نرحب بفرض عقوبات جديدة على «الثوري#
رجوي: نرحب بفرض عقوبات جديدة على «الثوري» - أخبار السعودية | صحيفة عكاظ
http://www.okaz.com.sa/article/156162
رحبت زعيمة المعارضة الإيرانية
مريم رجوي بتبني مشروع قانون في مجلسي النواب والشيوخ الأمريكيين لفرض عقوبات جديدة على نظام الملالي لانتهاكه حقوق الإنسان وتصنيع وتطوير الصواريخ الباليستية بعقوبات على قوات الحرس الثوري لممارساتها الإرهابية. مشيرة إلى أن المقاومة الإيرانية أكدت منذ سنوات ضرورة تصنيف قوات الحرس كيانًا إرهابيًا، باعتباره ذراع نظام الملالي الرئيسي في القمع وتصدير الإرهاب والتطرف في المنطقة بكاملها.
Iran: Restrictions on women’s freedom of travel stressed
#Iran: Restrictions on women’s freedom of travel stressed
http://women.ncr-iran.org/iran-women-news/4145-iran-restrictions-on-women-s-freedom-of-travel-stressed
Women cannot be granted permit to freely leave the country without
their husband’s permission because it contradicts the Islamic Shariaa."
This was declared by Minoo Aslani, the head of women's Bassij paramilitary force. She reiterated, "This law has been derived from the sacred Shariaa laws and is necessary for solidifying the foundations of any marriage."
She repudiated arguments seeking to balance this law as unnecessary and added, "It’s a wrong premise that this law is cumbersome to researchers and scholars who intend to leave the country for their studies." (The state-run Tabnak news agency, July 27, 2017)
This was declared by Minoo Aslani, the head of women's Bassij paramilitary force. She reiterated, "This law has been derived from the sacred Shariaa laws and is necessary for solidifying the foundations of any marriage."
She repudiated arguments seeking to balance this law as unnecessary and added, "It’s a wrong premise that this law is cumbersome to researchers and scholars who intend to leave the country for their studies." (The state-run Tabnak news agency, July 27, 2017)
Maryam Rajavi welcomes new sanctions act, stresses need to immediately and fully implement them
#Maryam Rajavi welcomes new sanctions act, stresses need to immediately and fully implement them
Eviction of the IRGC and their militia from the Middle East is indispensable to the enactment of this Act
Mrs.
Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran (NCRI), welcomed adoption of a bill by both chambers
of the US Congress which imposes new sanctions on the Iranian regime for
violating human rights and pursuing ballistic missiles.
The U.S. Congress also extends sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) for its involvement in terrorism.
She
added: “Since several years ago, the Iranian Resistance had urged the
terrorist designation of the IRGC, as it preserves the entirety of the
clerical regime and acts as its main apparatus for domestic suppression
and export of terrorism and fundamentalism. However, the policy of
appeasing the mullahs’ religious dictatorship paved the way for the IRGC
and its proxies’ rampage in the entire region.”
Mrs.
Rajavi underscored the need for the immediate and complete
implementation of these sanctions and their respective provisions. She
emphasized that there should be no loopholes that would allow the regime
and its official and unofficial entities, as well as its domestic and
foreign interlocutors to evade the implications of the bill.
The
NCRI’s President-elect urged other countries, in particular the EU and
the Middle East nations, to adopt these sanctions, so as to deny the
regime the opportunity to take advantage of its diplomatic and
commercial ties with them and continue to suppress the Iranian people
and export terrorism and war to the rest of the region.
She
added: “The immediate implementation of sanctions against the IRGC and
its affiliated entities must be coupled with the expulsion of IRGC and
its affiliated militias from the Middle East, in particular from Syria
and Iraq; this is indispensable to the enactment of this Act and a
prerequisite to ending conflict and crisis that have engulfed that
region.
Mrs. Rajavi asserted that
full implementation of these sanctions against the Iranian regime must
be completed with urgent actions against officials in charge of
executions, torture and particularly the massacre of political prisoners
in 1988. Topping the list is Ali Khamenei, the mullahs’ supreme leader.
They must face justice for 38 years of crimes against humanity. The
ultimate solution to the crisis in the region is the overthrow of the
illegitimate clerical regime by the Iranian people and the Iranian
Resistance. Recognition of the Iranian people’s desire and right to
overthrow the mullahs and establish democracy and freedom in Iran is the
greatest contribution to peace and tranquility in the Middle East and
the world.
The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
What's Really Behind French Oil Giant's Deal With Iran?
What's Really Behind French Oil Giant's Deal With #Iran?
The $4.8-billion-dollar deal between
Iran and France's Total, the huge multinational oil and gas Company, has
become very controversial. Considering the unilateral U.S. sanctions
and increasing measures against Iran, why has Total risked signing such a
deal?There are a variety of possibilities.Total will be developing
phase 11 of Iran's mammoth South Pars gas field, the largest in the
world,
along with a state Chinese
firm and an Iranian subsidiary. The project is set to render 2 billion
cubic feet of gas per day, equivalent to 400,000 barrels of oil.
Iran's
domestic market will receive the supply in 2021. The first stage is set
to cost $2 billion, with an end price of up to $5 billion and
production forecasted to start within 40 months.
As
we speak, however, Washington continues to impose sanctions on Tehran
and the Trump administration's comprehensive Iran policy has yet to be
defined. Therefore, why did Total accept such a risk?
The
mullahs' regime has provided numerous concessions in this deal, leaving
Total believing the risk is worth taking. Iran may also receive no
compensation in the case of Total deciding to abandon the contract. Ten
years ago a similar contract was signed between Iran and Total, ending
in the French company pulling out and not paying a dime in compensation.
Total
most likely also received guarantees on Tehran paying any possible
financial fines. And finally, considering the silence seen from
Washington over this deal, there lies a possibility of the Americans
providing a green light for its brokering.
Needless
to say, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has emphasized that
regardless of the policies adopted by Congress, the Trump administration
will continue its own path of implementing sanctions on Iran.
The
entire contract remains classified and the scenarios discussed above
remain probabilities. What remains completely constant is the enormous
scope of concessions provided by Iran. Rest assured all such actions
were approved by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself.
This
is exactly why he has remained silent despite all the disagreements and
discussions inside the regime. Iran's parliament has canceled any and
all discussions in this regard. When handling major policy matters,
Khamenei has the final word, similar to how it is said he blessed the
Iran nuclear deal in a mere 20 minutes.
Both
Iranian regime factions need to launch a major brouhaha in this regard.
Members of Khamenei's conservative faction refer to the faults in
slamming the faction loyal to President Hassan Rouhani.
The
Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) is the main party concerned in this regard,
as the Total deal leaves it out of earning any direct revenue. The
Rouhani faction also seeks to boast their success, especially after
gaining nothing from the Iran nuclear deal.
Economically,
this $4.8 billion deal only provides for 2.5 percent of Tehran's
investment needs. In the next five years, Iran will need around $200
billion in investments, according to the Oil Ministry. This deal
provides for the only 1/40th of the amount.
Iran
will drop from an oil exporter to becoming an oil importer if around
$150 to $200 billion foreign investing are not realized in the next
decade, according to the Iranian Parliamentary Research Center.
