Iran:Successful Completion of the Resettlement of Camp Liberty residents from Iraq to Europe

Iran:Successful Completion of the Resettlement of Camp Liberty residents from Iraq to Europe

This afternoon, September 9, 2016, the final group of Camp Liberty residents (more than 280) departed Baghdad, Iraq, for Albania. This final round of departures marks the successful conclusion to the process of relocating members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) outside of Iraq despite the Iranian regime’s conspiracies, obstruction and threats, which continued until the very last day.

During the four-and-a-half-year-long resettlement process, the residents of Liberty were relocated to European countries, including Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Spain. Close to 2,000 residents left Iraq since the beginning of 2016.

In this process, the religious dictatorship ruling Iran provided red notices to Interpol and used fake arrest warrants issued by the Iraqi Judiciary in a bid to prevent the departure of 1,000 PMOI members, and arrest officials and other well-known figures.

Exploiting the post-invasion atmosphere in Iraq, the ruling clerical regime did its utmost to destroy the PMOI/MEK. Three massacres at Camp Ashraf, five missile attacks on Camp Liberty, two cases of abduction of residents, and the imposition of a full-fledged eight-year siege, which left 177 residents dead, constituted parts of this inhumane, albeit futile, plan.

IRAN: Ex-governor of Yazd injured in Syria war

IRAN: Ex-governor of Yazd injured in Syria war

NCRI – A former Iranian provincial governor was injured last week fighting in north-western Syria in the country’s civil war to keep dictator Bashar al-Assad in power, the Iranian regime’s state media have acknowledged.

The state-run news website Tabnak reported on Thursday, April 14 that Mohammad Reza Fallahzadeh a former General of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and former governor general of Yazd Province, was injured during clashes in the south of Aleppo.

Fallahzadeh was injured on April 12 when the vehicle carrying him was hit by a mortar shell. He was transferred to Tehran for treatment the following day, the report said.

Fallahzadeh was the Governor of Yazd, central Iran, for six years during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Several other IRGC officers were killed in the recent clashes on the southern outskirts of Aleppo, according to a report by Al-Arabiya.

Syrians show their resentment for Iran regime’s support for Assad

Syrians show their resentment for Iran regime’s support for Assad

NCRI - Residents of the Syrian towns of Kafr Zita and al-Lataminah, north-west of Hama, have contributed to an online campaign over the weekend exposing and condemning the Iranian regime's support for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in the massacre of the people of Syria.

Syrians of all ages have held placards in particular pointing out that the Iranian regime’s meddling in Syria has increased since Hassan Rouhani took office as President in 2013. Many of the placards had messages directed at the European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini who visited Iran over the weekend to hold trade discussions with the mullahs’ regime. Some also criticized Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi for meeting with the Iranian regime’s officials in Tehran last week.

Mogherini’s trip was condemned by Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Some of the banners from Hama, Kafr Zita and al-Lataminah read:

#No2Rouhani Dear Federica Mogherini: These diplomatic visits mean that you do agree on Iran interferences in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. Do you??! - Syria – Keferzaita

Since Rouhani came to office their interferences in Syria have increased. #No2Rouhani - Kefer Zaita - Syria

He [Rouhani] is responsible for all the crimes committed by the Iranian regime in Syria during past 2 years. Kefer Zaita - Syria

IRAN: Richard Ashworth MEP: Over 1000 executions in Iran in 2015

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NCRI - Richard Ashworth, a Member of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom, has reiterated that the Iranian regime’s president Hassan Rouhani is not a ‘moderate’ as he claims to be.

Mr. Ashworth, who is a strong supporter of freedom and democracy in Iran, pointed to over 1000 executions carried out in Iran in 2015 under Rouhani’s watch.

Iran:Khamenei's missile muscle-flexing is to cloak his damaged position caused by the nuclear deal and the election outcome

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Nuri Industries and Movahed Industries are major centers in building nuclear-warhead-capable missiles

The Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei whose position has been severely damaged by the nuclear deal and last month’s sham elections desperately tries to prop up his lost status through missile muscle-flexing. Speaking on this matter he said today: “Today is the time for both missile and diplomacy”. The missiles Khamenei is talking about are the nuclear-warhead-capable missiles that were tested last month.

