IRAN:Maryam Rajavi: Iran regime will collapse when Assad is toppled in Syria

Maryam Rajavi: Iran regime will collapse when Assad is toppled in Syria

NCRI - The mullahs' regime in Iran will collapse once Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, told the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday.

In a major interview that took up a full page of the newspaper, Mrs. Rajavi said that the Iranian regime is founded on three main pillars: obtaining a nuclear bomb, absolute domestic suppression and export of terrorism and extremism abroad.

Mrs. Rajavi pointed out that Tehran’s strategy is based on interference in the internal affairs of other countries, warmongering and export of terrorism; however, the regime’s regional plots failed after the start of the Decisive Storm operation against its proxies.

 “The Iranian regime can be defeated once and for all in Bahrain if it is confronted with a decisive alliance formed by regional countries,” Mrs. Rajavi said, adding that the Iranian regime is close to drowning in the quagmire of Syria’s civil war.

Mrs. Rajavi pointed out that the Iranian regime would collapse consequentially should al-Assad be toppled in Syria, which is why Iran's regime has been trying to keep Assad in power at any cost.

 “If Assad falls out of power in Damascus, then the Iranian regime will evidently follow and collapse in Tehran,” Mrs. Rajavi said.

 “It’s dying,” Mrs. Rajavi said, expressing the current state of affairs of the Iranian regime. “It has faced defeat in Yemen. The fronts in Syria and Iraq are in effective escalation, and the regime has sent 60,000 Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) soldiers and affiliated militias to fight in Syria,” Mrs. Rajavi added.

When asked about the Iranian regime's nuclear danger, Mrs. Rajavi explained that the regime has only “temporarily” lost its ability to manufacture a nuclear arsenal and will soon resume what it had long planned for.

Iran:Nowruz celebrated at National Assembly of France

Nowruz celebrated at National Assembly of France

Maryam Rajavi: The people of Iran celebrate Nowruz more enthusiastically than ever; their message is a strong desire for regime change in Iran.

NCRI - The following is the text of remarks by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, at an event celebrating the Persian New Year in France's National Assembly on Tuesday, April 5 2016:

Dear friends in the French houses of parliament,

Honorable supporters of the Iranian Resistance!

In the beginning of the Iranian New Year concurrent with the advent of spring, I wish you, your families and the great nation of France, a year filled with progress and advancements.

The New Year's celebration or Nowruz has been the most important feast of Iranians for thousands of years. Nowruz literally means the renewal of the nature, time and year, and the people's hearts, visions and fate. In fact, this makes up part of the Iranian people's outlook on the world that does not tolerate the status quo and calls for change for better.

The mullahs' religious fascism has not been able for the past 37 years to prevent the celebration of Nowruz. And Iranians have celebrated Nowruz more enthusiastically than ever with their message and demand of regime change and demise of the clerical regime. This has been the Iranian people's consistent desire over the past year demonstrated in 6500 acts of protests.  bragged about bringing about moderation, instead he brought about more executions in Iran and more war in Syria.

Now, he wants to spread the mullahs' repression to Europe. Just a few days ago, he cancelled his visit to Austria because the Austrian Government turned down the Iranian regime's demand to prevent the demonstrations of supporters of the Iranian Resistance. Rouhani fears public expression of outrage over his visit similar to what happened in France.

The mullahs said people would have greater purchasing power after the nuclear accord, but the assets released after lifting of the sanctions went to the coffers of the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and was spent on the wars in Yemen, Syria and Iraq, leaving the people of Iran ever more destitut

Today, the regime has at least 60,000 troops and paramilitary forces in Syria. The mullahs detest the present ceasefire and seek to keep Bashar Assad in power by destroying the opposition. However, a victory in Syria will no longer be conceivable for the mullahs.

Maryam Rajavi speaks in Women's Role in War against Fundamentalism conference Conference in the European

Maryam Rajavi speaks in Women's Role in War against Fundamentalism

 conference Conference in the European

Below is excerpts of the speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance at Conference entitled Women's Role in War against Fundamentalism held on 2 March 2016 in the European Parliament and chaired by Beatriz Becerra, member of EP’s Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality:

Maryam Rajavi:

Extremism under the banner of Islam is a fatal epidemic expanding throughout the world because it has not been confronted. To defeat this epidemic, a comprehensive approach is vital.