For
comparison, U.S. President Donald Trump's recent visit to Saudi Arabia
resulted in $380 billion in investments, consisting of $110 billion in
arms contracts. However, they never went the limits to boast these feats
as Iran has gone with a mere $5 billion deal.
The
unprecedented, and utterly disgraceful, aspect of the deal lies in the
fact that Total, a foreign company, owns 50.1 percent of contract share,
China owning 30 percent and Iran a mere 19.9 percent. As a result, the
management of this huge gas resource, belonging to the Iranian people,
will be handled by a foreign company.
According
to the Guardian Council, a body tasked to oversee the parliament's
actions, this contract is considered illegal based on Article 81 of
Iran's constitution. No contract should place over 50 percent of shares
to a foreign company, especially a long-term and classified company set
for 25 years.
Based on Article 77 of
the Iranian Constitution, the parliament must be informed of all foreign
contracts. There is no legal reasoning that even this regime's own MPs
have been kept in the dark about contract details.
Total
is not even obliged to transfer any technology to Iran as of yet. When
the gas field begins to lose its output only then is Total obligated to
provide Iran its technology.
Of
course, the development, production and other processes of this gas
field will take an uncertain amount of years — maybe even 15 years — and
when Iran will actually receive technology once the gas output begins
to plunge is anyone's guess.
And in
reference to Iran's claim of this deal signaling the sanctions wall
crumbling, such remarks are only aimed at maintaining a straight face
and cloak the failure of the nuclear deal to provide any tangible
outcomes.
Congress is back to work and Iran sanctions bill are high on agenda.
The
US has practically ripped up the nuclear arms deal with Iran, according
to the Financial Times. Washington's efforts to keep Iran at a distance
from the international banking system have had much the same effect.
The
Financial Action Task Force, an intergovernmental body established to
fight global money laundering, warned of the consequences of any deals
made with Iran.
FATF listed nine
countries, including Iran, who have failed to take action to tackle
financial measures aimed at providing to terrorists and money
laundering. FATF has practically called on all its members across the
globe to carry out special measures against the threats of economic
cooperation with Iran.
Iran is also
experiencing difficulties in receiving money for its petrochemical
products sold to China, according to this regime's Deputy Oil Minister
Marzie Shahedaie, citing new Chinese anti-money laundering laws.
Second,
only to oil, Iran's petrochemical products consist are this regime's
main export to China. Around 40 percent of Iran's petrochemical exports
are headed to Beijing, while four Chinese banks are refusing to issue
letters of credit to Tehran.
The
European Union has renewed its Iran list of sanctioned individuals and
entities involved in nuclear and ballistic missile activities. While no
names have been added the list does contain new information.
Individuals with renewed information on the EU list include 23 names such as:
- IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Suleimani.
- Former IRGC chief Rahim Safavi.
- Former IRGC Basij chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi.
- Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs of Iran Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr.
- Former Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoon Abbasi.
- Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, also involved in Iran's controversial nuclear program
MEK is a major threat to the Iranian regime
#MEK is a major threat to the Iranian regime
On July 1, 2017, the (NCRI) and the
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK/PMOI) held a gathering in
Paris, France, where more than 100,000 Iranians from all over the world
participated. In addition, many international dignitaries including Rudy
Giuliani former mayor of New York City, John Bolton former ambassador
to the United States, Tom Ridge, Former Secretary of Homeland Security,
Newt
Gingrich former speaker of the House, Ed Rendell, former Governor of
Pennsylvania,Joseph Lieberman, former US Senator and Democratic Vice
Presidential candidate and several congressional delegates Participants
were also a large number of dignitaries and Parliamentarians from Europe
and Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia's Prince Turkic al-Faisal
Iranian
regime was already trying to put pressure on the French government to
prevent the gathering, and for this purpose, Jawad Zarif, Iran’s Foreign
Minister, raveled to France.Immediately after his return to Iran, the
regime responded through Friday prayer masquerades, protesting against
the French government.
The Iranian
resistance holds its gathering in Paris every year, but the question is
why this year the Iranian regime was so hysterical regarding the
event.Contrary to previous years, which regime would try to ignore the
event by media blackout, this year the news of this gathering has been
published more than a thousand times in the Iranian regime’s media.
The
regime claims that 70 percent of Iranians had voted for this government
If that is the case then why are they afraid of a group which they
claim lacks popular support.
To
answer this question we have to understand the current state of Iran and
how the Iranian regime survives. two years after the atomic deal known
as the JCPOA, Iranian regime, not only has failed to solve the economic
problems of the society, but the situation has exacerbated On the other
hand,public protests have been increasing every day. Khamenei by
“engineering” the election was planning to counter the social uprisings
and control the tensions within the regime. For this reason, he selected
mullah Ebrahim Raisi, as his candidate for Presidential election.
Iranian
regime massacred over 30,000 political prisoners in summer of 1988 and
kept a lid on this atrocity for three decades. In this year’s
presidential election when Ebrahim Raisi, one of the perpetrators of the
massacre, was selected as a main candidate, the news of the 1988
massacre surfaced and the youth were demanding accountability.
Pictures
of Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance
of Iran, were raised in various parts of Tehran, and other cities
across the country, slogans were written on the walls in support of the
Mojahedin (MEK/PMOI) and Maryam Rajavi.
Regionally,
in the Islamic countries, a coalition was formed against the
destructive interference of the Iranian regime in the region. For the
first time in past 38 years the international community has come to
realize that the only solution for the region is regime change in Iran.
Regime change was the main topic of the speakers in July 1, 2017 annual gathering of Iranian resistance in Paris.
Former ambassador of the United States to the UN John Bolton said:
The
outcome of the president’s policy review should be to determine that
the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution will not last until its 40th
birthday. As the campaign to destroy the ISIS caliphate nears its
ultimately successful conclusion, we must avoid allowing the regime in
Tehran to achieve its long-sought objective of an arc of control from
Iran through the Baghdad government in Iraq, to the Assad regime in
Syria, and the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. An arc of control which
if it’s allowed to form will simply be the foundation for the next grave
conflict in the Middle East.
Rudy Giuliani former mayor of New York City said:
I’m
happiest to be here because I can say, can probably say this with a
good deal of authority, that the government of the United States
supports you, we’re behind you, we agree with your values. The
government of the United States understands the danger of Iran. The
government of the United States will not allow Iran to become an empire
in the Middle East. And the United States of America will not allow Iran
to become a nuclear power under any circumstances.And finally,I can say
The regime is evil and it must go. Free Iran.
Why Iran Apologists Demonize the MEK?
Why #Iran Apologists Demonize the #MEK?
http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31813:why-iran-apologists-demonize-the-mek&catid=35:op-ed&Itemid=129
The U.S. Senate voted almost unanimously on Thursday to pass new sanctions on Russia, North Korea and Iran.
The officials of Iranian regime are
already afraid of the consequences of the new sanctions. In addition to
economic implications of the sanctions, what worries them the most is
the actions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
as a terrorist organization. Designating and imposing sanctions on the
IRGC was long overdue because the IRGC serves as the guarantee to
preserve the entirety of the regime ruling Iran and is the main entity
responsible for domestic suppression, the export of terrorism and
extremism, and obtaining weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear
weapons and ballistic missiles.