Drawing on this muscle-flexing, Khamenei attacked his rivals in an unprecedented fashion: “Those who say the future is in negotiations, not in missiles, are either ignorant or traitors”.

These remarks demonstrate that Khamenei is mustering all his power to continue with the nuclear and missile projects in breach of UN Security Council resolution and that diplomacy and talks are merely a cover to advance these projects. He is also attempting to cloak the regime’s internal crises while getting the upper hand in the infighting within the regime.

This is despite the fact that Rouhani is completely in line with Khamenei in these anti-Iranian projects. Seventy days prior to the recent missile test on December 31, 2015, Rouhani wrote in a directive to the defense minister: “The program to produce all types of missiles needed by the armed forces should continue with seriousness and speed.” He went on to add that the regime has never “negotiated on its missile program with anyone and shall not accept any restrictions in this realm”. He has also stated that in the two years of his presidency, the regime’s weaponry has grown by 80% with respect to a decade ago. This means that on average, without taking into account inflation, expenditures on weaponry have grown fivefold.

Iran: Khamenei's ‘election’ fatwas reveals his fear of popular boycott

Iran: Khamenei's ‘election’ fatwas reveals his fear of popular boycott

NCRI - As the Iranian regime’s sham election is being ignored and faces popular boycott, Ali Khamenei has resorted to issuing ridiculous fawas to at least get the regime’s discouraged forces to partake in the elections.

In a series of fatwas published by the state-run Fars New Agency, Ali Khamenei declared: “Participation in the elections is a religious, Islamic and divine duty” and an “obvious obligation”. He insists in his fatwas that casting blank votes is ‘haram’ (proscribed by Islamic law). Concerning women he stipulates that “husband’s consent is not needed to participate in the elections”. This is while according to fatwas by Khomeini, the founder of the regime, and other state clerics, a woman “should not leave home without the permission of her husband even if to see her relatives, pay a visit to her sick father, or to participate in her father’s funeral”.

Iran Election or Selection? What are the Prospects?

Members of Assembly of Expertes - March 2015

On February 26, two “elections” will be held in Iran simultaneously: for the 290 seats of “Islamic Consultative Assembly.” (Majlis or parliament) and for the 86-member Assembly of Experts which is nominally tasked with selecting the Supreme Leader and supervising his conduct.

The Constitution and election laws

The nature of elections in Iran is different from democratic countries. The Constitution prevents those elections from adhering to recognized international standards and from reflecting the preferences of the full range of Iran’s societal demographics.

Some of the Articles in the clerical regime’s constitution regarding elections

Article 91: Provides the formation of the “Guardian Council” (GC) which is comprised of six theologians appointed by the Supreme Leader and six jurists appointed by the head of the Judiciary, who is also appointed by the Supreme Leader. The Article states: “With a view to safeguarding the Islamic ordinances and the Constitution and in order to examine the compatibility of the legislation passed by the Islamic Consultative Assembly with Islam, a council to be known as the Guardian Council is to be established.”

Iran regime purchases $8 billion worth of weapons from Russia in violation of UN resolutions

Iran regime purchases $8 billion worth of weapons from Russia in violation of UN resolutions

The Iranian regime’s defense minister who had been involved in hostage taking and terrorism is visiting Moscow for talks about closer military cooperation.

Officials in Iran announced Monday that the regime in Tehran would spend another $8 billion on the purchase of Russian arms.

The Iranian regime has already handed Moscow a shopping list and the visit by Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan should speed up a number of key arms deals, RT reported.

"Iran would like to buy Russia's latest S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system, developed by Almaz-Antey. And they make no secret of it. On the eve of his visit to Moscow Dehghan openly said to Iranian media they want to purchase the S-400s," the report said quoting sources of the business daily Kommersant.

Days after a preliminary nuclear agreement between the Iranian regime and six world powers, the United Nations adopted a resolution on July 20 forbidding Iran’s regime from purchasing conventional arms for the next five years.