Since the 1990s we have been warning that Islamic fundamentalism is the new global threat.

Today, there is a real concern about Daesh, but it should be noted that its expansion is a product of two developments in the region:

The Iranian regime's occupation of Iraq after the war in 2003 and the brutal crackdown on Sunnis by the mullahs' puppet government in Iraq.

Suppression of Syrian people and dissidents by Bashar Assad's government, backed and led by the mullahs' regime.

Therefore, if it was not for the Iranian regime's domination over Iraq and Syria, if the Sunnis were not suppressed in Iraq, if Bashar Assad's dictatorship did not exist, Daesh would not have emerged as a threat.

With the inception of the mullahs' rule in 1979, a concrete, practical model was created for all fundamentalist groups. The history of the past 37 years proves that no other factor has been as effective as a ruling government acting as a role-model for the expansion of fundamentalist groups. Particularly that the mullahs actively try to create these groups and guide them ideologically.

Iran: Low income families resort to sale of their children

Iran: Low income families resort to sale of their children

Dspreading tragedy of selling newborns due 2 extreme poverty in Iran is D outcome ofD mullahs' crimes against women

An Iranian MP, Abass Gha'ed Rahmat, revealed that sale of infants is turning into a common practice in Iran but the government has neglected it.

Rahmati also admitted that the government has not allocated enough budget to social ills. He said: “Lack of jobs and housing as well as addiction (of parents) are the main elements leading families towards selling their children and infants”.

Iran - Brave mothers criticize Khomeini in Iran memorial

Brave mothers criticize Khomeini in Iran memorial

A number of brave Iranian mothers of youths who were martyred in the 2009 nationwide uprising against the mullahs' regime have publicly criticized Khomeini for installing a regime which is murdering Iran's children by the day.

The mothers spoke out at a gathering in Tehran’s Shahriar District last Friday to mark the sixth anniversary of the death of Mostafa Karim-Beigi who was killed by the Iranian regime in the course of the 2009 anti-regime uprisings. Many relatives of martyred opponents of the regime and political prisoners took part in the ceremony.

Ms. Shahin Mahin-Far, whose son Amir Arshad Tajmir was killed in the course of the 2009 uprising, said her heart had been ripped apart by her son's death. The regime's henchmen riding a police vehicle ran over his body three times.

Ms. Fatemeh Golgari, whose son, labor activist Afshin Osanloo, died in mysterious circumstances in prison in Iran on June 20, 2013, said at the gathering: "Now should have been a time for joy among our youths, but instead it's their time to be bured."

"I've got something in my heart which I need to say. Let my dear ones and let even the regime hear this. The day when the Imam [Khomeini] came and sat in a cemetery and said 'they've turned this place into a cemetery but I'll turn it into a garden full of flowers,' we didn't understand what he meant by a garden full of flowers. Now we know, he meant that they will kill our youngsters and bury them, and each time we'll have to go there to law flowers on their graves," Ms. Golgari said.

"I long for the day of freedom, when Iran will be free and blossoming and we can all be friends and good brothers and sisters," she added.

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe: Iran’s regime must be held accountable for crimes against humanity

Ted Poe

The international community ought to hold the mullahs' regime in Iran accountable for “crimes against humanity,” United States Congressman Ted Poe has said.

"It is important that we in the United States and the world understand that Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world and they have their tentacles of mischief and murder throughout the world, not just in the Middle East," said Rep. Poe, a Republican lawmaker and former judge from Texas.

He added that Iran's regime had "gotten away with many of the crimes that they have committed over the last 20 years."

"The world community, especially the United States, needs to hold the current government of Iran accountable for the murder of not just its own citizens, but the murder of people throughout the world of all religious faiths."

"As the Chairman of the Terrorism Sub-committee of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, I will continue to call out the Iranian government for its crimes against humanity," Congressman Poe added.

Iran human rights photo exhibition underway in U.S. Senate

A three-day photo exhibition on human rights abuses in Iran is currently underway at the Rotunda in the United States Senate.