The new bill has added to already shaky
regime’s fears. Janati, the head of the Guardian Council announced on
Thursday that the main issue which has preoccupied the Supreme leader is
his concern over regime change.
Regime change was the main topic of the July 1, 2017 annual gathering of Iranian resistance (The Mujahedin-e-Khalq or MEK) in Paris. Many speakers talked about the regime change and their support for the MEK.
Regime change was the main topic of the July 1, 2017 annual gathering of Iranian resistance (The Mujahedin-e-Khalq or MEK) in Paris. Many speakers talked about the regime change and their support for the MEK.
“I’m happiest to be here because I can
say, can probably say this with a good deal of authority, that the
government of the United States supports you” Rudy Giuliani former mayor
of New York City said referring to MEK supporters in the gathering.
“we’re behind you, we agree with your
values. The government of the United States understands the danger of
Iran. The government of the United States will not allow Iran to become
an empire in the Middle East.” Added Giuliani addressing the MEK
supporters in the meeting.
“I have come to bring you a simple
message. Iran must be free. The only practical goal is to support a
movement that could free Iran, and that's you.” Former speaker of the
house Newt Gingrich addressing MEK supporters in the gathering.
“The presence of 3000 MEK in Albania is a
decisive defeat for dictatorship in Tehran. the name of your president
will stand the same as George Washington and Lafayette in the United
States” Added Gingrich addressing the MEK supporters.
“The outcome of the president’s policy
review should be to determine that the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979
revolution will not last until its 40th birthday.” Former US ambassador
to the UN John Bolton said addressing the MEK supporters in the meeting.
It is over thirty years since Iranian
people and their just resistance (MEK) have been seeking for a regime
change, but the brutal internal suppression, and international and
especially US policy of appeasement towards Iran have been the main
obstacles to reach this goal.
Now the time has come for a regime
change, and Iranian regime understands this more than anyone else, and
that is why their lobbies and apologists are spreading this fake news that regime change in Iran means another war in the Middle East and the war in Iraq will be repeated in Iran and US will get stuck in another war.
Iran lobbies also have started a
widespread campaign against the MEK to demonize the MEK. Their goal from
demonizing the MEK is to say that this regime does not have any
alternative so for any possible change, the solution is within the
regime and the West must try to find “moderates” inside the regime, and
they should not support the MEK.
Contrary to many countries including Iraq, in Iran a democratic and organized opposition exists. The Mujahedin-e-Khalq or the MEK has been fighting with this regime for over thirty-eight years.
Since June 20, 1981 Iranian regime has executed over 120,000,
mostly members and supporters of the MEK. Only in summer of 1988 over
30,000 political prisoners, majority of them from the MEK, were massacred.
In addition to the massacre of MEK
members and supports, Iranian regime created an atmosphere of fear and
terror in the society. The terror atmosphere was such that whoever had
any connection of any kind with the MEK they would be arrested and
tortured. Even using the name of MEK was prohibited. Any call or
communication with MEK members in camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq by
their family members was considered a crime and many MEK family members
were arrested and tortured just because they called to talk to their
loved ones.
Despite all the carnage, pressures,
suppression, and demonizing campaigns the MEK continued its fight
against the regime. After transfer of MEK members to Albania, they
focused on activities inside Iran. In the past nine months, the MEK
supports have staged a campaign regarding the 1988 massacre in Iran,
revealing many atrocities of the regime. The campaign has been so wide
spread and extensive that the supreme leader of the regime, Ali
Khamenei, was forced to react against the MEK, by defending the massacre
of MEK members and supporters in the prisons.
The adoption of the bill
by the US House of Representatives, imposing new sanctions on the
regime for violating human rights and pursuing ballistic missiles, and
designating the IRGC as a terrorist entity is an essential step in
rectifying the damaging policy of appeasement that needs to be completed
by other measures including the eviction of the IRGC and its affiliated
militia particularly from Syria and Iraq as well as the recognition of
the Iranian people’s right to overthrow the clerical regime.
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More about MEK
A Long Conflict between the Clerical Regime and the MEK
The origins of the MEK date back to
before the 1979 Iranian Revolution., the MEK helped to overthrow the
dictatorship of Shah Reza Pahlavi, but it quickly became a bitter enemy
of the emerging the religious fascism under the pretext of Islamic
Republic. To this day, the MEK and NCRI describe Ruhollah Khomenei and
his associates as having co-opted a popular revolution in order to
empower themselves while imposing a fundamentalist view of Islam onto
the people of Iran.
Under the Islamic Republic, the MEK was
quickly marginalized and affiliation with it was criminalized. Much of
the organization’s leadership went to neighboring Iraq and built an
exile community called Camp Ashraf, from which the MEK organized
activities aimed at ousting the clerical regime and bringing the Iranian
Revolution back in line with its pro-democratic origins. But the
persistence of these efforts also prompted the struggling regime to
crack down with extreme violence on the MEK and other opponents of
theocratic rule.
The crackdowns culminated in the
massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988, as the Iran-Iraq
War was coming to a close. Thousands of political prisoners were held in
Iranian jails at that time, many of them having already served out
their assigned prison sentences. And with the MEK already serving as the
main voice of opposition to the regime at that time, its members and
supporters naturally made up the vast majority of the population of such
prisoners.
As the result of a fatwa handed down by
Khomeini, the regime convened what came to be known as the Death
Commission, assigning three judges the task of briefly interviewing
prisoners to determine whether they retained any sympathy for the MEK or
harbored any resentment toward the existing government. Those who were
deemed to have shown any sign of continued opposition were sentenced to
be hanged. After a period of about three months, an estimated 30,000
people had been put to death. Many other killings of MEK members
preceded and followed that incident, so that today the Free Iran rally
includes an annual memorial for approximately 120,000 martyrs from the
People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
The obvious motive behind the 1988
massacre and other such killings was the destruction of the MEK. And yet
it has not only survived but thrived, gaining allies to form the NCRI
and acquiring the widespread support that is put on display at each
year’s Free Iran rally. In the previous events, the keynote speech was
delivered by Maryam Rajavi, who has been known to receive several
minutes of applause from the massive crowd as she takes the stage. Her
speeches provide concrete examples of the vulnerability of the clerical
regime and emphasize the ever-improving prospects for the MEK to lead
the way in bringing about regime change.
The recipients of that message are
diverse and they include more than just the assembled crowd of MEK
members and supporters. The expectation is that the international
dignitaries at each year’s event will carry the message of the MEK back
to their own governments and help to encourage more policymakers to
recognize the role of the Iranian Resistance in the potential creation
of a free and democratic Iranian nation. It is also expected that the
event will inspire millions of Iranians to plan for the eventual removal
of the clerical regime. And indeed, the MEK broadcasts the event via
its own satellite television network, to millions of Iranian households
with illegal hookups.