European parliamentarians quizzed Zarif about human rights violations in Iran

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EU-Iran relations should not improve at the expense of human rights, members of Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament said in Tuesday’s debate with the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

In his first-ever visit to the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, members told him “the human rights situation in Iran, the death penalty, public executions and the prosecution of bloggers and journalists are unacceptable and will serve as a litmus test for future relations,” according to a report published on the Parliament’s website.

Reuters reported: “European parliamentarians quizzed Zarif about alleged human rights violations in Iran, Iranian defense spending and nuclear activity and Tehran's stance on Middle East conflicts that have killed hundreds of thousands of people and driven millions from their homes, spurring a large influx of refugees into Europe.”

Iran - Trip by mullahs’ foreign minister to London and participation in Syria conference would only add to the Syrian crisis.

Condemns the trip by the foreign minister of the religious fascism ruling Iran to the UK.

NCRI strongly condemns Zarif's trip 2 London participating in the Syria Donors Conference .

Zarif’s mission is to maintain the survival of the clerical regime in Iran.

Inviting Zarif is a profound insult to the people of Iran and Syria

Inviting Zarif to solve the Syria'n crisis only emboldens this regime.

No2Rouhani & Zarif - Messages from the streets of Aleppo in Syria to the EU leaders.

Zarif’smission is to maintain the survival of the clerical regime in Iran.

Zarif is a loyal functionary of the dictatorship that has been ruling Iran .

Rouhani: downfall of Bashar Assad w’ld b a devastating blow 2  Iran'ian regime.

The Mullahs have explicitly described Syria as one of“Iran's provinces .

The Iranian regime’s officials have explicitly described #Syria as one of “Iran's provinces.

The Iranian regime has spent tens of billions of dollars in order to maintain Assad in power.

The clerical regime in Iran has been the main reason 4 Assad’s survival .

Iran regime &its crimes in Syria are the primary problem in that country.
The clerical regime ruling Iran and its crimes in Syria are the primary problem in that country and throughout the Middle East.

Seeking the engagement of the Iranian regime in solving the Syrian crisis is as legitimate and as rational as asking an ’arsonist to put out the fire’.

 The clerical regime has been the main reason for Bashar Assad’s survival and continuation of the massacre of the Syrian people.

#Iran #No2Rouhani No2 #Khamenei #StopExecutionsIran #Syria

Conference on Iranian regime’s high number of casualties in Syria

Conference on Iranian regime’s high number of casualties in Syria

Syrian and Iranian experts were guests of an online conference on Monday organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) to discuss the scale of the Iranian regime’s defeats in Syria, particularly its military casualties

Ahmad Ramadan, chairman of the Media and Public Relations Bureau of the opposition Syrian National Council, Saleh Hamid, an Arab political and human rights activist, and Sanabarqh Zahedi, Chairman of the Judicial Committee of the NCRI, participated in this conference.

Dr. Zahedi touched upon the Iranian regime’s active involvement in the massacre of the innocent Syrian people. He referred to two stages of the defeats and high number of casualties of the regime and its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in Syria and said:

Last June, the regime’s official news agency IRNA announced that 400 Revolutionary Guards had lost their lives in Syria until that time. One should mention that this number only encompasses the Revolutionary Guards and the Bassij forces dispatched to Syria from Iran and does not include the mercenaries from other countries who lost their lives in Syria. This casualty figure relates to the first half of the last year when Syria’s armed opposition forces had significant advances in the north in Aleppo region, in Jisr al-Shughour and in Sahl al-ghab, as well as in Daraa, capturing strategic areas. The outcome of these advances was the defeat of the Iranian regime and Bashar al-Assad that promised the toppling of the regime in not too distant a future. Secret intelligence from inside the Iranian regime indicate that during that period the various regime forces, including the Revolutionary Guards, the Hezbollah and the Afghan forces, had lost their morale due to the blows they suffered at the hands of the opposition in Syria and were running away from the fight in different fronts. The regime’s assessment at the time was that it could save Assad only if it would inject 30,000 Revolutionary Guards into Syria.