A  photo exhibition on human rights abuses in Iran is currently

The exhibition depicts various aspects of rights abuses by the mullahs' regime in Iran, including political repression, crackdown on minorities, suppression of women, and execution of juveniles and political dissidents.

The mullahs’ regime has over the past 34 years executed more than 120,000 political prisoners, the vast majority members or supporters of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK).

The photo exhibit has been organized by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) which works to promote human rights and democratic freedoms for the people of Iran.

Poverty leads Iranian man to commit suicide on father’s grave

A young Iranian Arab man

Ayoung Iranian Arab man from the town of Mahshahr, south-western Iran, on Sunday committed suicide out of poverty on his father's grave.

A photo of the young man who had died after he slit his artery on his father's grave on Sunday evening has been published on Iranian weblogs, with an explanation that poverty and destitution led to him taking his life.

Numerous cases of self-immolation in Iran in recent months have drawn special attention, including the cases of Omid Rashedi, 36, from the south-western city of Ahwaz; Mansour Keyhani, a retired teacher from Sanghar, western Iran; Ali Akbari, 45, a laborer from Tehran; Hamid Farokhi, 43, a street vendor from Tabriz, north-west Iran; and Youness Asakareh, 31, a laborer from Khorramshahr, south-western Iran. In all these cases, the self-immolations had an element of protest against the ruling mullahs' regime.

Iran - 20% reduction in Iranians’ food basket

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Economic mismanagement by the mullahs' regime in Iran has led to Iranians being able to consume 20 percent less food and liquids, the Iranian regime's state media have acknowledged.

In 2010, each Iranian household on average consumed an annual amount of 2318 kilograms of food and liquids. In the current year, the average annual consumption stands at 1874 kg, a decrease of 19.15%, according to the state-run Etemad daily.

The difference in consumption rates in the two periods is considerably higher when considering only basic food and beverage.

175 cafes shut down in north-west Iran

Atleast 175 cafes were shut down on Friday by the mullahs' regime in Eastern Azerbaijan Province, north-west Iran.

The regime claims the action was taken to tackle the custom of smoking water-pipes, a common feature of many Iranian cafes. However local residents say the repressive action is meant to spread fear among the population to prevent anti-regime gatherings from taking place.

The 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran and the nuclear deal

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Aformer Iranian political prisoner has described his torment during the seven years he spent in the mullahs' jails in Iran. Karim Moradi, an Iranian human rights activist and member of the Society of Iranian Political Prisoners, gave his account of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran in an article on Friday in TheHill.com:I am often asked by my American friends what I think about the Iran deal. As someone who spent seven years of his life imprisoned in Iran, it is difficult for me to give a simple answer. I have spent the past few weeks reflecting not on the nuclear deal with Iran, but on the summer of 1988, when Iran systematically massacred 30,000 political prisoners in a matter of weeks.

David Campbell Bannerman MEP: Over 2000 hanged in Iran by Rouhani

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Underthe Presidency of Hassan Rouhani, the mullahs' regime in Iran is carrying the highest level of executions for 25 years, David Campbell Bannerman, an MEP from the United Kingdom and Chairman of the Iraq Delegation at the European Parliament, has told European Union foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini.

Members of the European Parliament last week lambasted Ms. Mogherini for the lack of EU responsiveness to the appalling human rights situation in Iran.

Call to save 19-year-old Ahwazi prisoner from execution in Iran

The Iranian Resistance calls for urgent action to save the life of Ali Sudani, a19-year-old member of Iran's Arab community, who is scheduled to face execution on Thursday, September 17 in public. It calls on all human rights organizations, in particular the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, to take urgent action to prevent this inhuman crime.

Iran - 120,000 victims of political executions in Iran under the mullahs' regime.

Fallen For Freedom: 20,000 PMOI Martyrs

 The first volume of the ‘book of martyrs’ contains the list of names and particulars of 20,000 members and supporters of the PMOI who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the struggle for freedom from the clutches of religious tyranny in Iran.

The leaders of the clerical regime, including Ruhollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei, Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Rouhani and other senior ministers and officials have played a direct role in this massacre.

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