MEK’s Domestic Activism and Intelligence Network
What’s more, the MEK retains a solid
base of activists inside its Iranian homeland. In the run-up to this
year’s Free Iran rally the role of those activists was particularly
evident, since the event comes just a month and a half after the latest
Iranian presidential elections, in which heavily stage-managed elections
resulted in the supposedly moderate incumbent Hassan Rouhani securing
reelection. His initial election in 2013 was embraced by some Western
policymakers as a possible sign of progress inside the Islamic Republic,
but aside from the 2015 nuclear agreement with six world powers, none
of his progressive-sounding campaign promises have seen the light of
day.
Rouhani’s poor record has provided
additional fertile ground for the message of the MEK and Maryam Rajavi.
The Iranian Resistance has long argued that change from within the
regime is impossible, and this was strongly reiterated against the
backdrop of the presidential elections, when MEK activists used
graffiti, banners, and other communications to describe the sitting
president as an “imposter.” Many of those same communications decried
Rouhani’s leading challenger, Ebrahim Raisi, as a “murderer,” owing to
his leading role in the massacre of MEK supporters in 1988.
That fact helped to underscore the
domestic support for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran,
insofar as many people who participated in the election said they
recognized Raisi as the worst the regime had to offer, and that they
were eager to prevent him from taking office. But this is not to say
that voters saw Rouhani in a positive light, especially where the MEK is
concerned. Under the Rouhani administration, the Justice Minister is
headed by Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who also served on the Death Commission
and declared as recently as last year that he was proud of himself for
having carried out what he described as God’s command of death for MEK
supporters.
With this and other aspects of the
Islamic Republic’s record, the MEK’s pre-election activism was mainly
focused on encouraging Iranians to boycott the polls. The publicly
displayed banners and posters urged a “vote for regime change,” and many
of them included the likeness of Maryam Rajavi, suggesting that her
return to Iran from France would signify a meaningful alternative to the
hardline servants of the clerical regime who are currently the only
option in any Iranian national election.
Naturally, this direct impact on Iranian
politics is the ultimate goal of MEK activism. But it performs other
recognizable roles from its position in exile, not just limited to the
motivational and organization role of the Free Iran rally and other,
smaller gatherings. In fact, the MEK rose to particular international
prominence in 2005 when it released information that had been kept
secret by the Iranian regime about its nuclear program. These
revelations included the locations of two secret nuclear sites: a
uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and a heavy water plant at Arak,
capable of producing enriched plutonium.
As well as having a substantial impact
on the status of international policy regarding the Iranian nuclear
program, the revelations also highlighted the MEK’s popular support and
strong network inside Iran. Although Maryam Rajavi and the rest of the
leadership of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran reside outside
of the country, MEK affiliates are scattered throughout Iranian society
with some even holding positions within hardline government and
military institutions, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Drawing upon the resources of that
intelligence network, the MEK has continued to share crucial information
with Western governments in recent years, some of it related to the
nuclear program and some of it related to other matters including
terrorist training, military development, and the misappropriation of
financial resources. The MEK has variously pointed out that the
Revolutionary Guard controls well over half of Iran’s gross domestic
product, both directly and through a series of front companies and close
affiliates in all manner of Iranian industries.
In February of this year, the
Washington, D.C. office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
held press conferences to detail MEK intelligence regarding the
expansion of terrorist training programs being carried out across Iran
by the Revolutionary Guards. The growth of these programs reportedly
followed upon direct orders from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and
coincided with increased recruitment of foreign nationals to fight on
Tehran’s behalf in regional conflicts including the Syrian and Yemeni
civil wars.
In the weeks following that press
conference, the MEK’s parent organization also prepared documents and
held other talks explaining the source of some of the Revolutionary
Guards’ power and wealth. Notably, this series of revelations reflected
upon trends in American policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. And
other revelations continue to do so, even now.
MEK Intelligence Bolstering US Policy Shifts
Soon after taking office, and around the
time the MEK identified a series of Revolutionary Guard training camps,
US President Donald Trump directed the State Department to review the
possibility of designating Iran’s hardline paramilitary as a foreign
terrorist organization. Doing so would open the Revolutionary Guards up
to dramatically increased sanctions – a strategy that the MEK
prominently supports as a means of weakening the barriers to regime
change within Iran.
The recent revelations of the People’s
Mojahedin Organization of Iran have gone a long way toward illustrating
both the reasons for giving this designation to the Revolutionary Guards
and the potential impact of doing so. Since then, the MEK has also used
its intelligence gathering to highlight the ways in which further
sanctioning the Guards could result in improved regional security,
regardless of the specific impact on terrorist financing.
For example, in June the NCRI’s
Washington, D.C. office held yet another press conference wherein it
explained that MEK operatives had become aware of another order for
escalation that had been given by Supreme Leader Khamenei, this one
related to the Iranian ballistic missile program. This had also been a
longstanding point of contention for the Trump administration and the
rest of the US government, in light of several ballistic missile
launches that have been carried out since the conclusion of nuclear
negotiations, including an actual strike on eastern Syria.
That strike was widely viewed as a
threatening gesture toward the US. And the MEK has helped to clarify the
extent of the threat by identifying 42 separate missile sites scattered
throughout Iran, including one that was working closely with the
Iranian institution that had previously been tasked with weaponizing
aspects of the Iranian nuclear program.
The National Council of Resistance of
Iran (NCRI) led by Maryam Rajavi is thus going to great lengths to
encourage the current trend in US policy, which is pointing to more
assertiveness and possibly even to the ultimate goal of regime change.
The MEK is also striving to move Europe in a similar direction, and the
July 1 gathering is likely to show further progress toward that goal.
This is because hundreds of American and European politicians and
scholars have already declared support for the NCRI and MEK and the
platform of Maryam Rajavi. The number grows every year, while the
People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran continues to collect
intelligence that promises to clarify the need for regime change and the
practicality of their strategy for achieving it.
Iranian Opposition Welcomes New US Sanctions Against IRGC
Iranian Opposition Welcomes New US Sanctions Against IRGC
https://practicalpoliticking.com/2017/07/28/iranian-opposition-welcomes-new-us-sanctions-against-irgc/
New sanctions on Iran are a step towards taking power
away from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, but there is much more the US
and its allies can do.
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to rally major new sanctions on Iran, parallel to measures on North Korea and Russia. To impose additional sanctions on Iran’s defense sector, The House voted 419-3, moving the bill forward to be signed by President Trump. Coming after three weeks of negotiations, this bill “tightens the screws on our most dangerous adversaries,” explained House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The bill sanctions anyone associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or anyone whom the US determines is complicit in Iranian human rights violations. Anyone sanctioned under the act may later have sanctions removed after a five-year review.
Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi welcome the US House of Reps’ new sanctions and terrorist designation of IRGC as essential to rectifying the policy of appeasement and described the act as a “step in line with the Iranian people’s desires and peace in the region,” especially as it turns up the heat on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The new administration coming to Washington has promised many things, not least of which includes a reexamination of US policies towards Iran. Though the Obama administration did all it could to sell the nuclear deal as a victory, at best it has deferred the ultimate questions about how to deal with the regime in Iran, and at worst it has emboldened their belligerence in the region.
A successful policy vis-a-vis the regime in Tehran has seemingly eluded Republicans and Democrats for the last 16 years. It may be time to try something new.