It was after this stage and these defeats that [IRGC Quds Force commander] Qassem Soleimani went to Moscow and asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for help. Subsequently, Putin met with [the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei. According to these discussions, the two parties agreed that Russia would heavily bomb the opposition forces in Syria and in return Khamenei and Soleimani committed to bring in the necessary ground forces to push back the opposition from the areas they had captured. Khamenei told Putin that he would continue the fight in Syria until the last Revolutionary Guard. We are now three months past this stage and we are witnessing consecutive defeats of the regime, including the loss of Hossein Hamedani, commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria, the injury to Qasem Soleimani, right hand to Khamenei and Commander of the Quds Force, along with around 20 other IRGC generals and hundreds of regime’s forces.

Iran: Courageous mother stands for her son’s cause

Ms. Gohar Eshghi is the mother of dissident blogger, Sattar Beheshti

Ms.Gohar Eshghi is the mother of dissident blogger, Sattar Beheshti, who was arrested by the Iranian regime’s internet police and killed after a few days under torture on November 3, 2012.

Her daughter, Sahar Beheshti, was stopped on the way from her son’s kindergarten on December 28th and threatened at gun point to go with the police for posting her brother’s photo on her car’s window shield. She refused to go with the police but was stopped on the street for a few hours.

Her mother subsequently declared, “As long as I am alive, I will be the voice of Sattar. After me, it is Sahar who is his voice. If anything happens to Sahar, I will hold the government responsible. Sattar was a worker. They killed him and did not give me any answers why but I will not allow them to kill Sahar. We are not afraid of anything. We are not afraid of their guns.”

She added, “This is not the first time they are threatening Sahar. They have done so several times but even if they take Sahar from me, I will not stop and will not remain silent. Sattar told me: ‘What we are doing is not living. This is humiliation. Dying is better than the life we have.’ Now I say the same thing. This life is nothing but humiliation and death.”

Iran : Young woman commits suicide in Iran by jumping off bridge

Young woman commits suicide in Iran by jumping off bridge

A young Iranian woman committed suicide on Monday by jumping off a bridge in Tehran.

The woman was not identified by name, but the regime’s state media reported that she was 25 years old.

She took her life at 11.20 am by jumping off the 10-meter-heigh pedestrian bridge in Tehran’s Resalat Square.

In another case of suicide, two girls who had been discharged from a girls’ social welfare center in East Azerbaijan Province, north-west Iran, on Friday attempted to take their lives. One of the girls Rava was saved by medics in a hospital in the city of Tabriz while Paria died due to her injuries, the regime’s state news agency IRNA said.

In a separate development, a 45-year-old man on Sunday doused himself with petrol and set himself on fire in a public square in the city of Shush, western Iran.

Poverty, deprivation and suppression in Iran under the mullahs’ regime have driven some people, in particular women and girls, to the point of taking their own lives.

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 mullahs' regime.

On average, 11 people commit suicide in Iran every day, the equivalent of three in every 100,000 people, according to the website of the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Iranian laborers in particular are suffering from poverty, hunger and unemployment while Iran’s great wealth is spent on domestic suppression, antinationalistic polices of export of terrorism and warmongering in the region, and weapons of mass destruction projects or is plundered by the regime’s officials.

As long as the mullahs’ regime is in power, suppression, poverty, hunger, prostitution and addiction will continue in Iran. The sole solution to end such tyranny and oppression is to topple the antihuman regime of the mullahs and establish democracy in Iran.

Iran: Female prisoner writes about prison

Manizhe Sadeghi

Manizhe Sadeghi, a prisoner who spent some time in the Iranian regime’s prisons, recently wrote to explain the conditions of women in the Iranian regime’s prisons.

“I am a hardworking woman and mother, and I was in prison for a few months with my newborn child. I taught my child to walk in prison. I am

a hardworking mother and seeing my child grow up in prison was like death for me,but I didn’t give in.

“They used the cry of my newborn child to harass me and torture my ill father, who was in the adjacent cell to force us to succumb. However, state agents were never able to make us succumb to their demands.

“They didn’t even show any mercy to my children. They would beat my children before my own eyes. They beat my pregnant daughter before me!