Middle Eastern states when confronted with intense instability can result in the spread of insecurity across the globe. This includes the threat of terrorism in Europe and the US, and the increase of sectarian conflicts abroad.
Yet there are no easy solutions to these issues. The prospects of being dragged into another war are not appealing to anyone, yet neither can we afford to sit back and watch radical terror spread throughout the Middle East.
Unfortunately, the appeasement policy by the West for the past two decades has exacerbated this problem, directly or indirectly supporting or engaging Islamic fundamentalists at the expense of their main secular and progressive opposition. The cold war policies of arming jihadists and undermining democratic groups is a direct example of this. It is time to employ a reversal of this policy.
A common denominator underlying the rise of ISIS, and the spread of instability and fundamentalism, is none other than the regime in Tehran. No one can deny this. Yet at every turn, we are told that the only solution is one which engages the mullahs and strengthens their grip on power. The time for such thinking is at an end.
The regime has been reluctant to make good on promises of change and thus far has continued its brutal repression of dissidents while maintaining an aggressive policy in the region.
The question of how to guarantee a long term shift in the behavior of the Iranian regime remains unanswered by Iranian regime apologists.
The only long term policy which can guarantee a fundamental change of behavior in Iran, and sets an example for hope and change abroad, is one which recognizes the legitimate rights of the Iranian people to bring about democratic change and topple the theocratic fascist state in Iran.
It is the time that the United States firmly aligned itself with the Iranian opposition which embraces democratic change, freedom and liberty, and secular governance. The Iranian people and their organized resistance should be the primary negotiation partners and allies, not the ruling mullahs.
The principal opposition to the Iranian theocracy, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its main pillar, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) is one such organization.
“In history, the name of your president elect, Maryam Rajavi, will go down in the same tradition of fighters for freedom as Washington, Lafayette, and Garibaldi,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in a speech at the annual NCRI convention held this year on July 1st in Paris.
Rajavi advocates a new future of Iran. This includes a ten-point plan for a democratic secular republic in Iran, free of nuclear weapons, capital punishment, and tolerant to all religions, ethnicities, and ideas.
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to rally major new sanctions on Iran, parallel to measures on North Korea and Russia. To impose additional sanctions on Iran’s defense sector, The House voted 419-3, moving the bill forward to be signed by President Trump. Coming after three weeks of negotiations, this bill “tightens the screws on our most dangerous adversaries,” explained House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The bill sanctions anyone associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or anyone whom the US determines is complicit in Iranian human rights violations. Anyone sanctioned under the act may later have sanctions removed after a five-year review.
Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi welcome the US House of Reps’ new sanctions and terrorist designation of IRGC as essential to rectifying the policy of appeasement and described the act as a “step in line with the Iranian people’s desires and peace in the region,” especially as it turns up the heat on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The new act is a step in line with the Iranian people’s desires and peace in the region. It must be supplemented with other steps#Iran pic.twitter.com/CHqQXMBowF— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) July 26, 2017
The new administration coming to Washington has promised many things, not least of which includes a reexamination of US policies towards Iran. Though the Obama administration did all it could to sell the nuclear deal as a victory, at best it has deferred the ultimate questions about how to deal with the regime in Iran, and at worst it has emboldened their belligerence in the region.
A successful policy vis-a-vis the regime in Tehran has seemingly eluded Republicans and Democrats for the last 16 years. It may be time to try something new.
Middle Eastern states when confronted with intense instability can result in the spread of insecurity across the globe. This includes the threat of terrorism in Europe and the US, and the increase of sectarian conflicts abroad.
Yet there are no easy solutions to these issues. The prospects of being dragged into another war are not appealing to anyone, yet neither can we afford to sit back and watch radical terror spread throughout the Middle East.
Unfortunately, the appeasement policy by the West for the past two decades has exacerbated this problem, directly or indirectly supporting or engaging Islamic fundamentalists at the expense of their main secular and progressive opposition. The cold war policies of arming jihadists and undermining democratic groups is a direct example of this. It is time to employ a reversal of this policy.
A common denominator underlying the rise of ISIS, and the spread of instability and fundamentalism, is none other than the regime in Tehran. No one can deny this. Yet at every turn, we are told that the only solution is one which engages the mullahs and strengthens their grip on power. The time for such thinking is at an end.
The regime has been reluctant to make good on promises of change and thus far has continued its brutal repression of dissidents while maintaining an aggressive policy in the region.
The question of how to guarantee a long term shift in the behavior of the Iranian regime remains unanswered by Iranian regime apologists.
The only long term policy which can guarantee a fundamental change of behavior in Iran, and sets an example for hope and change abroad, is one which recognizes the legitimate rights of the Iranian people to bring about democratic change and topple the theocratic fascist state in Iran.
It is the time that the United States firmly aligned itself with the Iranian opposition which embraces democratic change, freedom and liberty, and secular governance. The Iranian people and their organized resistance should be the primary negotiation partners and allies, not the ruling mullahs.
The principal opposition to the Iranian theocracy, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its main pillar, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) is one such organization.
“In history, the name of your president elect, Maryam Rajavi, will go down in the same tradition of fighters for freedom as Washington, Lafayette, and Garibaldi,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in a speech at the annual NCRI convention held this year on July 1st in Paris.
Rajavi advocates a new future of Iran. This includes a ten-point plan for a democratic secular republic in Iran, free of nuclear weapons, capital punishment, and tolerant to all religions, ethnicities, and ideas.
Two Years after Nuclear Deal, Iran Seeking Regional Dominance
Two Years after Nuclear Deal, Iran Seeking Regional Dominance
New York – July marks the second
anniversary of the controversial nuclear deal between Iran and P5+1,
known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).A deal which not
only did not stop Iran’s nuclear program, but it only delayed it and at
the same time provided billions of dollars to the regime to pursue its
destructive policies in the region.
The Obama Administration and other
advocates of the appeasement policy claimed that this agreement would
bring serious changes to Iran’s behavior, including its actions in the
Middle East. Two years on, it is increasingly evident that these claims,
hollow and baseless on some levels, have fallen short.
The deal and the misguided policy that
it influenced have emboldened Iran in many areas, especially its malign
regional activities. The agreement not only failed to improve the
Iranian people’s economic status, but it actually granted the
Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) billions of dollars to pursue its
destructive policies in the region.
After spending the billions in windfall
from the nuclear deal, Iran has begun meddling with its neighboring
countries. Superficially, Iran has become a regional power, but what is
the reality? Is Iran truly a regional powerhouse, and is there an
ulterior motive behind the involvement in other countries’ affairs?
A quick look at Iran’s modern history
suggests that its current actions in the region might actually signal
that it possesses less power than is thought. Since the start of their
rule, the mullahs based their regime on two pillars: crushing any
domestic opposition and creating crises abroad. The adoption of such
polices embodies the very nature of this regime. The mullahs’ regime is a backward-minded regime belonging to the Middle Ages which opposes social liberties and developments.
The system is based on Velayat-e Faqih (custodianship
of the clergy) and it places all religious and legal authority in the
hands of the Supreme Leader. What this means, in both theory and in
practice, is that the Ali Khamenei (like Ruhollah Khomeini before him)
plays a direct role in all the country’s affairs; and no individual,
group, or committee in the country has the right to question or hold him
accountable.
By contrast, Iranian society is a
sizable demographic of young, highly educated citizens seeking increased
development and more social liberties. This regime cannot match the
contemporary society’s needs and considers force and suppression to be
the only methods of maintaining their grip on power.
To perpetuate the systematic and
widespread suppression inside the country, the mullahs rely on external
crises to divert public attention. As a result, the “export of
revolution”—more precisely the “export of terrorism”—and “creating
crises outside of Iran” became Tehran’s official policy. There are
numerous examples of the consequences of this policy.
The Iran-Iraq war, for example, lasted
eight years, leaving millions on both sides either dead or injured, and
many more displaced. Hundreds of cities and villages were destroyed,
and damages were estimated at $1 trillion for Iran alone. It also
contributed to the establishment of Hezbollah and general interference
in Lebanon’s internal affairs, the rise of Houthis in Yemen, the
ascendancy of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and the subsequent Syrian
Civil War.
Former regime Supreme Leader Ruhollah
Khomeini described the war as “God’s blessing.” During the war, Tehran
brutally crushed its opposition through mass executions; in the summer
of 1988 alone, 30,000 political prisoners were massacred across the
country. The victims were mainly members and supporters of the People’s
Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI-MEK).
Other international crises have served
the regime in the same way. Tehran has brought carnage and suffering to
thousands of innocent people in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and other Arab
countries with their attempts to maintain their power.
Senior Iranian officials argue, “One
reason we have been in Syria… and Iraq, and carried out these measures,
is that instead of fighting the enemy in the streets of Tehran,
Kermanshah, Arak, Qum, Sanandaj and Tabriz, we have taken the fight to
Deir ez-Zur, Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs and Mosul….”
Iran’s tactics and daliances in other
countries affairs are not due to the nation’s inherent
strength. supporting regime change is the only real policy to stand
against their export of terrorism.
Change to: Iran is not a regional power
and its meddling in other countries affairs is not a sign of their
dominance, but on the contrary it’s a smoke screen to hide their
internal instability and weakness. As a result, the only real policy to
stop Iran’s export of terrorism is a change in the government and regime
in Iran.
The annual Iranian Resistance gathering
on July 1 clearly demonstrated how regime change is within reach.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran, was the keynote speaker of the conference. She
emphasized that the only way to liberate the Iranian people from
religious tyranny and to establish peace and tranquility in the region
is to overthrow the Velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule).
The overthrow of this regime is
necessary, feasible and within reach, and that a democratic alternative
and an organized resistance exists to topple it, she underscored.
The parties behind the democratic
alternative are working to establish freedom and democracy in Iran.
Their plans will bring harmony to various ethnic groups, end discord and
divide between Shiites and Sunnis, and eliminate tensions between Iran
and its neighbors, Mrs. Rajavi concluded.
Brutal Shootings by Iran’s Security Forces Leave Two Dead, Including a Young Woman
Brutal Shootings by Iran’s Security Forces Leave Two Dead, Including a Young Woman
Two recent shootings in Iran left two dead and once again brought the cruelness of the country’s security forces to light.
A 46-year-old man identified as Asghar Nahvipour was shot and killed last Saturday when an officer opened fire at point-blank range. The victim was shot in Iran’s Shahr-e-rey metro station, south of Tehran.
Reports indicate the man protested a government mullah “harassing a number of young women under the bogus pretext of improper hijab.” He was heard yelling, “We don’t want these mullahs. We don’t want this Islam. What kind of a country is this? What kind of Islam is this?”
The shooting was captured on tape and posted extensively on the web. Nahvipour is seen yelling while a turban is in his hands. Seconds later, a member of the security forces shoots him with an assault rifle.
Warning: Graphic Content
Iranians were appalled after hearing the brutality of the country’s security forces and launched a campaign on social media to raise awareness of his case.
One Twitter user wrote, “The murder of Asghar Nahvipour must be investigated by international courts.”
The Iranian regime has reportedly also prevented Nahvipour’s family from holding a funeral.
On Monday, Iran’s security forces fired on a car leaving a young woman dead and a young man injured. The shooting occurred in Tehran’s Olympic Village.
The people in the vehicle were not adhering to calls by officers to stop their car, according to reports by Iranian human rights organizations. No additional information has been released.
Such incidents again highlight the Iranian regime’s repressive nature. Their human rights record for the month of July alone shows the execution of 57 prison inmates during the first two weeks, flogging a number of inmates and in some cases in public squares, increasing crackdown of religious minorities and dissidents.
This summer, authorities have also heightened their measures against women and continue to arrest anyone “improperly veiled.”
A 46-year-old man identified as Asghar Nahvipour was shot and killed last Saturday when an officer opened fire at point-blank range. The victim was shot in Iran’s Shahr-e-rey metro station, south of Tehran.
Reports indicate the man protested a government mullah “harassing a number of young women under the bogus pretext of improper hijab.” He was heard yelling, “We don’t want these mullahs. We don’t want this Islam. What kind of a country is this? What kind of Islam is this?”
The shooting was captured on tape and posted extensively on the web. Nahvipour is seen yelling while a turban is in his hands. Seconds later, a member of the security forces shoots him with an assault rifle.
Warning: Graphic Content
Iranians were appalled after hearing the brutality of the country’s security forces and launched a campaign on social media to raise awareness of his case.
One Twitter user wrote, “The murder of Asghar Nahvipour must be investigated by international courts.”
The Iranian regime has reportedly also prevented Nahvipour’s family from holding a funeral.
On Monday, Iran’s security forces fired on a car leaving a young woman dead and a young man injured. The shooting occurred in Tehran’s Olympic Village.
The people in the vehicle were not adhering to calls by officers to stop their car, according to reports by Iranian human rights organizations. No additional information has been released.
Such incidents again highlight the Iranian regime’s repressive nature. Their human rights record for the month of July alone shows the execution of 57 prison inmates during the first two weeks, flogging a number of inmates and in some cases in public squares, increasing crackdown of religious minorities and dissidents.
This summer, authorities have also heightened their measures against women and continue to arrest anyone “improperly veiled.”
Who is the MEK?
Who is the #MEK?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/who-is-the-mek-300366385.html
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Formed in 1965, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the largest and best-organized Iranian opposition movement, is the main component of the coalition, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which acts as the parliament-in-exile.
The NCRI and MEK, have been committed
to a secular, democratic, non-nuclear republic; gender equality;
freedom of religion, thought, press, and association; support for peace
in the Middle East; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The president-elect of the NCRI is Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, who addressed a rally of 100,000 in Paris, well attended by dozens of prominent speakers from all over the world.
A. The MEK role was critical in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb
The MEK has been instrumental in exposing Iran's nuclear weapons program. Relying on a vast network inside Iran, MEK revelations of the weapons program significantly contributed to the world peace and the national security of the United States.
These revelations
triggered the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of
the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and Heavy Water Facility in
Arak in 2002 for the first time, and since then, the majority of the
visits by the IAEA inspection teams have been to the sites first exposed
by the MEK.