“I am a worker without much income and now a political prisoner, and I have experienced being beaten, tortured and insulted in the dungeons of the Islamic republic while blindfolded.

“They kicked and torture my entire body, but to reach freedom and a better world I became stronger, and I will never rest until we realize our humanitarian values.”

Maryam Rajavi meets and holds talks with Senator Joseph Lieberman

Maryam Rajavi meets and holds talks with Senator Joseph Lieberman

Auvers-sur-Oise- Maryam Rajavi and Senator Lieberman met on December 8, 2015, and discussed the latest developments in the region including the crisis in Syria, the Iranian regime’s destructive role as well as solutions to the current crisis.They also discussed the role of the Iranian Resistance in confronting Islamic fundamentalism in the region.

Maryam Rajavi enumerated the clerical regime's anti-human crimes in Iran and its systematic violations of human rights.

She stressed that the consequences of the medieval regime’s rule have not been limited to Iranian boundaries but the religious fascist regime is the heart of the octopus of terrorism and fundamentalism acting under the banner of Islam and acts as the epicenter of the crises in the region and the world.

Senator Lieberman noted Tehran’s role as the main parameter causing instability in the region. He described the regime as the prime threat to global peace and security and reiterated his view on the need for regime change by the Iranian people.He further stressed on MEK’s role in confronting Islamic fundamentalism by advocating a democratic and tolerant Islam.

Senator Lieberman expressed confidence that change in Iran will have a great impact on developments throughout the region.

Democrats and Republicans say U.S. pay more attention to Iran regime’s behavior

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Concerns about the Iranian regime’s behaviour exist in both chambers of Congress, where some of the President Obama’s strongest allies on the nuclear deal are joining some of his sharpest critics to demand a concerted response to the missile tests by Tehran, the Washington Post reported.

While Washington is focused on how to combat and protect the country from the Islamic State, some Democrats say that President Obama and his administration should be paying more attention to Iran, which reportedly conducted new ballistic missile tests in November, the report said.

“I understand that most of Congress and the administration are very distracted by the global refugee crisis, by the terrorist attacks in Paris, by our conflicts with ISIS,” said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) “The reality is with this deal, I’m on the administration’s side, but they need to be doing more…. We have to have a menu of responses that we and our allies have agreed on and that we will take. Or the Iranians will pocket it and keep moving.”

Republicans — including Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who opposed the nuclear pact — openly worry that if the Obama administration doesn’t punish Iran now, it will fail to castigate it in the future for any infractions of the Iran deal, which Congress failed to reject before a Sept. 17 deadline.

“Iran violates U.N. Security Council resolutions because it knows neither this administration nor the U.N. Security Council is likely to take any action,” Corker said this week. “If we cannot respond to a clear violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution, I have no faith that the U.N. and the Obama administration will implement any form of snapback in response to the Iranian violations of the nuclear agreement.”

Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother calls for protests

Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother calls for protests

Reyhaneh Jabbari was a 26-year-old woman who was executed for defending herself to rape by an agent of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence. Her mother Mrs. Shole Pakravan,

has issued a post on social media calling the Iranian people to take a stand against the following:

The daily increase of executions and bloodshed;

Torture of political prisoners;

Trafficking of Iranian girls;

The increasing corruption;

The Plundering of our nation’s wealth

Mrs. Pakravan has asked the Iranian people to rise, take action, and break the silence! To   stand firm in defense of justice, and to consider justice and freedom far more important issues than even our daily meals

Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy with detainees

Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy

Mrs.Gohar Eshghi, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who was killed in detention by the Iranian regime’s FATA police, wrote a letter expressing her sympathy with protesters arrested outside Evin Prison.

Her letter reads in part, “I consider silence, treason to you all because you have always supported me. I have to pay you back for your kindness.

Dear Akram Neghabi, I heard that your husband was mistreated so that he can feel how they treated your child, or maybe they were trying to tell you that we will make you disappear like your loved ones.

Simin Avazzadeh, mother of Omid Ali Shenas, my good friend of hard times, it is as if a meaningful silence has engulfed the entire country.