Senior U.S. officials including President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have repeatedly pointed to the role the MEK had played in getting the world attention on Iran's nuclear weapons program.
In March 2005, President, George W. Bush, emphasized that the MEK's revelation of Natanz prompted an international campaign to stop the nuclear weapons program of Iran. "Iran
has concealed its -- a nuclear program. That became discovered, not
because of their compliance with the IAEA or NPT, but because a
dissident group pointed it out to the world."
Many of the key front companies exposed by the MEK such as Mesbah Energy, Novin Energy, Kalaye Electric, Kavoshyar Company, and Farayand Technique were eventually sanctioned by the Treasury Department. In July 2011, the MEK exposed a new nuclear organization overseeing the entire nuclear program and run by the military, known as SPND. The U.S. Government designated that entity in 2014. In addition, many companies, key nuclear experts, and military institutions exposed by the MEK have been sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747, and 1803.
If it were not for the MEK nuclear revelations, Tehran would have had the bomb by now. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) told
a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing "We all owe a debt of
gratitude to the MEK for bringing this information to the world, and
causing the United States and the world to focus on the problem."
B. MEK exposed the terrorist network of Iran
The MEK has played a key
role in exposing the terrorist operations by the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC), and its entity, the Qods Force. MEK's actionable
intelligence on Qods Force operations in Iraq saved many lives, and thwarted many terrorist operations by the Iranian regime.
MEK documented the details
of the Qods force production and shipment of advanced EFP's
(Explosively Formed Projectiles), the number one killer of U.S. forces
in Iraq. MEK also exposed Iran's involvement in the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 American servicemen.
C. MEK enjoys extensive bi-partisan support in U.S. Congress
Over the past two decades, MEK has gained extensive support among a large bi-partisan group of members of congress. Congress strongly rejected MEK's FTO designation, which it viewed as a goodwill gesture to Tehran,
as 99 members (52 D and 47 R) called for the group's delisting.
Secretary Clinton revoked the designation in 2012, after being urged by
the U.S. Court of Appeals- DC Circuit.
Congress held hearings in the House and the Senate strongly supporting the safety & security of thousands of MEK members based in camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq, as they were being subject to attacks instigated by Tehran. There were several pieces of legislations in support of MEK members in Iraq, e.g., H.Res.704 with 224 co-sponsors (126 D and 98 R).
In addition, the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2016, signed by President Obama and became law, included a language in support of the "security and protection" of MEK members in Camp Liberty, Iraq.
Secretary of State John Kerry lauded the resettlement of all members of "exiled Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MEK," from Iraq to Europe in September 2016,
emphasizing that "their departure concludes a significant American
diplomatic initiative that has assured the safety of more than 3,000 MEK
members whose lives have been under threat…I first became involved in
this effort when I was in the Senate … I'm very proud that the United States was able to play a pivotal role in helping to get this job done."
Also, the U.S. military fully protected all the MEK members in Iraq and recognized them as "protected persons" under the 4th Geneva Convention, long before the group was delisted.
D. MEK has been leading the opposition against the regime at home and abroad
MEK has been in the
forefront of opposition to the mullahs since early days of the 1979
revolution, when it soon become the number one target of the Iranian
regime's repression.
The rulers of Iran
view the MEK as an existential threat due to its support at home, and
undermining the regime's Islamic extremist ideology among a vast
majority of the Iranian population, especially the youth. MEK's modern,
tolerant and democratic view on Islam has been the antithesis to the
Islamic fundamentalists and the velayat-e faqih system. The MEK has been
the main victim of repression in Iran. In summer 1988, the Iranian regime, by direct order of Supreme Leader Khomeini, massacred 30,000 political prisoners, most members of MEK. Over 100,000 of its members have been murdered since 1981, and many of its supporters are currently jailed in notorious prisons across the country. Most of those arrested and sentenced to death after the summer 2009 uprising in Iran, belonged to the MEK.
After having failed to physically eliminate the MEK, Tehran
waged an international effort to have the MEK designated as a terrorist
organization, which eventually failed after all the designations were
overturned in Europe and the U.S. with the help of over 20 court rulings. Eventually, Tehran embarked upon a multi-million-dollar campaign of character assassination and demonization, which described the MEK as a cult, to justify the policy of appeasement. None of those efforts succeeded.
CONTACT: Ali Safavi, 202-747-7847, www.ncrius.org
SOURCE National Council of Resistance of Iran-U.S. Representative Office
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Formed in 1965, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the largest and best-organized Iranian opposition movement, is the main component of the coalition, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which acts as the parliament-in-exile.
The NCRI and MEK, have been committed
to a secular, democratic, non-nuclear republic; gender equality;
freedom of religion, thought, press, and association; support for peace
in the Middle East; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The president-elect of the NCRI is Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, who addressed a rally of 100,000 in Paris, well attended by dozens of prominent speakers from all over the world.
A. The MEK role was critical in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb
The MEK has been instrumental in exposing Iran's nuclear weapons program. Relying on a vast network inside Iran, MEK revelations of the weapons program significantly contributed to the world peace and the national security of the United States.
These revelations triggered the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and Heavy Water Facility in Arak in 2002 for the first time, and since then, the majority of the visits by the IAEA inspection teams have been to the sites first exposed by the MEK.
Senior U.S. officials including President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have repeatedly pointed to the role the MEK had played in getting the world attention on Iran's nuclear weapons program.
In March 2005, President, George W. Bush, emphasized that the MEK's revelation of Natanz prompted an international campaign to stop the nuclear weapons program of Iran. "Iran has concealed its -- a nuclear program. That became discovered, not because of their compliance with the IAEA or NPT, but because a dissident group pointed it out to the world."
Many of the key front companies exposed by the MEK such as Mesbah Energy, Novin Energy, Kalaye Electric, Kavoshyar Company, and Farayand Technique were eventually sanctioned by the Treasury Department. In July 2011, the MEK exposed a new nuclear organization overseeing the entire nuclear program and run by the military, known as SPND. The U.S. Government designated that entity in 2014. In addition, many companies, key nuclear experts, and military institutions exposed by the MEK have been sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747, and 1803.
If it were not for the MEK nuclear revelations, Tehran would have had the bomb by now. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) told a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing "We all owe a debt of gratitude to the MEK for bringing this information to the world, and causing the United States and the world to focus on the problem."
B. MEK exposed the terrorist network of Iran
The MEK has played a key role in exposing the terrorist operations by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and its entity, the Qods Force. MEK's actionable intelligence on Qods Force operations in Iraq saved many lives, and thwarted many terrorist operations by the Iranian regime.
MEK documented the details of the Qods force production and shipment of advanced EFP's (Explosively Formed Projectiles), the number one killer of U.S. forces in Iraq. MEK also exposed Iran's involvement in the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 American servicemen.
C. MEK enjoys extensive bi-partisan support in U.S. Congress
Over the past two decades, MEK has gained extensive support among a large bi-partisan group of members of congress. Congress strongly rejected MEK's FTO designation, which it viewed as a goodwill gesture to Tehran, as 99 members (52 D and 47 R) called for the group's delisting. Secretary Clinton revoked the designation in 2012, after being urged by the U.S. Court of Appeals- DC Circuit.
Congress held hearings in the House and the Senate strongly supporting the safety & security of thousands of MEK members based in camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq, as they were being subject to attacks instigated by Tehran. There were several pieces of legislations in support of MEK members in Iraq, e.g., H.Res.704 with 224 co-sponsors (126 D and 98 R).
In addition, the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2016, signed by President Obama and became law, included a language in support of the "security and protection" of MEK members in Camp Liberty, Iraq.
Secretary of State John Kerry lauded the resettlement of all members of "exiled Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MEK," from Iraq to Europe in September 2016, emphasizing that "their departure concludes a significant American diplomatic initiative that has assured the safety of more than 3,000 MEK members whose lives have been under threat…I first became involved in this effort when I was in the Senate … I'm very proud that the United States was able to play a pivotal role in helping to get this job done."
Also, the U.S. military fully protected all the MEK members in Iraq and recognized them as "protected persons" under the 4th Geneva Convention, long before the group was delisted.
D. MEK has been leading the opposition against the regime at home and abroad
MEK has been in the forefront of opposition to the mullahs since early days of the 1979 revolution, when it soon become the number one target of the Iranian regime's repression.
The rulers of Iran view the MEK as an existential threat due to its support at home, and undermining the regime's Islamic extremist ideology among a vast majority of the Iranian population, especially the youth. MEK's modern, tolerant and democratic view on Islam has been the antithesis to the Islamic fundamentalists and the velayat-e faqih system. The MEK has been the main victim of repression in Iran. In summer 1988, the Iranian regime, by direct order of Supreme Leader Khomeini, massacred 30,000 political prisoners, most members of MEK. Over 100,000 of its members have been murdered since 1981, and many of its supporters are currently jailed in notorious prisons across the country. Most of those arrested and sentenced to death after the summer 2009 uprising in Iran, belonged to the MEK.
After having failed to physically eliminate the MEK, Tehran waged an international effort to have the MEK designated as a terrorist organization, which eventually failed after all the designations were overturned in Europe and the U.S. with the help of over 20 court rulings. Eventually, Tehran embarked upon a multi-million-dollar campaign of character assassination and demonization, which described the MEK as a cult, to justify the policy of appeasement. None of those efforts succeeded.
CONTACT: Ali Safavi, 202-747-7847, www.ncrius.org
SOURCE National Council of Resistance of Iran-U.S. Representative Office
A. The MEK role was critical in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb
The MEK has been instrumental in exposing Iran's nuclear weapons program. Relying on a vast network inside Iran, MEK revelations of the weapons program significantly contributed to the world peace and the national security of the United States.
These revelations triggered the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and Heavy Water Facility in Arak in 2002 for the first time, and since then, the majority of the visits by the IAEA inspection teams have been to the sites first exposed by the MEK.
Senior U.S. officials including President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have repeatedly pointed to the role the MEK had played in getting the world attention on Iran's nuclear weapons program.
In March 2005, President, George W. Bush, emphasized that the MEK's revelation of Natanz prompted an international campaign to stop the nuclear weapons program of Iran. "Iran has concealed its -- a nuclear program. That became discovered, not because of their compliance with the IAEA or NPT, but because a dissident group pointed it out to the world."
Many of the key front companies exposed by the MEK such as Mesbah Energy, Novin Energy, Kalaye Electric, Kavoshyar Company, and Farayand Technique were eventually sanctioned by the Treasury Department. In July 2011, the MEK exposed a new nuclear organization overseeing the entire nuclear program and run by the military, known as SPND. The U.S. Government designated that entity in 2014. In addition, many companies, key nuclear experts, and military institutions exposed by the MEK have been sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747, and 1803.
If it were not for the MEK nuclear revelations, Tehran would have had the bomb by now. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) told a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing "We all owe a debt of gratitude to the MEK for bringing this information to the world, and causing the United States and the world to focus on the problem."
B. MEK exposed the terrorist network of Iran
The MEK has played a key role in exposing the terrorist operations by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and its entity, the Qods Force. MEK's actionable intelligence on Qods Force operations in Iraq saved many lives, and thwarted many terrorist operations by the Iranian regime.
MEK documented the details of the Qods force production and shipment of advanced EFP's (Explosively Formed Projectiles), the number one killer of U.S. forces in Iraq. MEK also exposed Iran's involvement in the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 American servicemen.
C. MEK enjoys extensive bi-partisan support in U.S. Congress
Over the past two decades, MEK has gained extensive support among a large bi-partisan group of members of congress. Congress strongly rejected MEK's FTO designation, which it viewed as a goodwill gesture to Tehran, as 99 members (52 D and 47 R) called for the group's delisting. Secretary Clinton revoked the designation in 2012, after being urged by the U.S. Court of Appeals- DC Circuit.
Congress held hearings in the House and the Senate strongly supporting the safety & security of thousands of MEK members based in camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq, as they were being subject to attacks instigated by Tehran. There were several pieces of legislations in support of MEK members in Iraq, e.g., H.Res.704 with 224 co-sponsors (126 D and 98 R).
In addition, the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2016, signed by President Obama and became law, included a language in support of the "security and protection" of MEK members in Camp Liberty, Iraq.
Secretary of State John Kerry lauded the resettlement of all members of "exiled Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MEK," from Iraq to Europe in September 2016, emphasizing that "their departure concludes a significant American diplomatic initiative that has assured the safety of more than 3,000 MEK members whose lives have been under threat…I first became involved in this effort when I was in the Senate … I'm very proud that the United States was able to play a pivotal role in helping to get this job done."
Also, the U.S. military fully protected all the MEK members in Iraq and recognized them as "protected persons" under the 4th Geneva Convention, long before the group was delisted.
D. MEK has been leading the opposition against the regime at home and abroad
MEK has been in the forefront of opposition to the mullahs since early days of the 1979 revolution, when it soon become the number one target of the Iranian regime's repression.
The rulers of Iran view the MEK as an existential threat due to its support at home, and undermining the regime's Islamic extremist ideology among a vast majority of the Iranian population, especially the youth. MEK's modern, tolerant and democratic view on Islam has been the antithesis to the Islamic fundamentalists and the velayat-e faqih system. The MEK has been the main victim of repression in Iran. In summer 1988, the Iranian regime, by direct order of Supreme Leader Khomeini, massacred 30,000 political prisoners, most members of MEK. Over 100,000 of its members have been murdered since 1981, and many of its supporters are currently jailed in notorious prisons across the country. Most of those arrested and sentenced to death after the summer 2009 uprising in Iran, belonged to the MEK.
After having failed to physically eliminate the MEK, Tehran waged an international effort to have the MEK designated as a terrorist organization, which eventually failed after all the designations were overturned in Europe and the U.S. with the help of over 20 court rulings. Eventually, Tehran embarked upon a multi-million-dollar campaign of character assassination and demonization, which described the MEK as a cult, to justify the policy of appeasement. None of those efforts succeeded.
CONTACT: Ali Safavi, 202-747-7847, www.ncrius.org
SOURCE National Council of Resistance of Iran-U.S. Representative Office
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